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

1. Easter Woman 2. Crown of Creation 3. Picnic Boy 4. End of Home 5. Amber 6. Japanese Watercolor 7. Emergency 8. Die in Terror 9. Bludgeon Of A Bluecoat 10. Greasy Heart 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. 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