The Tunes of Two Cities 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....

, 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. The music of the Chubs is light cocktail jazz, while that of the Moles tends toward industrial religious hymns. A major feature of this album is that it was one of the first to use the E-mu Emulator

E-mu Emulator

The Emulator is the name given to a series of disk-based digital sampling keyboards manufactured by E-mu Systems from 1982 until 1990. Though not the first commercial sampler, the Emulator was among the first to find wide use among ordinary musicians, due to its relatively low price and its size,...

, one of the earliest commercial digital samplers

Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings of sounds that are loaded or recorded into it by the user and then played back by means of a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device to perform or...

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Track listing

1. "Serenade for Missy"
2. "A Maze of Jigsaws"
3. "Mousetrap"
4. "God of Darkness"
5. "Smack Your Lips (Clap Your Teeth)"
6. "Praise for the Curse"
7. "The Secret Seed"
8. "Smokebeams"
9. "Mourning the Undead"
10. "Song of the Wild"
11. "The Evil Disposer"
12. "Happy Home" (Excerpt from Act II of "Innisfree")

• Bonus Tracks (1988 CD release only)

1. "Open Up"
2. "Anvil Forest"
3. "Scent of Mint"