By commercial I assume your refering to Completion Backwards Principal and Outside Inside
They weren’t awful. Love Bomb was awful.
Remote Control was probably my favorite.
Side note, I saw Todd Rundgren this spring and couldn’t belive it, Prairy Prince was the drummer. After the show the band came rushing out the backstage door through the hallway where I was standing. I yelled at Prairy and he stopped to shake my hand. Very cool.
I like the Tubes’ very early material, especially the live album.
Prairie Prince played on XTC’s Skylarking album, which Todd produced.