You Are What You Is (Remastered) Frank Zappa
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Album-Release:
2021
HRA-Release:
07.05.2021
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- 1 Teen-age Wind 03:02
- 2 Harder Than Your Husband 02:28
- 3 Doreen 04:44
- 4 Goblin Girl 04:06
- 5 Theme From The 3rd Movement Of Sinister Footwear 03:31
- 6 Society Pages 02:26
- 7 I'm A Beautiful Guy 01:56
- 8 Beauty Knows No Pain 03:01
- 9 Charlie's Enormous Mouth 03:36
- 10 Any Downers? 02:08
- 11 Conehead 04:28
- 12 You Are What You Is 04:23
- 13 Mudd Club 03:11
- 14 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 03:10
- 15 Dumb All Over 06:14
- 16 Heavenly Bank Account 04:02
- 17 Suicide Chump 02:49
- 18 Jumbo Go Away 03:43
- 19 If Only She Woulda 03:47
- 20 Drafted Again 03:07
Info for You Are What You Is (Remastered)
You Are What You Is trades in much of Zappa's usual musical acrobatics for more polished and understated fare and increasingly political satire. Released in 1981, this album contains Zappa's takes on the smell of teen spirit, organized religion, Saturday Night Live's Coneheads, and even racial issues. Highpoints include the mock country of "Harder Than Your Husband," pure-FZ injection of "Theme From 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear," and the kinetic vocal-drenched title track. --Andrew Boscardin
Lots of social commentary on this one, particularly on the dangers of "organized religion." Originally released as a double album in 1981, this set is unusually heavy on vocals; in fact only one track, a brief excerpt from the ballet "Sinister Footwear," is an instrumental. With a cast including Moon Zappa, Steve Vai, Ike Willis and returning Mother Jimmy Carl Black, FZ takes stabs at punk fashion ("Mudd Club", "I'm a Beautiful Guy"), salutes his pals from the planet Remulak ("Conehead"); and closes it out with "Drafted Again," a remake of his topical 1980 single "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted." But the sharpest satire is reserved for the churches, on a pointed sequence of tunes including "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing" (first performed on "Saturday Night Live"), "Dumb All Over", and "Heavenly Bank Account."
Frank Zappa, vocals, guitar
Arthur Barrow, bass
Jimmy Carl Black, vocals
Bob Harris, boy soprano, trumpet, vocals
David Logeman, drums
Ed Mann, percussion
Tommy Mars, keyboards, vocals
David Ocker, bass clarinet, clarinet
Mark Pinske, vocals
Motorhead Sherwood, tenor saxophone, vocals
Craig "Twister" Stewart, harmonica
Steve Vai, guitars (track 5)
Denny Walley, vocals, slide guitar
Ray White, rhythm guitar, vocals
Ike Willis, rhythm guitar, vocals
Ahmet Zappa, vocals
Moon Unit Zappa, vocals
Digitally remastered
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Booklet for You Are What You Is (Remastered)