The Residents – Not Available
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Ralph Records – RR1174 |
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US |
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Genre: |
Electronic |
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Experimental |
Tracklist
| A1 | Part One: Edweena | |
| A2 | Part Two: The Making Of A Soul | |
| B1 | Part Three: Ship's A' Going Down | |
| B2 | Part Four: Never Known Questions | |
| B3 | Epilogue |
Companies, etc.
- Manufactured By – Cryptic Corporation
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Cryptic Corporation
- Copyright © – Cryptic Corporation
- Published By – Pale Pachyderm Publishing
- Lacquer Cut At – Sonic Arts
Credits
- Artwork [Cover Art, Based On A Drawing By A Resident] – Pore-Know Graphics*
- Composed By, Arranged By, Recorded By, Producer – The Residents
- Guest [Thanks To] – S. Lewis*
- Lacquer Cut By – LK*
Notes
Initial pressing batch of 5000 with purple colored labels.These copies suffer from an audible distortion in the vinyl during the first track on side B, "Ship's A' Going Down". This is due to a mastering / plating flaw (bad stamper). Many copies were distributed and sold before the remaining copies of the pressing batch were recalled, and apparently then destroyed (landfill).
Reprocessed by Ralph Records.
Liner photo from "Vileness Fats."
© 1978, The Cryptic Corporation
Ralph Records, 444 Grove Street,
San Francisco, CA 94102
"This record was recorded in 1974."
"This record is issued at the discretion of Ralph Records and The Cryptic Corp. The characters and events portrayed are fictional and do not represent either The Residents or other persons, living or dead."
© ℗ 1978 The Cryptic Corp.
Not Available was not meant to be released. This album was not released until The Residents themselves had forgotten completely about its existence in 1978.
Reprocessed by Ralph Records.
Liner photo from "Vileness Fats."
© 1978, The Cryptic Corporation
Ralph Records, 444 Grove Street,
San Francisco, CA 94102
"This record was recorded in 1974."
"This record is issued at the discretion of Ralph Records and The Cryptic Corp. The characters and events portrayed are fictional and do not represent either The Residents or other persons, living or dead."
© ℗ 1978 The Cryptic Corp.
Not Available was not meant to be released. This album was not released until The Residents themselves had forgotten completely about its existence in 1978.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Rights Society: BMI
- Matrix / Runout (Side A, hand-etched runout (Sonic Arts logo stamped): RR1174A Re1 LK ⊏◯⊐
- Matrix / Runout (Side B, hand-etched runout (Sonic Arts logo stamped): RR1174B Re1 LK ⊏◯⊐
Other Versions (5 of 36)
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| Not Available (LP, Album, Orange Labels) | Ralph Records | RR1174 | US | 1978 | |||
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Not Available (LP, Album, Green Labels) | Ralph Records | RR1174 | US | 1978 | ||
| Not Available (LP, Album, Reissue, Green labels, Minna St.) | Ralph Records | RR1174 | US | 1983 | |||
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Not Available (LP, Album, Reissue, Green labels, Grove St.) | Ralph Records | RR1174 | US | 1983 | ||
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Not Available (LP, Album, Reissue, Repress, B/W Labels, Rainbo Records Pressing) | Ralph Records | RR1174 | US | 1985 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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Just picked up this pressing yesterday at amoeba Hollywood for 25$. Just finished playing it and it sounds really good. No distortion on the first song of side b either. Super happy I got one of the good ones. If you find one out in the wild I’d gamble and get it! -
My copy of the first (purple label) pressing sounds really good. My guess is that Ralph probably threw out hundreds of perfectly fine copies of this just to be on the safe side, sort of like an egg farmer after getting reports of salmonella. -
I must be one of the lucky few. My copy of this 1st pressing purple label doesn't have a warp, isn’t off center or have any playback issues. There are others that claim to not have any issues as well so it’s not an issue with ALL of the 1st edition pressings. -
Favorite album for many years. I do have this "flaw" version, and the (favorite song) -ship is going down- has clearly this noise. I'm catag my collection (discogs is great), and when I looked at the "flaw" version with my magnifier glass, the whole disc has clearly cracklings (like old pottery glazings) all over. Interesting, never seen this before on a record. The reason for this "flaw"?
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A patchwork of haunting melodies, jagged edges and eerie, distorted vocals. As it was recorded to tape with analogue instruments it lacks the harsh digital sound of their later works, and this allows the humanity and humour to shine through. I don't still don't know what the hell it is about, but I know what Tweedles is about and this doesn't make me want to die. -
I’ve had this purple label pressing for 40+ years — no distortion, no warp, very little surface noise...sounds excellent. wondering if there wasn’t a second run of purple label copies simultaneous to other early label variations. -
I was given a first pressing copy of this for Xmas '78 by my then girlfriend (Sheila Preston, where are you now?). Purple labels. It was an expensive import, £5.99 I think. Very much appreciated at the time. I think I got her The Idiot by Iggy.
My copy of Not Available isn't warped but it is quite a noisy pressing. Listenable though. Vinyl pressed in America during this era seemed to be of the recycled variety with strange swirls and marks kind of pressed into the thing. I still have my copy but tend to play the CD version these days. Along with Third Reich n Roll, their best album I think. -
The purple label first pressing does not have a problem on "Ship's a'going down" in particular, but rather the pressing is off-center and vinyl is warped on all copies I have seen, including my own keeper. The text in the description on Discogs comes from an auctioned off copy, based on that seller's best guess. The Uncle Willie guide states that 5.000 copies were made but simply states "recalled mis-mastered" (page 55). -
Sums up residents, clever, musically adventurous but somehow at times unmemorable but then out of nowhere they produce a combination that makes your ears spark and your eyes prick and on this it is latter half of unknown questions. You should buy this record -
This really is the perfect Residents album. Every single release during their 'classic' period (1972-1980) was a milestone (save for the 'Goosebumps' cd perhaps), yet this one seems to have the other ones beat for me. The album is like a warped psychedelic Opera for people on heavy doses of mushrooms. It has so many different sections though sounds like a coherent work on the whole; and the multilayered vocals dredged from the Louisiana swamps are beautifully offset by pianos, horn sections, and unidentified percussive elements. A total classic.
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