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The Music of Frank Zappa MUGC 4890-001 • MUGC 5890-001 Dr. Joseph Klein" III. Social and Cultural Context" Cultural Context — 1940s & 50s: Post-War Period " Cultural Context — 1940s & 50s: Family and Lifestyle" Cultural Context — 1940s & 50s: Cold War & “Red Menace”" Cultural Context — 1940s & 50s: Cold War & “Red Menace”" Cultural Context — 1950s: B Movies" Cultural Context — 1950s: B Movies" “Zombie Woof”! “Cheepnis”! “The Radio is Broken”! Overnite Sensation ! (1973)! ! Roxy & Elsewhere ! (1974)! The Man From Utopia ! (1983)! Cultural Context — 1960s: Civil Rights Movement" Cultural Context — 1960s: Great Society, Viet Nam War" Cultural Context — 1960s: Hippie Culture & Flower Power" Cultural Context — 1970s: Watergate, Recession" Cultural Context — 1970s: Disco Era" Cultural Context — 1990s: Collapse of the Soviet Union" Archetypes in the Project/Object" § Suzy Creamcheese" §! Hippies" §! Plastic People" §! Pachucos" §! Lonesome Cowboy Burt" §! Bobby Brown" §! Jewish American Princess" §! Catholic Girls" §! Valley Girl" §! Charlie (“kinda young, kinda wow…”)" §! Debbie" §! Thing-Fish (composite archetypes)" “Who Needs the Peace Corps?” (We’re Only In It for the Money, 1968)" I'll stay a week and get the crabs and! Take a bus back home! I'm really just a phony! But forgive me! 'Cause I'm stoned Every town must have a place! Where phony hippies meet! Psychedelic dungeons! Popping up on every street! GO TO SAN FRANCISCO . How I love ya, How I love ya! How I love ya, How I love ya Frisco!! How I love ya, How I love ya! What's there to live for?! How I love ya, How I love ya! Who needs the peace corps?! Oh, my hair is getting good in the back! Think I'll just DROP OUT! Every town must have a place! I'll go to Frisco! Where phony hippies meet! Buy a wig & sleep! Psychedelic dungeons! On Owsley's floor Popping up on every street ! Walked past the wig store! GO TO SAN FRANCISCO . Danced at the Fillmore! Hotcha! I'm completely stoned! I'm hippy and I'm trippy! I'm a gypsy on my own! “Who Needs the Peace Corps?” (We’re Only In It for the Money, 1968)" I will love everyone! I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me on the street! I will sleep . .! I will, I will go to a house! That's, that's what I will do! I will go to a house! Where there's a rock and roll band! 'Cause the groups all live together! And I will join a rock and roll band! I will be their road manager! And I will stay there with them! And I will get the crabs! First I'll buy some beads! But I won't care! And then perhaps a leather band! Because . To go around my head! Some feathers and bells! And a book of Indian lore! I will ask the Chamber Of Commerce! How to get to Haight Street! And smoke an awful lot of dope! I will wander around barefoot! I will have a psychedelic gleam in my eye at all times! “Turning Again” (Meets the Mothers of Prevention, 1985)" They lived on a whole bunch of nothing! They thought they looked very good! They'd never ever worry! They were always in a hurry! To convince themselves that what they were! Was really very groovy! Yes, they believed in all the papers! And the magazines that defined their folklore! They could never laugh! At who or what they thought they were! Or even what they thought! They sorta oughta be! They were totally empty! (Totally empty)! And their lives were really useless! Turn turn So what the fuck?! Turn turn They didn't have no sense of humor! We're turning again (Oodly-oodly-yeah!)! Turn turn Now they got nothing left! Turn turn To laugh about! We're turning again Including themselves! ! They took a whole bunch of acid Turn turn! So they could see where it's at Turn turn! (It's over there, over there, We're turning again! Over there, over there Turn turn! And under here also) Turn turn! Doont, da-doodem doodem! We're turning again! “Turning Again” (Meets the Mothers of Prevention, 1985)" Bprr . bprr . the year 1967 ! Black light bedrooms! Drug-crazed youth discovered vagrancy as a way of life! On LONN-ISLAND! EWW-WW! ! Singin': "JIMI COME BACK!"