Perfect Love
"Perfect Love" is the second track on The Residents' Commercial Album, released by Ralph Records on October 29th 1980. Like all songs on the album, it is one minute long. It was one of four songs from the album to appear in the promotional short film One Minute Movies.
History
The song's lyrics are quoted on the track "Perfect Goat" from the 1992 album Our Finest Flowers.
In the year 2000, "Perfect Love" was re-recorded by The Residents for their DVD video retrospective Icky Flix, and subsequently performed on the DVD's promotional tour in 2001, as part of the "One Minute Movies" suite.
Music videos
The original One Minute Movies clip, directed by The Residents themselves, features an old man (Bill Owens) lying on a bed, watching a film on a television set. The film is interrupted by four eyeball-headed hand puppets, singing the lyrics of the song. The man is blown off his mattress onto the back wall, where he lies flat with his arm obscured by a portrait of a woman, while smoke comes out of the TV set. The final shot is of the man sitting on the wall, holding the painting and looking at it sadly.
An animated video for the song was produced by John Payson – director of Joe's Apartment – for inclusion in the Commercial DVD in 2004.
Lyrics
There's something I must tell you There's something I must say The only really perfect love Is one that gets away[1]
Trivia
- Synthpop group Information Society quoted the song's lyrics on an early track titled "Say It, Say It", heard on their archival release Apocryphon: Electro Roots 1982–1985.
List of releases
- Commercial Album (1980) [Version 1]
- Ralph Video Volume I (1983) [Version 2]
- Video Voodoo Volume I (1987) [Version 2]
- Twenty Twisted Questions (1992) [Version 2]
- Icky Flix DVD (2001) [Version 2] [Version 3]
- Live! ...on the Outskirts (2002) [Version 4]
- Kettles of Fish on the Outskirts of Town (2003) [Version 4]
- Commercial DVD (2004) [Version 2] [Version 5]
- Icky Flix Live DVD (2009) [Version 6]
- 80 Aching Orphans (2017) [Version 1]
- Loss of the Lizard Lady (2018) [Version 3]
- Commercial Album pREServed (2019) [Version 1] [Version 3]
- Icky Flix: Original Soundtrack Recording (Record Store Day LP, 2020) [Version 3]
- Commercial Book bonus disc (2024) [Version 7]
List of versions
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Grove Street studio recording, September 1979 - July 1980 (1:00)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Short directed by The Residents for One Minute Movies, 1980
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Icky Flix studio recording, 2000 (1:07)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Icky Flix live recording; San Francisco, October 2001 ("One Minute Movies")
- ↑ Animated short produced by John Payson, 2004
- ↑ Icky Flix live recording; Seattle, March 2001 ("One Minute Movies")
- ↑ Radio ad, 1980
External links and references
- Commercial Album at The Residents Historical
- Commercial Album at RZWeb (archived via archive.org)
- Commercial Album on Discogs
