The Residents - Commercial Album

Tracklist Hide Credits

1	Easter Woman	1:06
2	Perfect Love	1:05
3	Picnic Boy Featuring [Uncredited] – Lene Lovich	1:03
4	End Of Home	1:06
5	Amber	1:04
6	Japanese Watercolor	1:04
7	Secrets	1:05
8	Die In Terror	1:05
9	Red Rider	1:04
10	My Second Wife	1:04
11	Floyd	1:05
12	Suburban Bathers	1:05
13	Dimples And Toes	1:06
14	The Nameless Souls	1:06
15	Love Leaks Out	1:05
16	Act Of Being Polite	1:05
17	Medicine Man	1:06
18	Tragic Bells	1:05
19	Loss Of Innocence	1:06
20	The Simple Song	1:04
21	Ups And Downs	1:06
22	Possessions	1:06
23	Give It To Someone Else	1:05
24	Phantom	1:06
25	Less Not More	1:05
26	My Work Is So Behind	1:06
27	Birds In The Trees	1:06
28	Handful Of Desire	1:06
29	Moisture	1:06
30	Love Is…	1:05
31	Troubled Man	1:06
32	La La	1:06
33	Loneliness	1:06
34	Nice Old Man	1:06
35	The Talk Of Creatures	1:05
36	Fingertips	1:06
37	In Between Dreams	1:06
38	Margaret Freeman Featuring [Uncredited] – Andy Partridge	1:05
39	The Coming Of The Crow	1:06
40	When We Were Young	1:03
Plus
41	Shut Up Shut Up	1:04
42	And I Was Alone	1:04
43	Theme For An American TV Show	1:27
44	We're A Happy Family Written-By – The Ramones*	1:11
45	The Sleeper	2:58
46	Boy In Love	2:56
47	Diskomo	4:34
48	Jailhouse Rock Written-By – Leiber & Stoller	3:08
49	This Is A Man's Man's Man's World Written-By – J. Brown*	3:44
50	Hit The Road Jack Arranged By [Vocals] – J. Roul Brody*Vocals [Singer] – Jeanette Sartain, Laurie Amat, Olan JonesWritten-By – P. Mayfield*	4:03

Companies, etc.

• Marketed By – Torso Records
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Cryptic Corporation
• Copyright (c) – Cryptic Corporation
• Glass Mastered At – PDO, Germany

Credits

• Design [Package] – Pore Know Graphics*, Rex Ray
• Featuring [Special Appearance] – Chris Cutler, Don Jackovich, Mud's Sis, Nessie Lessons, Sandy Sandwich, Snakefinger
• Guest [Extra-hard Working Guest Musician] – Fred Frith
• Written-By, Producer – The Residents

Notes

This version has the CD made by PDO, Germany.
A similar version made by DADC Austria can be found here: Commercial Album.

Tracks 1 to 40 were originally released as the Commercial Album on vinyl in 1980 (Ralph Records). Tracks 41 to 50 were recorded between the years 1979-1987 and appeared on several different compilations and singles:

- track 41-42: were extra tracks from the "Commercial Album" sessions, they ended up on singles in England (Commercial Single) and France,
- track 43: was composed for a weekly comedy TV show. Producers rejected it as too strange. Touch included it on Ritual: Magnetic North,
- track 44: was recorded for Morgan Fisher's Miniatures (A Sequence Of Fifty-One Tiny Masterpieces Edited By Morgan-Fisher) project,
- track 45: was written in 1979 and is included on the Residue Of The Residents collection,
- track 46: is from 1980 and is on Residue Of The Residents,
- track 47: was recorded in 1980, the same time as the "Commercial Album", and released as a 12" dance record. This particular shorter version appeared on Residue Of The Residents,
- track 48: was recorded in 1982 and appeared on Residue Of The Residents,
- track 49: from The White Single released in 1984,
- track 50: was recorded in 1987 and release only as a single Hit The Road Jack / Excerpt From "For Elsie".

(c)(p) 1980, 1988, The Cryptic Corp.
Printed in West Germany

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout: TORSO CD 413 2898 010 01 * MADE IN W. GERMANY BY PDO
• SPARS Code: AAD

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
RZ-8052-L	The Residents	Commercial Album ‎(LP, Album, 1st)	Ralph Records	RZ-8052-L	US	1980
ESD 80202	The Residents	Commercial Album ‎(CD, Album, RE, 2nd)	East Side Digital	ESD 80202	US	Unknown
TORSO CD 413	The Residents	Commercial Album ‎(CD, Album, RE, DAD)	Torso	TORSO CD 413	Netherlands	1988
LINC 9	The Residents	Commercial Album ‎(Cass, Album)	Missing Link, 7 Records & Tapes	LINC 9	Australia	1980
BOM22041	The Residents	Commercial Album ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM, Dig)	Bomba Records	BOM22041	Japan	1997

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