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We're Only in It for the Money (recorded in 1967, released in 1968 through Verve Records) is an album by The Mothers of Invention, and one of Frank Zappa's most famous and popular concept albums. A scathing attack on such 1960s topics as the flower power movement, police brutality, The Beatles, Psychedelic Rock, the generation gap and the growing mass commercialization of pop music. In 2005, it was among the records selected by the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, and aesthetically important".Apart from this the album also has several instrumental musique concrete tracks and songs containing inside jokes about Zappa's band and friends. According to the liner notes the listener should read the story In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka first, before listening to the final track "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny".When the album went into production, it originally had a different concept and direction. In fact, the entirety of Money, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, the dialogue sessions from the reissue of Lumpy Gravy, and parts of Uncle Meat were recorded at the same New York sessions. The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album came out while the Mothers of Invention were recording the album, and Zappa decided to change the album's concept to parody that album because he felt that in the context of late-1960s America (widespread rioting, The Vietnam War) the Beatles' emphasis on "love" was dangerously naive. The cover is particularly memorable for offering the Ur-Example of the Sgt. Pepper's Shout-Out.The album is the Trope Namer for Only in It for the Money. |
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Creator Cameo: |
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Protest Song |
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Protest Song: Against hippie commercialization, police brutality, corrupt politicians, American womanhoodn and square civilians. |
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Scare Chord |
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Scare Chord: All throughout the album certain chords have this effect. |
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The Cameo |
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The Cameo: Jimi Hendrix on the album cover, standing on the far left, around the same place Sonny Liston was in the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. And yes, it's really him, not some collage cut-out. Eric Clapton says "God, it's God. I see God" in "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music," and contributes clichéd stoner dialogue to "Are You Hung Up?". |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: "The Idiot Bastard Son": |
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Face on the Cover |
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Face on the Cover: Zappa and the Mothers are featured on the album cover. |
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Who Shot JFK? |
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Who Shot JFK?: Lee Harvey Oswald and the cop who accompanied him to his cell when Oswald was murdered are seen on the album cover. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_1f8cdb5c |
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Crapsack World |
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Crapsack World: Hippies blindly follow trends and get tortured in concentration camps, police officers kill hippies, square parents don't care until they discover their daughter is one of them, American womanhood is empty and gets raped, idiot bastard sons gets born,... No wonder that the ugliest part of you body is your mind. |
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Wholesome Crossdresser |
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Wholesome Crossdresser: Zappa and his Mothers are all dressed in female dresses on the cover. Fridge Brilliance in the sense that the band's name is "The Mothers". |
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Gross-Out Show: "Let's Make The Water Turn Black". |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: "Concentration Moon" "Harry, You're a Beast" "Flower Punk" "The Idiot Bastard Son" - |
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Scunthorpe Problem |
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Scunthorpe Problem: When Zappa went to the Netherlands for their equivalent of the Grammy Awards, he discovered that they had edited the line "And I still remember momma in her apron and her pad feeding all the boys at Ed's café" in "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" because they misunderstood the word pad (as in a completely harmless notepad) and thought it referred to a sanitary napkin. |
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Concept Album |
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Concept Album: The album is both an attack on hippies, rock 'n' roll, commercialization of youth subculture, parents, American womanhood, police brutality, conformist squares and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.note Zappa admitted years later that he actually quite liked a lot of the Beatles' music, he just hated how they were marketed, and he assumed at the time they really were chiefly in music for the money. |
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Time Marches On |
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Time Marches On: The album criticizes the hippie movement and The Beatles and therefore is both very dated and a document of its era at the same time. |
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One Scene, Two Monologues |
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One Scene, Two Monologues: Happens during "Flower Punk" where two rock musicians are having an Imagine Spot, without listening to each other. They just jam on without concentration and fantasize about all the money and girls they're going to get. Their only thought in unison is: "Is the song over?" |
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Properly Paranoid |
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Properly Paranoid: The entire album has a very paranoid feeling to it complete with many conspiracy theories and tracks frequently interrupted by snippets of mumbling people. |
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Art Initiates Life |
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Art Initiates Life: Some of the rumors about concentration camps for hippies turned out to have some truth in them. The satires of police brutality, which many people thought were over-the-top, also wound up coming true when the Kent State shootings happened a few years later. |
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Out-of-Clothes Experience |
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Out-of-Clothes Experience: "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" |
