Frank Zappa You Are What You Is SEALED 2 LP Set
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You Are What You Is
Stock Photo Artist: Frank Zappa Release Date: 1981 Format: 2 LP SET Record Label: Barking Pumpkin Records Genre: Rock Sub-Genre: -- Portions of this page Copyright 1948 - 2006 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.
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Portions of this page Copyright 1948 - 2006 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.
1. Teenage Wind
2. Harder Than Your Husband
3. Doreen
4. Goblin Girl
5. Theme From The Third Movement Of Sinister Footwear
6. Society Pages
7. I'm A Beautiful Guy
8. Beauty Knows No Pain
9. Charlie's Enormous Mouth
10. Any Downers?
11. Conehead
12. You Are What You Is
13. Mudd Club
14. Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, The
15. Dumb All Over
16. Heavenly Bank Account
17. Suicide Chump
18. Jumbo Go Away
19. If Only She Woulda
20. Drafted Again
Details Playing time: 67 min. Contributing artists: Ahmet Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Moon Unit Zappa, Steve Vai Producer: Frank Zappa Distributor: Ryko Distribution Recording type: Studio Recording mode: Stereo SPAR Code: AAD
Album notes Personnel: Frank Zappa (vocals, guitar); Denny Walley (vocals, slide guitar); Motorhead Sherwood (vocals, baritone saxophone); Jimmy Carl Black (vocals, drums); Moon Unit Zappa, Ahmet Zappa (vocals); Steve Vai, Ike Willis, Ray White (guitar); David Ocker (clarinet, bass clarinet); Craig "Twister" Sherwood (harmonica); Bob Harris (trumpet); Tommy Mars (keyboards); Arthur Barrow (bass); David Logeman (drums); Ed Mann (percussion).
YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS was Zappa's first album to feature vocals since the 1979 classic JOE'S GARAGE. Perhaps to make up for lost time, a variety of vocalists are featured throughout--Ike Willis, Ray White, Frank's daughter Moon and son Ahmet, Jimmy Carl Black, and of course, Zappa himself. Also of note is that YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS marks the fist appearance on a Zappa record by future guitar hero Steve Vai (who would later reach rock star status via short stints in the David Lee Roth band and Whitesnake).
Like almost all of Zappa's other albums, YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS is a hodgepodge of different musical styles--country & western ("Harder Than Your Husband"), reggae ("Goblin Girl"), gospel ("Heavenly Bank Account"), and warped rock n' roll ("Dumb All Over"). Also included is the popular, funky title track (one of Zappa's few music videos), and a pair of tracks that show Zappa's sense of humor hadn't dulled during his year-long break from releasing records ("Teen-Age Wind" and "Conehead").
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