Commercial Album [Original recording remastered]

Residents | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 1997)
• Original Release Date: September 23, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: East Side Digital
• ASIN: B000000PMA
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,577 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Easter Woman

2. Perfect Love

3. Picnic Boy

4. End of Home

5. Amber

6. Japanese Watercolor

7. Secrets

8. Die in Terror

9. Red Rider

10. My Second Wife

11. Floyd

12. Suburban Bathers

13. Dimples and Toes

14. The Nameless Souls

15. Love Leaks Out

16. Act of Being Polite

17. Medicine Man

18. Tragic Bells

19. Loss of Innocence

20. The Simple Song

See all 40 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Defines the 80's, March 28, 1999

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NO GURU ([e-mail]) (Chepachet, RI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Commercial Album (Audio CD)

This album was originally released in 1980 and it is the best album of that decade, as it satirically typifies the shady border between art and commerce which was the crux of that time. We have 40 one minute songs covering a range of dark subjects (Death of children. . .Mental illness in loved ones. . .Inner thoughts of serial killers. . .etc) all set to deliciously loopy, childlike melodies. In a warped kind of way, it chronicles the transition in popular music from angry punk to hyperkinetic, polyrhythmic new wave. Heavy on electronic keyboards, think of it as Commercial jingles from some Dostoyevskian Underground.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Cut out the fat and a pop song is only one minute long", May 24, 1999

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ptitchitza (Leiden, Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Commercial Album (Audio CD)

As stated in the liner notes: "POINT ONE: Pop music is mostly a repetition of two types of musical and lyrical phrases: the verse and the chorus. POINT TWO: These elements repeat an average of three times in a "top-40" radio hit. POINT THREE: Cut out the fat and a pop song is only one minute long. POINT FOUR: One minute is also the length of most commercials, and therefore, their corresponding jingles. POINT FIVE: Jingles are the music of America. CONCLUSION: This compact disc is terrific in shuffle play. To convert the jingles to pop music, program each song to repeat three times."

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the first album of commercial breaks, June 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Commercial Album (Audio CD)

The story goes that depressed by their failure to get airplay for their constructions, the Residents made an album of 40 40 second tunes for which they could buy air time

This is them. Who knows if the story is true, but this album has enough ideas on it to give the average band 2-3 albums
(well its got more ideas than the average band gets in a life time, but you get the idea)
Quirky, avant-pop, slightly more placid than their usual ventures, and the vocal style is restrained :)