The Mole Show Live at the Roxy is a live recording 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....

. The show was originally bootlegged, and The Cryptic Corporation bought the master tapes, releasing it officially on Ralph Records

Ralph Records

Ralph Records was The Residents' original record label, the name coming from the somewhat colorful phrase "calling Ralph on the porcelain telephone."...

 in 1983. 1800 copies were pressed on black vinyl, and a picture disc

Picture disc

Picture discs are gramophone records that show images on their playing surface, rather than being of plain black or coloured vinyl.-Development:...

 edition of 1500 copies was also released. The album was released in 1998 by Bomba Records in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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Track listing

1. Voices of the Air
2. The Secret Seed
3. Introduction
4. Won't You Keep Us Working?
5. First Warning
6. Back to Normality?
7. The Sky Falls!
8. Narration
9. God of Darkness
10. More Narration
11. March to the Sea
12. The Observer
13. Hole Workers' New Hymn
14. Rumors
15. Arrival
16. Deployment
17. Saturation
18. Still More Narration
19. Idea
20. Construction
21. Ugly Rumors
22. Failure/Reconstruction
23. Success
24. Upset Narration
25. Call of the Wild
26. Driving the Moles Away
27. Don't Tread on Me
28. The Short War
29. Frantic Narration
30. Resident Speech
31. Satisfaction
32. Happy Home