I can only explain it how it was explained to me. Frank Zappa hid the absolute genius of the music under a veil of comedy and if you can't see past the juvinile lyrics enough to hear what was underneath Frank didn't care because you wern't going to understand it anyway. Filthy Frank was continuously pushing boundries and flying a giant middle finger to Hollywood and the LA Record industry scene of the 70's and 80's.+
Frank has One Hundred Albums is an Excellent Guitar Player and Composer 'Certified Conductor' commenter TonyMollick right about lyric's! TeenAger SteveVai was in the Band played a bicycle wheel on SteveAllenShow in 1963 ua-cam.com/video/QF0PYQ8IOL4/v-deo.html 'NO' single song gets Frank's depth! I Love " BLACK NAPKINS" and "MY GUITAR WANTS TO KILL YER MAMA" Please Please keep rolling with 'FZ' !!!!!!!!
It isn't that he has no filter, it's that he doesn't pretend that American society and culture is without faults and hypocrisies. If you listen to his songs as social critique, they make a lot more sense. Glad you have the courage to dip into his MASSIVE body of work.
Frank had more smarts in his upper chamber than most of us. What he did and said was always with intend and he knew what he said when he said it, or sung it for that matter. Anyone remember how he burned John Lofton (Washington Times) to the ground in Crossfire in 1986? Man... you could easily tell he had way more brains than all of them put together. The Crossfire debate is still on youtube for anyone wondering.
(blush) I was driving one day with all four windows down and stopped at a red light in the middle of a small town with "I am the Slime" playing (loudly) on my car's CD player. I know that song by heart and was really "into" it sitting at that red light, reciting the lyrics right along with Mr. Zappa. When I turned my head to the right I noticed a car was sitting beside me at the light. I never missed a beat, but it was difficult not to break out laughing... The couple in the front seat and their back-seat full of teen age kids got a serenade they weren't expecting from Mr. Zappa and I and all I remember seeing was people's jaws dropped and their mouths open in shock. :D
@@JustMe-vk4fn I guess I disagree with your name because I've done that to several carloads while blasting out FZ tunes lol Gotta admit it is fun. Thanks for reminding me of those memories!
@Zolar Czakl I bought the album along with a a Joe Cocker Album, Willie Nelson's Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain and a John Prine Album at a record store across the street from UNM. I saw Zappa at Johnson Gym must have been 80 or 81 and only a few months later on a Joe's Garage tour in the same venue. a year or 2 later I went to party at the Ramada Inn with members of Missing Persons Band many of whom were in Zappa's band. That would be 82 or 83. Because I moved to Las Cruces in early 84.
Frank would have hated the social media oligarchs with their Chinese style algorithmic repression of free speech to protect the corrupt establishment..
@@mmmegameat lol stfu nerd. Zappa would be more concerned about border internment camps in the US and Uyghur re-education camps in China than private companies enforcing their terms of service however they see fit. Frank was consistently pro-private property and pro-market and pro-corporate. He'd be horrified with how Trump's big government was forcing media company owners to testify in front of a bunch of republican bureaucrats
Way before "that Bobby Brown" was a blip on the radar. Zappa's "Titties and Beer" is a good follow up. He also composed classical music and was one of the greatest guitarists ever.
No, it was the dawn of Gay Liberation and Frank wasn't afraid to voice his opinion about anything he felt was a form of "overindulgence" so to speak. There was no one safe from him. Let's just say, this song wasn't well received by the ACT UP crowd.
"Peaches in Regalia" is a must to listen to from Zappa, from the album Hot Rats. It is a beautiful instrumental piece with flautist clarinetist saxophonist Ian Underwood. :)
Man, you are swimming around on top of an ocean of genius, trust me. The hard part for a lot of people is the homophobic lyrics that were completely “ok” back then and lyrics so juvenile that a middle schooler might be above it, but America has never seen a musical genius and cultural critic like Zappa. And if you admire incredible musicianship, there’s never been an equal to most of the bands he put together. His death was a great loss, and I still miss him. I love your reactions; keep up the good work!
Frank loved to parody and to poke fun of everything and everyone. No bias - everything was fair game. He was the Lisa Lampanelli of music! That's why he testified before Congress against censorship. I love this song - and I'm gay. Thanks for listening! Peace from SF
A couple of years ago I heard Alice Cooper comment on Frank Zappa. He said " he (Zappa) was ahead od his time and probably still is. " The composers who list Zappa as an influence is amazing. It runs from Heavy Metal to Classical and Opera.
The song is about two journalists in the sixties who dissed Frank's music without having any musical knowledge. So he wrote a song about what might have happened to those journalists in the late seventies. Thanks Jamal for this. Keep the music real brother
Summer of '70. Knew a guy that drove around in a green Volkswagen van with a big peace sign painted on the outside (of course) & a huge poster of Zappa sitting on a toilet on the inside. ☮✌💙🌿💚
nah..!! It's not about "no filter"; IT's A PARODY, he is not advocating rape, dude. He is shinning a light, on the ugly casual brutality of it for certain men.
