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Floyd

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"Floyd" is the eleventh track on The Residents' Commercial Album, released by Ralph Records in October 1980. Like all other songs on the album, it is exactly one minute long.

A fan version by Ark which extends the instrumental's length to about four minutes is featured on the bonus disc of I AM A RESIDENT! (2018).

Music video

A short video for the song was produced by filmmaker John McNaughton – best known for his 1986 film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer – for the Commercial DVD in 2004. The film is a montage of shots from McNaughton's 2000 documentary Condo Painting, which featured a soundtrack of licensed Residents music. McNaughton would later commission (and reject) a score from The Residents for his TV episode "Haeckel's Tale" for the Masters of Horror series in 2005.

List of releases

List of versions

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Commercial Album studio version, recorded late 1979 (1:03)
  2. ↑ Short film by John McNaughton, 2004
  3. ↑ Extended fan version by Ark, 2018 (4:00)
  4. ↑ 2021 RDX mix ("COMS 1-3" suite)
  5. ↑ 1980 radio ad (1:00)
Commercial Album
(1980)

Side A:
"Easter Woman" · "Perfect Love" · "Picnic Boy" · "End of Home" · "Amber" · "Japanese Watercolor" · "Secrets"
"Die in Terror" · "Red Rider" · "My Second Wife" · "Floyd " · "Suburban Bathers" · "Dimples and Toes" · "The Nameless Souls"
"Love Leaks Out" · "Act of Being Polite" · "Medicine Man" · "Tragic Bells" · "Loss of Innocence" · "The Simple Song"

Side B:
"Ups and Downs" · "Possessions" · "Give It to Someone Else" · "Phantom" · "Less Not More" · "My Work Is So Behind" · "Birds in the Trees"
"Handful of Desire" · "Moisture" · "Love Is..." · "Troubled Man" · "La La" · "Loneliness" · "Nice Old Man"
"The Talk of Creatures" · "Fingertips" · "In Between Dreams" · "Margaret Freeman" · "The Coming of the Crow" · "When We Were Young"

Personnel
The Residents · Fred Frith · Snakefinger · Don Jackovich · Chris Cutler
Sandy Sandwich · Mud's Sis · Nessie Lessons · Lene Lovich · David Byrne · Brian Eno

Related works
"Electronic Elaborate Waste" · "Kraftwerk" · "Cosmetics For Reality" · "Rosco's Righteous Rodent" · "Pretty Baby" · "Tuxedos"
"No Longer Unused" · "Instant Hostility" · "Elevator Lady" · "One Minute Movies" · Commercial Single ("Shut Up Shut Up" / "And I Was Alone") · "Boy In Love" · Minatures ("We're A Happy Family") · "Talkin' in the Town" · "Womb To Worm" · Greener Postures · "Theme For An American TV Show" · Ralph Radio Special · "Commercial Suite" · Commercial DVD · Commercial Album by The 180 Gs · The Commercial Single Commercials (In Mono) · Commercial Book (Commercial Album Radio Ads)

Related articles
Ralph Records · The Cryptic Corporation · Grove St. studio · Poor No Graphics · Buy Or Die 1980½ · Diskomo/Goosebump‏‏‎

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