Label: Rykodisc (Japan), VACK-1320
Style: Avant-Garde, Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock
Country: Pomona, California, U.S.
Time: 39:19
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 237 Mb
As with the band's first two efforts, it is a concept album, and satirizes left- and right-wing politics, particularly the hippie subculture, as well as the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was conceived as part of a project called No Commercial Potential, which produced three other albums: Lumpy Gravy, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, and Uncle Meat.
We're Only in It for the Money encompasses rock, experimental music, and psychedelic rock, with orchestral segments deriving from the recording sessions for Lumpy Gravy, which was previously issued as a solo instrumental album by Capitol Records and was subsequently reedited by frontman Frank Zappa and released by Verve.
Zappa's art director Cal Schenkel and Jerry Schatzberg photographed a collage for the album cover, which parodied the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Zappa spent US$4,000 (equivalent to $33,700 in 2022) on the photo shoot, which he stated was "a direct negative" of the Sgt. Pepper album cover. "[Sgt. Pepper] had blue skies ... we had a thunderstorm." Jimi Hendrix, a friend of Zappa, took part in the photo shoot.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27re_Only_in_It_for_the_Money)
01. Are You Hung Up? (01:25)
02. Who Needs The Peace Corps? (02:34)
03. Concentration Moon (02:22)
04. Mom & Dad (02:16)
05. Telephone Conversation (00:49)
06. Bow Tie Daddy (00:33)
07. Harry, You're A Beast (01:21)
08. What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (01:03)
09. Absolutely Free (03:24)
10. Flower Punk (03:03)
11. Hot Poop (00:26)
12. Nasal Retentive Calliope Music (02:02)
13. Let's Make The Water Turn Black (02:01)
14. The Idiot Bastard Son (03:18)
15. Lonely Little Girl (01:09)
16. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (01:32)
17. What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (reprise) (01:02)
18. Mother People (02:26)
19. The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny (06:26)
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