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We're Only In It For The Money [Original recording remastered]

Frank Zappa , The Mothers Of Invention Audio CD
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1. Are You Hung Up?
2. Who Needs The Peace Corps?
3. Concentration Moon
4. Mom and Dad
5. Telephone Conversation
6. Bow Tie Daddy
7. "Harry, You Are A Beast"
8. What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?
9. Absolutely Free
10. Flower Punk
11. Hot Poop
12. Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
13. Let's Make The Water Turn Black
14. The Idiot Bastard Son
15. Lonely Little Girl
16. Take Your Clothes Off When you Dance
17. What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (Reprise)
18. Mother People
19. The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny

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The Mothers of Invention answer the sentiments of the suits, the suburb dwellers and flower children of the 1960s with a big fat raspberry. Considered by many to be the Mothers' (and some would say Zappa's) best album, We're Only In It For The Money deals with harsh subject matter in a seemingly glib and light-hearted fashion (eventually a Zappa trademark), sparing no targets with catchy melodies and high-pitched vocals. Zappa applies the same aggressive studio techniques he did on Lumpy Gravy, creating a jarring collage of noise that still sounds avant-garde today. Highlights from this flawless album are numerous and include the hippy bashing "Who Needs the Peace Corps", the bedroom science of "Let's Make the Water Turn Black", the anthemic "Mother People", and the perfect payoff of "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" Quite simply one of the best rock albums of all time. --Andrew Boscardin

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Japanese Version featuring a Limited LP Style Slipcase Cover. Strictly Limited to 2000 Copies!

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I love it even more now than I did when it first came out in the 60's! I still know all the words even though I probably have not listened to it for 25 years or so. A true Zappa classic. Mom and Dad still tears me apart every time I listen to it.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Good for collecting dust Nov 11 2011
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'm a huge Zappa fan (favorites are Hot Rats, Grand Wazoo and Waka Jawaka). However, this one is just a bit too off beat for me. I'm sure that at the time, the satire really struck a chord in the late 60's. And as a historical document, it has great value. But as for something that I'll want to listen to again and again, it fails miserably. I'd like to give it a 2nd and 3rd listen, on the chance that it'll grow on me, but alas, life is just too short.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Snippets & Substance Jan 20 2008
By Pieter Uys HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
This classic album, a devastating satire of the 1960s hippie scene, is comprised of mostly short songs interspersed with even briefer linking snippets. One of the most memorable songs, Who Needs The Peace Corps? is all about San Francisco with acerbic observations on an aspiring hippie daydreaming about the big time in Height Street. Concentration Moon and Mom & Dad are more serious social commentary but Harry You're A Beast and What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? bring out the laughs again.

Absolutely Free is a tuneful ditty and Flower Punk with its nervous rhythm takes the listener into the head of an ambitious, highly materialistic flower child. The instrumental Nasal Retentive Calliope Music is pure found sound a la Edgar Varese, Let's Make The Water Turn Black sounds like a singalong folk tune and The Idiot Bastard Son is a mix of talking vocals, sound FX and snatches of chorus. There are gripping instrumental textures in the lyrically sharp Lonely Little Girl and Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance.

Then follows the reprise of What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body, the penultimate track Mother People with lovely snatches of melody, including what sounds like classical music sequences. The album concludes with the only long track (over 6 minutes), called The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny, another excursion into Varese territory with its SFX. Overall, despite the different styles of music and the many short tracks, the album is quite cohesive. At first listen it sounds messy but repeated play will soon enough reveal the magic.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good Mostly
Considering i am a big fan of anything psychedelic this review may not be of much use, but i enjoyed this album. Read more
Published on Jan 26 2006 by J
4.0 out of 5 stars You Had To Be There, Man!
You had to be there, man! When this album was released (eons ago in the stone(d) age), it was a metaphor for a freak's life and if you can't dig what I'm saying.. read no further. Read more
Published on July 28 2005 by Ray
1.0 out of 5 stars THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL
What are you people listening too,there is not one redeeming song on this disc and I love ZAPPA.This does not come close to Overnite Sensation,One Size Fits All and APOSTROPHE just... Read more
Published on April 30 2004
5.0 out of 5 stars Modern art
Original musical concept, cool textures of the sound, Zappa got his name in my files for his humoristic way of cooking music and also his parodic «poetry».
Published on April 14 2004 by JS Lap
5.0 out of 5 stars WARNING: Same mix as RYKO 1993 FZ approved masters!
Don't be fooled by the post before me, this is in fact the same mix that is available in the States. Bill Whitely must be referring to the original '87 cd release of WOIIFTM. Read more
Published on Mar 11 2004 by T. Ferriter
5.0 out of 5 stars FZ aks the musical question: Are You Hung Up?
Other than a butchered version of "Willie The Pimp" that a childhood friend used to sing around the neighborhood, my first exposure to Frank Zappa was his first foray into the... Read more
Published on Feb 3 2004 by James H. Jackson
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not his best
I really don't think that this is Zappa's artistic highpoint, arguably or otherwise. Its a good album, funny songs (although a bit more serious sounding than his later stuff) but... Read more
Published on Jan 1 2004 by TheIntruder
3.0 out of 5 stars Whats wrong here?
This was my first Zappa album growing up. It is still one of my favorites, and should be 5 stars. I took 2 stars away because of the way they just chop the ends of the songs off. Read more
Published on Dec 21 2003 by Monkey Bucket
5.0 out of 5 stars The Mothers' Best!
I just felt it was my responsibility as a Zappa fan to rate this with five stars in hopes that it would actually show up as a five-star album. Because it IS a five-star album. Read more
Published on Nov 29 2003 by Eric Thompson
4.0 out of 5 stars We're Only In It For the Chipmunks
This I give four stars only because it's impossible to get anyone else to listen to it. Most people are immediately put off by the Chipmunk vocals. Read more
Published on Nov 28 2003 by J. Edwards
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