Dot Com (Album)
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Dot.Com is an album released by Avant rock musicians, 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....

, in 2000. It was released in a limited edition of 1200 copies.

In 2000, Ralph America collected all of the MP3s they had released on the Buy Or Die website on a CD entitled dot.com. Each MP3 is a never-before-released track from The Residents' history, dating from 1969 to 2000.
Walter Westinghouse, track 9, was a bonus: it had never come out in MP3 format, but only appeared on this CD.

Track listing

  1. The Sour Song
  2. 1999 (Prince Cover)
  3. Ninth Rain
  4. Wanda The Worm Woman
    Freak Show/Freak Show Soundtrack
    Freak Show marked the beginning of The Residents' obsession with emerging computer technology in the 1990s. Much of the music was made with various MIDI devices. "Freak Show" also served as the name for a CD-ROM that was released in 1994, a stage performance by a theater company at the Archa...

  5. Conceiving Ada
    Conceiving Ada
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     Titles
  6. Paint It Black
  7. Hunters
    Hunters (album)
    Hunters was an album by The Residents, released in 1995. It was a soundtrack commissioned for the Discovery Channel series Hunters: The World of Predators and Prey...

     Opening Titles
  8. Eskimo
    Eskimo (album)
    Eskimo is an album by The Residents that was originally supposed to follow 1977's Fingerprince. However, due to many delays and arguments with management, it was not released until 1979...

     Opera Proposal Excerpt
  9. Walter Westinghouse
    Fingerprince
    Fingerprince is an album by The Residents. The album was recorded between 1974–76 and released in 1977. It was intended to be a three-sided record named Tourniquet Of Roses. Due to expense, the project was abandoned and cut down to a regular two-sided album. The third side was originally released...

     (Live at the Fillmore '98)
  10. I Murdered Mommy
    I Murdered Mommy
    I Murdered Mommy is a 2001 album by avant rock band The Residents. The album was to be the soundtrack to a proposed but abandoned CD-ROM multimedia project of the same title....

  11. I Hear Ya Got Religion
  12. Santa Dog
    Santa Dog
    Santa Dog was the first official release from The Residents and Ralph Records. It was a double single released in December, 1972.The single was packaged to look like a Christmas card from an insurance agency and was mailed to various recipients, including Frank Zappa and Richard Nixon. The...

     For Gamelan
    Gamelan
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     Orchestra
  13. Fire 99 - Santa Dog
    Santa Dog
    Santa Dog was the first official release from The Residents and Ralph Records. It was a double single released in December, 1972.The single was packaged to look like a Christmas card from an insurance agency and was mailed to various recipients, including Frank Zappa and Richard Nixon. The...

    2nd Millennium
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