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Joe's Garage (Music)
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Joe's Garage is a 1979 Rock Opera by Frank Zappa that follows the trials and tribulations of Joe, a guitarist in a world where music has been made illegal. It is told through the eyes of the Central Scrutinizer, who reminds us throughout how music can mess you up. Originally, it was released as two albums: Joe's Garage (Act I) (a single album) and Joe's Garage (Acts II & III) (a double album). On CD, the first disc consists of Part I and the first half of Part II, while the second disc contains the rest of the album.The story starts with the Central Scrutinizer introducing the premise of the tale: this is a government-sponsored album about how music can mess you up. It tells the tale of Joe, who started a rock band as the government was planning to outlaw music, and shows what happened after he got arrested for disturbing the peace. Soon enough, his girlfriend Mary leaves him and turns into a "crew slut" for a band named Toad-O; his priest becomes an MC at a Florida bar; and he contracts an STD from a girl he met named Lucille. With nowhere to go, he eventually turns to the Church of Appliantology and pays them 50 dollars to learn that he is apparently a latent appliance fetishist. This in mind, he learns German and dresses up as a housewife before going into a bar called "The Closet" that apparently caters to appliances. After picking one up, he takes it home and ends up breaking it from plooking it too hard. For this, he is arrested and taken to a special jail for people in the music business, as the government has just enacted a law banning music – a parallel to the real-life banning of music that occured in Iran during the Iranian Revolution, just months before.While in prison, he is raped many times by record producers and executives, and when he eventually gets out, has gone somewhat insane; a condition not helped by the fact that music is illegal and therefore he has nothing to do. Instead, he becomes sullen and withdrawn, and decides to "dwindle off into the twilight realm of my own secret thoughts", wherein he dreams of imaginary guitar notes that he knows would irritate all the music executives that tortured him. He continues to wander around town, dreaming of guitar notes, then vocals, then albums and critical reviews, until eventually he realizes that all of the notes only exist in his mind. As such, he goes into his room, plays one last imaginary guitar solo (the penultimate "Watermelon in Easter Hay"), and then hocks his imaginary guitar in order to get a job at the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen (the name of Zappa's recording studio, but in-universe is an actual muffin factory.) The album closes with the Central Scrutinizer pointing out once again that yes, music can really mess you up, and singing the last song on the album in order to prove it.As a side note, Zappa changed the titles of "Wet T-Shirt Nite" and "Toad-O Line", to "Fembot in a Wet T-Shirt" and "On the Bus" for the 1987 reissue of the album ("Wet T-Shirt Nite" also got listed as "The Wet T-Shirt Contest" in the included libretto.) The titles have stuck since then."Joe's Garage" is a bit of a Broken Base among fans, with some claiming it's his last "great work" before a long period of lesser albums in the 1980s began, with some even claiming it to be his best album. Others point to Sheik Yerbouti as his final great record and say that "Joe's Garage" actually started a decline in quality, with more obnoxious voices, bawdy comedy, sparse musical instrumentation and topical Protest Song material that nowadays is heavily dated. Nevertheless, "Joe's Garage" has some popular fan favorites, including the Title Track, "Catholic Girls", "Crew Slut" and "Watermelon In Easter Hay". | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Zappa is the voice of the Central Scrutinizer. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: L. Ron Hoover and his Church of Appliantology reference L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology. The group Toad-O is a thinly disguised jab at the rock band Toto, best known for "Hold the Line" (1979) and "Africa" (1983). | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: The basic premise was inspired by Iran making rock music illegal during the Iranian Revolution. | |
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Protest Song | |
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Protest Song: In "Packard Goose" Zappa lashes out against music critics. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The story is easier to understand if you read the liner notes. This is especially true of the reasoning behind the premise, which is found in said notes. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "A Token of My Extreme" is this for L. Ron Hoover and his church, in which he brainwashes Joe into wanting to have sex with appliances. "Dong Work for Yuda" is this for Bald Headed John, the record executive and prison rapist. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Happens a few times on the album. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: Zappa with black paint on his face. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: The liner notes refer to Total Criminalization, the idea of making every person on Earth more uniform (and therefore more criminal) by making them all criminals. In the backstory, this meant making an increasing amount of laws so that anyone could commit a crime at any possible time. The Reality Subtext is that this process is already happening in our world, and that music could very well be on the chopping block in the future. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: Compared to the more musically colorful and fully orchestrated albums Zappa made in the past the sound is more sparse, with Zappa carrying on with the xenochrony he introduced on One Size Fits All (1975), but here used to full effect. This was also the first album where Zappa's guitar solos became much, much longer and more prominent. | |
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Title Track | |
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Title Track: "Joe's Garage" | |