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Humans Are Bastards |
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Humans Are Bastards: See Crapsack World. |
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Take That, Audience! |
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Take That, Audience!: The listener himself is attacked in "The Idiot Bastard Son" |
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Record Needle Scratch |
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Record Needle Scratch: Near the end of "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music". |
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Genre Roulette |
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Genre Roulette: Like every Zappa album. |
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Black Comedy Rape |
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Black Comedy Rape: "Harry, You’re a Beast", where a guy named Harry ravages a woman named Madge. Though it is clear that Harry is a dumb asshole. |
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Body Horror |
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Body Horror: "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" Answer: your mind. |
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BigHandsomeMan |
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Big Handsome Man: Billy Mundi and Roy Estrada in various places in the album art. |
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Sampling |
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Sampling: The opening whispering from "Are You Hung Up?" returns again during "Concentration Moon". |
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Cryptic Conversation |
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Cryptic Conversation: At various points on the album |
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Named After Somebody Famous |
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Named After Somebody Famous: Camp Reagan, named after Ronald Reagan. |
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Misogyny Song |
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Misogyny Song: "Harry, You're a Beast", directed at "American womanhood". |
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Lack of Empathy |
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Lack of Empathy: The parents in "Mum and Dad" who feel that the police is justified in killing creeps in the park, until they find out their daughter is one of them. |
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Non-Appearing Title |
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Non-Appearing Title: The album title is never mentioned in any of the lyrics. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_67784113 |
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Evil Laugh |
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Evil Laugh: See above. |
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Inner Monologue Conversation |
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Inner Monologue Conversation: Gary Kellgren's ranting about erasing Zappa's tapes in "Are You Hung Up?" and "Hot Poop." Rock musicians fantasize about the amount of money and groupies they'll get after the show is over on "Flower Punk" |
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"Everybody Laughs" Ending |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_6eb04f1 |
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"Everybody Laughs" Ending: On the final track "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny", characters laugh demonically with the fate of the tortured person. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_6eb04f1 |
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Censor Box |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_6feeef5c |
comment |
Censor Box: The collage cut-outs on the album cover have most of the eyes of the (then) living celebrities blackboxed. Zappa also played with this, by even blackboxing the eyes of Lyndon Johnson and the Statue of Liberty. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_6feeef5c |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_70a45126 |
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Farts on Fire |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_70a45126 |
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Farts on Fire: "Let's Make the Water Turn Black": |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_70a45126 |
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Covers Always Lie |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_7315fd38 |
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Covers Always Lie: From judging the album cover and the art work within you might expect this album to be an entire musical and lyrical parody of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but it's not. The only real similarity is that "A Day in the Life", just like "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny" are both the closing track, both closing on one note slowly fading out at the end. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_7315fd38 |
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type |
Singer Namedrop |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_73fa8db |
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Singer Name Drop: |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_73fa8db |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_76cbbc0b |
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George Lucas Altered Version |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_76cbbc0b |
comment |
George Lucas Altered Version: The drum and bass parts of the original album, as well as those on Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, were re-recorded in The '80s. While Zappa claimed the original tapes were damaged, it is believed that he hated the original performances and wanted to update them to something more suitable (and also comical.) Despite fan outcry, Zappa chastised "collectors and purists" for their reverence of the original material. The original release was re-issued after his death by Rykodisc in 1995. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_76cbbc0b |
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Real Life Writes the Plot |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_786bf97f |
comment |
Real Life Writes the Plot: This is basically the definitive critique on the late-1960s. Several people featured on the album cover were cut-out from Zappa's high school yearbook, namely some teachers, administrational staff and high school students. Other are personal colleagues and friends, such as secretary Pauline Butcher, graphic designer Cal Schenkel, his girlfriend Sandy Hurvitz, Zappa's father Francis, Zappa's then manager Herb Cohen and his daughter Lisa. The lyrics in "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" are about two eccentric friends of Zappa's, Ronnie and Kenny Williams, who used to collect all their urine in a giant jar and smeared their boogers on the windows. The line "Oh my hair's getting good in the back," in "Who Needs the Peace Corps?", is something Zappa heard a New York hippie say. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_786bf97f |
