Talk:Smell My Picture

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Notes From Ralph

This summer everyone will be groovin' to the latest left-over tracks from The Residents. Eighteen phat tracks from THE RIVER OF CRIME, TWEEDLES, and THE VOICE OF MIDNIGHT that there was no room for on the original releases, or maybe just wasn't good enough to be included. Hand selected by Big Brother for the completist in any family.

- Big Brother, BOG, 2008

I have noted reference to Smell My Picture as a new Residents album. Actually the new Residents album is The Bunny Boy and it is due out in September. SMP is a collection of Residents music so it is an “album” but The Residents have not even heard the collection yet (though that should change this week.) I know it is only semantics, but The Residents work hard on their albums and would not likely take kindly to the idea that I pick up music from the cutting room floor, release it as SMP, and have people consider it as “The Residents new album.”

They are so prolific that I doubt they will even recognize most of the music on SMP.

- Big Brother, BOG, 2008

Yes it had to happen, they listened to the new release, Smell My Picture. The reaction was that it was “entertaining.” They also mentioned that some of it is older than the projects it is credited to be from.

Apparently it is common practice to pull older unused pieces forward to consider adapting for newer projects.

This release cleans up the past even more than I realized. They confirmed that no old pieces advanced to mine for ideas for The Bunny Boy. Apparently TBB is a “new sound” so trying to work with older pieces would not be successful.

- Big Brother, BOG, 2008

Cosmichobo1 _(Admin) (talk) 16:00, February 18 2023