The Commercial Album (studio album) by The Residents

The Commercial Album by The Residents
Year: 1980
Overall rank: 5,260th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 97 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (89th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (779th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,260th)

The Residents bestography

The Commercial Album is ranked 5th best out of 137 albums by The Residents on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Residents is Not Available which is ranked number 1565 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,106.

The Residents album bestography « Higher ranked (4,580th) This album (5,260th) Lower ranked (5,519th) »
Duck Stab / Buster & GlenThe Commercial AlbumThe Third Reich 'N Roll

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The Commercial Album track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rating: 76 (10 votes)Comments: 0
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The Commercial Album rankings

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The Commercial Album ratings

Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 97 votes)
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01/23/2024 08:52 Jboy56  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 4,03679/100
 
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07/17/2023 10:57 DommeDamian  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 6,23349/100
 
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05/16/2023 16:49 EyeKanFly  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 6,32366/100
 
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03/19/2023 14:16 Igtonumama  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 8,90660/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.0/100, a mean average of 71.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.0.

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From 03/28/2016 21:23
Not suited to everyone's taste but then again it's not supposed to. Quirky, fun and highly satirical try it, you might like it.
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From 01/12/2011 20:54
This is definitely the Residents album to start with if you're new to the group. It's a parody of popular music, with 40 "commercial friendly" condensed one minute songs. The songs are all great due to unique arrangements and great sounding synthesizers. Even non-fans should check this one out...it's really an interesting and great listen.
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