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Bald of Evil | |
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Bald of Evil: Bald-Headed John, of course. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: The first part of "Stick It Out" is sung in Gratuitous German. The English translation immediately follows it. | |
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Embarrassing Nickname | |
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Embarrassing Nickname: "Bald-Headed John, King of the Plookers". | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: A Rock Opera about a the tragic life of a rock musician who goes from one disappointment into another, eventually waking up in a society prohibiting music. | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: Despite the outlandish "everything" on the album, there exist several showcase pieces throughout, both for Zappa's fantastic guitar solos, as well as the band's virtuosic performances. "Wet T-Shirt Nite" bravely showcases a complex musical passage between its verses, while "Keep It Greasy" goes through a full multitude of time signature changes. In both "Catholic Girls" and the finale, Zappa gets drummer Vinnie Colaiuta to play two bars of a 5/8 beat in the same space as a 4/4 bar. It's impressive that he manages to keep it up for a full minute. | |
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Flat "What" | |
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Flat "What": Happens in "A Token of My Extreme". | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: See Crapsack World. | |
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Take That, Critics! | |
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Take That, Critics!: Zappa didn't have a high opinion of rock 'n roll critics. He famously said: "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." In his autobiography, ''The Real Frank Zappa Book", he also devoted a few lines about the inaneness of most critics and argued that somebody may like an album, even if someone gave it a bad review. Zappa himself was a good example, because he discovered his main musical inspiration Edgard Varèse thanks to a horrible review in a magazine and felt he had to check it out, just because of that. "Packard Goose" is a pointed attack at rock 'n' roll journalists.note Zappa's hostility to rock journalists was justified in that, at the time he was making most of his music, most rock journalists mistook him for a rock musician, when really he was a composer who happened to mostly work within rock music. Zappa was completely at odds to the vast majority of rock music of his own time, and shared very few of the common assumptions of other musicians and journalists of his own generation, so it's no wonder that he was consistently misunderstood and underappreciated. | |
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Groupie Brigade | |
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Groupie Brigade: "Crew Slut", "Toad-O Line" and Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" deals with groupies. | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: "A Token of My Extreme" instead of "a token of my esteem". | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper: In “Dong Work for Yuda,� nearly every word out of Bald-Headed John’s mouth is misspoken in some way. | |
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Sexy Soaked Shirt | |
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Sexy Soaked Shirt: "Wet T-Shirt Nite" | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Joe, in a literal sense, in "Dong Work for Yuda". | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: See Prison Rape. | |
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Dedication | |
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Dedication: "A Little Green Rosetta" is dedicated to the people of France, Spain, Mongolia, the Third World, the Fourth World and Taiwan. | |
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Urine Trouble | |
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Urine Trouble: "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" addresses the fact that Joe has caught an STD from a groupie, which makes urinating painful. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Joe gives up at the end, and simply retreats into his room so he can play one last imaginary guitar solo before he comes back to sanity and gets a job at the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen. | |
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Corrupt Church | |
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Corrupt Church: The First Church of Appliantology is basically demanding fees for giving pretty worthless advice. Father Riley B. Jones in "Dong Work For Yuda" also sings songs to the other prisoners, while some of them are gangraped by other men. And the Catholic Girls in "Catholic Girls" are apparently not that chaste. | |
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My Girl Is Not a Slut | |
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My Girl Is Not a Slut: Joe thinks this about Mary. | |
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Hellhole Prison | |
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Hellhole Prison: Joe gets sent to a particularly nasty prison in “Dong Work for Yuda,� as the Central Scrutinizer explains: | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed: Bald-Headed John. Inverted, as he's the one who rapes Joe and the whole point of "Dong Work for Yuda" is that it will hurt. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: To prove just how damaging music can be, the Central Scrutinizer actually turns off his plastic megaphone and sings the final song on the album. The performance quickly devolves from jubilation into outright insanity. | |
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Lack of Empathy | |
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Lack of Empathy: The Central Scrutinizer finds Joe's demise funny. | |
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| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_658f7193 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_66ce8a39 | type |
Fake Memories | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_66ce8a39 | comment |
