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Commercial Album

The Residents

1980 · Electronic, Rock

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Commercial Album by The Residents

Commercial Album is a Rock album by The Residents, originally released in 1980. On Gatefold: 46 pressings tracked, owned by 6 collectors.

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Commercial Album is an album released by The Residents in 1980. It is commonly considered a follow-up of Duck Stab/Buster & Glen. The album pares down the concept and structure of the average commercial pop song and reduces it to a one-minute redux. It contains a compilation of 40 such sixty-second vignette. The album used several session musician, including Chris Cutler, Snakefinger and Fred Frith as well as two anonymous guest vocalist, Lene Lovich ("Picnic Boy") and Andy Partridge ("Margaret Freeman"). The album might have been an inspiration for They Might Be Giants' 21-track piece "Fingertips" from Apollo 18. Their song could also allude to "Fingertip," Track 36 of The Commercial Album. .

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Tracklist

Side A

  1. A1Easter Woman1:00
  2. A2Perfect Love1:00
  3. A3Picnic Boy1:00
  4. A4End Of Home1:00
  5. A5Amber1:00
  6. A6Japanese Watercolor1:00
  7. A7Secrets1:00
  8. A8Die In Terror1:00
  9. A9Red Rider1:00
  10. A10My Second Wife1:00
  11. A11Floyd1:00
  12. A12Suburban Bathers1:00
  13. A13Dimples And Toes1:00
  14. A14The Nameless Souls1:00
  15. A15Love Leaks Out1:00
  16. A16Act Of Being Polite1:00
  17. A17Medicine Man1:00
  18. A18Tragic Bells1:00
  19. A19Loss Of Innocence1:00
  20. A20The Simple Song1:00

Side B

  1. B21Ups And Downs1:00
  2. B22Possessions1:00
  3. B23Give It To Someone Else1:00
  4. B24Phantom1:00
  5. B25Less Not More1:00
  6. B26My Work Is So Behind1:00
  7. B27Birds In The Trees1:00
  8. B28Handfull Of Desire1:00
  9. B29Moisture1:00
  10. B30Love Is...1:00
  11. B31Troubled Man1:00
  12. B32La La1:00
  13. B33Loneliness1:00
  14. B34Nice Old Man1:00
  15. B35The Talk Of Creatures1:00
  16. B36Fingertips1:00
  17. B37In Between Dreams1:00
  18. B38Margaret Freeman1:00
  19. B39The Coming Of The Crow1:00
  20. B40When We Were Young1:00

Sound DNA

  • Rock
  • Art Rock
  • lo-fi
  • sarcastic
  • cerebral

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