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The Residents, at this time, were at a rough point in their career.

According to official Residents lore, there was internal turmoil which resulted in a large, " embarrassing " food fight ; they decided to resolve this tension in 1974 by recording what would later become Not Available – representative of N. Senada's Theory of Obscurity taken to its logical conclusion.

The album was recorded and then placed in storage in order to be issued only when everyone had forgotten about it.

However, contractual obligations related to the much-delayed release of Eskimo forced its release in 1978 after the band had almost forgotten about it.

The Residents were not bothered by this deviation from their plan since the 1978 decision to release the album would not affect the philosophical conditions under which it was originally recorded.