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"When We Were Young" is an instrumental by The Residents, featured as the fortieth and final track on their seventh studio album Commercial Album, released by Ralph Records on October 29th 1980.

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WhenWeWereYoung

Still from the 2004 music video by Veber Veber for Commercial DVD

The song is an instrumental piece lasting exactly one minute. It is the final song on the Commercial Album. Its sense of nostalgia and sombre tone lead to a melancholy ending to the album.

In 2004, for Commercial DVD, Serbian animaton duo Veber Veber created a music video for this song, featuring identical clones of one naked boy (Teodor Popovic), as he flies through the sky on clouds.

"When We Were Young" was covered in 2016 by fan Jake Gonnella; this version was featured on the vinyl edition of the official 2018 tribute album I Am A Resident!.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1980 Version (1:00)
  2. 1980 Version Edit (0:20)
  3. 2017 Jake Gonnella Version (2:30)

Buy Or Die![]

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CommercialHead 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

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