WB: RMX
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WB:RMX is an album
Album
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 by The Residents
The Residents
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, released in 2003. The album is a remake
Remake
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 of a 1971 demo tape.

The Residents originally got their name when the demo tape they recorded in 1971 (later called The Warner Bros. Album) was rejected and returned to "residents," since no name of the band had been provided. The demo was never heard by the public until it was played on a Portland, Oregon
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 radio show in 1977. The group had been reluctant to truly release the demo due to recording quality and the fact that their sound had improved between that demo and their official first full-length LP, Meet the Residents. Upon learning that the demo tapes were being circulated via file sharing
File sharing
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, the group remixed the original demo recordings and released them under the title. WB:RMX, though not all of the forty tracks from the original demo were included.

Track listing

  1. "The Mad Sawmill of Copenhagen, Germany"
  2. "Baby Skeletons and Dogs"
  3. "Bop Bop (Shoobop Bop)"
  4. "A Merican Fag"
  5. "Oh Mommy Oh Daddy"
  6. "Peace and Love"
  7. "Christmas Morning Foto"
  8. "Maggie's Farm
    Maggie's Farm
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  9. "Snot and Feces Live at the Grunt Festival"
  10. "Sweet Meat"
  11. "Ohm Is Where the Art Is"
  12. "Sell American"
  13. "Love Theme from a Major Motion Picture"
  14. "Pie in the Sky"
  15. "Art, the White Elephant"
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