FRANK ZAPPA & The Mothers "Were Only In It For The Money" Sealed 1995 US Rock LP

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Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention / We're Only In It For The Money - Ryko Records RALP-10503 (1995) (USA) ...This auction is for a limited edition release of this factory sealed Record on (US) vinyl (originally released on Verve Records in 1968).

Like Freak Out, We're Only in It for the Money essentially devotes its first half to satire, and its second half to presenting alternatives.

Regardless of how dark the subject matter, there's a pervasively surreal, whimsical flavor to the music, sort of like Sgt. Pepper as a creepy nightmare. Some of the instruments and most of the vocals have been manipulated to produce odd textures and cartoonish voices; most songs are abbreviated, segue into others through edited snippets of music and dialogue, or are broken into fragments by more snippets, consistently interrupting the album's continuity. Compositionally, though, the music reveals itself as exceptionally strong, and Zappa's politics and satirical instinct have rarely been so focused and relevant, making We're Only in It for the Money quite probably his greatest achievement.

Track listings, information and reviews below...

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Album Features UPC: 014431050312 Artist: Frank Zappa Format: LP
Release Year: 1995 Record Label: Rykodisc Distribution Genre: Art Rock, Rock & Pop
Track Listing
1. Are You Hung Up?
2. Who Needs the Peace Corps?
3. Concentration Moon
4. Mom & Dad
5. Telephone Conversation
6. Bow Tie Daddy
7. Harry, You're a Beast
8. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?
9. Absolutely Free
10. Flower Punk
11. Hot Poop
12. Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
13. Let's Make the Water Turn Black
14. Idiot Bastard Son, The
15. Lonely Little Girl
16. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
17. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Reprise)
18. Mother People
19. Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny, The

Details Contributing Artists: Eric Clapton Producer: Frank Zappa Distributor: Ryko Distribution Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo
Album Notes
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention: Frank Zappa (vocals, guitar, piano); Jimmy Carl Black (vocals, trumpet, drums); Roy Estrada (vocals, electric bass); Billy Mundi (vocals, drums); Ian Underwood (woodwinds, piano); Bunk Gardner (woodwinds); Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood (soprano & baritone saxophones); Suzy Creamcheese, Dick Barber.
Additional personnel includes: Gary Kellgren (vocals); Eric Clapton.
Recorded between August and October, 1967.
Recording information: Apostolic Studios, New York, NY (08/1967-10/1967); Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA (08/1967-10/1967); Mayfair Studios, New York, NY (08/1967-10/1967).
Author: Edgard Varèse .
Editors: Dick Kunc; Frank Zappa.
Photographers: Jerry Schatzberg; Jerrold Schatzber.

The early Zappa albums were treasured by the few and totally misunderstood by the majority. The brilliant SGT. PEPPER satire of the cover should have garnered extra sales, but no. Zappa's scathing wit homed in on modern middle-class America and West Coast hippies. The album offered 19 vignettes incorporating avant garde, doo-wop, some relatively conventional pop music and a lot of hilarious dialogue that was so hip it has never dated. Zappa made us confront the obvious, and the results were alarming. These issues are best demonstrated on "What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body," "Bow Tie Daddy," and "The Idiot Bastard Son."

Editorial Reviews
[M]ost of its songs poke fun at the commodification of pop counterculture....Despite the satire, it also works as one of the finest psych-rock albums of the period.
Uncut

...the card-carrying classic. Zappa's scabrous disembowelling of the hippy dream pitches caustic lyrics over contemporary folk-rock and pop styles....the album works brilliantly as a whole...
Mojo

5 Stars - Indispensable - ...a brilliant lampoon of flower-power so scathingly accurated he manages to prophesy the Kent State killings two years before they happened. Segues restlessly between pop, rock, doo-wop and musique concrete, all undercut by a vicious spoofing humour...
Q (19950801)

Included in Q Magazine's Best Psychedelic Albums of All Time.
Q (19990801)

...It predicted future Zappa endeavors, building a groove-fracturing spazz-rock tradition...
Spin (20040101)

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