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Track List
01) Are You Hung Up?
02) Who Needs the Peace Corps?
03) Concentration Moon
04) Mom & Dad
05) Telephone Conversation
06) Bow Tie Daddy
07) Harry, You're a Beast
08) What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?
09) Absolutely Free
10) Flower Punk
11) Hot Poop
12) Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
13) Let's Make the Water Turn Black
14) The Idiot Bastard Son
15) Lonely Little Girl
16) Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
17) What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (repri
18) Mother People
19) The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny
01) Are You Hung Up?
02) Who Needs the Peace Corps?
03) Concentration Moon
04) Mom & Dad
05) Telephone Conversation
06) Bow Tie Daddy
07) Harry, You're a Beast
08) What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?
09) Absolutely Free
10) Flower Punk
11) Hot Poop
12) Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
13) Let's Make the Water Turn Black
14) The Idiot Bastard Son
15) Lonely Little Girl
16) Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
17) What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (repri
18) Mother People
19) The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny
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First Released
1968
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From the beginning, Frank Zappa cultivated a role as voice of the freaks -- imaginative outsiders who didn't fit comfortably into any group. We're Only in It for the Money is the ultimate expression of that sensibility, a satirical masterpiece that simultaneously skewered the hippies and the straights as prisoners of the same narrow-minded, superficial phoniness. Zappa's barbs were vicious and perceptive, and not just humorously so: his seemingly paranoid vision of authoritarian violence against the counterculture was borne out two years later by the Kent State killings. 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. Despite some specific references, the first-half suite is still wickedly funny, since its targets remain immediately recognizable. The second half shows where his sympathies lie, with character sketches of Zappa's real-life freak acquaintances, a carefree utopia in "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance," and the strident, unironic protest "Mother People." 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
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From the beginning, Frank Zappa cultivated a role as voice of the freaks -- imaginative outsiders who didn't fit comfortably into any group. We're Only in It for the Money is the ultimate expression of that sensibility, a satirical masterpiece that simultaneously skewered the hippies and the straights as prisoners of the same narrow-minded, superficial phoniness. Zappa's barbs were vicious and perceptive, and not just humorously so: his seemingly paranoid vision of authoritarian violence against the counterculture was borne out two years later by the Kent State killings. 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. Despite some specific references, the first-half suite is still wickedly funny, since its targets remain immediately recognizable. The second half shows where his sympathies lie, with character sketches of Zappa's real-life freak acquaintances, a carefree utopia in "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance," and the strident, unironic protest "Mother People." 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
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