I recommending you to hear Frank Zappa songs like "Trouble Every Day", "Cosmik Debris", "The Torture Never Stops", "Fine Girl", "Dirty Love", "Uncle Remus" and "You Are What You Is".
Frank Zappa is a Legend! And apparently this song was a big hit in Scandinavian countries like Iceland in which they’d romantically slow dance to this song... Unaware of its farcical nature 😆
Back in the ice ages you could still smoke this and that and drink at the movies. At a midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture show my friends and I sang this song before the movie started. We got a standing ovation. Memories!
Frank was a master composer. He wrote everything, but mostly instrumentals. The musicans that played for him some of the best in the business in rock, jazz, orchestrated music, you name it. But he also had an ascerbic whit and didn't like phonies, of which the Bobby Brown type certainly are. He also made fun of hippies, other bands, the music industry, etc.
Really hope one day to see someone react to all of joes garage one day. That’s an emotional roller coaster. All laughs too. It’s a shame people overshadow him.
Agreed! Can't take it in parts. You gotta know what Joe is going through. It's funny his music can put you off if you only listen to the words. You have to feel it. He will be blown away after Bobby Brown to hear something like Watermelon in Easter Hay! It's not all silly. Sometimes your soul cries.
His story telling is the best part of listening to Frank, he never disappoints, more than once you'll be like did he just say that, no let's listen again long long time fan of mr frank Zappa. RIP brother
The social commentery and wit of Frank Zappa. Hell of a guitar player, composer and all around genius. No limits indeed. Check out "Dirty love" for some insane guitar.
More songs by Zappa: Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite, San Berdino, Billy the Mountain, Titties n' Beer, Cosmik Debris, Stinkfoot, Keep it Greasy, The Torture Never Stops, Willie the Pimp, Dirty Love, Camarillo Brillo, Trouble Every Day, Cheepnis, Pajama People, My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama, Uncle Remus Instrumental Zappa: King Kong, Peaches En Regalia, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Orange County Lumber Truck, The Gumbo Variations, Echidna's Arf, Watermelon in Easter Hay, Black Napkins
This is a great place to start. A more accessible entry into some of the more musically interesting pieces. Especially Inca Roads, it's a masterpiece and shows off the composer and musician that Frank was.
My favorite sing song in high school 1980 82 Zappa rules even after death. Dude been playing since the filthy 50 s look up music 1929 there some cats out there that Zappa latched onto.
True story: This song was a big hit in Sweden. It was a popular last dance song at the disco with loving couples. I guess they didn't really listen to the lyrics or understand them. I did and found it hilarious. This song is so funny. 😎
I saw Frank three years in a row around Halloween at the Palladium in NY, some of those shows ended on Live in NY. So I get to enjoy those shows for ever!!!
My friend, you have only scratched the surface of the beautiful insanity that is Zappa! He has so much of the most f*cked up stuff (in a good way) And the musicianship is exemplary, he was a notoriously harsh and strict bandleader, expecting nothing but excellence in the execution of his ridiculously convoluted, precise compositions , I wouldn't know where to begin. Enjoy your exploration!
Frank also invented his own way of conducting the band, and his own book of jargon. According to his autobiography, the term for aimlessly noodling on your instrument was "spoo." It translates to "you are masturbating on your instrument, and you will stop it right now."
I saw Zappa Plays Zappa back in 2009 when they toured with Dream Theater. They played Bobby Brown Goes Down and Mike Portnoy came out on stage to do the vocals on that song.
ya need to deep dive into Zappa. 62 albums while alive and 50 or so after death..... truly a genus. Joe's Garage is an believable concept album but must be heard from beginning to end to understand. It covers all genres and is amazing musically and has hilarious lyrics. Id also like to see you react to Uncle Remus..... love your channel bro...this comes from a 74yo white guy fan of yours.
Great Video. Your reaction and feelings are close to what I thought when I heard this song for the first time. A song today almost nobody would produce, you wouldn't be able to find in record store, no 'spotify' or radio station would air. But still one of the great songs of the 20th century. NO FILTER, your right.
It's actually 1974, and part of a whole suite of shorter songs including Don't Eat The Yellow Snow (EDIT: my mistake--I just saw last comment. That date is the release of the "Sheik Yerbouti" album, that Bobby Brown was on.)
There will never be another Frank Zappa, ever. 65 studio albums that we know of, most doubles, all composed. Where do you start and where do you end. Frank Zappa!!! "the present day composed who refuses to die".
For over 35 years I have been busting a gut to this song.....every single listen ! Tried this time to stay silent but laughing my head off again......soon as I heard the tower of power.... I'm laughin again
The ironic part was, Frank Zappa testified against censorship in front of the PMRC hearings, but of all the so-called filthy songs they were out to get, none of his made the list. Lol
@@mikemaricle9941 I wish I could find his slam on country music, which I think took place during his testimony. He couldn't understand how come they were going after rock music, when country music was almost exclusively songs about infidelity and drinking, "often made by people who not only have been to prison, but are proud of it." 😆
@@joeday4293 The first album they wanted to sticker was Frank's "Jazz From Hell", which was all instrumentals(!). They didn't like the album title and a track titled "G-Spot Tornado". It must've really pissed them off when the album won the Best Instrumental Rock Performance Grammy in 1988.
