Freak Show/Freak Show Soundtrack
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| Freak Show | ||||
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| Released | 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1989 | |||
| Length | 52:53 (Special Edition) | |||
| Label | The Voyager Company (CD-ROM) Mute/EMI | |||
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Freak Show is a studio album by American art rock band the Residents, released in 1990.[1] It marked the beginning of the Residents' obsession with emerging computer technology in the 1990s, and much of the music was made with various MIDI devices.
The interactive Freak Show CD-ROM was released in 1994.[2] A Freak Show stage performance by a theater company at the Archa Theater in Prague premiered on November 1, 1995. Kyle Baker worked on a graphic novel, The Residents: Freak Show, which was released in 1992 by Dark Horse.[3]
Several of the songs were also performed live during the 1997 25th anniversary concerts at the Fillmore in San Francisco. After the CD-ROM's success, the album was re-released as The Freak Show Soundtrack with a different cover. A limited edition, The Freak Show Special Edition, was released in 2002 to mark the band's 30th anniversary.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [5] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |  [6] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 4/10[7] |
Trouser Press called the album "relatively accessible" as well as "often unnerving," writing that "there are more than enough lyrical twists and turns to avoid mere gross-out overkill, and the music shifts textures and tempos ... to follow suit."[2]
