"i was just exhausted from the act of being polite" damn this hits hard

You don't need drugs to understand what The Residents are trying to convey through their songs. I've always looked at their music as auditory performance art.

The way this album was explained to me was this: the residents could not get airtime with their music. But they realized if they paid for less than 60 seconds advertising on the radio the stations we're obliged to play whatever they paid for. And they have an entire album to prove it

I love all these comments from 10+ years ago I feel like I'm chilling with a bunch of UKposts ghosts

I would base my perfect society on the guitar solo in "moisture".

people don't seem to understand that this is the sort of thing going through my head all the time.

god i remember discovering this video when i was 12 or 13 and thought nothing but how quirky and interesting it was in older youtube days. Now at 25 I rediscovered it and didn't realize what great music it is.

Hearing "Perfect Love" for the first time caused me to instantaneously fall in love with the Residents. Most musicians prattle on for a garish five minutes in a vain attempt to conjure up a fraction of the meaning that the Residents can manage in two or three lines of simple verse.

Genius. The Commercial Album is a great album (once you really think about it, all pop songs are nothing more than a verse and a chorus) and this is a great set of videos.

The RESIDENTS doesn't need AUTO-TUNE 🔥🔥💯💯

"Moisture" is the most terrifying song & video of all time.

Wow! I remember seeing this on a late night TV music show when I was a kid many moons ago and I've always remembered it. Thanks so much for posting it!

certainly. and since those 2 bands are my favourite ever, when I finally stumbled upon the residents' work I was totally blown away. The unseen four (or any number you may prefer, really) RULE

Superb. I bought the Residents commercial album the day it came out on the strength of a review in Sounds, never looked back. Stunningly dark and surreal band.

That video was one of most remarkable ones I saw on MTV's in the early 90's. It was great to see it again 15 years later. Very original !

Twistedly amazing. The perfect blend of insanity, music, and art.

Every time I think I'm strange, someone comes along & puts me to shame. Great stuff.

Yay for performance art! These guys are sooo weird! It's great! They can say so much in just a one minute song....

Before MTV there was a show on late at night on PBS from called LIVE FROM OFF CENTER which showed music videos, which were then pretty arty and cool. This is where I first watched The Residents and heard the line "They found a snail inside," which has stuck in my mind all this time.

As classical and ultramodern as an artist can be!Congratulations! Always loved u!

seconded. even though it's only a minute long, it's one of my favorite Residents songs.

I sing some of these one minute songs while cycling in the Suffolk countryside - very addictive

Great! Very surrealistic. Reminds me of David Lynch.

The Residents achieve a level of weird unparalleled in music and video.

I remember this from the 80's between alternative videos...thanks for the memories.

These are from the Commercial Album which was released in 1980. The videos were made somewhere between 80-84 (they were put out on VHS in 84). I can't remember at the moment I want to say '82. The Residents themselves formed in the late 60's and are still very active now. They just finished another US/European tour this winter.

I hope when I die people reenact The Simple Song video but instead of a pig it’s my corpse.

I find the music incredibly enjoyable both on and off marijuana. But I have to admit, when on it, I tend to hear more subtleties in the music, particularly in the bass.

This was so beautiful. I have no words. Thank you again

This used to play on my public TV music video show when I was younger and always gave me nightmares.

I still cannot, cannot, cannot, just CAN'T for the life of me decide whose genius I prefer . . . Negativland's or The Residents', since they both purposely do all of the don'ts required to excell as a Pop Music phenom & then end up with a steady following nonetheless. Get a copy of their classic Lp from '85, "The Big Bubble: Part Four of the Mole Trilogy" . . . pure genius. Thanks, matibbs, for uploading this gem ~ (•8-D

These set of videos is amazing, one of my favourites music vids ever, awesome, hail the residents!

I love them sooo much!

excellent. been a fan of the residents for over 20 years and never seen this. thanks!

