Commercial Album

by The Residents

Commercial Album cover art

Comprised entirely of 40 songs that each last exactly one minute, The Residents designed 'Commercial Album' as a darkly brilliant satire of the one-minute pop jingle. The record is a profoundly surreal, highly cryptic, and wonderfully abstract exploration of minimal synth and avant-pop, functioning as a hilarious, ominous critique of consumer culture.

Genres

  • Art Pop
  • Minimal Synth
  • Satire

Tracklist

  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
  21. Ups and Down
  22. Possessions
  23. Give It To Someone Else
  24. Phantom
  25. Less Not More
  26. My Work Is So Behind
  27. Birds in the Trees
  28. Handful of Desire
  29. Moisture
  30. Love Is...
  31. Troubled Man
  32. La La
  33. Loneliness
  34. Nice Old Man
  35. The Talk of Creatures
  36. Fingertips
  37. In Between Dreams
  38. Margaret Freeman
  39. The Coming of the Crow
  40. When We Were Young
  41. Shut Up, Shut Up
  42. And I Was Alone
  43. Electronic Elaborate Waste
  44. Kraftwerk
  45. Cosmetics For Reality
  46. Rosco's Righteous Rodent
  47. Pretty Baby
  48. Tuxedos
  49. No Longer Unused
  50. Instant Hostility
  51. Elevator Lady
  52. We're A Happy Family
  53. Shut Shut (Residue Version)
  54. And I Was Alone (Alternate)
  55. Ups and Downs (Residue Version)
  56. Boy In Love
  57. Die In Terror (1982 Rehearsal)
  58. Give It To Someone Else (1982 Rehearsal)
  59. Love Leaks Out (1982 Rehearsal)
  60. The Talk of Creatures (1982 Rehearsal)
  61. Easter Woman (Live 1986)
  62. Amber (Live 1986)
  63. Red Rider (Live 1986)
  64. Die In Terror (Live 1986)
  65. The Coming of Crow (Live 1986)
  66. Moisture (Icky Flix Version)
  67. Act of Being Polite (Icky Flix Version)
  68. Perfect Love (Icky Flix Version)
  69. Simple Song (Icky Flix Version)
  70. Red Rider (Commercial DVD Version)
  71. Moisture (Commercial DVD Version)
  72. Commercial Album Suite (Live 2005)
  73. Give It To Someone Else (Live 2013)
  74. Easter Woman (Live 2015)
  75. My Second Wife (Live 2015)
  76. Loss of Innocence (Live 2015)