Original Mono Recording
| A1 | Boots | 1:30 | ||
| Written-By - Lee Hazelwood* | ||||
| A2 | Numb Erone | 1:23 | ||
| A3 | Guylum Bardot | 1:22 | ||
| A4 | Breath And Length | 1:45 | ||
| Vocals - Ruth Essex | ||||
| A5 | Consuelo's Departure | 1:55 | ||
| A6 | Smelly Tongues | 1:35 | ||
| Vocals - Wool | ||||
| A7 | Rest Aria | 5:41 | ||
| A8 | Skratz | 1:18 | ||
| A9 | Spotted Pinto Bean | 6:37 | ||
| Oboe - Phillip Friehofner Piano - James Whitaker Vocals - Pamala Wieking | ||||
| B1 | Infant Tango | 6:01 | ||
| Bass - Bobby Tagney Bass, Guitar - James Aaron | ||||
| B2 | Seasoned Greetings | 5:12 | ||
| B3 | N-ER-GEE | 10:06 | ||
"Meet The Residents was originally released in 1974, on the Ralph Records label. The tapes were monaural recordings on home equipment and suffered further fidelity loss in the mastering and pressing stages. In 1976, The Cryptic Corporation came into legal possession of The Residents recordings, and began working on how to restore these original tapes to studio quality. Using the master tape as a directive, the album was disassembled, reprocessed, and reconstructed into this stereophonic version. No re-recording was employed. The artists who appear on this recording have personally approved this as an authorized realization of the original LP."
The Cryptic Corporation
flac
This particular pressing is the first in a series of reissues. 12,000 copies were pressed once the 1000 original copies had sold out. It features the old Ralph logo on both front and rear with the split black and white 'a' of 'Ralph'. Also, and this is true of both this pressing and the following pressing of reissues, the rear cover is black and white with the original liner notes in a column on the left half and on the right half we have the picture of the original sleeve and tracklisting etc.
This particular pressing is the second in a series of reissues. 5000 copies were pressed. It features the old Ralph logo on the front with the split black and white 'a' of 'Ralph'. But on the Ralph logo on the rear cover the 'a' is completely black (on the first pressing of reissues this is also split). Also, the rear cover is black and white with the original liner notes in a column on the left half and right half we have the picture of the original sleeve and tracklisting etc.
This particular pressing is the third in a series of Ralph reissues. This pressing, which features the 'starfish' front cover, is different from the previous two reissues because aside from the front cover being a slightly darker orange the rear cover is not only completely altered, re-arranged and styled but, most obviously of all, is in colour, whereas the previous two re-issues were in black and white. It also features the modified Ralph logo with black 'a' on both front and rear cover.
Limited edition of 3500 copies released to celebrate the bands 13th anniversary.
"Deluxe Edition" on 200 gram vinyl with gatefold sleeve.
A reissue (2003) of the 1974 Album with original cover. There was also a limited edition (500 copies) made on green vinyl.
Euroralph Reissue with original cover.
Green vinyl, 500 copies with a printed/numbered inner sleeve
Black vinyl, not limited / not numbered / no printed inner sleeve.
Meet The Residents Flexi
1000 copies of this limited edition flexi were made and given away free with File magazine.
Contains excerpts from The Residents LP 'Meet The Residents'.
Excerpts of the following songs: Numb Erone; Guylum Bardot; Smelly Tongues; Rest Aria; N-ER-GEE (A Crisis Bluesuite); Seasoned Greetings
Concentrated
Meet The Residents Sessions (flac)
Zip 001
Zip 002
1. unknown
2. unknown
3. numb erone 1
4. consuelo's departure
5. smelly tongues 1
6. smelly tongues 2
7. smelly tongues 3
8. guylum bardot 1
9. numb erone-guylum bardot
10. guylum bardot 2
11. guylum bardot 3
12. infant tango 1
13. breath and length
14. numb erone 2
15. nooh nooh nooh
16. nooh nooh nooh jam
17. moles
18. infant tango2
19. smelly tongues 4
20. skratz
