Sia Chewing Hides The Sound sia Greener Postures, album di Philip Charles Lithman (ovvero Snakefinger) usciti rispettivamente nel 1979 e 1980, vivono una seconda vita presso l'austriaca Klanggalerie in una speciale edizione deluxe che agli originali aggiunge le versioni del 1987, finora inedite. appositamente preparate per accompagnare la veglia funebre ('Snakey Wake') celebrata dai Residents in onore del chitarrista, amico e compagno di tante avventure.
The Residents met Philip Lithman in 1969. They became immediate friends and began playing music together. Snakefinger participated in many Residents projects with 1986 being a particularly good year for their working together. Plans were made to tour again in 1989, but fate decreed otherwise. While on a European tour, Snakefinger died on July 1st, 1987 in Linz, Austria. He was buried in London, and many of his friends in San Francisco found it difficult to accept a death so far from home. So The Residents organized a party, a wake. They arrived in black with black net wrapped around their bodies and each carried an open black umbrella. They went to their instruments without introduction and played a series of old English laments and Hank Williams' Six More Miles.