Less Not More
"Less Not More" is a song by The Residents, the twenty-fifth track on their Commercial Album, released by Ralph Records on October 29th 1980. As with all tracks on Commercial Album, it is exactly one minute long. It was the first song The Residents recorded for the album, on September 21st, 1979.[1]
Music video
An animated video for the song was created by Japanese contemporary artist Takeshi Murata for the Commercial DVD in 2004.
In the summer of 2021, Homer Flynn and John Sanborn collaborated on a handful of TikTok videos featuring merchandise from the Cryptic Corporation archives, each set to a selected track from Commercial Album and including the original Commercial DVD video somewhere during its duration; for the "Less Not More" TikTok, the video is seen playing on a mobile phone screen among the merchandise.
Lyrics
The railings of the bridge were moving by the glass; The opportunity to leave was coming up fast; The situation passed across my mind once more, And I decided that I needed less not more.
Less not more Less not more[2]
List of releases
- Commercial Album (1980) [Version 1]
- Commercial DVD (2004) [Version 2]
- Commercial Album pREServed CD edition (2019) [Version 1] [Version 3] (2023 LP only)
- Commercial Book bonus disc (2024) [Version 4]
List of versions
External links and references
- Commercial Album at The Residents Historical
- Commercial Album at RZWeb (archived via archive.org)
- Commercial Album on Discogs
