Ralph Records

FACTS: 10 Years In 20 Minutes is a medley of approximately 250 snippets from various records and singles that spanned the Ralph catalogue from 1972-1978. The Residents recorded this piece in one day by "drop the needle" with a stack of ralph releases which were ramdomly selected and ordered. The resulting collage of melodies is very interesting, but is also quite difficult to listen to it for more than a few minutes at a time.

COLLECTOR INFO: This one-sided, clear vinyl, 12" LP was an edition of 100 copies, of which 75 were numbered. The 10 Years In 20 Minutes records had no accompanying jackets, labels, or artwork of any kind; they were made primarily for sale to mail customers, and were manufactured at the same time as the clear vinyl editions of "George And James" (also by The Residents), "The Million Year Picnic" by Nash The Slash and "Contents Under Notice" by Rhythm And Noise.
(from the book "The Cryptic Guide To THE RESIDENTS", 1986)





Potatoes - A Collection of Folk Songs from Ralph Records (1987)

A limited edition release of this LP came in a brown burlap bag (like potatoes! Get it?) and was pressed on heavy white vinyl. Included was also a POTATOES poster of the cover art.
The unknown singer of The Billy Bee Song is Sheena Timony, producer of the record, and co-owner with Tom Timony (who is also Uncle Willie) of New Ralph Records, which is basically what they called the label after the Cryptic Corp sold it to them.

A1 Blitzoids - Fire On The Mountain (2:47)
A2 Renaldo & The Loaf - Haul On The Bowline (A-Chantey) (2:00)
A3 Maria Marquez & Frank Harris - Canto Del Pilon (4:06)
A4 The Residents - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (3:09)
A5 Terra Incognita - Rank Stranger (2:47)
A6 Snakefinger's Midi-Evil Vestal Virgins - The Ballad Of Sawney Bean/Sawney's Death Dance (4:29)

B1 Mark Mothersbaugh - My Home Town (1:33)
B2 Artist Unknown - The Billy Bee Song (1:30)
B3 Negativland - Perfect Scrambled Eggs (2:45)
B4 Voice Farm - Mamma Made Me Do It (4:33)
B5 Club Foot Orchestra - Japanese Song Too (2:38)
B6 Rhythm & Noise Berta's Hammer (3:20)
B7 The Step One Nursery School Just Plain Folk Singers - Potatoes (0:30)




Frank Johnson's Favorites (1981)

Compilation of single B-sides and non-LP tracks selected by Frank Johnson, the Ralph Records computer.

A1
Tuxedomoon
Dark Companion (4:10)
A2
Fred Frith
What A Dilemma (3:12)
A3
Renaldo & The Loaf
Melvyn's Repose (2:05)
A4
MX-80 Sound
O Type (3:36)
A5
The Residents
Loser = Weed (2:09)
A6
Snakefinger
Smelly Tongues (2:24)
B1
Yello
I.T. Splash (2:37)
B2
MX-80 Sound
White Night (4:17)
B3
Snakefinger
Womb To Worm (3:13)
B4
The Residents
Flying (3:22)
B5
Art Bears
Collapse (Edited Version) (3:00)
B6
Tuxedomoon
Crash (5:26)




Subterranean Modern (1979)



Comes in (at least) two different cover versions. One has green "Subterranean" writing on front cover (and red on back cover). Another one has yellow "Subterranean" writing on front cover (and green on back cover). Also many other colour details on cover and label colours are altered. The latter version has an info added on the front cover: "Featuring THE RESIDENTS - CHROME - MX-80 SOUND - TUXEDOMOON - Playing Music Especially Recorded For This Album!".

