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  • Audio CD (25 Oct 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Mute
  • ASIN: B00030B9PC
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 242,349 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Toyroom
Format:Audio CD
This was the first Residents album I heard after hearing "End of Innocence" and "La La" on a sampler. Quite amazing, brimming with ideas. Melodic and tuneful and COMMERCIAL, but quite definitely Residential. A fantastic introduction to the synthesizer era work of the four Op Tops!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Defines the 80's 29 Mar 1999
By NO GURU (ladida@cyberusa.net) - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
This album was originally released in 1980 and it is the best album of that decade, as it satirically typifies the shady border between art and commerce which was the crux of that time. We have 40 one minute songs covering a range of dark subjects (Death of children. . .Mental illness in loved ones. . .Inner thoughts of serial killers. . .etc) all set to deliciously loopy, childlike melodies. In a warped kind of way, it chronicles the transition in popular music from angry punk to hyperkinetic, polyrhythmic new wave. Heavy on electronic keyboards, think of it as Commercial jingles from some Dostoyevskian Underground.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
"Cut out the fat and a pop song is only one minute long" 24 May 1999
By ptitchitza - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
As stated in the liner notes: "POINT ONE: Pop music is mostly a repetition of two types of musical and lyrical phrases: the verse and the chorus. POINT TWO: These elements repeat an average of three times in a "top-40" radio hit. POINT THREE: Cut out the fat and a pop song is only one minute long. POINT FOUR: One minute is also the length of most commercials, and therefore, their corresponding jingles. POINT FIVE: Jingles are the music of America. CONCLUSION: This compact disc is terrific in shuffle play. To convert the jingles to pop music, program each song to repeat three times."
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
the first album of commercial breaks 3 Jun 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
The story goes that depressed by their failure to get airplay for their constructions, the Residents made an album of 40 40 second tunes for which they could buy air time

This is them. Who knows if the story is true, but this album has enough ideas on it to give the average band 2-3 albums
(well its got more ideas than the average band gets in a life time, but you get the idea)
Quirky, avant-pop, slightly more placid than their usual ventures, and the vocal style is restrained :)

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