The Tunes of Two Cities
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The Tunes of Two Cities is an album by The Residents, released in 1982. It is part two of the Mole Trilogy. Rather than forwarding the story of the battle between the Mole People and the Chubs, the record's concept is to display the differences between the two cultures through their music. The music of the Chubs is light cocktail jazz, while that of the Moles tends toward industrial hymns. A major feature of this album is that it was one of the first to use the E-mu Emulator, one of the earliest commercial digital samplers.
The Chub track "Mousetrap" bears a noticeable resemblance to Stan Kenton's "Eager Beaver." In one 1998 interview, band spokesman Homer Flynn acknowledged that the band listened to jazz big band artists including Kenton, as well as Charles Mingus and Sun Ra.[2]
Track listing
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1. | "Serenade for Missy" | 3:16 |
2. | "A Maze of Jigsaws" | 2:52 |
3. | "Mousetrap" | 3:32 |
4. | "God of Darkness" | 3:18 |
5. | "Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth)" | 3:59 |
6. | "Praise for the Curse" | 2:52 |
7. | "The Secret Seed" | 2:47 |
8. | "Smokebeams" | 2:43 |
9. | "Mourning the Undead" | 3:05 |
10. | "Song of the Wild" | 3:24 |
11. | "The Evil Disposer" | 3:16 |
12. | "Happy Home" | 4:46 |
Total length: | 39:50 |
- Bonus Tracks (1988 CD release only)
- "Open Up"
- "Anvil Forest"
- "Scent of Mint"
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- Ozan
- Strange Culture/Haeckel's Tale
- Dollar General
- Talking Light Rehearsal
- Lonely Teenager
- Coochie Brake
- Mush-Room
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Compilations |
- The Residents Radio Special
- Please Do Not Steal It!
- Nibbles
- Residue of the Residents
- Ralph Before '84: Volume 1, The Residents
- Assorted Secrets
- Memorial Hits
- The Pal TV LP
- Heaven?
- Hell!
- Stranger Than Supper
- Liver Music
- Daydream B-Liver
- Poor Kaw-Liga's PainLouisiana's Lick
- Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses
- Residue Deux
- Twenty Twisted Questions
- 25 Years of Eyeball Excellence
- Land of Mystery
- Refused
- Dot.Com
- Diskomo 2000
- Petting Zoo
- Eat Exuding Oinks
- Best Left Unspoken...Vol. 1
- Best Left Unspoken...Vol. 2
- Best Left Unspoken...Vol. 3
- Ten Little Piggies
- Chicken Scratching With The Residents
- Ozark
- ERA B4-74
- The Residents Present The Delta Nudes Greatest Hiss
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