''The Census Taker'' is the

soundtrack A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television show, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of m ...

to the 1984

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of the same name, released in 1985. The soundtrack was composed by

The Residents The Residents are an American art collective and art rock band best known for their avant-garde music and multimedia works. Since their first official release, ''Meet the Residents'' (1974), they have released over 60 albums, numerous music vid ...

and included some new tracks, such as "Hellno" and "Where Is She," as well as some reworked older songs. The first edition was pressed on red vinyl; subsequent pressings were on black.

Track listing

# "Creeping Dread" # "The Census Taker" # "Talk" # "End of Home" # "Emotional Music" # "Secret Seed" # "Easter Woman/Simple Song" # "Hellno" # "Where Is She" # "Innocence Decayed" # "Romanian/Nice Old Man" # "Margaret Freeman" # "Lights Out/Where Is She" # "Passing the Bottle" # "The Census Taker Returns"

Personnel

The Residents: Performance Sandy Sandwich: Guitar

References

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