Free! Weird!

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Free! Weird! is an ongoing feature on The Residents' official website, featuring weekly releases of free material. The feature began officially in 2017 and has continued to the present day, with new entries (such as MP3s, videos, images and occasionally texts) released every Friday.

A precursor to the Free! Weird! feature was a monthly series of free MP3 downloads released through RalphAmerica.com between June 1999 and May 2000; these were later released on CD in August 2000 as the limited edition compilation album dot.com. Other occasional free releases on The Residents' website followed over the years (such as the seasonal event, The 12 Days of Brumalia, in December 2003).

Free! Weird! has occasionally seen the release of little-known or previously unreleased material, including outtakes from albums such as Animal Lover, Tweedles! and The UGHS!. A representative of Cherry Red Records has said that the group may eventually release a Free! Weird! collection as part of their ongoing pREServed series of reissues, however no such release has been announced as of September 2025.

List of Free! Weird! releases

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Audio

2017

• January ?? - Thelma's Song (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• February 2nd - Beat Me
• March 17th - In The Dark (The UGHS! outtake)
• April 14th - Throckmorton (Tweedles! outtake)
• May 19th - Yuck Whacky (The UGHS! outtake)
• June 2nd - Hit & Run #1 (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• June 9th - Hit & Run #2 (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• June 23rd - Murder Me (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• July 7th - Horns of Hell (The UGHS! outtake)
• July 21st - Crime Time (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• July 28th - Crime Won (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• August 11th - Shorty's On The Run (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• August 18th - Drums Among The Lonely
• August 25th -Squeaky Wheels (The UGHS! outtake)
• September 8th - Fugitives
• September 15th - In The Pen Again (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• September 22nd - Everybody Dies (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• October 6th - Hit & Run #4 (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• October 13th - Hit & Run #5 (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• November 10th - Hit & Run #6 (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• November 28th - Hit & Run #3 (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• December 1st - Muscle One

2018

• January 5th - Fibber (Tweedles! outtake)
• January 19th - Dark Little Melody (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• January 26th - The Happy Corpse (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• February 2nd - Crime Opening #1 (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• February 2nd - Crime Opening #2 (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• February 2nd - Crime Opening #3 (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• February 16th - Never Kick A Pickpocket (Tweedles! outtake)
• March 2nd - The Dancing Duck (The UGHS! outtake)
• March 23rd - Charle Chan (The UGHS! outtake)
• March 30th - I'm In The Mood For Crime (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• April 6th - The Dirty Deal (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• April 20th - Bad Chinese (The UGHS! outtake)
• May 11th - Crime Opening #4 (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• May 11th - Crime Opening #5 (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• May 11th - Crime Opening #6 (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• June 1st - Little Melody
• September 7th - The Big Boy Bites It (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• September 14th - Mad Dog Dies (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• October 5th - Grand Larceny (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• October 26th - Beat Me Bamboo
• November 16th - Bamboo Yoo Hoo
• December 7th - Dark Chinese (The UGHS! outtake)

2019

• January 4th - Pickpocketed Again
• January 13th - Teddy (Live, 2013-02-06)
• February 1st - Bastrop Horns (The UGHS! outtake)
• May 3rd - Demons Dance Alone
• May 24th - Buy Or Die
• August 2nd - Floating Down The Nile Part 2 (The UGHS! outtake)
• September 20th - Available Nonsensical (Not Available outtake)
• November 1st - March De La Winebago (Fingerprince outtake)
• November 29th - In The Dark (Alt Version) (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• December 13th - The Third Degree
• December 27th - 1999 (instrumental)

2020

• January 17th - The Wondering Jew (The UGHS! outtake)
• February 26th - Smelling The Bacon (The UGHS! outtake)
• March 13th - The Crying Kidnapper (from Music To Eat Bricks By)
• March 20th - The Lonely Lotus (The UGHS! outtake)
• April ‎10th - The Ughs (The UGHS! outtake)
• May 8th - Harry the Head (from the Freak Show CD-ROM)
• May 15th - Herman the Human Mole (from the Freak Show CD-ROM)
• May 22nd - Wanda the Worm Woman (from the Freak Show CD-ROM)
• May 29nd - Jelly Jack the Boneless Boy (from the Freak Show CD-ROM)
• June 5th - Herman the Human Mole (from the Freak Show CD-ROM)
• June 12th - Mickey the Mumbling Midget (from the Freak Show CD-ROM)
• June 19th - Everyone Comes to the Freak Show (from the Freak Show CD-ROM)
• September 4th - I Stood At My Window 4 (from "...Imaginary Jack")
• November 28th - Demons Dance Alone (Talking Light demo)
• December 22th - Jesus Saves (Excerpt) (Wormwood outtake)

