ONCE UPON A TIME...You Are What You Is
FRANK ZAPPA You Are What You Is (Barking Pumpkin,1981) - Rock |
The first song-based Frank Zappa album of the ‘80s, the 20-song double-album You Are What You Is, found the pioneering composer at his most eclectic, pop-oriented, and his most lyrically radical. At a time when many of his peers were settling into cozy, middle-of-the-road territory, Zappa was more sharply focused on what he considered the failings of society than ever before.
Throughout the album, Zappa takes aim at freeloading hippies (“Teen-age Wind”), socialites (“Society Pages”), fashion (“Beauty Knows No Pain”) drug users (“Any Downers?”), cultural appropriation and racism (“You Are What You Is”), religion (“Dumb All Over”), television evangelists (“Heavenly Bank Account”), the military (“Drafted Again”), politics (pretty much everything)… and that’s just for starters.
TRACKLIST LP1: Teen-age Wind / Harder Than Your Husband / Doreen / Goblin Girl / Theme From The 3rd Movement Of Sinister Footwear / Society Pages / I'm A Beautiful Guy / Beauty Knows No Pain / Charlie's Enormous Mouth / Any Downers? / Conehead
LP2: You Are What You Is / Mudd Club / The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing / Dumb All Over / Heavenly Bank Account / Suicide Chump / Jumbo Go Away / If Only She Woulda / Drifted Again
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