Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is (1981) [EMI CDP7900752]

Posted By : Sartre | Date : 09 Jul 2011 15:11:22 | Comments : 8 |

Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is (1981) [EMI CDP7900752]
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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. Originally 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 humor that some listeners find off-putting.

Tracks
1 Teen-Age Wind
2 Harder Than Your Husband
3 Doreen
4 Goblin Girl
5 Theme from the 3rd 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 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
15 Dumb All Over
16 Heavenly Bank Account
17 Suicide Chump
18 Jumbo Go Away
19 If Only She Woulda
20 Drafted Again

Personnel
Frank Zappa: lead guitar & vocals
Ike Willis: rhythm guitar & vocals
Ray White: rhythm guitar & vocals
Bob Harris: boy soprano & trumpet
Steve Vai: strat abuse
Tommy Mars: keyboards
Arthur Barrow: bass
Ed Mann: percussion
David Ocker: clarinet & bass clarinet
Motorhead Sherwood: tenor sax, guest vocalist
Denny Walley: slide guitar, guest vocalist
David Logeman: drums
Craig 'Twister' Stewart: harmonica
Jimmy Carl Black: guest vocalist
Ahmet Zappa: guest vocalist
Moon Zappa: guest vocalist

EAC Log

Thanks to the original ripper.

http://www.fileserve.com/file/6XgJsXN/zappa_you_are_what_emi.part1.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/tefw9M9/zappa_you_are_what_emi.part2.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/MaBHj9y/zappa_you_are_what_emi.part3.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/3866101019/zappa_you_are_what_emi.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/93249117/zappa_you_are_what_emi.part2.rar
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Posted By: musician3 Date: 09 Jul 2011 16:45:54

Great Thank You

Posted By: rg1960 Date: 09 Jul 2011 16:53:03

No doubt about it, sartre!

The EMI version is a very good post for FZ fans, because it´s sonically very good and has the unedited guitar solo on "Dumb All Over". Although the tracks sometimes segue into each other without shown right on the CD player´s display.

Thank you to the original ripper and you, sartre!

rg1960

Posted By: kwork Date: 09 Jul 2011 21:09:10

Thank you very much for this version.

Posted By: diluiz Date: 10 Jul 2011 00:33:17

Thanks a lot, brother...

Posted By: pisetta Date: 10 Jul 2011 10:56:38

Nice post! But what's happening to Rapidshare? He is so kind with me!

Posted By: Sartre Date: 10 Jul 2011 23:29:09

Check out the Ryko 1998 Spence Chrislu mastering as well:

http://avaxhome.ws/music/rock/zappa_youarewhatyouis_ryko98.html

The sound quality is much improved over the earlier Ryko and the EMI.

Posted By: Kutya Date: 11 Jul 2011 10:46:51

Thank You from Budapest!

Posted By: libra_winmx Date: 18 Jul 2011 11:41:11

Dear Sartre, hi,

Thanks a lot!!!
Gracias,

librawinmx, from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

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