2021

• January 2nd - I Stood at my Window 2 (From "...Imaginary Jack")
• February 12th - Available Nonsensical (2)
• July 16th - Monkey Man

2022

• June 24th - The Fourth Crucifixion (from B.S.)
• September 23rd - Butcher Shop

2023

• February 17th - Wonderful (alternate instrumental version)
• September 22nd: Petunia (Way We Were recording)

2024

• February 2nd - "Nobody Laughs When They Leave", Icky Flix Tour
• February 17th -
• March 9th - The Way We Were show opener test
• August 30th - "Barstow" (Eyeful demo)
• December 13th - "On the Way to Oklahoma" (Animal Lover sketch)

2025

• July 4th - "America" (from Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses box set)

Video

2018

• December 28th - "Boxes of Armageddon" (Live)

2022

• January - Duck Stab! Alive! teaser
• January 14th - "Lonely Teenager" video
• February 25th - "In The Beginning" from Wormwood Live
• July 8th - God In 3 Persons - Live! clip
• August 5th - Freak Show: "Zarate"
• August 20th - Freak Show: "Williams"
• September 6th - Freak Show: "Waino and Plutano"
• September 16th - Freak Show: "Wadlow"
• October 7th - Freak Show: "Merrick"
• October 14th - The Way We Were rehearsal
• October 31st - Freak Show: "Lentini"
• November 5th - Freak Show: "Hughes"
• November 18th - Alter Image appearance with Penn Jillette
• December 2nd - Freak Show: "Couple"

2023

• January 6th - Freak Show: "Eck"
• January 28th - Freak Show: "Durks"

2024

• February 3rd -
• March 2nd - Stolen Mr. Blue NBC Bay Area news clip
• August 9th - Mush-Room Needcompany performance excerpt
• August 16th - Mutts with Mustaches proof of concept
• August 23rd - "Kamakazi Lady" (Vileness Fats outtake)

2025

• August 1st - "Easter Woman" TikTok video
• August 15th - God in 3 Persons Live clip - "Coffin" ("Silver, Sharp and Could Not Care")
• August 22nd - God in 3 Persons Live clip - "Holy Twosome" ("The Service")
• August 29th - God in 3 Persons Live clip - "The Service"

Miscellaneous

2021

• December 24th - Flood damaged "Santa Dog '78" promotional photo

2022

• July 29th - Golden Gate Bridge photo shoot outtake
• August 26th - "Hello Skinny" original handwritten lyrics
• September 9th - Commercial Album cover art concept sketch
• October 1st - Faceless Forever tour poster
• October 21st - God In 3 Persons - Live! photo
• November 11th - Faceless Forever logo
• November 25th - God In 3 Persons - Live! photo
• December 9th - Letter from Uncle Willie to UWEB members, December 1991
• December 16th - "Santa Dog '78" UWEB 1991 Merry Xmas Kit photo
• December 23rd - "Santa Dog '92" back cover art
• December 30th - Not Available cover art concept sketch

2023

• January 16th - Four Theory of Obscurity postcard color variants
• January 20th - Mr. Green 50th Anniversary secret show design by Leigh Barbier
• February 3rd - Tyrone 50th Anniversary secret show design by Leigh Barbier
• March 3rd - Two Residents/Rex Ray flags

2024

• January 26th - Cube- E Eyeball And Skeleton Costume Picture
• February 9th - 13th Anniversary Show Costumes.Picture
• February 23rd - "A Resident" Signing A CD
• March 1st - NBC Report On Missing Eyeball Helmet.
• March 15th - "The Wonder Of Weird" Stage Setup In Washington D.C
• March 22nd - "Commercial Single" Costmes Heading Into Car
• March 29th - The Handing Over Of The "Eskimo" Tapes
• April 5th - "Mr. Blue" At "The Lincoln Memorial"
• April 12th - Hardy Fox In Vileness Fats Costume
• April 19th - 13th Anniversary Show Promo Shot (1)
• April 26th - "Is Snorky A Resident?" Newspaper Clipping
• May 3rd - The Residents At A Grocery Store
• May 10th - The 13th Anniversary Show Promo Shot (2)
• May 17th - Outtake Of Eyeball Promo Picture

2025

• February 14th - Ralph America control center, 2001
• June 27th - Vileness Fats cape dancer set photo #1
• July 11th - Cube-E box set graphics
• July 18th - Vileness Fats trombonist set photo
• July 25th - Animal Lover promotional CD art
• August 8th - Vileness Fats cape dancer set photo #2
• September 5th - Vileness Fats smiling cape dancer set photo

See also

• dot.com
• The 12 Days of Brumalia
• List of free online releases

External links and references

• Free! Weird! at The Residents official website
• Earliest archived Free! Weird! (January 20th 2017) via archive.org