Playing Zappa's "Overnite Sensation" for the first time

[absyntheNsugar]

All I can say is "Huh?"

I love it - its great! But how in the name of FUCK ALL did this make it past the censors?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Because Zappa "just said no" to censors!

Though even back then there was a certain amount of swearing and bad stuff that made it into records. :-)

Brilliant album, though, ain't it?

What a genius.

How I have missed him.

[absyntheNsugar]

4. Definitely!

I had only heard Hot Rats before this

This album reminds me of The Tubes first one - in fact that would be a great double bill...

[opiate69]

2. Well...

back then, there wasn't this huge push to "Disney-fy" society... we didn't have all these dumbasses wailing "think of the children!!!" constantly..people seemed to realize that adults could have their own shit... damn, I miss those days.

[devilgrrl]

3. Isn't it a GREAT record?

I am the slime oozing out of your TV set....

Goin' to Montana sooooooon...

Kiss my aura Dora....

[mac56]

6. Couldn't say where she's comin' from

But I just met a lady named Dinah-Moe Humm...

[CanuckAmok]

5. That's my fave Zappa album, although I admit I haven't heard many.

I really enjoy Zappa's genius, but don't care for the toilet humour too much.

Musically, though...WOW!

[turnhardleft]

7. It's simple ; the artist just sez...

I'll ignore your cheap aroma
And your little-bo-peep diploma
I'll just put you in a coma
With some dirty love

[rawtribe]

8. Warning/Guarantee

This is how Frank felt. From Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers of Prevention.


Warning/Guarantee:

This album contains material which a truly free society would neither fear nor suppress.

   In some socially retarded areas, religious fanatics and ultra-conservative political organizations violate your First Amendment Rights by attempting to censor rock & roll albums. We feel that this is un-Constitutional and un-American.

   As an alternative to these government-supported programs (designed to keep you docile and ignorant), Barking Pumpkin is pleased to provide stimulating digital audio entertainment for those of you who have outgrown the ordinary.

   The language and concepts contained herein are GUARANTEED NOT TO CAUSE ETERNAL TORMENT IN THE PLACE WHERE THE GUY WITH THE HORNS AND THE POINTED STICK CONDUCTS HIS BUSINESS.

   This guarantee is as real as the threats of the video fundamentalists who use attacks on rock music in their attempt to transform America into a nation of check-mailing nincompoops (in the name of Jesus Christ).

   If there is a hell, its fires wait for them, not us.

[Rooktoven]

9. Great, aint it? :)

Censors? who ever played this on the radio?


scuse me, I'm movin to Montana...

[grannylib]

10. Has anyone seen my zircon-encrusted tweezers????

[Guntersmurf]

11. O.S. is nothing

Wait 'til you hear Sheik Yerbouti!


http://www.davemcnally.com/Lyrics/FrankZappa/SheikYerbouti/

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Or expore the unplumbed depths of Thing Fish

Briefcase Boogie, perhaps? :evilgrin:

[RandomKoolzip]

14. Thing Fish: probably the most offensive piece of music ever written

and yet, brilliant.

I suggest some live tapes from late 1978, as well...October/November 1978 was probably Frank's best tour....

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Could be! Though I find Clay Aiken and others of his pathetic ilk

to be far more offensive, at least aesthetically. :-)

[boilerbabe]

18. Ok, send us the tapes then!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

17. You sniffed the wreaking buns of angel

and acted like it was cocaine!

[CanuckAmok]

19. Hey, that's from "Sheik Yerbouti", isn't it?

Is that a real poncho? I mean is that a Mexican poncho, or a Sears poncho? Hmmm...no foolin'!

[rawtribe]

13. Zappa Radio

http://streaming.televizion.com/high-band.html

[Kat45]

15. The first album I got into when I got turned on to Zappa.

Back in college, one of my friends was so into his music that his nickname was "Zappa." He turned us all on to Zappa, and this was the album most frequently on the turntable. 'Dyna Moe' was the best.

She strolled on over
Said, look here, bum
I've got a forty-dollar bill
Says you can't make me cum
You just can't do it.

[PurityOfEssence]

20. Look carefully at the artwork of the frame of the picture on the cover

Yikes!

Love that album...