We're Only in It for the Money

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Album: We're Only in It for the Money
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Are You Hung Up?	More Info...	0:01
2)	Who Needs the Peace Corps?	More Info...	0:02
3)	Concentration Moon	More Info...	0:02
4)	Mom & Dad	More Info...	0:02
5)	Telephone Conversation	More Info...
6)	Bow Tie Daddy	More Info...
7)	Harry, You're a Beast	More Info...	0:01
8)	What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?	More Info...	0:01
9)	Absolutely Free	More Info...	0:03
10)	Flower Punk	More Info...	0:03
11)	Hot Poop	More Info...
12)	Nasal Retentive Calliope Music	More Info...	0:02
13)	Let's Make the Water Turn Black	More Info...	0:02
14)	The Idiot Bastard Son	More Info...	0:03
15)	Lonely Little Girl	More Info...	0:01
16)	Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance	More Info...	0:01
17)	What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Reprise)	More Info...	0:01
18)	Mother People	More Info...	0:02
19)	The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny	More Info...	0:06

Album: We're Only in It for the Money
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Are You Hung Up?	More Info...	0:01
2)	Who Needs the Peace Corps?	More Info...	0:02
3)	Concentration Moon	More Info...	0:02
4)	Mom & Dad	More Info...	0:02
5)	Telephone Conversation	More Info...
6)	Bow Tie Daddy	More Info...
7)	Harry, You're a Beast	More Info...	0:01
8)	What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?	More Info...	0:01
9)	Absolutely Free	More Info...	0:03
10)	Flower Punk	More Info...	0:03
11)	Hot Poop	More Info...
12)	Nasal Retentive Calliope Music	More Info...	0:02
13)	Let's Make the Water Turn Black	More Info...	0:02
14)	The Idiot Bastard Son	More Info...	0:03
15)	Lonely Little Girl	More Info...	0:01
16)	Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance	More Info...	0:01
17)	What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Reprise)	More Info...	0:01
18)	Mother People	More Info...	0:02
19)	The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny	More Info...	0:06

Performer Notes

Full performer name: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention.
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.
Originally released on Verve.
Personnel: Jimmy Carl Black (vocals, trumpet, drums); Roy Estrada (vocals, electric bass); Billy Mundi (vocals, drums); Ian Underwood (woodwinds, piano); Bunk Gardner (woodwinds); Euclid James Sherwood (soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone).
Audio Remixer: Dick Kunc.
Recording information: Apostolic Studios (03/14/1967-08/09/1967); Mayfair Studios (03/14/1967-08/09/1967).
Photographer: Jerrold Schatzberg.
Arranger: Frank Zappa.
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."

Professional Reviews

Spin (01/04, p.48) - "...It predicted future Zappa endeavors, building a groove-fracturing spazz-rock tradition..."

Q (8/99) - Included in Q Magazine's "Best Psychedelic Albums of All Time."

Q (8/95, pp.150-151) - 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..."

Mojo (Publisher) (7/95, p.102) - "...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..."

Uncut (magazine) (p.69) - "[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."

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