Dude keep the ZAPPA coming!! Watermelon In Easter Hay is a great track. There aren't any lyrics though, just him and the guitar. It's a masterpiece though.. Just bought a couple of shirts from ya too!! I love geeking out on music with you man!!
The hilarious thing is that everybody and their grandmother around me LOVED this song and paid no attention to the lyrics, I never said anything haha. They play it on the radio over here to this day and people sing along, and most still don't get it. Makes me laugh just thinking about it hahaha.
@@green917 zappa had a really great way of cutting through bull shit, him an bill hicks. why is it the ones who rise there heads above the crowd, die, bob marleys another.
I laughed so hard when I saw the title of this video. Being very familiar with Frank Zappa I couldn’t miss your reaction, and I wasn’t disappointed. Now you have to do Dinah-Mo Hum. I’m sure it will another priceless reaction. 😂😂😂
Try "Kosmik Debris", "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow", "I'm The Slime" for less obscene but equally twisted lyrics. "Moving to Montana" is another warped one but it's clean.
I've been waiting for you to react to more Frank! He's unlike any other artist, and you thought Rush was hard to categorize! I hope you dive deeper into his music because it's as rewarding as any I've found. Thanks for the video man, this is my favorite channel on UA-cam!
Jamel, love your reactions, you are obviously a decent person and I just wanted to thank you for being a nice person. Zappa can be a difficult listen from time to time, but there's always a big dose of humor in there. Stay well my brother!
Jamel - Listen to "Trouble Every Day" from his first album, Freak Out. He lived in Laurel Canyon and wrote this song after the Watts Riots of 1965. The lyrics are just as valid today. Lots of other great songs on that album (like "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" a song about the L.A. educational system of the 1960s) and he also did a pretty good job sending up hippies and The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper on his album, We're Only In It For The Money. He also has a crazy movie called 200 Motels, featuring "Centerville," which "is a really great place to grow your kids up in." Another great song called "I'm the Slime," coming out of your TV set. Great stuff.
Well, what can I say. Saw Zappa a couple of times in concert. Not your usual rock concert, but a danged fine experience. You can't be a prude and enjoy him, that's for sure.
Oh man! This song is the tip of the iceberg where Zappa is concerned. Enjoy! P.S. Catholic Girls is another classic. So is Valley Girl in which he recorded a bunch of his teen daughter's ramblings for the song. Also, remember that Zappa is one of the musicians that went up before Congress to protest the notion of banning 7 words from all of music, as was put forth by Al Gore's wife, Tipper and her group, the PMRC.
The recall that, musicians back fought back against censorship and banning, not like the spinless "musicians" of today, who incentive for censorship of other artist, which i think are the pure scumbags and hope the fascist rhetoric bites them in ass, hope it's painful.
Maybe his most well known “shock” song, but definitely not his strongest tune. Trouble Every Day, Cheepnis, Inca Roads, Montana and Black Napkins would be some choice ones for ya!
Zappa lived his whole life in the Antelope Valley near Lancaster Calif. He made money recording this stuff but he only did it so he could afford to follow his passion, writing symphony music.
Actually, he was born in Baltimore and moved around a lot (his dad worked for the government in the chemical weapons area). He moved to the AV during his High School years and graduated from AVHS. He did a semester at the community College (AVC), then moved down to the Los Angeles area.
@@christelheadington1136 : Bobby Brown is about these three jocks who came to a meeting with Zappa and brought these three girls to try to impress them. They were fake sucking up to feminism, just so they could get laid. This was a standard tactic that sleezebags tried to pull back then. I remember it all too well myself, but mostly we just laughed at them.
Welcome to to he World of Zappa! This song came out in the 1970's. When "Bobby Brown" hit the music scene much later, all we could do was laugh at him! He had no clue about this song!
It's also a very accurate song about incompetent contractors doing work in your home, plumbers especially. Believe me, I know from experience, on the other side of the continent from California and much more recently. Some things never change. This country has an epidemic of FLAKES.
Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. Members of bands like the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Mamas and the Papas, the Turtles, the Eagles, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Steppenwolf, Captain Beefheart, CSN, Three Dog Night, Alice Cooper, the Doors, and Love with Arthur Lee, along with such singer/songwriters as Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, James Taylor, Carole King.
the "Sheik Yerbouti" album is a classic I suggest you listen to the entire album sometime and keep that shot glass handy cause the lyrics are hilarious
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I can only explain it how it was explained to me. Frank Zappa hid the absolute genius of the music under a veil of comedy and if you can't see past the juvinile lyrics enough to hear what was underneath Frank didn't care because you wern't going to understand it anyway. Filthy Frank was continuously pushing boundries and flying a giant middle finger to Hollywood and the LA Record industry scene of the 70's and 80's.+
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Gotta do Montana!!! So good! the yellow snow suite! For more fun stuff from him. He fought for all of our free speech
Please! Teddy Swims, "Use me up" , or "I can't make you love me"
Frank has One Hundred Albums is an Excellent Guitar Player and Composer 'Certified Conductor' commenter TonyMollick right about lyric's! TeenAger SteveVai was in the Band played a bicycle wheel on SteveAllenShow in 1963 ua-cam.com/video/QF0PYQ8IOL4/v-deo.html 'NO' single song gets Frank's depth! I Love " BLACK NAPKINS" and "MY GUITAR WANTS TO KILL YER MAMA" Please Please keep rolling with 'FZ' !!!!!!!!
