The Census Taker is the soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

 to the 1984 movie of the same name (The Census Taker

The Census Taker

The Census Taker is a 1984 black comedy directed by Bruce R. Cook. It stars Greg Mullavey, Meredith MacRae, Timothy Bottoms, and Garrett Morris. The film was The Residents' first film soundtrack commission when their participation suggested by Penn Jillette to Cook...

), released in 1985. The soundtrack was composed entirely by The Residents

The Residents

The Residents is an American art collective best known for avant-garde music and multimedia works. The first official release under the name of The Residents was in 1972, and the group has since released over sixty albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects and ten DVDs....

, which includes some new tracks, such as "Hellno" and "Where Is She", as well as some reworked older songs. The first edition was pressed on red vinyl, subsequent pressings were on black.

Track listing

1. "Creeping Dread"
2. "The Census Taker"
3. "Talk"
4. "End of Home"
5. "Emotional Music"
6. "Secret Seed"
7. "Easter Woman/Simple Song"
8. "Hellno"
9. "Where Is She"
10. "Innocence Decayed"
11. "Romanian/Nice Old Man"
12. "Margaret Freeman"
13. "Lights Out/Where Is She"
14. "Passing the Bottle"
15. "The Census Taker Returns"