The Mothers of Invention - America Drinks and Goes Home

[Smile892011]

I haven't felt this much audio addiction since The Beach Boys' "Passing By" (1968)!

[danielusgomez]

I specially like this song of Zappa

[remoteviewing0]

this is one of the greatest albums ever made. the whole thing is just a tremendous artistic accomplishment.

[bc1010101]

!! i've been hooked for 40+ years-it gets me so hot i can scream---alice cooper, alice cooper, WOW this is the swingening place in NEW Y CITY !!  WHAT A F'IN GENIUS, TALENT FINDS TALENT-FLO+EDDIE(AKA TURTLES), AND ALL THE MOTHERS- GOT TO LOVE THE SGT. PEPPERS FOR WERE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY-NOTHING WAS SACRED

[bc1010101]

genius. i had not heard this in at least 15 years. i was a wierd little kid i discoverd MOI in 1970 (10 yrs old) got this on an original promo album with an asst from freak out, one of my faves-were only in it for the money--who needs the peace corp? ---listen to l+r channels separately, its not just noise for the last half.

i did not have a clue that any one else ever even heard america drinks, let alone gets it !! i've been hooked for 40+ years-it gets me so hot i can scream, AliceCooper

[billbarnesjazz]

Of course it's sardonic musical satire- but if you listen, the changes are really pretty. Absolutely Free remains my favorite Zappa recording.



[electrovox1212]

Ray Collins sung like an ultimate faux-crooner on this song!!!

[laylacalif]

Mandy Tension will be by, playing his xylophone troupe.

Drink it up, folks! Wonderful!

[MrMyfmyf]

PB and J and bologna sandwiches for everybody!!!

[sartorious56]

And a nod to Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life."

[lowgrau]

Another, long recorded fake party scene is the long version of Got to Give it up, Marvin Gaye

[jackhillty]

40 years later its still funny and still true

[LOOKN450]

Zappa poked fun at just about everything American society could churn out, and obviously, cheesy, night club schmaltz was no exception. Ray Collins is superb as the patronizing, crooner/MC. "Hi Bob, how's the kids? wonderful". It was a shame when he left the band. He had such a unique voice that gave such life to so much of the early MOI stuff. Frank on vocals fell way short. On another note, I always felt that the Beatles sort of shamelessly ripped this song off with "You Know My Name" ....

[jab3785]

All time favorite Zappa song.

[AZAFVET]

@jab3785 mine too!! for 45 years.

[rovingsignify]

This is my father's band... every small wedding bar mitzpha band in the last quarter of the 20th century. A great melody. A slice of life.. .it's true, it's true!

[lowgrau]

this really has been fun

[lowgrau]

jam session on sunday, can i have your attention everybody

[lowgrau]

nice to see ya

[lowgrau]

up with who...

[lowgrau]

dig the carman caverlerro piano schitck

[MrChickenFry]

1:57

Bill Bailey? 

[TWSPtube]

It is a way of saying there is no communitcation between parents and children. It is art. Listen for the cash register and the fight at the end..

[lowgrau]

Caravan with a drum solo? Yeah, we'll get to that...

[micheljch]

@lowgrau a drum sola . . . !

[lowgrau]

@micheljch he does say sola.

I didnt hear it

[backstagebistro]

One of the classics. Thanks for posting.

And to the other people who feel he ripped the idea, sorry.  He was the first.

[TheSunmanho]

miserable Zappa stole it from the "Simpsons" theme.

[RoverenderAlligator]

@TheSunmanho

Are you for real? Groening was a kid when Zappa wrote this.

[TheSunmanho]

@RoverenderAlligator

then maybe the other way round?

[BaronVonPenguin]

Oh sweet Jesus I LOVE this song!

[brainmucas]

drink it up folks...wonderful

[Chacason1]

I think this is absolutely briljant. It's a very good portrayal of a band who plays sloppy, is unispired and unprofessional, playing in front of people who don't really care about music. The inquiry of the singer how the kids are doing of someone he knows from the audiance tells it all. I think Zappa knows all about it and it's true to life. But what it all comes down to is if you have a connection with these social experiences FZ is portraying or not. If it has meaning for you, it's Art.

[lowgrau]

@Chacason1 i played music for money., this is truth.

[lowgrau]

@Chacason1 and cmon "strong w/ ur fast car and yr class ring.......

[Koolkitties]

@Chacason1 They drink, and they go home.

[rottencrotch666]

i typed in drink da pee pee and this came up... try it

[jammmon]

i love the lp We're in it for the money

but this is nothing but noise

crap

such an overrated cunt

[jammmon]

He was a tobaco addict. he was against antitobaco campaigns, and he thought doing "drugs" wasnt cool

fuckin hypocrite

[TheHawkdaddy]

@jammmon

I'm sorry you dont like the song, now please shut the fuck up because nobody cares.

And you clearly dont get the song.

[karoshimon]

@jammmon He was against drugs and their association with the, "It's cool to be an asshole and do random shit," attitude that often arises after having gotten high or drunk. He tried weed many times, it not making people into retards, but got nothing out of it. It wasn't out of health precautions or any bullshit like that that Zappa was opposed to most drugs. Tobacco and coffee are somewhat unique in that they aid productivity and awakeness.

[karoshimon]

@karoshimon I think that intermittent doses of cocaine could also be helpful to a person... Tribals in the Amazon chewing leaves before they go to hunt wild animals. Weed chills you out, makes you happy, makes you hungry- it can be helpful in a number of ways, but it's also as Marx would put it, a sedative of the masses. I'm surprised that our politicians haven't caught on to weed yet. Such a drug, producing relaxed, happy people, would be the first thing I'd promote as a ruler.

[cointreau74]

@karoshimon I can't believe the people who 'run' things haven't got that yet either..Good to see an intelligent comment for a change.

[sartorious56]

@karoshimon

Zappa, re:drugs: "Shove 'em up your ass and fly to the moon."

[elaine31347]

@jammmon And what? Your comment has no meaning whatsoever...

[Mohammets]

@jammmon  "Tobacco addict". I just quit smoking after like 15 years of steady smoking. It's just funny to hear someone refer to me as an "addict". I feel like I should be sneaking out at night and slitting people's throats for a cigarette.

You're a silly person. I hope smokers kill you with their second-hand smoke.

[hoxvoxbox]

@Mohammets :D

[Aldebaron9]

@jammmo (fart noise)