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Song Notes: This is one that's also pretty danged creepy, though it would be better to post the (absolutely exquisite) music video. This one is a little bit complicated to explain, though. See, in 1983, Renaldo & The Loaf recorded an album, Songs For Swinging Larvae, and to promote it, the Residents (whose management firm, the Cryptic Corporation, owned Ralph Records, the label it came out on) with Graeme Whifler edited together some selections from the album ("Spratts Medium", "Lime Jelly Grass" and "Melvyn's Repose" (that last one's not on the original album!)) and shot a video for that edit. The video, about a real child abduction case both won awards in film festivals and was banned from television. Later, in 2001, the Residents released a DVD of most of their videos ("Don't Be Cruel"

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