The Residents' Commercial Album pares down the concept and structure of the average commercial pop song and reduces it to a one-minute redux. Surprisingly, this compilation of 40 such sixty-second vignettes is probably the best introduction to the Residents for the uninitiated, and is at times, extremely palatable and satisfying.

The playback order differs slightly from the tracklisting on the LP sleeve. The following list is the actual order of tracks on the record:

  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