It isn't that he has no filter, it's that he doesn't pretend that American society and culture is without faults and hypocrisies. If you listen to his songs as social critique, they make a lot more sense.
Glad you have the courage to dip into his MASSIVE body of work.
Yeah, it's satire.
Spot on
the melody, orchestration and rhythm tho
Frank had more smarts in his upper chamber than most of us. What he did and said was always with intend and he knew what he said when he said it, or sung it for that matter.
Anyone remember how he burned John Lofton (Washington Times) to the ground in Crossfire in 1986? Man... you could easily tell he had way more brains than all of them put together. The Crossfire debate is still on youtube for anyone wondering.
I wish Jamal understood
A Zappa song the whole world needs to hear right now, "I'm the Slime."
Oozing out from your TV set. 😎
That song is very important
Absolutely. See also: "Uncle Remus."
(blush) I was driving one day with all four windows down and stopped at a red light in the middle of a small town with "I am the Slime" playing (loudly) on my car's CD player. I know that song by heart and was really "into" it sitting at that red light, reciting the lyrics right along with Mr. Zappa. When I turned my head to the right I noticed a car was sitting beside me at the light. I never missed a beat, but it was difficult not to break out laughing... The couple in the front seat and their back-seat full of teen age kids got a serenade they weren't expecting from Mr. Zappa and I and all I remember seeing was people's jaws dropped and their mouths open in shock. :D
@@JustMe-vk4fn I guess I disagree with your name because I've done that to several carloads while blasting out FZ tunes lol
Gotta admit it is fun. Thanks for reminding me of those memories!
This whole album “Sheik Yerbouti” is freaking hilarious and musically brilliant. Probably my favorite Zappa album to listen to
+1,i bought the album a few times.
I bout Sheik Yerobuti the day it came out and went to the Zappa tour in support of the album at Johnson gym a few weeks later.
@Zolar Czakl I bought the album along with a a Joe Cocker Album, Willie Nelson's Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain and a John Prine Album at a record store across the street from UNM. I saw Zappa at Johnson Gym must have been 80 or 81 and only a few months later on a Joe's Garage tour in the same venue. a year or 2 later I went to party at the Ramada Inn with members of Missing Persons Band many of whom were in Zappa's band. That would be 82 or 83. Because I moved to Las Cruces in early 84.
100% agree
I like Zoot Allures best.
No filter. Yea, you right. That’s why he testified before Congress opposing censorship.
He claimed he was a victim of the moral majority.
He fought Tipper Gore and the whole parental advisory propaganda as hard and as passionately as he could.
Frank would have hated the social media oligarchs with their Chinese style algorithmic repression of free speech to protect the corrupt establishment..
@@mmmegameat If he came back to life today he’d probably jump back into his coffin.
@@mmmegameat lol stfu nerd. Zappa would be more concerned about border internment camps in the US and Uyghur re-education camps in China than private companies enforcing their terms of service however they see fit. Frank was consistently pro-private property and pro-market and pro-corporate. He'd be horrified with how Trump's big government was forcing media company owners to testify in front of a bunch of republican bureaucrats
Not the Bobby Brown you know. Just a name. Your reaction is priceless
Way before "that Bobby Brown" was a blip on the radar. Zappa's "Titties and Beer" is a good follow up. He also composed classical music and was one of the greatest guitarists ever.
Yessss, Titties n Beer.
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@@misterfitzgeraldThat is a great Halloween song, Just Saying..
Ha ha. I used to work with a guy who sang that all the time.
@@KingNothing22 so's Zombie Woof.
“I don’t know if this something about him...?”
Oh man... *grabs popcorn*
Eternally!
Oh, just you wait. 😆
No, it was the dawn of Gay Liberation and Frank wasn't afraid to voice his opinion about anything he felt was a form of "overindulgence" so to speak. There was no one safe from him. Let's just say, this song wasn't well received by the ACT UP crowd.
Good night Austin, Texas wherever you are!
"Peaches in Regalia" is a must to listen to from Zappa, from the album Hot Rats. It is a beautiful instrumental piece with flautist clarinetist saxophonist Ian Underwood. :)
Whoa! Never seen this song on a Reaction channel, you are a LEGEND, my dude. Zappa was truly one of a kind, lol.
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Zappa was garbage, filth
Frank Zappa is a way of life
You'll love iiit.
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On the bus.....with leather....here's the fifty bucks....