A1 Chrome - Anti-Fade
A2 Chrome - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
A3 Chrome - Meet You In The Subway
A4 MX-80 Sound - Lady In Pain
A5 MX-80 Sound - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
A6 MX-80 Sound - Possessed

B1 Residents - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
B2 Residents - Dumbo The Clown
Guitar Soloist - Fred Frith
B3 Residents - Is He Really Bringing Up Roses (The Replacement)
B4 Residents - Time's Up
Guitar Soloist - Fred Frith
B5 Tuxedomoon - I Left My Heart In San Francisco
B6 Tuxedomoon - Everything You Want
B7 Tuxedomoon - Waterfront Seat



Hit The Road Jack 12" (1987)


A Hit The Road Jack
B1 Jambalaya
B2 Firefly / The Big Bubble
B3 Cry For The Fire






CLUB FOOT ORCHESTRA - Kidnapped
(1987)


This LP was also pressed in blue vinyl, 100 copies, with a note that says "Warning!!! This LP has a defective noise on the 2nd side. It is pressed in blue vinyl. There are only 100 in the world" also "BUY OR DIE This LP will be worth its weight in gold someday soon!"

A1 Entrance
A2 They Say Over There
A3 Take It To Mars
A4 Kidnapped Coed
A5 Zoogaloo
B1 Thrashinsky
B2 Innocent
B3 Clair
B4 Devil In My Soup
B5 Neolithic Female Goddess

"This album is dedicated to Philip "Snakefinger" Lithman 1949-1987"





UZ JSME DOMA

POHADKY ZE ZAPOTREBI (Fairytales from Needland) (1995)

The Czech ensemble Uz Jsme Doma debuted in 1985 (tenor saxophonist Jinda Dolansky is the only survivor of the original line-up). Mirek Wanek and Romek Hanzlik joined in 1986. Wanek quickly established himself as the main composer. They play highly creative and dynamic music in a style that recalls both new wave and progressive-rock, but with punk-rock verve. They mix cabaret, folk, Japanese noise-rock, ethnic music, classical music, funk, ska, hard-rock, evoking Captain Beefheart, the Residents, the Boredoms, Chumbawamba and God only knows what else.
As much a multi-media collective as a band, Uz Jsme Doma (pronounced ooze smeh DOUGH-ma, and translatable either as "Now We're at Home," or "Now I Get It") has encountered much tribulation at home in the Czech Republic (where rock music was not exactly welcome when the band began in 1985) and varying degrees of ignorance elsewhere. The music is skittish and unpredictable, incorporating rock elements without the influence of Anglo-American song structure. Led by lyricist-songwriter Mirek Wanek, there are at least six musicians on each album, plus a variety of guests who participate in making the next thing heard around the corner unexpected. From punk beginnings, Uz Jsme Doma makes wide-ranging explorations of Slavic folk melodies with operatic overtones and odd time shifts.(Trouser Press)

Ranoc- Mornight
Znovu- Over and Over
Kouzelnik- Magician
Bila Hul- Blind Man's Cane
Hlina- The Earth
Azpak- Mr. Manyana
Tadyna- Hereona
Vodnik- Pond Troll
Tani- Melting
Kozelina- Ms. Lazy-Bones
Malokdo- Hardly Anybody
Todobot- ShoePhil

Euroralph 012 CD.




Michael Perilstein

Godzilla vs Your Mother 1986

A1 Dr. Azil - A Lizaerd?
A2 Tug To Remus: No Cider? A Bargain At Niagra Bar. Ed, I Consume Rot Gut
A3 Deb Burton Saw Dike-Tar In Tub. But An Irate Kid Was Not Rubbed
A4 Put Onto, He Rises: Ire Hot, Not Up
A5 Tess, I Part As Al, Liz Do Go To Godzilla's; A Trap Is Set
A6 We Nab Anew

B1 A Hero-Monster Frets No More, Ha!
B2 He Now Lives, Evil Won, Eh?
B3 Edna, Banal Plan A, B, And E
B4 Level?
B5 No, It Is Open Or Prime Position
B6 Never Even




Frank Harris with Maria Marquez

In A Minor Mode 1987

A1 Urban Guerrilla
Lyrics By - Frank Harris , Susan Harris
A2 Tenderly
Bass, Piano, Lyrics By - Frank Harris
Saxophone - Daniel Zinn
B1 Loveroom
Lyrics By - Frank Harris
B2 Campesina
Lyrics By, Written-By - Juan Vicente Torrealba


Some pressings come in clear blue vinyl.