Fake Memories: | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_66ce8a39 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_66ce8a39 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_66ce8a39 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: The Central Scrutinizer at the start of "Water Melon In Easter Hay". | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_68068108 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_68068108 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_68068108 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_68a74d49 | type |
No Music Allowed | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_68a74d49 | comment |
No Music Allowed: the album revolves around a dystopian society where music is banned, influenced by the Iranian Revolution and subsequent ban on most forms of music under the new regime. In the album's setting, the ban on music results in amateur rocker Joe being imprisoned and going insane, eventually living out the rest of his days as an unassuming factory worker (with the vocally anti-conformist Zappa comedically portraying this as a Fate Worse than Death). | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_68a74d49 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_68a74d49 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_68a74d49 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_6a6c1f35 | type |
The Power of Rock | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_6a6c1f35 | comment |
The Power of Rock: Or rather, the Power Of Music: | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_6a6c1f35 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_6a6c1f35 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_6a6c1f35 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_6afefa62 | type |
My Girl Is a Slut | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_6afefa62 | comment |
My Girl Is a Slut: Lucille is one. Also, Mary, although Joe refuses to believe this. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_6afefa62 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_6afefa62 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_6afefa62 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_720e28a4 | type |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_720e28a4 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: During the wet T-shirt contest: | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_720e28a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_720e28a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_720e28a4 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_73fa8db | type |
Singer Namedrop | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_73fa8db | comment |
Singer Name Drop: Band members Warren Cuccurullo and Vinnie Colaiuta are mentioned in "Catholic Girls", while "A Little Green Rosetta" mentions Ed Mann. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_73fa8db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_73fa8db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_73fa8db | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_74149c93 | type |
Epic Rocking | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_74149c93 | comment |
Epic Rocking: "Packard Goose" (11:34) is the longest example, but much of the album counts, including "Sy Borg" (8:56), "Keep It Greasey" (8:22), "He Used to Cut the Grass" (8:35), "Watermelon In Easter Hay" (9:09), and "A Little Green Rosetta" (8:15). | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_74149c93 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_74149c93 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_74149c93 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_744e3311 | type |
Police Brutality | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_744e3311 | comment |
Police Brutality: The band is arrested for noise pollution on orders of Officer Butzis. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_744e3311 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_744e3311 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_744e3311 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_7464705c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_7464705c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_7464705c | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_758c3034 | type |
Prison Rape | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_758c3034 | comment |
Prison Rape: "Dong Work for Yuda" and "Keep It Greasey" are all over this. Also, to a lesser extent, "Outside Now". | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_758c3034 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_758c3034 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_758c3034 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_77a8fd8a | type |
STD Immunity | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_77a8fd8a | comment |
STD Immunity: Averted with Lucille and Joe in "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_77a8fd8a | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_77a8fd8a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_77a8fd8a | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_79b5677 | type |
Belief Makes You Stupid | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_79b5677 | comment |
Belief Makes You Stupid: In "A Token of My Extreme", Joe joins the cult Appliantology, where he gets worthless advice, but still has to pay a huge sum (50 bucks) for it. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_79b5677 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_79b5677 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_79b5677 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: "Packard Goose", a huge Take That! aimed at rock journalists and critics. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_7d89315b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_7d89315b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_7d89315b | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_809bcc37 | type |
Exotic Equipment | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_809bcc37 | comment |