@R W you must listen to the Joe's Garage album to understand, its a way of life
With leather?
Man, you are swimming around on top of an ocean of genius, trust me. The hard part for a lot of people is the homophobic lyrics that were completely “ok” back then and lyrics so juvenile that a middle schooler might be above it, but America has never seen a musical genius and cultural critic like Zappa. And if you admire incredible musicianship, there’s never been an equal to most of the bands he put together. His death was a great loss, and I still miss him. I love your reactions; keep up the good work!
First original rapper. And one helluva guitarist.
Frank loved to parody and to poke fun of everything and everyone. No bias - everything was fair game. He was the Lisa Lampanelli of music! That's why he testified before Congress against censorship. I love this song - and I'm gay. Thanks for listening!
Peace from SF
When I woke up and saw this reaction I was so excited.
A couple of years ago I heard Alice Cooper comment on Frank Zappa. He said " he (Zappa) was ahead od his time and probably still is. " The composers who list Zappa as an influence is amazing. It runs from Heavy Metal to Classical and Opera.
LOVE Zappa! Genius with social commentary and musical creativity.
The song is about two journalists in the sixties who dissed Frank's music without having any musical knowledge. So he wrote a song about what might have happened to those journalists in the late seventies. Thanks Jamal for this. Keep the music real brother
I can’t find any evidence of this theory of the songs origin. Can you tell me where you heard it
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Summer of '70. Knew a guy that drove around in a green Volkswagen van with a big peace sign painted on the outside (of course) & a huge poster of Zappa sitting on a toilet on the inside.
☮✌💙🌿💚
My older brother had that poster. The caption was Phi Zappa Crappa.
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I didn't remember that! Thanks for making my little trip down memory lane even better.🤣💙
@@Caseytify I had that poster
nah..!!
It's not about "no filter"; IT's A PARODY, he is not advocating rape, dude.
He is shinning a light, on the ugly casual brutality of it for certain men.
What he said!
When i was in my early teens my dad and i used to share music with each other. He showed me this song and ive never forgotten it lol
I recommending you to hear Frank Zappa songs like "Trouble Every Day", "Cosmik Debris", "The Torture Never Stops", "Fine Girl", "Dirty Love", "Uncle Remus" and "You Are What You Is".
Broken Hearts are for Assholes!!!!
Dirty love for sure 😃
Be in my video, San Ber'dino
I'm the Slime from the Vidio... classic Zappa and frightfully true.
Honey hey,dont you want man like me
You should checkout “Dancing Fool” by Zappa. 😉 Remember this is the guy who named his daughter Moon Unit and his son Dweezel.
Jamal HAS to hear Dancin’ Fool and Valley Girl for sure.
Don't forget, Admet and Diva Zappa.
Like gag me with a spoon. Groddy to the max.
@@violetviolence79 Ahmet was named because of the founder of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun.
@@djhrecordhound4391 And Dweezel was what he called his wife's little toe.
Frank Zappa is a Legend!
And apparently this song was a big hit in Scandinavian countries like Iceland in which they’d romantically slow dance to this song... Unaware of its farcical nature 😆
The same in Norway, too, I was a bit shocked when I listened to the lyrics as an adult ‼️Zappa is a highly respected composer ‼️
Back in the ice ages you could still smoke this and that and drink at the movies. At a midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture show my friends and I sang this song before the movie started. We got a standing ovation. Memories!
Frank was a master composer. He wrote everything, but mostly instrumentals. The musicans that played for him some of the best in the business in rock, jazz, orchestrated music, you name it. But he also had an ascerbic whit and didn't like phonies, of which the Bobby Brown type certainly are. He also made fun of hippies, other bands, the music industry, etc.
"Everyone was a target for Frank...even I was a target!"
--Alice Cooper
Shut up and play yer guitar is one of my favorites.
I think I love you
Seriously
Zappa was garbage
He looked like a bum at the end 🤣
Really hope one day to see someone react to all of joes garage one day. That’s an emotional roller coaster. All laughs too. It’s a shame people overshadow him.
My favorite Zappa album, and one of my favorite album of all time.
I dunno, that Green Rosetta makes me cry every time.
Joe's garage is a must have if you like Zappa for sure. My favorite is One size fits all though.
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Agreed! Can't take it in parts. You gotta know what Joe is going through. It's funny his music can put you off if you only listen to the words. You have to feel it. He will be blown away after Bobby Brown to hear something like Watermelon in Easter Hay! It's not all silly. Sometimes your soul cries.
My friend's band would always play this at our bar when they played. It's a catchy tune that'll stick in your head.
His story telling is the best part of listening to Frank, he never disappoints, more than once you'll be like did he just say that, no let's listen again long long time fan of mr frank Zappa. RIP brother
The social commentery and wit of Frank Zappa. Hell of a guitar player, composer and all around genius. No limits indeed. Check out "Dirty love" for some insane guitar.
