2000

During the first half of the year 2000, The Residents kept themselves occupied with some unfinished business from the previous one. In 1999, while touring Wormwood Live across Europe, the group made a stop at a studio in Berlin to record some of the new arrangements from the show. After doing some further work on these recordings between February and March, the group ended up with Roadworms: The Berlin Sessions.

The rest of their year was spent focusing on their Icky Flix project, not only in recording new versions of songs from the collection, but also developing the new show they would tour to promote it.

Timeline

January

• The title music for the abandoned I Murdered Mommy CD-ROM is offered for free on the Ralph America website.

February

• The Residents begin work on overdubbing and mixing the Roadworms recordings.
• A recording of "Paint it Black" from the Adobe Disfigured Night show is offered for free on the Ralph America website.

March

• The new track "Ninth Rain" is offered for free on the Ralph America website.
• The Residents finish work on Roadworms.
• 13th: The DVD magazine Circuits features an article on The Residents.

April

• An edited version of the song "I Hear Ya Got Religion", the oldest surviving Residents recording, is offered for free on the Ralph America website.
• George & James, Stars & Hank Forever, and God in Three Persons are re-issued in the US and Japan.
• 13th: A Tribute to Polnareff, featuring The Residents' "Love Me, Please Love Me", is released in Canada.
• 21st: Roadworms is announced.
• 25th: The CD maxi-single Diskomo 2000 is released in the US.

May

• The new track "Santa Dog for Gamelan Orchestra" is offered for free on the Ralph America website.
• 10th: Assorted Secrets is reissued and expanded on CD by Ralph America.

June

• 25th: Roadworms: The Berlin Sessions is released. Diskomo 2000 is released in Japan.

July

• 23rd: Ralph America announces that they are attempting to recover the Vileness Fats footage for a possible DVD release. At the same time, Cryptic announces that The Residents have booked 30 hours of studio time.

August

• A 2-pack of God in Three Persons and its instrumental soundtrack is released by Euro Ralph.
• dot.com is released by Ralph America, collecting the free tracks issued on their website throughout the year, and including an extra track of "Walter Westinghouse" performed at the Fillmore in 1998.

September

• 5th: The Icky Flix DVD is announced for early 2001, with the possibility of live shows.

October

• 28th: Roosevelt 2.0, a reissue of Disc 4 from the Huddled Masses box set, is announced.

December

• 13th: Pre-orders are opened for the Icky Flix DVD.
• 22nd: The first couple of Icky Flix tour dates are announced for February.

Releases

• Roadworms (The Berlin Sessions) (CD / LP, East Side Digital / Euro Ralph / Bomba Records, ESD 81532 / CD 023 / LP 023 / BOM 22117)
• Diskomo 2000 (CD, East Side Digital / Bomba Records, ESD 81512 / BOM 820)
• dot.com (CD, Ralph America, RA 009)

Re-Releases

• George & James (CD, East Side Digital, ESD 81482)
• Stars & Hank Forever! (CD, East Side DIgital, ESD 81492)
• God In Three Persons (CD, East Side Digital, ESD 81502)
• God In Three Persons (The Original Album / The Original Soundtrack Recording) (2xCD, Euro Ralph, CD 022)
• Assorted Secrets (CD, Ralph America, RA 008)
• Poor Kaw-Liga's Pain (12'', Old Gold, OLD-084-MX)

Compilation appearances

• Condo Painting - Life From A Different Angle (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Gallery Six Records, RSR-0016, CD)
  • Includes "The Booker Tease".
• Volume: Bed Of Sound (CD, MoMA PS1, P.S.1)
  • Exhibition at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.
  • The Residents contributed an excerpt from "Fire '99 / Santa Dog 2nd Millennium".
• Ottobre 2000 (CD, Il Mucchio Selvaggio)
  • Includes "Hanging By His Hair. Road"
• I Love Disco - Volumen 3 (3xCassette, Blanco y Negro, CAS 1050 DS CTV)
  • Includes "Kaw-Liga".
• Techno Pop 3 (2xCD, Contraseña Records, CON-082-CS)
  • Includes "Kaw-Liga (Praire Mix)".

Home video releases

• Circuit (5) (DVD, Warner Home Video, 36945)
  • 5th issue of the Circuit DVD music magazine.
  • Features an article about The Residents, as well as the One Minute Movies short films.