Exotic Equipment: Joe propositions a sex robot described as having a "hot, curly weenie." note "Weenie! Weenie weenie weenie!" The sex robot itself is described as looking like "a cross between an industrial vacuum cleaner and a chrome piggy bank with marital aids stuck all over its body" but Joe seems to only care about the aforementioned corkscrew penis in particular. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_809bcc37 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_809bcc37 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_809bcc37 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_82accf22 | type |
Gainax Ending | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: The album ends with Joe being jailed and freed, only to discover music has been banned. Then he becomes a factory worker. Which prompts Zappa, out of nowhere, to start a silly song called "A Little Green Rosetta", which breaks the fourth wall and the entire concept of the album completely and has nothing to do with the rest of the plot. Thus closes the album. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_82accf22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_82accf22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_82accf22 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_884e513b | type |
Medium Awareness | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_884e513b | comment |
Medium Awareness: Exhibited in "Sy Borg": | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_884e513b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_884e513b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_884e513b | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_890d4ef2 | type |
Humiliation Conga | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_890d4ef2 | comment |
Humiliation Conga: In a way, the whole album is this for Joe. He gets an STD from a groupie, joins a cult, gets arrested for breaking a robot he was having sex with, gets gangraped in prison and when leaves jail society has banned music, forcing him to settle for a job at a muffin factory. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_890d4ef2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_890d4ef2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_890d4ef2 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_8c00118f | type |
Spoken Word in Music | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_8c00118f | comment |
Spoken Word in Music: The Central Scrutinizer narrates the story. The shouting by Mrs. Borg and police officer Butzis are also spoken. The song "Wet T-Shirt Nite" is more or less a spoken word sketch, with some singing narration. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_8c00118f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_8c00118f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_8c00118f | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_8faea0c5 | type |
Comically Cross-Eyed | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_8faea0c5 | comment |
Comically Cross-Eyed: It's explained in the liner notes that Mary has gone cross-eyed dumb from an extended period of time solely performing sexual favours for men. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_8faea0c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_8faea0c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_8faea0c5 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_93253bcd | type |
LampShading | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_93253bcd | comment |
Lampshading: "A Little Green Rosetta": | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_93253bcd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_93253bcd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_93253bcd | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: From the listener's perspective, it's the Central Scrutinizer. However, in-universe, music itself (and to a lesser extent Joe) is the big bad of the story. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_970c790a | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_9acf22f9 | type |
Doo-wop | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_9acf22f9 | comment |
"Joe's Garage" quotes from "Nite Owl" by Doo-wop band The Champs & Tony Allen. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_9acf22f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_9acf22f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_9acf22f9 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_9e9c53ee | type |
One-Man Song | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_9e9c53ee | comment |
One-Man Song: "Joe's Garage". | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_9e9c53ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_9e9c53ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_9e9c53ee | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_a2b332f9 | type |
Afraid of Needles | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_a2b332f9 | comment |
Afraid of Needles: From "Why Does it Hurt When I Pee?" | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_a2b332f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_a2b332f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_a2b332f9 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b0bd5f11 | type |
Catholic School Girls Rule | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b0bd5f11 | comment |
Catholic School Girls Rule: "Catholic Girls", an entire song dedicated to this trope. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b0bd5f11 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b0bd5f11 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b0bd5f11 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b3f4b615 | type |
Raging Stiffie | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b3f4b615 | comment |
Raging Stiffie: "Stick It Out". | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b3f4b615 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b3f4b615 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b3f4b615 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b41c411e | type |
Toilet Humour | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b41c411e | comment |
