History Music / TheCommercialAlbum

* EpicRiff: Quite a few, and not just from Snakefinger either.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Easter woman came today and took away my wife.. Took her through an open doorway to the afterlife..."]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"I wanted to give it to someone else and hear what they would say!"]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"I Want To Give It To Someone Else!"]]

** One of the tracks is named "Ups and Downs", by the way.

* FaceOnTheCover: The band is shown upside down, as the eyeballs to a pair of faces (the faces in question are of John Travolta and Barbra Streisand).

* FaceOnTheCover: The band is shown upside down, as the eyeballs to a pair of faces (the faces in question are of John Travolta and Barbra Streisand.

* FaceOnTheCover: The band is shown upside down, as the eyeballs to a pair of faces.

Of course, this album sounds everything BUT commercial, seeing that The Residents recorded it!

--> ''Took her to an open doorway to the afterlife''

* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: "Easter Woman", "I Want To Give To Someone Else", "My Work Is So Behind".

* TopTenJingle: Several songs mimick this style.

* AgeProgressionSong: "Troubled Old Man".

* CoversAlwaysLie: This is anything but a commercial album!

* DeathSong: "Easter Woman" and "The Act Of Being Polite" in which a man murders someone "because [[spoiler: he was exhausted from the act of being polite"]].

* FaceOnTheCover: The band is shown upside down.
* GriefSong: "Perfect Love":
--> ''The only ever perfect love is one that gets away''

* IndecipherableLyrics: Some of the tracks suffer a bit from this because the music is so prominent and the voices are often distorted.

* IsntItIronic: The album title compared to the content.
* IWantSong: "(I Want To) Give It To Someone Else".

* MindScrew: Hey, it's a Residents album after all!

* MurderBallad: "The Act Of Being Polite", where a man kills a woman, because he was "exhausted from the act of being polite".
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: "Die In Terror", "Margaret Freeman", "My Work Is So Behind", "The Act Of Being Polite" are all songs you better not play at night.
* NoNameGiven: "The Nameless Souls", about a group of people who apparently don't deserve the right to be named.

* OneManSong: "Picnic Boy", "Floyd", "Medicine Man", "Troubled Old Man", "Nice Old Man".
* OneWomanSong: "Easter Woman", "Amber", "My Second Wife" and "Margaret Freeman".

* SanitySlippageSong: Which one isn't?

* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: Perhaps the most bizarre example. All tracks on this album are about a minute long.
* TooDumbToLive: "The Simple Song"
--> ''We're simple/ you are simple/ life is simple too.''

--> ''He is the one who came today and took away my wife''
--> ''Took her to an open doorway/ to the afterlife''

The '''Commercial Album''' is one of the most iconic albums by Music/TheResidents, released in 1980. A ConceptAlbum built around the premise that mainstream pop songs should be combined with advertising radio jingles, which would result in a total commercial success. Each song on "The Commercial Album" is therefore only about a minute long, much like a radio advertising spot. Listeners are instructed to play them three times in a row to get the feeling of a typical pop song, if they want that experience.

* SuddenMusicalEnding: Each song ends rather quickly, true to the concept of keeping them all under a minute.

* MoodWhiplash: Every track will guaranteely change your mood.

'''Side 1'''

'''Side 2'''

Side 1

Side 2

--> ''That's seen the bathers fully wet

* AllThereInTheManual: The concept is explained there.

* DeadPartner:
** "Easter Woman": "He is the one who came today/ and took away my wife/ took her to an open doorway/ to the afterlife"

* GriefSong: "Perfect Love": The only ever perfect love is one that gets away"

* InnocenceLost: "The Loss of Innocence".

* IWantSong: "I Want To Give It To Someone Else".
* MedicineShow: "Medecine Man".

* MurderBallad: "The Act Of Being Polite".
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: "Die In Terror", "Margaret Freeman", "My Work Is So Behind", "The Act Of Being Polite".
* NoNameGiven: "The Nameless Souls".

* OneWomanSong: "Margaret Freeman."
* TheOneThatGotAway and OneTrueLove: "Perfect Love": "The only ever perfect love is one that gets away"

* TooDumbToLive: "The Simple Song": "We're simple/ you are simple/ life is simple too."

* OneTrueLove: "Perfect Love": "The only ever perfect love is one that gets away"

* InvertedPortrait: On the album cover, where the eyeballs of The Residents (who are standing upside down) are the eyes of two giant people.

"The Commercial Album" is one of the most iconic albums by Music/TheResidents, released in 1980. A ConceptAlbum built around the premise that mainstream pop songs should be combined with advertising radio jingles, which would result in a total commercial success. Each song on "The Commercial Album" is therefore only about a minute long, much like a radio advertising spot. Listeners are instructed to play them three times in a row to get the feeling of a typical pop song, if they want that experience.

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey Its That Guy And Gal]]: The couple on the album cover are Creator/JohnTravolta and Creator/BarbraStreisand.
* HitlessHitAlbum: Literally, in the sense that is supposed to be a commercial album, but none of these tracks ever became hits.

* TooDumbToLive: "The Simple Song": "We're simple/ you are simple/ life is simple too."

"The Commercial Album" is one of the most iconic albums by Music/TheResidents, released in 1980. A ConceptAlbum built around the premise that mainstream pop songs should be combined with advertising radio jingles, which would result in an total commercial success. Each song on "The Commercial Album" is therefore only about a minute long, much like a radio advertising spot. Listeners are instructed to play them three times in a row to get the feeling of a typical pop song, if they want that experience.

"The Commercial Album" is one of the most iconic albums by Music/TheResidents, released in 1980. A ConceptAlbum built around the premise that mainstream pop songs should be combined with advertising commercial spots, which would result in an excellent commercial success. Each song on "The Commercial Album" is therefore only about a minute long, much like a radio advertising spot. Listeners are instructed to play them three times in a row to get the feeling of a typical pop song, if they want that experience.

* DeathSong: "The Act Of Being Polite" in which a man murders someone "because [[spoiler: he was exhausted from the act of being polite"]].
* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: "I Want To Give To Someone Else", "My Work Is So Behind".