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Eagleland |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_7a265daa |
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Eagleland: The political material here is a definite Type 2. |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_7a265daa |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_7a265daa |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_7d89315b |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: "Mom and Dad", which calls out the parents who said the hippies deserved to get shot by the cops, when it's the parents' lack of concern and love for their children that played a huge role in it happening in the first place. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_7d89315b |
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Actually Pretty Funny |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_8042e814 |
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Actually Pretty Funny: The Beatles, or at any rate Paul McCartney, thought that the album sleeve photo was hilarious. |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_8042e814 |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_8042e814 |
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Dramatic Thunder |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_84764598 |
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Dramatic Thunder: On the album cover. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_84764598 |
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Only in It for the Money |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_895ec17 |
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Only in It for the Money: The Trope Namer |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_895ec17 |
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Studio Chatter |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_8a24c94e |
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Studio Chatter: Various moments on this album. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_8a24c94e |
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Spoken Word in Music |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_8c00118f |
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Spoken Word in Music |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_8c00118f |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_8c00118f |
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Reference Overdosed |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_8e1aef2d |
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Reference Overdosed: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the album cover and liner notes The album cover shows images of Lyndon Johnson, Albert Einstein, Ludwig van Beethoven, blues singer Big Mama Thornton, Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, Rod Serling, Pope Paul III, John Zacherley (best known for his single "Dinner With Drac"), Eric Burdon (The Animals), David Crosby, Elvis Presley, Nancy Sinatra, Ed Wynn, Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and Max Schreck (best known as Orlock in Nosferatu), Soupy Sales, Theda Bara and Captain Beefheart. Owsley Stanley in "Who Needs the Peace Corps?". Jimi Hendrix' "Hey Joe" from Are You Experienced and The Troggs "Wild Thing" in "Flower Punk". Donovan's song "Mellow Yellow" in "Absolutely Free". Ronny and Kenny Williams in "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" and "The Idiot Bastard Son". Lenny Bruce in "Harry, You’re a Beast". Franz Kafka in the liner notes |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_8e1aef2d |
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Sgt. Pepper's Shout-Out |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_939c634b |
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Sgt. Pepper's Shout-Out: The Trope Namer (indirectly). |
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Questioning Title? |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_99699561 |
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Questioning Title?: "Are You Hung Up?", "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_99699561 |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_99699561 |
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Family-Unfriendly Death |
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Family-Unfriendly Death: The parents' daughter is shot by the cops too in "Mom & Dad." |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_9afa05c7 |
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New-Age Retro Hippie |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_9e09fbd7 |
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New-Age Retro Hippie: |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_9e09fbd7 |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_9e09fbd7 |
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Parental Obliviousness |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_a1fedb67 |
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Parental Obliviousness: "Lonely Little Girl", "Mom & Dad", "Mother People", "Bow Tie Daddy"... |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_a1fedb67 |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_a1fedb67 |
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Accentuate the Negative |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_a70f9aba |
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Accentuate the Negative: |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_a70f9aba |
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And I Must Scream |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_a8a04f6f |
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And I Must Scream: The victims in the concentration camps in "Concentration Moon" and "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny" |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_a8a04f6f |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_a8a04f6f |
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Final Solution |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_a969c74a |
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Final Solution: From "Concentration Moon": |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_a969c74a |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_a969c74a |
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Stage Names |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_ae50ca8f |
comment |
Stage Names: "Hi, boys and girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black and I'm the Indian of the group." |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_ae50ca8f |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_ae50ca8f |
