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Here's the concept: The structure of most pop songs consists of only two parts, the verse and the chorus. Since the verse and chorus usually repeat three times in a three-minute song, a pop tune really only consists of one minute of music. Cut out the repetition and you can, therefore, fit 40 pop songs onto a 40-minute record. And that's exactly what the Residents have done on The Commercial Album, the title of which comes from the band's deduction that since pop songs only consist of one minute of music and most advertisements are about a minute long also, ad jingles are "therefore the music of America." Got it? Whatever the concept behind it, this album is not only weird in that special way that only Residents albums are, but it's also surprisingly musically satisfying. A few of its 40 tracks ("Secrets" and "The Simple Song," for example) feel like throwaways, but most of them are surprisingly well organized and complete.
The instrumental "Japanese Watercolor" is particularly impressive, as are the songs "Picnic Boy" and "Troubled Man." This album would make a great introduction to the Residents for anyone who hasn't yet been exposed to the band's unique brand of whimsy.
Title: Commercial Album - 2CD Preserved Edition
Format: CD
Release Date: 01 Mar 2019
Artist: Residents
Sku: 2414261
Catalogue No: NRT009
Category: Alternative
DISC 1
1 Easter Woman
2 Perfect Love
3 Picnic Boy
4 End of Home
5 Amber
6 Japanese Watercolour
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 The Act of Being Polite
17 Medicine Man
18 Tragic Bells
19 Loss of Innocence
20 Simple Songs
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
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