Babyfingers was a release by the avant garde/experimental rock

Rock music

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 band The Residents

The Residents

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, containing music written for their 1977 album, Fingerprince

Fingerprince

Fingerprince is an album by The Residents. The album was recorded between 1974–76 and released in 1977. It was intended to be a three-sided record named Tourniquet Of Roses. Due to expense, the project was abandoned and cut down to a regular two-sided album. The third side was originally released...

. As Fingerprince

Fingerprince

Fingerprince is an album by The Residents. The album was recorded between 1974–76 and released in 1977. It was intended to be a three-sided record named Tourniquet Of Roses. Due to expense, the project was abandoned and cut down to a regular two-sided album. The third side was originally released...

was originally meant to be a three-sided album (a concept abandoned due to expense and Monty Python

Monty Python

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's Matching Tie and Handkerchief

The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief

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beating them to the punch), much of the material was abandoned and the third side remained unfinished until November 1977 although most tracks from the EP was shown at the Residents Radio Special in September 1977. Thus, the group reduced the third side to an extended play record

Extended play

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 entitled '"Babyfingers'", and released it in 1979 to people who had been waiting for their copy of the The Third Reich and Roll box sets. A second printing was made for members of the W.E.I.R.D. fan club in 1981, and a last pressing, on pink vinyl, in 1985. For the most part, it has been incorporated into most CD

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 versions of Fingerprince, beginning in 1988.

Track listing

1. "Monstrous Intro" (absent from some versions; included in the EuroRalph CD version of Fingerprince
   Fingerprince
   Fingerprince is an album by The Residents. The album was recorded between 1974–76 and released in 1977. It was intended to be a three-sided record named Tourniquet Of Roses. Due to expense, the project was abandoned and cut down to a regular two-sided album. The third side was originally released...
   
   )
2. "Death in Barstow"
3. "Melon Collie Lassie"
4. "Flight of the Bumble Roach"
5. "Walter Westinghouse"