More songs by Zappa: Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite, San Berdino, Billy the Mountain, Titties n' Beer, Cosmik Debris, Stinkfoot, Keep it Greasy, The Torture Never Stops, Willie the Pimp, Dirty Love, Camarillo Brillo, Trouble Every Day, Cheepnis, Pajama People, My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama, Uncle Remus
Instrumental Zappa: King Kong, Peaches En Regalia, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, Orange County Lumber Truck, The Gumbo Variations, Echidna's Arf, Watermelon in Easter Hay, Black Napkins
Forgot about Cosmic Debris...
Phish has been trying to get "Peaches en Regalia" right for years...
Good list, bud;]
Nice list
Jewish Princess, Montana, Muffin Man, Dyna-Moe Humm
Priceless!! Thank you for bringing a huge smile to my face.
Admit it, Frank is your new hero. Join the club, brother!
Inca Roads
Fifty Fifty
Zombie Woof
Peaches en Regalia
So many great Zappa songs.
This is a great place to start. A more accessible entry into some of the more musically interesting pieces. Especially Inca Roads, it's a masterpiece and shows off the composer and musician that Frank was.
My left foot's bigger than the other one is, like a big old zombie woof.
@@haraldchristiansen6942 Regular zombie hoof*
@@PeckiePeck hey, I'm old and can't remember shit. 🙄
Oh boy. Lol. Frank’s different, you’ll see. He was a genius
Wasn't the name of the Album "Sheik Yurbouti"?
@@JonGee420 yeah and it is a parody title of Shake Your Booty.
He’s simply built different
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My favorite sing song in high school 1980 82 Zappa rules even after death. Dude been playing since the filthy 50 s look up music 1929 there some cats out there that Zappa latched onto.
True story: This song was a big hit in Sweden. It was a popular last dance song at the disco with loving couples. I guess they didn't really listen to the lyrics or understand them. I did and found it hilarious. This song is so funny. 😎
Same in Norway, where it went to no. 1.
@@bardmathiasbergersen5068 I heard this on the radio in Germany in the 90's.
@@Dresdentrumpet heard it just total on german Radio (Radio Bob)
Shit ugly zappa changed the World of boring assholes 🤣
“You just, you just got to take it. Noo! I guess that ain’t good to say” Hahahaha
I saw Frank three years in a row around Halloween at the Palladium in NY, some of those shows ended on Live in NY. So I get to enjoy those shows for ever!!!
'Trouble Every Day' is like the Rage Against the Machine protest of it's time.
^^^^THIS
yes I agree that one was a good one, I also really liked the more musical live version called "More Trouble Every Day"
@@asdfqwer1234zxcv Definitely go for the Roxy and Elsewhere version--has SERIOUS funk and stankface grooves!
"TED" is one of his best.
It will never not be powerful or untimely.
It is the human condition in songform
Trouble Every Day could have been written for 2020.
Written in 1966, relevant in 2020.
Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
Moooving to Montaaanaaaa
Dangerous kitchen
@@maryscaggsdane1978 gonna raise me up a crop of dental floss. In a little white box I can sell uptown.
My friend, you have only scratched the surface of the beautiful insanity that is Zappa! He has so much of the most f*cked up stuff (in a good way) And the musicianship is exemplary, he was a notoriously harsh and strict bandleader, expecting nothing but excellence in the execution of his ridiculously convoluted, precise compositions , I wouldn't know where to begin. Enjoy your exploration!
For drummers ... The Black Page. There is video of them performing it.
Frank also invented his own way of conducting the band, and his own book of jargon. According to his autobiography, the term for aimlessly noodling on your instrument was "spoo." It translates to "you are masturbating on your instrument, and you will stop it right now."
Could shit zappa play guitar with his ugly nose? 🤣
Jamal’s reaction PRICELESS!
I saw Zappa Plays Zappa back in 2009 when they toured with Dream Theater. They played Bobby Brown Goes Down and Mike Portnoy came out on stage to do the vocals on that song.
"Black Napkins" is his masterpiece.
Watermelon in easter hay
i posted for him to react to the live version from the Palladium...killer version
One of the many.
@@mallinsonkyle yeah, that's great as well. i forget how many are just epic.
@@javimiami92 yep.
ya need to deep dive into Zappa. 62 albums while alive and 50 or so after death..... truly a genus. Joe's Garage is an believable concept album but must be heard from beginning to end to understand. It covers all genres and is amazing musically and has hilarious lyrics. Id also like to see you react to Uncle Remus..... love your channel bro...this comes from a 74yo white guy fan of yours.
Jammin in Joes garage
With a couple of beers
Hehe😂
Great Video. Your reaction and feelings are close to what I thought when I heard this song for the first time. A song today almost nobody would produce, you wouldn't be able to find in record store, no 'spotify' or radio station would air. But still one of the great songs of the 20th century. NO FILTER, your right.
Zappa greatest composer of the 20th century...
"Billy The Mountain" Frank and The Mothers Of Invention. The album was "Just Another Band From LA" . It was recorded LIVE. Peace & Love.
Ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder.......
@@lostwithlobes1410
good memories
St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast is the one.
