This collection gathers up album tracks, singles, demos and more going all the way back to the origins of Ralph Records. Of course, since Ralph Records was started by The Residents, there are songs from them here. But there are quite a few other artists including Yello and Chrome. This qualifies as prog because the majority of it is art rock. This thing has so much great music built into it. It also includes a great booklet.

There is a jazzy vibe to this along with a punky edge. It’s very vocally dominated and driving. It’s also so artsy and cool.

Echoey, trippy weirdness is on the menu here.

This is an absolutely freaky version of the Rolling Stones song. Noisy droning music creates the background, while a distorted, whispered, screamed vocal brings the lyrics. The arrangement fills out further later, but retains the weird, unsettling vibe.

An old-time rock and roll vibe is on the menu here. The vocals bring a bit of crypt punk feeling. It builds up to more artsy weirdness further down the road.

The first half of this is very much a retro sounding novelty type tune. The second half is more exploratory and trippy.

This has hints of Tiny Tim. It’s a trippy sort of psychedelia meets folk number. It’s accessible but still strange.

This is based on the Beatles track “A Day in the Life.” It takes it to an even weirder, trippier level. There are some decidedly retro sounds along with a lot of strangeness and freaky transitions. I believe this uses actual Beatles samples.

Driving and weird, this has freaky keyboards and the kind of vocals you expect from The Residents. In fact, I’d consider this trademark Residents in sound. 

The vocals on this are pitch adjusted to something between normal and chipmunk level. The song is more driving Residents music. This is creative, freaky and so cool.

Punky, yet also artistic, there are hints of psychedelia here along with plenty of art rock.

Trippy, with some punky angles, this is another tasty piece of weirdness.

Somewhat understated at the start, this one is more trademark Residents weirdness.

I like this piece a lot. I also like the fact that it’s not really “brief.” It has some intriguing twists and turns, but is always trademark Residents and very creative.

The vocal parts on this really sell the track. It’s tasty weirdness with “The Residents” written all over it.

Frantic, music with super high pitched vocals and driving symphonic and rock instrumentation. This is so cool! It turns noisy and screaming hot in the instrumental section later.

Musically more understated with almost atmospheric textures behind the vocals, this is a departure from the previous one, but it’s also easy to tell that it’s the same act. Multiple layers of vocals are heard later and the cut gets noisier as it continues with more droning sounds rising up. It almost feels like a weird, twisted factory after the voices drop away. 

I love the freaky exploration on this. It’s slower, like a dirge, but it has a lot of intriguing elements at play.

I love the driving, punky art music weirdness of this. It feels quite a bit like The Residents. 

Punky reggae and space music seem to merge here. There are hints of almost Hawkwind-like things here. The cut is quite percussive. It’s also driving.

This reminds me quite a bit of “Silver Machine.” It’s driving, trippy and also very cool.

This is just a short, weird noisefest piece. It’s also pretty trippy.

On the one hand, this is more straightforward instrumental guitar rock. That said, it still has some strangeness and artsy angles at play.

Trippy droning stuff is on the menu here. The cut is almost trance-like in the layers of near chanting. It’s weird and cool.

There is a phone conversation here along with some effects and some harmonica.

There are jazzy angles along with punk vibes, space music and more in the mix here.

Punky, energetic and edgy, this has some hints of the punkier side of Hawkwind.

This is driving punky hard rock with hints of space music and art rock. It’s one of the most direct and driving things here.

There is definitely a Hawkwind-like angle to this cut. It has some cool guitar energy and a bit of a punky angle.

I can hear hints of Gary Numan and Hawkwind both in the mix here. This is spacey and so cool. It has some intriguing instrumental work that brings a rather symphonic angle to it.

Punky and also nearly metallic, this is more driving hard rock.

I really like this a lot. It has some definitely psychedelia in the mix. It’s bouncy, rather trippy and even has some hints of jazz. I really like the rather melodic guitar solo section later.

This is artsy and trippy. It has some playful Asian vibes and a lot of class built into it. It covers a lot of territory along its run. At over eight-minutes long, this thing is epic and all that time is put to good use.