The A-side of this record features some of most appallingly eighties sounding music I have heard in a long time. I remember first hearing another of their tracks around the time of this release and it was far, far better. Timeless. But the A-side of this most certainly isn't timeless. To use the word 'dated' is an understatement.

Unlike the B-side, however. The difference is startling. The music is far more atmospheric and without the jarring synth cords of the Miami Vice-like A-side.

And Maria Marquez's beautiful voice is something to die for. They've gone for a more traditional/folk-style angle and it works. Perhaps Marquez's Venezuelan origins have had an influence on the proceedings. But with her talent it would be a waste not to let her have an influence!

Well worth looking for whether a fan of Harris or Marquez but not a patch on their classic "Canto Del Pilon".
mach1ne Dec 02, 2006





BIG CITY ORCHESTRA - Animal Religion (cass.)


Released in 1988 and composed entirely of animal sounds.

A1 Owl
A2 White Slave Bird
A3 Monkey
A4 Fly
B1 Church Of The Sub-Species
B2 Dog
B3 Horse




VOICE FARM - F (1987)


A1 Johnny Belinda (3:48)
A2 Reconstruction (2:58)
A3 Someday (3:24)
A4 Beatnick (3:45)
A5 Hey Free Thinker (4:40)
B1 My Idea (3:30)
B2 Seeing Is Beleiving (4:40)
B3 Nowhere To Run (4:21)
B4 Mama Made Me Do It (4:34)
B5 Super Eq Team (4:48)




Hajime Tachibana - Hm LP (1983)


A1 Theme From "Hm" (3:09)
A2 Piano Pillows Going Abstract (3:05)
A3 Liquid (6:28)
A4 This Is ...... !!! (Death Video) (4:07)
A5 Theme From "Sex Symbol Strikes Back" (1:30)
B1 Sex Symbol Strikes Back (3:57)
B2 Arrangement (4:22)
B3 Yoru No Tokkibutsu (3:35)
B4 Ab1013 (4:57)
B5 Theme From "Nihon No Sugao" (2:34)

Thanx to Smelly Tongue.





Bill Spooner - First Chud (1985)

Bill's first solo album comes from 1985 and was a vinyl only release on The Residents Ralph Records label. Bill toured briefly with the Residents during their 13th Anniversary tour following the death of guitarist Snakefinger.
This rare solo album, featuring Prairie, Rick, Vince, Mike, Mingo, and Roger has not been released on CD.
The track "Satellite" was originally recorded by The Tubes for Outside Inside and their version is included on the "Sedated in the 80's" compilation album.

A1 Satellite (4:06)
A2 Bad Parties (2:51)
A3 Only In A Dream (3:35)
A4 Don't Tell Me You're Sorry (2:42)
A5 Something In My Eye (2:24)
A6 Wanna Get Stoned? (2:08)
B1 Placebo (3:12)
B2 Bad Love (3:59)
B3 When She Mambo (4:10)
B4 How To Be Sexy (3:28)
B5 Am I In Love? (1:45)





Nash The Slash - The Million Year Picnic (1984)


A1 The Million-Year Picnic
A2 Swing Shift (Soixante-Neuf)
A3 Blind Windows/Countervail
A4 Lost Lenore
B1 Dead Man's Curve
B2 The Chase
B3 Pilgrim's Lament
B4 Life In Loch Ness





Art Bears - Winter Songs (1979)


A1 The Bath Of Stars
A2 First Things First
A3 Gold
A4 The Summer Wheel
A5 The Slave
A6 The Hermit
A7 Rats & Monkeys
B1 The Skeleton
B2 The Winter Wheel
B3 Man & Boy
B4 Winter / War
B5 Force
B6 3 Figures
B7 3 Wheels




Art Bears - Rats and Monkeys / Collapse (1979)