Toilet Humour: "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b41c411e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b41c411e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b41c411e | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: This album pokes fun at rock bands, heavy metal, glitter rock, disco, new wave, the music industry, catholic girls, groupies, Scientology (under the disguise of Appliantology), the government, the band Toto (referred to as "Toad-O"), music censorship, rock critics and journalists, punk and Zappa's bodyguard John Smothers. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b53077b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b53077b3 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Mary in "Crew Slut" has no idea what kind of "present" the boys in the crew have for her. In "Wet T-Shirt Nite", she's not particularly bright either. It's explained in the liner notes that she's gone cross-eyed dumb from an extended period of time solely performing sexual favours for men. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b58b4e3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b58b4e3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_b58b4e3c | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c1863a22 | type |
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c1863a22 | comment |
What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This??: Phrase heard during "Sy Borg". | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c1863a22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c1863a22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c1863a22 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c4b74656 | type |
One-Woman Song | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c4b74656 | comment |
One-Woman Song: "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up". | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c4b74656 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c4b74656 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c4b74656 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c69902e7 | type |
Church of Happyology | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c69902e7 | comment |
Church of Happyology: Joe visits the Church Of Appliantology and ends up paying fifty dollars to L. Ron Hoover for his consultation. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c69902e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c69902e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c69902e7 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: "Joe's Garage" quotes from "Nite Owl" by Doo-wop band The Champs & Tony Allen. "Catholic Girls" refers to "Catholic boys" and namedrops Warren Cuccurullo and Vinnie Colaiuta, two of Zappa's at-the-time current band members. Warren ends up getting namedropped throughout the album. In "Sy Borg" the robot claims Joe is "plookin' too hard, plookin' too hard on me", which is a reference to "Pushin' Too Hard" by The Seeds. In the liner notes for "Outside Now" the following line can be read: "And sure enough JOE dreams up a few of those guitar notes that every executive despises: those low ones. Every exec knows it's only the records with the high squeally ones that get to be hits, except for Duane Eddy." In "A Little Green Rosetta," Zappa references both "Jamming" by Bob Marley and "I'm The Japanese Sandman" by Doo-wop band The Cellos. He also mentions Steve Gadd, at the time one of the highest paid session drummers of all time: "Watermelon in Easter Hay" was used over the end credits of Y tu mamá también (2001). | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c75df49a | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c7f294da | type |
Large and in Charge | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c7f294da | comment |
Large and in Charge: Bald-Headed John (aside from his largeness in other areas) claims to be two kilometers (that’s 1.24 miles) tall. Due to his unique way of speaking, this is probably an example of Unit Confusion since no human being could possibly be that tall; he probably meant 2 meters (6 feet), which is still pretty damn tall but far more believable. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c7f294da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c7f294da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c7f294da | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c9597a03 | type |
Self-Deprecation | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c9597a03 | comment |
Self-Deprecation /Take That, Audience!: "A Little Green Rosetta": | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c9597a03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c9597a03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_c9597a03 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d148b019 | type |
Mundane Made Awesome | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d148b019 | comment |
Mundane Made Awesome: Wet t-shirt contests ("Wet T-Shirt Nite"), male Prison Rape ("Keep It Greasy") and working in a muffin factory ("A Little Green Rosetta") are topics and actually pretty catchy songs. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d148b019 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d148b019 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d148b019 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d6707631 | type |
Waxing Lyrical | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d6707631 | comment |
Waxing Lyrical: During "Sy Borg" Joe is having sex with a robot, but gets too excited, causing the robot to malfunction and shout: "You're plooking too hard! Plooking too hard on me!" This is a reference to the 1966 song "Pushin' Too Hard" by The Seeds. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d6707631 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d6707631 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d6707631 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d848560f | type |
Unusual Euphemism | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d848560f | comment |
Unusual Euphemism: "Plooking". Especially in the first lyric of "Outside Now": And then there is this gem from "Crew Slut": | |
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1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d848560f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_d848560f | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dbfe8427 | type |