! Dey were mellow! Now come back and regulate de boy's FURZ-tone! Dey were yellow! Yo' HAZE was so PURPLE Dey were wearing smelly blankets! It caused your AXIS to be BOLD AS LOVE! Dey looked like DONOVAN fans! (JIMI-JIMI-JIMI-JIMI-JIMI FEED BACK)! (HU-UR-DE-EE! Now Jimi gimme some feedback! GU-UR-DE-EE) ! Come back and feed back on my knapsack! Dey walkin' 'round! You can feed back the fuzz tone from your WAH-WAH! With stupid flowers! While you bend down! In dey hair an' evvywhere! And set your stuff on FIRE! Dey tried to stuff 'em up de guns! ! Of all the cops and other servants of the law! Turn turn! (LA LA-LA-LA LA-LA) ! Turn turn! Who tried to push 'em around! We're turning again! And later mowed 'em down! Turn turn! But they were full of all that shit! Turn turn! That they believed in! We're turning again! (PHEW!)! ! So what the fuck?! We can turn it around! (WHAT THE FUCK?)! We can do it again! Now I seen 'em tightenin' up dey headbands! We can go back in time! On the weekend and dey get loaded! Through the canyons of your mind! When dey came to town! On the EVE O' DESTRUCTION! Dey walk around in GREEMICH VILLAGE! We can act like we are something really special! To buy posters dey could hang up! WOOOH, we'll just jump in the bath-tub! In dem smelly little secret! With that other guy JIM! And make him be more careful “Turning Again” (Meets the Mothers of Prevention, 1985)" We can visit Big Mama! Turn turn! And whap her on the back! Turn turn! When she eats her sandwich! We're turning again! (LA LA LA LA)! Turn turn! We can take care of Janis! Turn turn! When she gets so depressed! We're turning again! She can't take it no more! ! We can laugh at Keith Moon's jokes! Turn turn! (HA HA HA HA HA)! Turn turn! And the colour TV! We're turning again! (HA HA)! Turn turn! He threw out de windum! Turn turn! Fum de second flew-ah!! We're turning again! (YEAAHHHHHH!)! ! Everybody come back! No one can do it like you used to! If you listen to the radio! And what they play today! You can tell right away:! All those assholes really need you! “Bobby Brown Goes Down” (Sheik Yerbouti, 1979)" Oh God I am the American dream ! I do not think I'm too extreme ! An' I'm a handsome sonofabitch ! I'm gonna get a good job 'n be real rich (Get a good, get a good, get a good, get a good job) ! ! Women's Liberation ! Came creepin' across the nation ! I tell you people, I was not ready ! When I fucked this dyke by the name of Freddie ! She made a little speech then, ! Aw, she tried to make me say when! She had my balls in a vice, but she left the dick ! I guess it's still hooked on, but now it shoots too quick ! ! Oh God I am the American dream! Hey there, people, I'm Bobby Brown ! (P.U.)! They say I'm the cutest boy in town ! But now I smell like Vaseline ! My car is fast, my teeth is shiney ! An' I'm a miserable sonofabitch ! I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie ! Am I a boy or a lady . I don't know which ! Here I am at a famous school ! (I wonder wonder, wonder wonder) ! I'm dressin' sharp 'n I'm ! ! Actin' cool ! I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper ! Let her do all the work 'n maybe later I'll rape her “Bobby Brown Goes Down” (Sheik Yerbouti, 1979)" Oh God I am the American dream ! With a spindle up my butt till it makes me scream ! An' I'll do anything to get ahead ! I lay awake nights sayin', "Thank you, Fred!" ! Oh God, Oh God, I'm so fantastic! ! Thanks to Freddie, I'm a sexual spastic ! And my name is Bobby Brown ! Watch me now; I'm goin' down, ! And my name is Bobby Brown ! Watch me now; I'm goin' down, ! And my name is Bobby Brown! Watch me now; I'm goin' down ! ! Ha-ha . ! ! O'Hearn: ! So I went out 'n bought me a leisure suit ! Yeah . I knew you'd be surprised . .! I jingle my change, but I'm still kinda cute ! Got a job doin' radio promo ! An' none of the jocks can even tell I'm a homo ! Eventually me 'n a friend ! Sorta of drifted along into S&M ! I can take about an hour on the tower of power ! 'Long as I gets a little golden shower ! ! “Jewish Princess” (Sheik Yerbouti, 1979)" I need a hairy little Jewish Princess ! (La-la-la)! With a brand new nose! (Oo-ee-oo)! Who knows where it goes ! I want a steamy little Jewish Princess ! (KSSS!) ! With over-worked gums, who squeaks when she cums ! I don't want no troll ! I just want a Yemenite hole ! ! I want a darling little Jewish Princess ! (La-la-la)! Who don't know shit about cooking and is arrogant looking ! (Woo-eee-ooo)! A vicious little Jewish Princess ! I want a nasty little Jewish Princess ! To specifically happen with a pee-pee that's snapin' ! (La-la-la)! All up inside ! With long phony nails and a hairdo that rinses ! I just want a Princess to ride ! (Wee-oo-oo) ! ! A horny little Jewish Princess ! Awright, back to the top .