
The Residents- Commercial Album (CD)
After spending a couple of years creating the 1979 album, Eskimo, The Residents wanted a break from the long form abstract approach. They had written a lot of melody lines and thought it would be fun to use them all instead of selecting a few to develop. Short-attention-span ideas in music was new. Initially people didn't know what to make of it. Now it is recognized as one of their best
Tracklist:
- Easter Woman
- Crown Of Creation
- Picnic Boy
- End of Home
- Amber
- Japanese Watercolor
- Emergency
- Die in Terror
- Bludgeon Of A Bluecoat 1
- Greasy Heart 1
- Floyd 1
- Suburban Bathers 1
- Dimples and Toes 1
- The Nameless Souls 1
- Love Leaks Out 1
- Act of Being Polite 1
- Medicine Man 1
- Tragic Bells 1
- Loss of Innocence 2
- The Simple Song 2
- Ups and Downs 2
- Possessions 2
- Give It to Someone Else 2
- Phantom 2
- Less Not More 2
- My Work Is So Behind 2
- Birds in the Trees 2
- Handful of Desire 2
- Moisture 3
- Love Is... 3
- Troubled Man 3
- La La 3
- Loneliness 3
- Nice Old Man 3
- The Talk of Creatures 3
- Fingertips 3
- In Between Dreams 3
- Margaret Freeman 3
- The Coming of the Crow 4
- When We Were Young
After spending a couple of years creating the 1979 album, Eskimo, The Residents wanted a break from the long form abstract approach. They had written a lot of melody lines and thought it would be fun to use them all instead of selecting a few to develop. Short-attention-span ideas in music was new. Initially people didn't know what to make of it. Now it is recognized as one of their best
Tracklist:
- Easter Woman
- Crown Of Creation
- Picnic Boy
- End of Home
- Amber
- Japanese Watercolor
- Emergency
- Die in Terror
- Bludgeon Of A Bluecoat 1
- Greasy Heart 1
- Floyd 1
- Suburban Bathers 1
- Dimples and Toes 1
- The Nameless Souls 1
- Love Leaks Out 1
- Act of Being Polite 1
- Medicine Man 1
- Tragic Bells 1
- Loss of Innocence 2
- The Simple Song 2
- Ups and Downs 2
- Possessions 2
- Give It to Someone Else 2
- Phantom 2
- Less Not More 2
- My Work Is So Behind 2
- Birds in the Trees 2
- Handful of Desire 2
- Moisture 3
- Love Is... 3
- Troubled Man 3
- La La 3
- Loneliness 3
- Nice Old Man 3
- The Talk of Creatures 3
- Fingertips 3
- In Between Dreams 3
- Margaret Freeman 3
- The Coming of the Crow 4
- When We Were Young
Description
After spending a couple of years creating the 1979 album, Eskimo, The Residents wanted a break from the long form abstract approach. They had written a lot of melody lines and thought it would be fun to use them all instead of selecting a few to develop. Short-attention-span ideas in music was new. Initially people didn't know what to make of it. Now it is recognized as one of their best
Tracklist:
- Easter Woman
- Crown Of Creation
- Picnic Boy
- End of Home
- Amber
- Japanese Watercolor
- Emergency
- Die in Terror
- Bludgeon Of A Bluecoat 1
- Greasy Heart 1
- Floyd 1
- Suburban Bathers 1
- Dimples and Toes 1
- The Nameless Souls 1
- Love Leaks Out 1
- Act of Being Polite 1
- Medicine Man 1
- Tragic Bells 1
- Loss of Innocence 2
- The Simple Song 2
- Ups and Downs 2
- Possessions 2
- Give It to Someone Else 2
- Phantom 2
- Less Not More 2
- My Work Is So Behind 2
- Birds in the Trees 2
- Handful of Desire 2
- Moisture 3
- Love Is... 3
- Troubled Man 3
- La La 3
- Loneliness 3
- Nice Old Man 3
- The Talk of Creatures 3
- Fingertips 3
- In Between Dreams 3
- Margaret Freeman 3
- The Coming of the Crow 4
- When We Were Young











