Margaret Freeman
"Margaret Freeman" is the thirty-eighth 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 notably features Andy Partridge of XTC on vocals; he is credited as "Sandy Sandwich".
History
This song seems to share a bass part with the track "Monstrous Intro" from the Babyfingers EP, although this was not confirmed. An instrumental mix of the song is featured on the soundtrack to Bruce R. Cook's 1984 black comedy The Census Taker.
Music video
A stop-motion video for the song was created by animator Niffer Desmond 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 The group's TikTok account has since been deleted, but the shorts have been archived on YouTube.
Lyrics
Margaret Freeman had a body unlike any I'd seen; It seemed to drip her mental thoughts like much too warm ice cream. One day while she washed the dishes in the nude I saw how her mother's sodden ways had rubbed her ribcage raw. [1]
List of releases
- Commercial Album (1980) [Version 1]
- The Census Taker OST (1985) [Version 2]
- Commercial DVD (2004) [Version 3]
- Commercial Album pREServed edition (2019) [Version 1] [Version 4] (2023 LP only)
- Commercial Book bonus disc (2024) [Version 5]
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
