The Residents - Mole Box
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Mole Box

Label New Ralph Too ‎– NRTBOX010Cherry Red ‎– NRTBOX010MVD Audio ‎– NRTBOX010
Series The Residents pREServed
Format 6 x CD, Remastered Box Set, Compilation
Barcode 5013929361034
Country UK, Europe & US
Released 05 Apr 2019
Genre Electronic, Rock
Style Avantgarde, Experimental
Mark Of The Mole
1-1 Voices Of The Air 2:55
The Ultimate Disaster (8:54)
1-2a Won't You Keep Us Working?
1-2b First Warning
1-2c Back To Normality?
1-2d The Sky Falls!
1-2e Why Are We Crying?
1-2f The Tunnels Are Filling
1-2g It Never Stops
Migration (7:15)
1-3a March To The Sea
1-3b The Observer
1-3c Hole-Workers' New Hymn
Another Land (4:43)
1-4a Rumours
1-4b Arrival
1-4c Deployment
1-4d Saturation
The New Machine (7:16)
1-5a Idea
1-5b Construction
1-5c Ugly Rumours
1-5d Failure / Reconstruction
1-5e Success
Final Confrontation (9:57)
1-6a Driving The Moles Away
1-6b Don't Tread On Me
1-6c The Short War
1-6d Resolution
Res Dance '82 (Live In The Studio)
1-7 Voices Of The Air 3:13
1-8 The Ultimate Disaster 4:50
1-9 Migration 7:43
1-10 Another Land / The New Machine 11:24
1-11 Final Confrontation 8:19
The Tunes Of Two Cities
2-1 Serenade For Missy 3:16
2-2 A Maze Of Jigsaws 2:52
2-3 Mousetrap 3:32
2-4 God Of Darkness 3:18
2-5 Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth) 3:59
2-6 Praise For The Curse 2:52
2-7 The Secret Seed 2:47
2-8 Smokebeams 2:43
2-9 Mourning The Undead 3:05
2-10 Song Of The Wild 3:24
2-11 The Evil Disposer 3:16
2-12 Happy Home (Excerpt From Act II Of "Innisfree") 4:51
Bonus Tunes
2-13 Open Up 2:18
2-14 Anvil Forest 2:22
2-15 Scent Of Mint 2:27
1982 Rehearsals
2-16 Smack Your Lips 4:03
2-17 Song Of The Wild 3:32
2-18 Happy Home 2:14
Res Dance '82 - Live In The Studio
2-19 God Of Darkness 3:07
2-20 Smack Your Lips 4:52
2-21 The Secret Seed 2:50
2-22 Happy Home 3:35
The Big Bubble
3-1 Sorry 3:37
3-2 Hop A Little 2:47
3-3 Go Where Ya Wanna Go 2:38
3-4 Gotta Gotta Get 4:23
3-5 Cry For The Fire 5:53
3-6 Die-Stay-Go 3:00
3-7 Vinegar 2:22
3-8 Firefly 2:16
3-9 The Big Bubble 2:15
3-10 Fear For The Future 3:54
3-11 Kula Bocca Says So 5:11
Bonus Bubbles
3-12 Jingle Bell 2:42
3-13 Untitled 4:08
3-14 Kula Bocca (2-Track Demo) 2:10
3-15 Die-Stay-Go (2-Track Demo) 1:46
3-16 Cry For The Fire Sketch 1:04
3-17 The Big Bubble (Live, 1986) 2:23
3-18 Hop A Little (Live, 1986) 3:13
3-19 Cry For The Fire (Live On Norge TV NRK) 7:09
3-20 Die-Stay-Go (Live In San Francisco, 2011) 4:45
The Mole Show Live At The Roxy, 1982
4-1 Voices Of The Air 3:07
4-2 The Secret Seed 1:58
4-3 "Welcome..." 0:50
4-4 The Ultimate Disaster 4:46
4-5 "Rather Flashy..." 0:13
4-6 God Of Darkness 2:34
4-7 "Mole Style..." 0:18
4-8 Migration 8:15
4-9 Another Land 3:20
4-10 "That's All We Need..." 0:21
4-11 The New Machine 6:25
4-12 "A Real Complicated Ending..." 0:32
4-13 The Song Of The Wild 3:03
4-14 Final Confrontation 6:47
4-15 "We Had To Borrow Money From Our Parents..." 1:40
4-16 Satisfaction 2:10
4-17 Happy Home 3:19
The Uncle Sam Mole Show, Live In Washington DC, 1983
5-1 Voices Of The Air 4:26
5-2 The Secret Seed 2:50
5-3 "Good Evening..." 0:42
5-4 The Ultimate Disaster 4:37
5-5 "Those Were Four Songs..." 0:47
5-6 God Of Darkness 3:08
5-7 "More Religion..." 0:45
5-8 Migration 8:06
5-9 Shorty's Lament (Intermission) 1:37
5-10 Smack Your Lips 3:18
5-11 "We're In Chub Land..." 0:37
5-12 Another Land 4:49
5-13 "Things Are Going Fairly Well..." 0:59
5-14 The New Machine 6:43
5-15 "A Giorgio Moroder Scene..." 0:28
5-16 The Song Of The Wild 3:22
5-17 Final Confrontation 7:31
5-18 The Singing Resident Needs Something 1:57
5-19 Satisfaction 3:06
5-20 Happy Home 4:12
5-21 The Star Spangled Banner 1:18
5-22 Washington Press Conference 4:41
Miscellaneous Mole Materials
6-1 MOTM Mix One Concentrate 25:41
Intermission
6-2 Lights Out (Prelude) 5:55
6-3 Shorty's Lament 6:43
6-4 The Moles Are Coming 2:56
6-5 Would We Be Alive? 5:09
6-6 The New Hymn 4:20
Miscellaneous Mole Materials (Continued)
6-7 Another Another Land 3:34
6-8 Now It Is Too Late 1:59
6-9 Going Nowhere 2:05
6-10 From MOM1 1:06
6-11 Satisfaction (Live In The Studio) 3:17
6-12 Marching To The We 5:16
6-13 Would We Be Alive (Live, 2005) 4:12
6-14 Marching To The Sea / Intermission (Live 2013) 5:18
Curated By, Edited By, Compiled By – The Residents
Design [Original Cover Design], Art Direction – Pore Know Graphics
Design [Reissue Design], Layout – Paul Bevoir
Guest – Annie Stocking (6-2 to 6-6)
Guest – Jeanette Sartain (6-2 to 6-6)
Guest – Joan Cashel (6-2 to 6-6)
Guest – J. Raoul Brody (6-2 to 6-6)
Guest – Nessie Lessons (1-1 to 1-6)
Guest – Penn Jillette (1-1)
Guest, Backing Vocals – Brian Seff (3-1 to 3-11)
Guest, Backing Vocals – Raoul N. Di Seimbote (3-1 to 3-11)
Guest, Backing Vocals – Ray Hanna (3-1 to 3-11)
Guest, Guitar – Snakefinger (2-1 to 2-12)
Guest, Saxophone – Norman Salant (2-1 to 2-12)
Guest, Vocals – Nessie Lessons (2-1 to 2-12)
Narrator – Bill Gerber (5-3, 5-5, 5-7, 5-11, 5-13, 5-15)
Narrator – Penn Jillette (4-3, 4-5, 4-7, 4-10, 4-12)
Narrator – The Singing Resident (4-15, 5-18)
Research [Cover Art And Archive Imagery Supplied By] – Andreas Mathews
Research [Cover Art And Archive Imagery Supplied By] – Matteo Torcinovich
Research [Cover Art And Archive Imagery Supplied By] – The Cryptic Corporation
Sleeve Notes [Booklet] – Jim Knipfel
Transferred By, Restoration, Mastered By – Scott Colburn
Written-By – Francis Scott Key (5-21)
Written-By – Jagger/Richards (4-16, 5-19, 6-11)
Written-By – John Stafford Smith (5-21)
Written-By, Performer – The Residents
Box set of 6 CDs issued in cardboard sleeves with reproductions of the original LP front sleeves (discs 1 to 4). Includes 24 pages booklet with extensive liner notes.

