La La

"La La" is the thirty-second 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. It does feature vocals but has no real lyrics.

Music video

An animated short for the song was produced by Belgian animator Geert Vandenbroele (who also created the "Nice Old Man" video) for the Commercial DVD in 2004.

In the summer of 2021, Homer Flynn and John Sanborn collaborated on a handful of homemade TikTok shorts incorporating the Commercial DVD videos through the use of an iPhone. This is one of the songs selected for that endeavor. The group's TikTok account has since been deleted, but the shorts have been archived on YouTube.

List of releases

• Commercial Album (1980)
• Masterpieces — Sounds magazine sampler (1980)
• Commercial DVD (2004)
• Commercial Album pREServed (2019) ^{(2023 LP only)}
• Commercial Book bonus disc (2024)

External links and references

• Commercial Album at The Residents Historical
• Commercial Album at RZWeb (archived via archive.org)
• Commercial Album on Discogs

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