Meet The Residents

Meet the Residents is the first full-length release from avant-garde group The Residents. It was released in 1974 on Ralph Records.

The cover is a parody of Meet the Beatles!, The Beatles' second US album release. EMI and Capitol were angry with the cover and threatened to sue (though it is rumored that George Harrison or Ringo Starr loved the cover and bought a copy). Later re-releases of the record changed the cover but kept a Beatles parody on the back, listing The Residents as "John Crawfish, George Crawfish, Paul McCrawfish, and Ringo Starfish", with illustrations of the applicable sea creatures wearing Beatles suits.

The original pressing of the album sold only forty copies in its first year with most being returned to the publisher unopened. CD releases of the album in 1988 included tracks from the 1972 double single "Santa Dog". The first vinyl pressing was unedited in mono, the second (and subsequent) pressing was edited by about seven minutes, but presented in stereo. The first CD pressing was the first edition to be fully unedited in stereo, but subsequent CD editions have reverted to the edited master.