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Automatic translation: When public broadcasters
refuse to broadcast certain works, this has always been a welcome
opportunity for their writing colleagues to lash out at music
editors for their lack of humor and patronizing attitude. With
this latest Zappa outpouring, no one will care that German radio
stations are only broadcasting one of the eight songs: "Joe's
Garage," the title track about the golden sixties. The rest
of the taboo-smasher's album, which is nobody knows how many,
is simply too silly and irrelevant ("Why Does It Hurt When I
Pee?") and too monotonously tedious ("Wet T-Shirt Nite"), because
in the long run, Zappa's own subconscious anxieties aren't enough
to fill an evening. Especially since the musical parody paths
this vulgar lyricism traverses are well-trodden. And anyway:
If Emma and Alice catch him, the "male chauvinist pig" Zappa
will be in trouble anyway, because he writes such misogynistic
songs!
1984 August
No. 8
Frank Zappa: Warum der Bürgerschreck
am Ende ist
By Alain Dister, 4 pp
Frank Zappas Platten: Der schräge Otto der Rockmusik
By Axel H. Lockau, 2 pp
2023 December
No. 12
Frank Zappa & The Mothers:
Over-Nite Sensation 50th Anniversary
By Lothar Brandt, p 91