I love these guys!

the best guitar solo ever

The Residents are the very best !! I love their weirdness !! :-)

What a legendary I band love em

hypnotizes me like crazy

Best band ever

Hooray! Thanks for the information.

completely agree!

this people is awesome!!!

You are correct, good eye and ear.

I wish more people had broader context for this, but The Residents are just an astoundingly interesting art collective, well in advance of their time, who will probably never get the attention or respect they deserve. That's what happens when you blaze trail, though; no guarantee anyone's going to follow.

that will be the video of the year for me.. please upload those videos!!

That's something I was looking for, for quite a long time :-).

Agree!!!

🎇2 BILLION VIEWS IN 12 HOURS ON MY PLAYLIST CHEERS TA THE RESIDENTS!!!💝

Back on 31-October-93, Elvira was the guest VJ for Halloween night. She got to pick all of the videos for that night, and she showed several of the Residents' 1-minute videos. This is the first time I've seen them since then. Wow...

Maravilhoso !!

WOW!! O.O surreal...

super-duper!

pretty nice! perfect love :)

Saw this '80? '81? Couldn't forget it. After all that time...

this video, along with the residents' moisture, snakefinger's videos (all of them), snakefinger and the residents' "the spot," gary numan's "cars" and kraftwerk's "t.e.e." are some of the toppermost best PV's ever.

that scared the living shit out of me as a young boy of about 3. it was on bbc2 one night and i just freaked the hell out. the last part kinda reminds me of the mighty boosh. genius!

Perfect Love is perfect.

The guitarist is actually Fred Frith, of Hatfield and the North and Art Bears fame.

The Commercial Album (1980). These videos are on the Commercial Album DVD.

pretty sure there was another upload of this up on youtube until late 2021(?)

I saw them on a SF public tv show called "Videowest" in '81.

snakefinger ruled!!!

This is a very weird episode of the hydraulic press channel

insane but freaky funny and genius

To whoever said the residents singer sounds like les claypool is ill informed. The residents have been around since Les was about 10 years old. Les has said many times that the residents are one of his biggest influences however. I personally love both bands, but the residents undoubtedly the progenitors, not visa versa.

Genius...

long sinds I heard them always fit perfect into short movies

If These Guys Did An Album With Sleepytime Gorilla Museum It Would Be Fantastic.

The last song really fucked me up I may not sleep tonight

these 1 minute movies absolutley make no sense, just like this world...isnt that simply just beautiful. THE RESIDENTS RULE OBSCURITY.

The Commercial Album is so intense

Has anyone ever noticed that the intro/title segment seems to be using a bit of Stockhausen's "Gesang de Junglige"?

dude i thought the exact same thing when i watched songs for swinging larvae!

Bowie, Ferry, and Jagger are too serious. I've thought about this extensively.

Act of Being Polite is brilliant

I am one of the residents. I do know this much, there was a "new resident" on demons dance alone and most likely on all the new albums.

Takin a walk down Grove St.

Well that was certainly entertaining.

simple song is genius.

this is propa genius

Ten years older than DEVO as you know it. DEVO started in 72, that's three years after The Residents started operations.

super Lubie:)

So amazingly brilliant. I wish I was high right now. Besides the Residents are obviously: Glen Campbell, Jose Feliciano, Glen Danzig and Robert Plant.

I can't believe you put the tag "progressive" in Captain Beefheart and his magic band

Music to listen to at half two

Ringo, John, George, Paul

Maybe this will cure me from boredom

Is that a Snakefinger riff?

haha insane

que grosos son los residents!!!

Act of being polite used to scare the fuck out of me as a kid. somethin about that eyeball lady..

真理さん、ジャージゆるすぎ!!😊

these will give me very strange dreams tonight...

Their music reminds me of, like, a demented teletubbies episode

these guys are disturbing but intriguing

this is actually what i think all day. i think my mind is fucked up.

the resident i m lookin for a song called but i m not sure tnt but anyway the other song i discover a grt and i really love most of the video animation

@paulsbreakfast And in the residents case, for your eyes as well.

00:48 that is one of the residents without mask!!