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Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

“WE ARE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY”

album 1968

3^rd studio album

released in March 1968

δισκοκριτική Melody Maker June 1968

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   Frank Zappa (φωτο από Melody Maker) 

Zappa masterminds a

Mothers' masterpiece

    ( by Bob Houston )

 

   "GENERALLY, people are so apathetic about anything and everything that just about the most shocking thing you can do is to insult them. The idea is shock theory."

  Thus Frank Zappa, boss Mother of the Mothers Of Invention spells out his group policy, musical and otherwise.

   But beneath the outrage and revulsion which Zappa sets out to create in his public posturing is an acute musical intelligence and a preoccupation with the emptiness of adolescent life in the United States.

   The fact that Zappa cares about the plight of American youth is emphasized once again by the Mothers' new album, "We're Only In It For The Money" (Verve SVLP 91991), another massive blast of musical propaganda which sends up the sacred cows of the pop philosophy-hippies, Haight-Ashbury, acid, teenyboppers, electronic effects – and derides the American way of life in general.

   Even the Beatles are not immune, for the album is packaged in mock “Sgt. Pepper” style with a double fold picture of the Mothers in full drag.

   Musically the Mothers are streets ahead of most pop groups. The send-ups of various styles, from Jim Hendrix, the Kinks, New Vaudeville Band to Beatles neo- Indian are brought off brilliantly and incorporated in to the overall scheme of the album.

   Instrumentally Frank Zappa, Billy Mundi, Bunk Gardner, Ray Estrada, Don Preston, Jimmy Carl Black, Ian  Underwood, Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood, and the incomparable Suzy Creamcheese, are superb.

   Zappa recalls that the record company signed up the Mothers as an R&B group.

 "After the first session the producer called New York and said I don't know what we've got here. " Precisely.

    Even if they were only in it for the money this album reveals the real strength of Zappa and the Mothers as brilliant satirists and commentators on the American way of life via the medium of pop.

 

Melody Maker, June 15, 1968, [column: LPs’], p. 9.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention

“WE ARE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY”

album 1968

3^rd studio album

released in March 1968

δισκοκριτική Melody Maker June 1968

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