FRANK ZAPPA You Are What You Is 1981 UK CBS 1st PRESS w/LYRIC INSERT - MINT

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FRANK ZAPPA You Are What You Is 1981 UK CBS 1st PRESS w/LYRIC INSERT - MINT

FRANK ZAPPA
You Are What You Is

UK CBS (88560) FIRST PRESSING (October 1981)
COMPLETE WITH THE GATEFOLD LYRIC INSERT
AN OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL COPY - BARELY, IF EVER PLAYED

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE UK CBS LABELS
MATRIX: CBSS-88560 - A-1 / CBSS-88560 - B-1 / S-CBS-83559 - C-1 / CBSS-88560 - D-2
THE TWO RECORDS ARE HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL "Shorewood" PRINTED GATEFOLD SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH LYRIC INSERT AND THE TWO ORIGINAL PLAIN WHITE INNER SLEEVES WHICH HAVE THE UK PATENT NUMBER AND "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" PRINTED IN BLACK

You Are What You Is was another of Frank Zappa's periodic post-Over-Nite Sensation efforts that concentrated on tight songwriting supported by satirical lyrics.
A two-record set featuring 20 songs, You Are What You Is skewered a variety of targets, from teenagers, punk rock, disco, and country music to the media, yuppies, the beauty-and-fitness industry, upper-class vice, religious hypocrisy, suicide, and the military draft -- all the trappings of Reagan-era America.
Occasionally, Zappa's satirical points seem ill-thought-out, if not unnecessarily malicious; "Jumbo Go Away" is perhaps the most offensive song in Zappa's huge canon of potentially offensive songs, a tale of a whining, VD-riddled groupie who is portrayed as deserving the punch in the face she gets from an irritated musician.
Despite that misstep, though, You Are What You Is is quite ambitious in scope and in general one of Zappa's most accessible later-period efforts; it's a showcase for his songwriting skills and his often acute satirical perspective, with less of the smutty humour that some listeners find off-putting

Side 1:
Teenage Wind (3:01)
Harder Than Your Husband (2:28)
Doreen (4:43)
Goblin Girl (4:07)
Theme From The 3rd Movement Of Sinister Footwear (3:34)
Side 2:
Society Pages (2:27)
I'm A Beautiful Guy (1:56)
Beauty Knows No Pain (3:01)
Charlie's Enormous Mouth (3:36)
Any Downers? (2:09)
Conehead (4:20)
Side 3:
You Are What You Is (4:22)
Mudd Club (3:11)
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing (3:10)
Dumb All Over (5:50)
Side 4:
Heavenly Bank Account (4:03)
Suicide Chump (2:50)
Jumbo Go Away (3:42)
If Only She Woulda (3:47)
Drafted Again (3:05)

LABELS: MINT
All four labels are clean and unmarked - no spindle traces or signs of use
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both records shine like new
VINYL Audio: MINT
Superb sound quality - crystal clear and razor sharp and my play-check at volume found nothing to fault - lovely copy - classic Zappa
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
Slight surface rub otherwise crisp and sharp - fine example
LYRIC INSERT: NEAR MINT
Clean and white - just a small crease on the edge where it's caught inside the gatefold

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