A Rats & Monkeys (3:13)
B Collapse (4:55)







Fred Frith - Gravity (1980)


A1 The Boy Beats The Rams (Kluk Tluce Nerany) (4:54)
A2 Spring Any Day Now (3:05)
A3 Don't Cry For Me (3:28)
Drums [Snare], Maracas - Chris Cutler
A4 The Hands Of The Juggler (5:32)
A5 Norrgarden Nyvla (2:54)
A6 Year Of The Monkey (4:12)
Side A recorded August 1979 in Norrgarden Nyvla, Uppsala, Sweden and Sunrise Studios, Kirchberg, Switzerland.

B1 What A Dilemma (3:11)
Bass [Subliminal] - Tina Curran
B2 Crack In The Concrete (1:25)
B3 Come Across (2:47)
Drums [Subliminal] - Frank Wuyts
B4 Dancing In The Street / My Enemy Is A Bad Man (4:42)
Organ - Dave Newhouse
B5 Slap Dance (2:32)
Saxophone [Soprano] - Tom Scott (3)
B6 A Career In Real Estate (4:42)
B7 Dancing In Rockville Maryland (3:05)
Side B recorded November 1979 at Catch-a-Buzz Studio, Rockville and January 1980 at Sunrise Studios, Kirchberg.




Fred Frith - Speechless (1981)


A1 Etron Fou - Leloublan Kick The Can (Part 1)
Organ - Fred Frith
A2 Etron Fou Leloublan - Carnival On Wall St.
A3 Etron Fou Leloublan - Ahead In The Sand
Voice - Fred Frith , Guigou Chenevier , Margot Mathieu
A4 Etron Fou Leloublan - Laughing Matter
Bagpipes - Roger Kent Parsons
A5 Etron Fou Leloublan - Esperanza
A6 Etron Fou Leloublan - Women Speak To Men; Men Speak To Women
The tapes used on side A were recorded in New York City at street fairs, demonstrations and, along with the bagpipes, in Washington Square.
Recorded July / August 1980 at Studio Freeson, Pujaut, France and Studio Sunrise, Kirchberg, Switzerland.

B1 Massacre - A Spit In The Ocean
B2 Massacre - Navajo
Bass - Tina Curran
Drums - Fred Frith
Saxophone [Snake] - Steve Buchanan
B3 Fred Frith - Balance
Drums - Fred Frith
B4 Massacre - Saving Grace
B5 Fred Frith - Speechless
B6 Massacre - Conversations With Arc
B7 Fred Frith - Domaine De Planousset
Bass - Tina Curran
B8 Fred Frith Kick The Can (Part 2)
Tracks B1, B4 and the end of track B2 are based on a live concert recorded at CBGB in New York, April 1980, subsequently altered and added to in Switzerland. Track B6 is from the same concert and is an improvised piece heard as played. Recorded July / August 1980 at Studio Sunrise, Kirchberg, Switzerland.



Fred Frith - Cheap At Half The Price (1983)


A1 Some Clouds Don't
A2 Cap The Knife
A3 Evolution
A4 Too Much, Too Little
A5 The Welcome
A6 Same Old Me
Bass - Bill Laswell
A7 Some Clouds Do
B1 Instant Party
B2 Walking Song
B3 Flying In The Face Of Facts
B4 Heart Bares
B5 Absent Friends
Clapping - Aksak Maboul
B6 The Great Healer



King Kurt - Road To Rack And Ruin (1985)


A1 Destination Zululand
A2 Banana Banana
A3 Mack The Knife
A4 Gather Your Limbs / When The Saints Go Marching In

B1 Road To Rack And Ruin
B2 Billy
B3 Alcoholic Rat
B4 Back On The Dole

Psychobilly, Rockabilly





Tuxedomoon - A Thousand Lives By Picture (1983 Comp)


A1 What Use?
A2 Incubus (Blue Suit)
A3 7 Years
A4 Tritone (Musica Diablo)
A5 Desire
B1 Dark Companion
B2 Jinx
B3 59 To 1
B4 Crash




