Freak Show

by The Residents

Freak Show cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1990
  • Label: Official
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 52:53
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: The Cryptic Corporation

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The notoriously anonymous collective's conceptual MIDI-driven album revolves around a series of grotesque circus sideshow characters. Pushing far beyond a standard audio release, the project was later adapted into a groundbreaking, highly surreal interactive CD-ROM game.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, conceptual, existential, dissonant, theatrical, experimental, dark-humor, electronic

Tracklist

  1. Everyone Comes to the Freak Show (5:24)
  2. Harry's Introduction (0:28)
  3. Harry the Head (2:57)
  4. Herman Watches TV (2:34)
  5. Herman (The Human Mole) (3:55)
  6. Wanda Does Her Act (1:59)
  7. Wanda (The Worm Woman) (4:35)
  8. Jack Amuses the Crowd (0:46)
  9. Jello Jack (The Boneless Boy) (5:55)
  10. Benny Bounces (0:33)
  11. Benny (The Bouncing Bump) (6:08)
  12. Mickey (The Mumbling Midget) (4:38)
  13. Lillie (6:58)
  14. Nobody Laughs When They Leave. (5:59)

Credits

  • Pore No Graphics - cover [cover art]
  • Diana Alden - featuring
  • Laurie Amat - featuring

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