FRANK ZAPPA — You Are What You Is

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3.23 | 17 ratings | 1 review
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Album · 1981

Tracklist

1. Teen-Age Wind (3:02)
2. Harder Than Your Husband (2:28)
3. Doreen (4:44)
4. Goblin Girl (4:06)
5. Theme From the 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear (3:31)
6. Society Pages (2:26)
7. I'm a Beautiful Guy (1:56)
8. Beauty Knows No Pain (3:01)
9. Charlie's Enormous Mouth (3:36)
10. Any Downers? (2:08)
11. Conehead (4:18)
12. You Are What You Is (4:23)
13. Mudd Club (3:11)
14. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing (3:10)
15. Dumb All Over (4:03)
16. Heavenly Bank Account (3:44)
17. Suicide Chump (2:49)
18. Jumbo Go Away (3:43)
19. If Only She Woulda (3:47)
20. Drafted Again (3:07)

Total Time: 67:22

Line-up/Musicians

Bass – Arthur Barrow
Clarinet – David Ocker
Drums – David Logeman
Guitar – Steve Vai
Guitar, Vocals – Denny Walley, Ike Willis, Ray White
Harmonica – Craig Stewart
Keyboards – Tommy Mars
Percussion – Ed Mann
Saxophone, Vocals – Motorhead Sherwood
Trumpet, Vocals – Bob Harris
Vocals – Ahmet Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Moon Zappa

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Warthur
Another stab at catering to the novelty music crowd from Frank, You Are What You Is really contains very little of interest to fans of the complex progressive rock/jazz fusion material he made his name with, with most of the songs being fairly well-observed but somewhat simplistic parodies of other genres - there's even a country parody in the form of Harder Than Your Husband. The lyrics are often cited for being offensive and controversial, but to me they sound just like Frank was trying too hard to shock - and failing. (Hell, the sort of lyrics wheeled out by the Dead Kennedys or Devo in this era show more wit than the material on show here.) The songs are at least mercifully short, and Any Downers has a chunky riff behind it, but beyond that there's little to love here.

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