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type |
The Future Will Be Better |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_b18700f4 |
comment |
The Future Will Be Better: 'Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance." |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_b18700f4 |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_b18700f4 |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_b41c411e |
type |
Toilet Humour |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_b41c411e |
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Toilet Humour: "Let's Make the Water Turn Black", about two friends of Zappa who smeared their nose drippings on a window and collected their urine in a jar. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_b41c411e |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_b53077b3 |
type |
Take That! |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_b53077b3 |
comment |
Take That!: The Beatles on the album cover Hippies in "Who Needs the Peace Corps?", "Concentration Moon", and "Absolutely Free" The commercialization of rock 'n' roll in the album title and the tracks "Absolutely Free" and "Flower Punk" "American womanhood" is targeted in "Harry, You're a Beast" The police in "Concentration Moon" and "Mom & Dad" The U.S.A in "Mom & Dad" Ignorant parents in "Bow Tie Daddy", "Mother People", "Lonely Little Girl", "Concentration Moon", and "Mom & Dad" Gary Kellgren's line "And tomorrow I get to work with The Velvet Underground, which is just a shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group...". It was cut on the general release version, but some vinyl copies contained this dialogue by mistake.note Depending on who's telling it, either Verve Records didn't give the Velvets any money because of the presence of Andy Warhol, or they didn't give Zappa any money. Choose your favorite story, but, apparently, there was something of a feud between Zappa and Lou Reed as a result. Gail, Zappa's widow, later unsuccessfully objected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame choosing Reed to induct Zappa in 1995. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_b53077b3 |
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The Not-Remix |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_ba4fd8c2 |
comment |
The Not-Remix: Frank remixed and re-recorded some parts of We're Only in It for the Money and Cruising with Ruben & the Jets in 1984 with New-Wave style instrumentation. Other songs were sped-up, slowed down or had other editing adjustments. Unsurprisingly, fans were pissed; as a result, Zappa's estate restored and released Money to its original form in 1995, while the original mix of Ruben wouldn't appear again until 2010. |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_ba4fd8c2 |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_ba4fd8c2 |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_bb30961 |
type |
Born Unlucky |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_bb30961 |
comment |
Born Unlucky: "The Idiot Bastard Son", whose father is a Nazi "in Congress today" and whose mother is "a hooker, somewhere in L.A.". He is abandoned by his parents in the back of a car and adopted by Ronnie and Kenny who "stash him away in a jar". |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_bb30961 |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_bda474d2 |
type |
Last Note Nightmare |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_bda474d2 |
comment |
Last Note Nightmare: "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny", a nightmarish track that should be understood within the context of Franz Kafka's In The Penal Colony and closes the album. |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_bda474d2 |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_bda474d2 |
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type |
Shrouded in Myth |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_be8416ea |
comment |
Shrouded in Myth: Zappa's strange hand gestures on the back cover of the album, while Ian Underwood holds up a piece of paper. |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_be8416ea |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c007c53 |
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: The person tortured in "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny" |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c007c53 |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c007c53 |
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type |
Jump Scare |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c04b1231 |
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Jump Scare: Near the end of the first track, before Jimmy Carl Black's line: "Hi boys and girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black and I'm the Indian of the group." |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c04b1231 |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c04b1231 |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This? |
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What's an X Like You Doing in a Y Like This??: Phrase heard during Flower Punk. |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c1863a22 |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c1863a22 |
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Crossdresser |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c1883f29 |
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Cross Dresser: Other than Sherwood, all of the Mothers appear in drag in the album art. |
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Re-Cut |
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Re-Cut: The album received two levels of censoring when it was originally sold, depending on the territory it was released: a censored version and a heavily censored version, which even cut swear words out of reversed portions. Several copies over the years have included songs from different versions on one disc. |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c3ae004a |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c4b74656 |
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One-Woman Song |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c4b74656 |
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One-Woman Song: "Lonely Little Girl" |
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| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c4e4e17f |
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Electronic Speech Impediment |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c4e4e17f |
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Electronic Speech Impediment: Sped-up voices can be hear regularly on the album, mostly for comedic effect. "Flower Punk" is entirely sped up. "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?, Part 2" slowly starts slowing down near the end. |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c4e4e17f |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c4e4e17f |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c75df49a |