It's actually 1974, and part of a whole suite of shorter songs including Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
(EDIT: my mistake--I just saw last comment. That date is the release of the "Sheik Yerbouti" album, that Bobby Brown was on.)
Wonderful memories
There will never be another Frank Zappa, ever.
65 studio albums that we know of, most doubles, all composed.
Where do you start and where do you end.
Frank Zappa!!! "the present day composed who refuses to die".
I love this song. It's always on my playlist.
Been waiting for you to get to this song. Love this reaction 🤣🤣🤣
Omg finally..Peaches en Regalia, Dancin Fool, Baby Snakes, etc. He is amazing and very original. Thanks for this i love it
For over 35 years I have been busting a gut to this song.....every single listen !
Tried this time to stay silent but laughing my head off again......soon as I heard the tower of power....
I'm laughin again
Lol, your facial expressions cracked me up 😂
This was before the Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics stickers.
The ironic part was, Frank Zappa testified against censorship in front of the PMRC hearings, but of all the so-called filthy songs they were out to get, none of his made the list. Lol
@@joeday4293 Because other than Valley Girl, Frank was not top 40.
@@mikemaricle9941 I wish I could find his slam on country music, which I think took place during his testimony. He couldn't understand how come they were going after rock music, when country music was almost exclusively songs about infidelity and drinking, "often made by people who not only have been to prison, but are proud of it." 😆
@@joeday4293 The first album they wanted to sticker was Frank's "Jazz From Hell", which was all instrumentals(!). They didn't like the album title and a track titled "G-Spot Tornado".
It must've really pissed them off when the album won the Best Instrumental Rock Performance Grammy in 1988.
@@djhrecordhound4391 Nobody tell them there's an entire division of the United States Army known as Hell on Wheels. LOL
Laughing my ass off watching your reaction to this...comes from my high school days in the late 70's
Same! 👏
Frank once said "You either get it or you don't"
Watching you start to experience FZ has been priceless, thank you so very much. There were 62 FZ albums released in his lifetime... good luck Bro!
Dude keep the ZAPPA coming!! Watermelon In Easter Hay is a great track. There aren't any lyrics though, just him and the guitar. It's a masterpiece though.. Just bought a couple of shirts from ya too!! I love geeking out on music with you man!!
I couldn't agree more! This is a track that can wow even "Zappa Critics". Definitely a masterpiece .
I started laughing when I saw the video title. I laughed even harder watching with ya. 😆
I've never clicked faster on a video than this. LMAO I'm so into seeing your reaction to this song.
This is classic Frank.
"Uncle Remus"
You MUST listen to this song!!!
The hilarious thing is that everybody and their grandmother around me LOVED this song and paid no attention to the lyrics, I never said anything haha. They play it on the radio over here to this day and people sing along, and most still don't get it. Makes me laugh just thinking about it hahaha.
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They played this on the radio ! Wow
Zappa was garbage
@@kosta60 so... what you are saying is your last name is Zappa? Though you put wrong tense, in your case it would be "is", not was.
@@Qyngali once upon a time Was an ugly boring asshole named shitty zappa 🤣 🤣
haha give Frank another chance! Check out his song "Muffin Man"
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Wow that may be my favorite of all time from Frank.
I heard this high school funny as shit .we all laughed so hard must of played this a thousand time.
If Frank was alive today he would be saying, "I told you so."
if zappa was alive he would of made a great president
thats Gail quote i think ?
@@fredzep01 i voted for him as a write in in 1988
@@green917 zappa had a really great way of cutting through bull shit, him an bill hicks. why is it the ones who rise there heads above the crowd, die, bob marleys another.
Frank Zappa and George Carlin.
Jewish Princes, Catholic girls, Dynamo Humm (thanks Mike!) your reaction to them would be hysterical.
Dynamo Humm
I wont a little Jewish Princess who squweeks when she comes
@@mikemaricle9941 excellent choice!
If you want to hear his guitar playing, check out "Zoot Allures" or "Peaches En Regalia"
Willie the Pimp
Shuggie Otis, another musical genius played bass on P and R. I think he was around 16 years old. He was Prince before Prince.
Peaches En Regalia is one of the more pleasant to listen to songs ever
"Five Five Five"
I laughed so hard when I saw the title of this video. Being very familiar with Frank Zappa I couldn’t miss your reaction, and I wasn’t disappointed. Now you have to do Dinah-Mo Hum. I’m sure it will another priceless reaction. 😂😂😂
This answered the question: "Does humor belong in music?" Yes indeed
Try "Kosmik Debris", "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow", "I'm The Slime" for less obscene but equally twisted lyrics. "Moving to Montana" is another warped one but it's clean.
Raisin' it up, waxin' it down...
Those songs have fantastic music too.
All of the above.
Yup. I especially like Moving to Montana.
I've been waiting for you to react to more Frank! He's unlike any other artist, and you thought Rush was hard to categorize! I hope you dive deeper into his music because it's as rewarding as any I've found. Thanks for the video man, this is my favorite channel on UA-cam!
The first time I TRULY paid attention to what those lyrics were saying I was on the FLOOR!
They are so hilarious.
