The ''Thirteenth Anniversary'' tour was a triumph both financially and critically for the
Residents. It was also the last time
Snakefinger
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would work with them, as he died of a heart attack in 1987. The official album release of ''The Thirteenth Anniversary Show'' in 1987 was a recording of the show in
Japan
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. There was also a recording of the show in the
United States
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that was released to UWEB fan club members in the late 1980s, and various outtakes and bootlegs of other performances of the show exist as well.
The track list below is for the
cassette
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edition, as this was also the track list used for the ESD reissue in the late 1990s.
Track listing
#"Jailhouse Rock"
#"Where Is She"
#"Picnic in the Jungle"
#"Passing the Bottle*"
#"Monkey and Bunny"
#"Theme from an American TV Show**"
#"It's a Man's Man's Man's World"
#"Smelly Tongues"
#"Eloise"
#"Ships a Going Down*"
#"Tourniquet of Roses*"
#"Easter Woman"
#"Amber"
#"Red Rider"
#"Die in Terror"
#"Coming of the Crow"
#"Eva's Warning"
#"Cry for the Fire"
*These songs included on the cassette version only upon release in 1986.
**Track included, but not listed, on LP or cassette.
Track Listing for 1999/2000 CD Re-Release
# Lizard Lady
# Semolina
# Hello Skinny/Constantinople
# Jailhouse Rock
# Where Is She?
# Picnic in the Jungle
# Smelly Tongues
# Eloise
# Ship's a Goin' Down
# The New Machine
# Tourniquet of Roses
# Passing the Bottle
# Monkey and Bunny
# Theme from an American TV Show
# Man's World
# Walter Westinghouse
# Easter Woman
# Amber
# Red Rider
# Die in Terror
# The Coming of the Crow/Eva's Warning
# Cry for the Fire
Notes
The original album was released on Wave Records in
Japan
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with longer versions of the songs and the tracks included on the U.S.
cassette
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* Cassette tape (or ''musicassette'', ''audio cassette'', ''cassette tape'', or ''tape''), a worldwide standard for analog audio recording and playback
** Cassette single (or "Cassingle"), a music single in the ...
release. It also had a different name: The Eyeball Show.
The album was released on Bomba Records in Japan in 1999 as The 13th Anniversary Show, Live in Tokyo. This version was released on
East Side Digital
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in the
United States
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in 2000.
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