"The 'Commercial Album' is made up of songs in a more conventional format, with conventional arrangements of keyboards, guitars, percussion and vocals - though hardly conventional songs. The concept is, in part, a satire of the "Top 40" format, with forty individual tracks, with the twist that, given most pop songs are three minutes long, and made up of verse-chorus-verse-chorus-verse-chorus, these forty songs have all been produced as one minute jingles, without repetition. The liner notes (once again, a source of significant mirth) state that you should "set your turntable to repeat each track three times to convert these jingles to pop songs".I find the music hilariously funny. Anyone who doesn't believe music should be funny should probably avoid the Residents; anyone who doesn't believe music can be funny must listen to the Residents - although they might do better to start with Meet the Residents, or Third Reich and Roll (also recently re-released) ... Design is an iterative process, and there are so many small details that contribute to these CD's and the original albums being more than just products, more than just CD's, more than just music - I would agree strongly with those who refer to it as art. Even after forty years, the Residents' work is hilariously disturbing, outrageous, utterly uproariously insane art"