RESIDENTS Commercial Album (Reissue, Remastered, Expanded Edition)

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• THE LEGENDARY 1980 ALBUM REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL TAPES. • 2LP SET WITH 12” X 12” BOOKLET. • INCLUDES THE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ‘COMS 1-3 RDX SUITE’ (TAKEN FROM THE ‘COMMERCIAL ALBUM’ MULTITRACK TAPES). • PRODUCED WITH THE RESIDENTS AND THE CRYPTIC CORPORATION. • THE SEVENTH IN A SERIES OF VINYL RE-ISSUES OF THE RESIDENTS’ CLASSIC 70S ALBUMS. Formed in the early 1970s, The Residents have now been charting a unique path through the musical landscape for 50 years. In celebration of that remarkable and unlikely anniversary, we present an expanded vinyl edition of the classic 1980 LP ‘Commercial Album’. Following almost a decade spent attempting to redefine what pop music could be, but with zero hit singles to show for it, The Residents finally caved and produced their own pop music album as the 80s dawned. But rather than have each song repeat the same minute of music three times as per the traditional pop format, The Residents produced no less than 40 one-minute pop masterpieces and invited the listener to do the repeating bit themselves if they felt the need. The resulting ‘Commercial Album’ both showcased the incredible depth of the group’s musical palette and proved definitively that they could easily be as big as The Beatles if they wanted to. Probably bigger, actually. Featuring a breathless collage of toe-tappers, memorable melodies, instrumental experiments and guest performers (Fred Frith, Chris Cutler and XTC’s Andy Partridge among them), the record has since acquired legendary status among both fans and confused onlookers alike. Alongside the original album, this 2LP edition presents the ‘COMS 1-3 RDX Suite’ – a brand new interpretation of (almost) the entire album, produced by the group using the original multi-track tapes – and a brand new sleevenote essay shedding new light on the album’s production. ‘Commercial Album’ is the latest in The Residents’ extensive ongoing pREServed series – expect more throughout 2023 and 2024. Possibly even 2025 too, the way things are going.

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Residents
Commercial Album

- 1 -
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 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. Handfull 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
- 2 -
1. Coms 1-3 Rdx Suite Pt 1
2. Coms 1-3 Rdx Suite Pt 2