The Residents' Commercial Album pares down the concept and structure of the average commercial pop song and reduces it to a one-minute redux. This compilation of 40 such sixty-second vignettes is probably the best introduction to the Residents for the uninitiated. The album used several psuedoanonymous guest vocalists, including Lene Lovich (as Sandy Sandwich).
The playback order differs slightly from the tracklisting on the LP sleeve. The following list is the actual order of tracks on the record:
- Easter Woman
- Perfect Love
- Picnic Boy
- End of Home
- Amber
- Japanese Watercolor
- Secrets
- Die in Terror
- Red Rider
- My Second Wife
- Floyd
- Suburban Bathers
- Dimples and Toes
- The Nameless Souls
- Love Leaks Out
- Act of Being Polite
- Medicine Man
- Tragic Bells
- Loss of Innocence
- The Simple Song
- Ups and Downs
- Possessions
- Give It to Someone Else
- Phantom
- Less Not More
- My Work Is So Behind
- Birds in the Trees
- Handful of Desire
- Moisture
- Love Is...
- Troubled Man
- La La
- Loneliness
- Nice Old Man
- The Talk of Creatures
- Fingertips
- In Between Dreams
- Margaret Freeman
- The Coming of the Crow
- When We Were Young