Half Mute (1988)


1 Nazca
2 59 To 1
3 Fifth Column
4 Tritone (Musica Diablo)
5 Loneliness
6 James Whale
7 What Use?
8 Volo Vivace
9 7 Years
10 KM
11 Seeding The Clouds

cd-release from 1980 LP
On sleeve track 9 is not mentioned.
On cd track 5 is spelled as Lonliness





Freshly Wrapped Candies - I Like You (1989)


1 Majestic Popular Keyboarding
2 I Like You
3 Ed H.
4 Cherry Tomato
5 Think
6 Nathan
7 Pitter-Pat
8 I Like You
9 Aquarius
10 Supernatural Man
11 Joe
12 Flutes (S)
13 Sunflower
14 Grandfather's Rug
15 Follow Me
16 I Like You
17 Ideas-It's True
18 Armageddon
19 Lush Axe
20 Baramundo
21 Peter Pan
22 And
23 Voltage Regulator





Rhythm & Noise

Rhythm & Noise is a group of musical "artlaws" whose primordial sonic onslaught fused industrial percussion, vocal gestures, din, ambience, and vibration into an apocalyptic or serene sensorium. During the seventies and eighties, Rhythm & Noise's early audience abduction and "mobilization" events eventually evolved into Sound Traffic Controller's audio-cinematic presentations.

Contents Under Notice (1984)


Side 1 (Stereo Soundtrack)
1-1 Looms
1-2 Verge
1-3 Lapse
1-4 Vex
1-5 Lull
Side A (Mono Effects)
A-1 Vagues
A-2 Monomenon



Chasms Accord (1985/1996)


1 Lingering Fingers (1:25)
2 Filament In Strata (4:59)
3 Delirium Tremens (3:00)
4 Bent Metal Forest (4:08)
Featuring - Z'EV
5 Schismatic (4:19)
Vocals - Diamanda Galás
6 Delve (2:19)
7 Current Slaughter (3:30)
8 Spyral I (3:11)
9 Bilge (1:37)
10 Slug Path (7:33)
11 Alazarn K (3:33)
12 Remembrance (4:28)
Vocals - Diamanda Galás
13 Cellar M (7:18)
14 Lull (4:25)
15 Monomonon (9:17)
16 Pluramin (3:29)
17 Without Your Eye (4:03)
Featuring - Z'EV

CD version @256





MX-80 Sound

Out of the Tunnel(1980) & Crowd Control (1981)




O Type 7" (1980)


A O Type (Pt. 1) (3:36)
B O Type (Pt. 2) (4:10)

O Type - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Recorded and engineered at Mobius Music, San Francisco.





Yello - Claro Que Si (1981)




A1 Daily Disco (4:29)
A2 No More Roger (3:15)
A3 Take It All (1:47)
A4 The Evening's Young (4:54)
A5 She's Got A Gun (4:02)
B1 Ballet Mecanique (3:41)
B2 Ouad El Habib (3:21)
Vocals - Zine el Abidine
B3 The Lorry (3:31)
B4 Homer Hossa (5:15)
B5 Pinball Cha Cha (3:37)


Yello - Solid Pleasure (1980)


1 Bimbo (3:36)
2 Night Flanger (4:52)
3 Reverse Lion (1:21)
4 Downtown Samba (2:38)
5 Magneto (2:47)
6 Massage (1:27)
7 Assistant's Cry (1:49)
8 Bostich (2:11)
9 Rock Stop (2:30)
10 Coast To Polka (1:54)
11 Blue Green (5:25)
12 Eternal Legs (4:08)
13 Stanztrigger (2:56)
14 Bananas To The Beat (3:05)

Bonus Tracks
15 Thrill Wave (2:02)
16 I. T. Splash (2:35)
17 Gluehead (2:52)
18 Smirak's Train (4:39)
19 Bostich (N'est-ce Pas) (4:36)


This is the 2005 CD ReMaster with Bonus Tracks.