Fingerprince is an album 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 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 separately in 1979 as Babyfingers

Babyfingers

Babyfingers was a release by the avant garde/experimental rock band The Residents, containing music written for their 1977 album, Fingerprince...

. For the CD release of Fingerprince, all of the songs from Babyfingers which were originally supposed to be part of the album were included in their original running order.

Track listing

Fingerprince (1977)

• Original vinyl releases

1. You Yesyesyes – 3:00
2. Home Age Conversation – 2:03
3. Godsong – 3:41
4. March de la Winni – 0:58
5. Bossy – 1:00
6. Boo Who? – 2:48
7. Tourniquet of Roses – 3:15
8. You Yesyesyes Again – 2:38
9. Six Things to a Cycle – 17:16

• CD releases, 1988 and forward

1. "You yesyesyes" – 3:00
2. "Home Age Conversation" – 2:03
3. "Godsong" – 3:41
4. "March de la Winni" – 0:58
5. "Bossy" – 1:00
6. "Boo Who?" – 2:48
7. "Tourniquet of Roses" – 3:15
8. "Death in Barstow" – 2:05
9. "Melon Collie Lassie" – 2:51
10. "Flight of the Bumble Roach" – 2:55
11. "Walter Westinghouse" – 8:02
12. "Six Things to a Cycle: Part 1." – 2:47
13. "Six Things to a Cycle: Part 2." – 1:38
14. "Six Things to a Cycle: Part 3." – 2:26
15. "Six Things to a Cycle: Part 4." – 3:49
16. "Six Things to a Cycle: Part 5." – 4:50
17. "Six Things to a Cycle: Part 6." – 2:17
18. "You yesyesyes Again" – 2:38 1977 Remix

Trivia

• Both on vinyl and CD, the cover has been released in brown and full-colour versions. The current (brown) CD follows the original, first edition vinyl LP.
• The more recent MP3
  MP3
  MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
  
  version of the album follows the CD track listing, but has Six Things to a Cycle as one track.