A Little Nostalgia From Me&Frank...
The 70's ... Good times in America. High times in America. Even Disco(Saturday Night Fever 4 Real,In a Black Saks Dress With 9 Inch Heals) Blasted by sound light coke and smoke. Did we know how good we had it before the 'Reagan Revolution'...?
"Then They Come Down Town
From The Ruins Of Studio 54
To Twist And Fugue
In An Arrogant Gesture
To The Best
Of What
The Twentieth Century
Has To Offer".
....Frank Zappa
("Mudd Club From Frank Zappa's Un-Sung(Suppressed)2LP Masterwork "You Are what You Is")
And here we are, at the mudd club, y'all! I hope you enjoy yourself, 'cause the show's about to begin!Ensemble:
Hey, they're really dancin', (they're on auto-destruct) on the floor on the pipe bouncin' off-a the wall
Hey, the people here are really tearin' it up on the side in the back by the front of the stage
They ain't really crazy (you can take it from me) I should know, 'cause I go every time I'm in town
If you never tried it, lemme straighten you out: it's the best kinda place to un-fasten yerself!
Ensemble: (contd.)
Mudd club!
Thing-fish:
All the way downtown!
Ensemble:
Mudd club!
Thing-fish:
They ain't messin' around!
Ensemble:
Mudd club!
Thing-fish:
Just turn to the left 'n look around, because it's there somewhere! if you ain't found it, better hurry up! the folks down there's on auto-destruct, and so can you be, too! (de fact o' de matter
S made for you!)
Try it on a saturday 'bout four o'clock in the mornin', or even a monday, at midnight, when there's just a few of them severely ignint white folks doin' the peppermint twist (for real)
In a black sack dress, (with nine-inch heels), and then a guy with a blue mohawk come in, in serious leather...
(and all the rest of whom for which to when-so-never of partially indeterminate biochemical degradation seek 'the path' to the sudsy yellow nozzle of their foaming nocturnal parametric-digital w
Wheat/inter-faith geo-thermal terpsichorean ejectamenta)
In serious leather! in serious chains!
'n den dey works de wall! dey works de floor! dey works de pipe! 'n dey works de wall some more!
In serious leather! serious chains! serious clothing!
From when they come downtown from the ruins of studio '54 to twist 'n frugg, in an arrogant gesture to the best of what de 20th century have to offer, including a generous supply of 'ignint mcnu
!
Quentin robert de nameland down there right now, with a whole face-full of 'ignint mcnugget', looking for a virgin with nice breath!
Sister jasmina noxema-tapioca & sister potato-head bobby brown: (two-part harmony)
Why, maybe it's you!
Thing-fish:
And you don't even know it!
Ensemble:
Hey, they're really dancin',
Thing-fish:
Dey really dancin'...
Ensemble:
They're on auto-destruct! on the floor on the pipe bouncin' off-a the wall!
Thing-fish:
Right offa dat wall, too!
Ensemble:
Hey, the people here are really tearin' it up
Thing-fish:
Dey tearin' it off!
Ensemble:
On the side in the back by the front of the stage
Thing-fish:
Took de boy's mohawk off!
Ensemble:
They ain't really crazy (you can take it from me)
Thing-fish:
Uh-oh! I smells trubba!
Ensemble:
I should know, 'cause I go every time I'm in town
Thing-fish:
Christians comin' up!
Ensemble:
If you never tried it, lemme straighten you out:
Thing-fish:
Lemme straighten you out, now...
Ensemble:
It's the best kinda place to un-fasten yerself, while you
Thing-fish:
Get off dat wall now, boy!
Ensemble:
Work the wall!
Thing-fish:
Dey workin' de wall!
Ensemble:
Work the floor!
Thing-fish:
Dey not only woikin' it, dey turnin' de damn thing!
Ensemble:
Work the pipe!
Thing-fish:
De pipe?
Ensemble:
(in serious pain)
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You Are What You Is
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<table class="infobox vevent haudio" style="border-spacing:3px;width:22em;" cellspacing="3"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" class="summary album" style="text-align:center;font-size:125%;font-weight:bold;font-style: italic; background-color: lightsteelblue;">You Are What You Is</th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">

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Studio album by
Frank Zappa</th> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Released</th> <td class="published">September 23, 1981</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Recorded</th> <td>July–September 1980
UMRK</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">
Genre</th> <td class="category">
Hard rock,
comedy rock,
progressive rock</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">Length</th> <td>67:11</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">
Label</th> <td>
Barking Pumpkin</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;">
Producer</th> <td>Frank Zappa</td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:center;background-color: lightsteelblue;">
Frank Zappa chronology</th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"> <table style="width:100%; background: transparent; text-align: center; font-size: 88%; line-height: 1.4em; vertical-align: top"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 33%; padding: 0.2em 0.1em 0.2em 0">
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Production
After the release of
Joe's Garage, Frank Zappa set up his home studio, the
Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, and planned to release a triple LP live album called
Warts and All. As
Warts and All reached completion, Zappa found the project to be "unwieldy" due to its length, and scrapped it, later conceiving
Crush All Boxes.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference">
[2]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-ElectricDonQuixote_3-0" class="reference">
[3]</sup>
Crush All Boxes would have been a single LP containing the studio recordings "Doreen" and "Fine Girl", and "Easy Meat", a live recording with
studio overdubs, on the first side, with the second side being occupied by a suite consisting of the songs "Society Pages", "I'm A Beautiful Guy", "Beauty Knows No Pain", "Charlie's Enormous Mouth", "Any Downers?" and "Conehead".<sup id="cite_ref-ElectricDonQuixote_3-1" class="reference">
[3]</sup>
During the production of
Crush All Boxes, Zappa decided to scrap the album and conceive a set of releases drawing from both
Warts and All and
Crush All Boxes, which would emphasize different aspects of his multiple talents, formatting the two albums into
You Are What You Is,
Tinseltown Rebellion and two series of live albums,
Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar and
You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore.<sup id="cite_ref-ElectricDonQuixote_3-2" class="reference">
[3]</sup>
Music and lyrics
Much like a
concept album, some of the tracks are bound together, although the album lacks an overall storyline. The title track "You Are What You Is" is an up-tempo pop rock style song that was released as a music video in 1984. Critics claim it was his most political album since "
We're Only In It For The Money." <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">
[4]</sup>
Release history
The album was first issued on LP by Barking Pumpkin Records (distributed by CBS) in 1981. In 1981, it also received a very brief (and now very rare) issue on 8-track tape, catalog number WAX-37537 (Barking Pumpkin label, distributed by CBS). It received a worldwide release on both Ryko and Zappa Records CD in 1990, and was standardized under the Ryko banner in 1995. However, the digital master prepared for both the original Ryko/Zappa release and the later Ryko 1995 release suffered from several severe audio problems that appear to be caused by an overuse of digital techniques like
compression and
reverb and also contained a shortened version of the track "Dumb All Over." In 1998, the problems of these previous CD issues were fixed in an unannounced reissue, including a near-complete restoration of the guitar solo from "Dumb All Over".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference">
[5]
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