Intercourse with You | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dbfe8427 | comment |
Intercourse with You: "Crew Slut", "Stick It Out", and (in a much creepier variant) "Keep It Greasey". "Wet T-Shirt Nite" is a borderline example. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dbfe8427 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dbfe8427 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dbfe8427 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dc2912f | type |
Armoured Closet Gay | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dc2912f | comment |
Armoured Closet Gay: Subverted, Joe is told to get 'into the closet' to have sex with a 'plooking' robot. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dc2912f | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dc2912f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dc2912f | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dd91f8d8 | type |
Audience Participation | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dd91f8d8 | comment |
Audience Participation: The presenter of "Wet T-Shirt Nite" interacts with the lustful audience. | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dd91f8d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dd91f8d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Joe's Garage (Music) | hasFeature |
Joe's Garage (Music) / int_dd91f8d8 | |
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Album Filler | |
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Album Filler: A common criticism of the album. While some people adore the album, others feel there is a lot of padding. The long guitar solos on CD 2 have also divided audiences. Some like them, others claim they it's just noodling for the sake of noodling. Zappa's interludes as the Central Scrutinizer also irk some listeners, because when you play the tracks it's always the first thing you have to endure before you get to the music. In the otherwise beautiful "Watermelon in Easter Hay" Zappa's jabbering takes up more than a minute and he even talks over the guitar intro! And then there is the final track, "A Little Green Rosetta", which has nothing to do with the rest of the plot and just seems to be there to go out on a less depressive note. | |
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Obligatory Bondage Song: "Sy Borg" has the line: "How's about some bondage and humilitation?". | |
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Start of Darkness | |
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Start of Darkness: The Central Scrutinizer presents the title track as such. | |
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Broken Record | |
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Broken Record: "The white zone is for loading and unloading only. If you gotta load or unload go to the white zone". "Joe's Garage" | |
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Antiquated Linguistics | |
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Antiquated Linguistics: The lead vocals in "Dong Work For Yuda", which are an imitation of Zappa's bodyguard John Smothers' strange way of speaking. | |
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Body Paint | |
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Body Paint: Zappa's face is painted black on the cover. | |
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All Women Are Lustful | |
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All Women Are Lustful: | |
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Garage Band | |
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Garage Band and Garage Rock: Joe's band. | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
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Creepy Monotone: The Central Scrutinizer talks in a listless-yet-sinister tone most of the time. | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: Between all the comedy songs about rock bands, male prison rape and sex with robots, "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" is a quite sweet love song and "Watermelon In Easter Hay" is a moving, tragic guitar solo. | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Joe is told to stick closer to "church-oriented social activities" when he is first arrested for playing rock music. Buddy Jones also gets a good one in on "Wet T-Shirt Nite": | |
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New Job as the Plot Demands | |
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New Job as the Plot Demands: Father Riley goes from being a Catholic priest at the start of the story ("Catholic Girls") to an MC at a bikini bar ("Wet T-Shirt Nite") to being the chaplain at the prison Joe is sent to ("Dong Work For Yuda"). | |
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IncrediblyLamePun | |
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Incredibly Lame Pun: "Wet T-Shirt Nite": "Here at the Brasserie... home of the tits, huh-huh!" The song "Toad-O Line" (credited in the libretto as a performance by Toad-O, a Toto parody) quotes the melody from Toto's hit "Hold the Line". "A Token of My Extreme": Appliantology, which is not even a good pun on [Happy]ology. "Packard Goose": "Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament currently in resurgence . . ." (Note: a pun on "bow-tie"). | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: The Central Scrutinizer links everything together. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: A Dodge car, Fender Stratocaster and Beatle Boots are mentioned during the title track. Ronald McDonald from McDonalds is mentioned during "Packard Goose". | |
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Robosexual | |
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Robosexual: The entire Church Of Appliantology seems to be built around this trope, and Joe becomes one on advice from L. Ron Hoover. It ends up getting him thrown into jail. | |
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Bawdy Song | |
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Bawdy Song: "Catholic Girls", "Crew Slut", "Wet T-Shirt Nite" (and its immediate follower "Toad-O Line"), "Stick It Out", "Sy Borg", "Dong Work for Yuda" and "Keep It Greasy". | |
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