The liner notes and Cherry Red's web site suggest this release being part of the pREServed series. Whyever, this is not "officially" mentioned on the release itself. In previous pREServed releases, the series was mentioned on back of the cardboard inner sleeves and on stickers on outer shrink.

℗ & © 2019 The Cryptic Corporation, Cherry Red Records and MVD Entertainment

All tracks published by Pale Pachyderm Publishing, except "Satisfaction" published by ABKCO Music Inc / Onward Music Ltd / Westminster Ltd.

Disc 4: recorded at The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles on October 30th 1982, condensation of two concerts (early and late shows). The fourth date on a brief, five night Californian Mole Show tour.

Disc 5: recorded at The National Building Museum, Washington DC October 7th 1983. Track 5-22 is unlisted.

Bonus material notes courtesy of Cherry Red Records and The Cryptic Corporation.
Barcode (Printed) – 5 013929 361034
Barcode (Scanned) – 5013929361034
Matrix / Runout (Disc 1) – F22703 NRTBOX010/CD1
Matrix / Runout (Disc 2) – F22704 NRTBOX010/CD2
Matrix / Runout (Disc 3) – F22613 NRTBOX010/CD3
Matrix / Runout (Disc 4) – F22705 NRTBOX010/CD4
Matrix / Runout (Disc 5) – F22706 NRTBOX010/CD5
Matrix / Runout (Disc 6) – F22707 NRTBOX010/CD6
Mastering SID Code (Discs 1 to 6) – IFPI LD02
Mould SID Code (Disc 1) – IFPI 5J93
Mould SID Code (Disc 2) – IFPI 5J54
Mould SID Code (Disc 3) – IFPI 5J44
Mould SID Code (Disc 4) – IFPI 5J93
Mould SID Code (Disc 5) – IFPI 5J44
Mould SID Code (Disc 6) – IFPI 5J03
Other (Disc 1, catalog number) – NRTBOX010-1
Other (Disc 2, catalog number) – NRTBOX010-2
Other (Disc 3, catalog number) – NRTBOX010-3
Other (Disc 4, catalog number) – NRTBOX010-4
Other (Disc 5, catalog number) – NRTBOX010-5
Other (Disc 6, catalog number) – NRTBOX010-6
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