Love Leaks Out
"Love Leaks Out" is the fifteenth 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 also features Chris Cutler of Henry Cow on percussion duties (although Don Jackovich, early Residents collaborator, is also credited on some releases; it is unclear if both percussionists are featured on this track in particular.)
Legacy
This is one of at least four songs from the Commercial Album to be performed on Maurice Béjart's ballet piece Light. Rehearsal footage of this piece was surfaced as an easter egg on the Icky Flix DVD. [1]
In 1981, this song was considered by the group for an eventually scrapped 10th anniversary live show. A rehearsal recording is heard on the pREServed edition of the Commercial Album.
Lyrics
Hour by hour Day by day Love leaks out And goes away[2]
Music video
A music video was created for this song for the Commercial DVD in 2004 by long time Residents friend and collaborator John Sanborn, who also produced videos for "Moisture" and "Dimples and Toes".
A new video had also been created by The Residents, one of ten new videos made for the project.
Trivia
- This song was sampled by hip-hop producer Madlib on his 2010 track "Yikes (OJ Simpson Remix)".
List of releases
- Commercial Album (1980) [Version 1]
- Heaven? (1986) [Version 1]
- Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses (1997) [Version 1]
- Commercial DVD (2004) [Version 2] [Version 3]
- Commercial Album pREServed (2019) [Version 1] [Version 4] [Version 5]
- Commercial Book bonus disc (2024) [Version 6]
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