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Shout-Out |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c75df49a |
comment |
Shout-Out: Jimi Hendrix' "Hey Joe" from Are You Experienced on "Flower Punk" Lenny Bruce's routine in "Harry, You're a Beast" Stranger in a Strange Land in "Absolutely Free". In the album cover art inside the booklet a text balloon has Zappa say: "Between the buttons!" This is a reference to Between the Buttons by The Rolling Stones, which was his favorite album by this band. He even deemed it superior to Sgt. Peppers. |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_c75df49a |
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| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_dbfe8427 |
type |
Intercourse with You |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_dbfe8427 |
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Intercourse with You: Harry wants sex with Madge on the track "Harry, You’re a Beast" and gets his way. |
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| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_dd91f8d8 |
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Audience Participation |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_dd91f8d8 |
comment |
Audience Participation: In the liner notes Zappa asks the audience to read Franz Kafka's In the Penal Colony before starting to listen to the final track. |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_dd91f8d8 |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_dd91f8d8 |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_de4d6d54 |
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DarkComedy |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_de4d6d54 |
comment |
Dark Comedy: See Crapsack World. |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_de4d6d54 |
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| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_e085feeb |
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Broken Record |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_e085feeb |
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Broken Record: The infamous needle scratch sound on "Nasal Retentive Calliope Music." |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_e085feeb |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_e085feeb |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_e41b191f |
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Nude Nature Dance |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_e41b191f |
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Nude Nature Dance: "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance". |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_e41b191f |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_e41b191f |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_ea454c4a |
type |
Surprisingly Gentle Song |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_ea454c4a |
comment |
Surprisingly Gentle Song: "Lonely Little Girl", a gentle song about a lonely girl who feels ignored about her parents. Amidst all the other anti-flower power and Police Brutality comedy songs it sounds very moving, as short as it is. |
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Parental Hypocrisy |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_ede89ad6 |
comment |
Parental Hypocrisy: The parents in "Mom & Dad" think that the "creeps" who were killed in the park by the cops got what they deserved, until they find out their daughter was among them. |
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| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f1d3f0c9 |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f1d3f0c9 |
comment |
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?": |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f1d3f0c9 |
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| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f2a6d76d |
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Rage Against the Author |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f2a6d76d |
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Rage Against the Author: "Are You Hung Up?" |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f2a6d76d |
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| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f2dadf81 |
type |
Evil Twin |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f2dadf81 |
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Evil Twin: Some CD packages describe this album as "Sgt. Pepper's evil twin". |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f2dadf81 |
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We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f2dadf81 |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f3cf057b |
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Fading into the Next Song |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f3cf057b |
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Fading into the Next Song: Each track - it's a gapless album. |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_f3cf057b |
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| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_fa77309d |
type |
Alternate Album Cover |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_fa77309d |
comment |
Alternate Album Cover: The cover art was designed as an unflattering, yet very thorough Sgt. Pepper's Shout-Out, which Paul McCartney reportedly approved of. However, Verve Records changed the cover at the last minute to swap the outer art with the gatefold photo, which depicts a plain image of the Mothers of Invention against a yellow background (as a riff on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band gatefold photo). When Zappa regained the rights to his back-catalog in The '80s, he had the inner and outer art swapped back to match his original intentions. |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_fa77309d |
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| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_fc451ba4 |
type |
Follow the Leader |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_fc451ba4 |
comment |
Follow the Leader: Mocked in "Who Needs the Peace Corps?", "Absolutely Free" and "Flower Punk", where it is shown that hippies are merely following a brainless commercial trend.invoked |
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Bawdy Song |
| | We're Only in It for the Money (Music) / int_ff24ad1d |
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Bawdy Song: Two people collecting urine and smearing boogers on windows in "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" Rape in "Harry, You're a Beast" "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" sounds bawdy, but the answer turns out to be your mind |
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