The Residents - The Commercial Album (USA 1980)

Roddus Album Of The Day

 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. Simple Song
21. Ups and Downs
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 

This slab of one minute weirdness from this legendarily bazaar American outfit didn't sit too well on my ipod today, the strangeness of the little ditties contained within started to grate on me as my day grew more stressful and by lunch time I was glad to move onto something else. Forty tracks, all just a smidgen over one minute long, were suppose to be Representative of advertising jingles a-la the Residents. Petty strange electronic sounds and weird vocals comprise pretty much all of this album, with touches of  Zappa and a even more weird Devo. The songs do have melody and one or two are almost catchy but it starts to all merge into a bit of a blur. Some interesting sound effects are employed to keep it a little bit interesting, but I find it hard to stay interested even on closer inspection at the end of my day. I guess the Residents are a bit of an acquired taste and I can one rate this 2/5.

Listen to this very weird LP Here