Jamel, love your reactions, you are obviously a decent person and I just wanted to thank you for being a nice person. Zappa can be a difficult listen from time to time, but there's always a big dose of humor in there. Stay well my brother!
Jamel - Listen to "Trouble Every Day" from his first album, Freak Out. He lived in Laurel Canyon and wrote this song after the Watts Riots of 1965. The lyrics are just as valid today. Lots of other great songs on that album (like "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" a song about the L.A. educational system of the 1960s) and he also did a pretty good job sending up hippies and The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper on his album, We're Only In It For The Money. He also has a crazy movie called 200 Motels, featuring "Centerville," which "is a really great place to grow your kids up in." Another great song called "I'm the Slime," coming out of your TV set. Great stuff.
Lived on Stanley hills drive. I lived there for a couple of months back in the early 70,s while being a roadie for a band from Chicago.
Trouble every day might very well be the first foray into rap...
“Wind Up Working in a Gas Station.” Frank showed the emerging punks how it’s done.
Frank Zappa was a damn genius
Well, what can I say. Saw Zappa a couple of times in concert. Not your usual rock concert, but a danged fine experience. You can't be a prude and enjoy him, that's for sure.
Oh man! This song is the tip of the iceberg where Zappa is concerned. Enjoy! P.S. Catholic Girls is another classic. So is Valley Girl in which he recorded a bunch of his teen daughter's ramblings for the song. Also, remember that Zappa is one of the musicians that went up before Congress to protest the notion of banning 7 words from all of music, as was put forth by Al Gore's wife, Tipper and her group, the PMRC.
After that and in response to it, he put out the album The Mothers of Prevention
The recall that, musicians back fought back against censorship and banning, not like the spinless "musicians" of today, who incentive for censorship of other artist, which i think are the pure scumbags and hope the fascist rhetoric bites them in ass, hope it's painful.
Maybe his most well known “shock” song, but definitely not his strongest tune. Trouble Every Day, Cheepnis, Inca Roads, Montana and Black Napkins would be some choice ones for ya!
I’ve heard this song many times but this is the first time I listened to it. I had the same reaction.
the greatest composers, arrangers, band leaders of the 20th century.
Frank is a hero and a national treasure
Zappa lived his whole life in the Antelope Valley near Lancaster Calif.
He made money recording this stuff but he only did it so he could afford to follow his passion, writing symphony music.
Actually, he was born in Baltimore and moved around a lot (his dad worked for the government in the chemical weapons area). He moved to the AV during his High School years and graduated from AVHS. He did a semester at the community College (AVC), then moved down to the Los Angeles area.
Good reactions man. You never know what to expect with Zappa. He's out there but he's a genius! Go with the flow my man!
Frank’s lyrics are too funny. What an envelop pusher.
The Bobby Brown was 10 when this came out so it’s not about him.
Maybe Zappa was a psychic.
@@christelheadington1136 : Bobby Brown is about these three jocks who came to a meeting with Zappa and brought these three girls to try to impress them. They were fake sucking up to feminism, just so they could get laid. This was a standard tactic that sleezebags tried to pull back then. I remember it all too well myself, but mostly we just laughed at them.
Frank is Frank. You can't break Him down an pin a lable on Him.
you can label him.
Pure Genius!!!
Welcome to to he World of Zappa! This song came out in the 1970's. When "Bobby Brown" hit the music scene much later, all we could do was laugh at him! He had no clue about this song!
I have a group of friends that know every word to every Zappa song. This one always makes for a great sing along! Great pick!
"Flakes" has a Bob Dylan impression singing
'Wanna' buy some mandies, Bob?'
"It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed".
We’re coming to get ya
You ask 'em, 'Where's my motor?' 'Well, it was eaten by snakes.'
It's also a very accurate song about incompetent contractors doing work in your home, plumbers especially. Believe me, I know from experience, on the other side of the continent from California and much more recently. Some things never change. This country has an epidemic of FLAKES.
To understand Zappa’ genius, listen to Peaches and Regale or Willie the Pimp from Hot Rats.
Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. Members of bands like the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Mamas and the Papas, the Turtles, the Eagles, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Steppenwolf, Captain Beefheart, CSN, Three Dog Night, Alice Cooper, the Doors, and Love with Arthur Lee, along with such singer/songwriters as Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, James Taylor, Carole King.
Watching you blush and squirm was awesome. LoL. Now you need to do "Punky's Whips" & "Dinh Mo' Hum".
Try "G-Spot Tornado". It's not what you think, it's an instrumental.
Its album "Jazz From Hell" won a Grammy in 88.
There are 2 versions. All acoustic, or all digital. "Jazz from Hell" album. Or "Yellow Shark".
There’s another instrumental I like. It’s called “I promise not to cum in your mouth”.
There is one with an orchestra too, with modern dancers. Amazing.
G Spot Tornado - one of my all time favorites, yes... Have you ever seen the video of the dance performance?
the "Sheik Yerbouti" album is a classic I suggest you listen to the entire album sometime and keep that shot glass handy cause the lyrics are hilarious
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