Bouncy and trippy, this is a lot of fun. It has plenty of psychedelia, art music and space rock built into it.

Bouncy and melodic, this has hints of Asian music. It’s a rather mainstream cut that works well.

Percussive and more trademark Residents, this has some great energy and grooves. It also gets hints of 1960s music as it continues.

Surf-like guitar gets things going here. The cut turns weirder and almost DEVO-like as it continues. There is a punky edge along with garage band sound.

This is bizarre, bouncy and fun.

Echoey spoken vocals are heard at the start of this. Weird effects join later. This is freaky art music with a real synthetic vibe to it. It turns much stranger and synthetic later as the sounds get more distorted and twisted.

This almost feels like what you might get if Hawkwind and The Residents tackled a rather stripped back, bluesy rock arrangement.

Driving hard rocking sounds with plenty of space rock and art music in the mix is the idea here. It has some Lords of the New Church vibes, but mixed with something more like Hawkwind. I will say that, at over eight-minutes long, this overstays its welcome for me. There just isn’t enough variety to maintain it for that long.

Driving hard rocking sounds are on the menu here. This has a garage band meets near metal vibe. It’s also somewhat freaky and spacey.

Percussion and the sounds of a party underway get this underway. The music comes in with a twisted, almost parody sort of vibe on a keyboard. There are no vocals on this.

A noisy, trippy swirling arrangement gets things underway here. This instrumental piece grows and evolves and has some cool rocking vibes.

With a dance kind of groove that’s rather twisted, this is fun. The vocals have a freaky angle to them feeling like some cross between Roxy Music and Devo. This is funky and deceptively catchy for as unusual as it is.

This is another with a cool groove and yet plenty of left-of-center weirdness. It has more pure rock than the previous tune did, but it’s far from mainstream.

There is a lot of trippy space music in the mix here. It’s electronic, quirky and tastefully weird, but still accessible and catchy. There is a cool retro rocking jam later that calls to mind surf guitar music.

Bouncy and fun, the vocals on this remind me of Fred Schneider somehow. This has a real electronic dance music groove to it.

While this has a lot of the same vibes as the previous cuts from this group, there is an old school rock and roll meets reggae thing at play, too.

Driving and hard rocking, this has some hints of Roxy Music and the Adrian Belew era of King Crimson. It’s artsy, freaky and so cool. It’s one of my favorite tracks in this set and features some killer guitar work.

There is a lot of classical instrumentation built into this. It has some hints of jazz, too. Still, it’s rather punky art music at its core.

The punky side of electronic Hawkwind seems a valid reference point here. This is driving, cool and just so classy.

Starting with effects and gradually building upward this gets into some real noisy weirdness that is so cool.

This thing gets pretty freaky. It mixes punky stuff, art music and space rock into a killer slab of instrumental weirdness.

Bouncy, quirky and tastefully weird, this has a lot in common with the Residents, while being different, too.

Freaky weirdness that is oddly tasty is on the menu here.

Percussive and so weird, this is fun. It’s not far removed from Residents music, but also decidedly not The Residents. Weird tape effects are on the menu at the end.

More strangeness with both electronic and almost traditional sounds at play, this is perhaps even weirder than the previous cuts from this act. It has a lot of backwards tape effects built into it.

Mostly vocal, this is so weird. Yet there is something oddly compelling about it.

Freaky, echoey and cool, this is still very vocal.

There are some sounds on this that feel like a pinball machine. Some of the vocals remind me of the “Mandarin” in the third Iron Man movie – you know, Trevor. This is electronic, bouncy and fun. Yet it also gets a percussion workout section built into it.

Electronic elements, world vocals and nature sounds combine with percussion early. World music melodies are heard as this continues to evolve. It has a lot of spacey art music in the mix.

This bouncy rocker has some Hawkwind vibes at times. It gets more Devo-like later. This is a cool rocker that’s one of my favorites on the set. It even has some Fripp-like guitar sounds. All the various elements work together as the track continues.

This comes in mellow and builds up gradually. It has an almost symphonic vibe to it as it does. As the vocals join it becomes trademark Residents.