The Big Bubble is an album by The Residents

The Residents

The Residents is an American art collective best known for avant-garde music and multimedia works. The first official release under the name of The Residents was in 1972, and the group has since released over sixty albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects and ten DVDs....

. It was released in 1985, and fleshed out the backstory of the band's "Mole Trilogy", which had been introduced in Mark of the Mole

Mark of the Mole

Mark of the Mole is an album by The Residents, released in 1981. It was meant to be the first album in a quadrilogy detailing the conflicts between the Moles and the Chubs .After the Moles are forced to abandon their tunnels due to flooding, they enter the land of the Chubs seeking...

(1981) and The Tunes of Two Cities

The Tunes of Two Cities

The Tunes of Two Cities is an album by The Residents, released in 1982. It is part two of the Mole Trilogy. Rather than forwarding the story of the battle between the Mole People and the Chubs, the record's concept is to display the differences between the two cultures through their music...

(1982). The official third part of the Mole Trilogy was never actually released, and neither were the projected fifth and sixth parts. The tour that accompanied the Mole storyline, documented in Intermission: Extraneous Music from the Residents' Mole Show

Intermission: Extraneous Music from the Residents' Mole Show

Intermission: Extraneous Music from the Residents' Mole Show is an EP by The Residents, released in 1982. It featured music from the opening, closing and intermission portions of the Mole Show. It was the first in a line of albums that would bear the warning that it was not part three of the Mole...

(1983), was a financial disaster. It had led to the virtual dissolution of the band, who were not keen on continuing the idea.

The Big Bubble is similar to The Tunes of Two Cities

The Tunes of Two Cities

The Tunes of Two Cities is an album by The Residents, released in 1982. It is part two of the Mole Trilogy. Rather than forwarding the story of the battle between the Mole People and the Chubs, the record's concept is to display the differences between the two cultures through their music...

, as it focuses on the music within the Mole culture. In this case, the album presents some songs by a fictional band called The Big Bubble. The band forefronts the Zenkinite movement, the Zenkinites being a crossbreed of the Moles and Chubs which were introduced in Mark of the Mole. The band breaks the law by singing in the banned Mohelmot language.

The four models portraying the Big Bubble on the cover have never been identified. Despite rumors, the Residents claim that they themselves are not in the cover photo.

On the back of the LP record, it is written "Produced by Konrad" after a letter sent by a fan regarding Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats?

Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats?

The Residents had begun a movie in 1972 called Vileness Fats. The concept of the movie was to shoot it on a new media form and tell most of the story through music. The story itself was about a village under siege by bandits stealing the meat supply, forcing the population to exist on vegetables...

and what they did wrong and what could have improved on it.

Track listing

1. "Sorry"
2. "Hop a Little"
3. "Go Where Ya Wanna Go"
4. "Gotta Gotta Get"
5. "Cry for the Fire"
6. "Die-Stay-Go"
7. "Vinegar"
8. "Firefly"
9. "The Big Bubble"
10. "Fear for the Future"
11. "Kula Bocca Says So"

Bonus tracks

The following tracks were included only on the 1989 CD release:

1. "Prelude for Toddler"
2. "Toddler Lullaby"
3. "Safety is the Cootie Wootie"