Frank Zappa - Cocaine Decisions

[facepull123123]

lol @ the 2 comments under me

[CatFro4]

Best Steve Vai solo EVER !! PERIOD !! xD

[leftclickben]

This song is more about class inequality than drugs.

[lila01purpura]

Is a hell of drug!

[TheD1154]

another time i see i were born at a wrong generation

[nymets071087]

the timing changes on this are amazing

[pepe7drum]

chop a line now!

[makem85]

Steve Vai couldn´t play the 7/8 reggae with the impossible note but he could make the happy birthday there!

[lulucheone]

is there anybody to be abble to translate this song in french, please ?

[juliolazzagonzalez]

21/12/1940 "Feliz cumple Frank"!!!

[TGRT91]

Is this from the same concert as my Torture Never Stops DVD? Because it is not on the DVD.

[54herve]

j adore c ette song!!!

[marsatom]

parada!!!!!!!!!!!!



[fordachevy]

Comparing Weird Al to Frank Zappa is really BIZARRE!!!!!

[The420Northwest]

I like this it reminds me sort of like Weird Al.

[melliecharm]

@The420Northwest listen closely to the music...its not Weird Al at all

[The420Northwest]

@melliecharm I know it is funny and weird al is funny that it why it reminds me sorta

[HiggDogg420]

@The420Northwest You are killing me<

[The420Northwest]

@HiggDogg420 I think it's the way he sings, zappa is an influence of Weird Al's you can read it on his wikipedia page and I can hear it in his music. I'm not even really a zappa fan this song is just funny.

[fordachevy]

Zappa had the balls to stand on stage in Palermo Sicily, in 1982 to do his gig and drive the people to riot, with a Italian custom made dress on? that"s pure magic.

[jamirosmajicrocks]

he looked very eighties for a guy like frank zappa, never thought he would do something like this musically

[wpdrummer]

is that dress he was wearing a "cocaine decision?"

[qqvids]

people love this song in my country

[9rugbyroy]

just your ass more often cause it just might be you next soon!

[retep54321]

Such a shame he died so young.....

[MultiMifune]

A companion piece to "Bobby Brown".

[zappafan45]

Frank made only good stuff.

[xxtiaan]

OMFG what awesome trousers hes wearing, and he cant even use being on drugs as an excuse!

[stfwho]

3:22 "That means I have to get my cigarette!"

[pNeeko]

I'd prefer a decayed nose than a shlong that looks like an orange wedge ridden by popped juice pockets.

It's your call how you pay off your spiritual debts...

Either way, your body pays the price!

[ertansaygi]

@Lonesomeswan Actually intelligence depends on reasonal thinking. An intelligent person gives his/her decisions based on facts not according to some mambojambo bulshit :) If you believe in a place after life that you'll be punished or win some prize according to the role you played in a guy named satan vs god chess game, you are clearly delusional :) First of all, why does anybody with an IQ over 15 think that there is something after life? Based on what?

[vokuvoku]

@ertansaygi lol "reasonal" thinking

U are stupid my friend it's a tragic fact.

[ertansaygi]

@vokuvoku I didnt say i'm smart in above lines. That can be a fact, i cant deny that but with that fact, i cant see the tragedy in it. Can you explain?

[jjooboo]

@ertansaygi Ask Einstein dipshit, I think his IQ was greater than 15.

[ertansaygi]

@Lonesomeswan I dont have or plan to have a child in near future. I live by myself most of the time...But you are right. If i had a child i'd try to quit or smoke outside. (But i dont want or like children :) Humankind will have to reach Ubermensch without my genes :P)

[amneziia1]

Phénomène...

[420Honey]

Meh. Great songwriter and composer the music is just too weird and doesn't have enough hooks in it for me.

[kogieblues07]

steve vai before..hehehe great

[alvisecarloni]

someone know where to find the complete video when the song finish? at least i want to know the name so i can BUY it.

[crubutt]

@alvisecarloni this is from the 'dub room special' video i think, its not the whole concert but clips from different performances, mainly the 74 band and the 80 something band. good video.

[alvisecarloni]

thx frank...

[Plumpyjohn]

i don't know why but the camera man's face at 00:53 looks like frank

[luisbottle]

ESSE ERA UM NARIZ!

[ukusapillage]

simply perfect my favorite zappa song

[thecreepingmess]

Frank wasn't anti-drugs, he was anti-stupidity. It just so happens that most recreational drugs make you stupid.

[southrules]

@thecreepingmess Yeah but ignorance is bliss

[lavacapintoja]

@thecreepingmess that might me a good instance to deeply define him as anti-himself

[WieteEdz]

@lavacapintoja no just a no one of his periods

[Munstallstodes]

@thecreepingmess

If I see a person who blames drugs for their stupidity, generally they were a complete fucking idiot prior to taking drugs. Being illegal they have a tendency to attract complete morons who think it is cool and have no idea of the difference between use and abuse.

[cathoderoy]

@thecreepingmess ...so what, the song's stupid, too...he doesn't even come close to revealing coke's shittiness...and the music is just so fucking LAME!!

[cathoderoy]

@thecreepingmess ...and, oh yeah, nicotine's GOOD for you...

[cathiasus]

"That means I have to get my cigarette..." lmao

[ufomen1]

ADAM MAŁYSZ ŚPIEWA

[lzrdkng]

2:40 William H Macey CAN SIIIING!!

[The123katy123]

omg :D

[sintalius]

Is that Keith Lemon on keyboards?

[xsellsbrod]

FZ was free to tell these Facts straight

[jimmybart1981]

keith lemon on keyboards

[wixy20071]

@jimmybart1981 ahahhaa :)

[markman2211]

For those of you who don't understand the lyrics, Frank didn't do drugs, he was mocking them. this song was about the promoters and his manger that made BAD decisions because of too much cocaine and those bad decisions cost Frank a lot of money. He HATED it! If you listen to the words close you will understand.

[TMundo]

@markman2211 I can't imagine anyone trying to do anything responsibly in any sense of the word while on Cocaine. Not cook a hamburger from start to finish, let alone manage a tour. Impossible. Such a horrible drug, unfortunately I speak from experience.

[lordoid]

@markman2211 Well but he did cigarettes and black coffee like a madman...;). Funny fact: He once played a drug dealer in Mimami Vice called' Mario Fuente'.

[markman2211]

Put on the headsets and enjoy the auto panner that we put on the bass guitar for this song. This is also from the Dub Room Special that we did for what was going to be HBO but later had its on Digital Hi-Fi tape release. footnote from Mark Pinske.

[Dfrankjazz]

Marvelous Frank Zappa free online master class!! Learn all about Frank and analyze Peaches in Regalia, Watermelon in Easter Hay and Envelopes..type in "Dave Frank" Zappa on Ustream. You vill enjoy this!

[casualtySR]

god these lyrics are terrible

[OriginalSituation]

that nose is huge

[rozpaltoveme]

15 people is psychical paranoia schizofreny decision :-)

[loislombardo]

i dont wana be high class

[VERMONTSKUNK]

TRULY THA MAN! YOU A PERSON WIOTH A SNOWJOB!

[xXxbagOfun93xXx]

13 people made a bad cocaine decision.

[rodhanners]

fuck you all franks a bad ass

[beowulven]

How can someone "against drugs" smoke cigarettes? Idiot.

[LayenPipes]

@beowulven Go fuck yourself

[beowulven]

@LayenPipes

Cancer cures shitty music.

[LayenPipes]

@beowulven Oh yea?So what the fuck is good music(ehem shit music)for you BALDY

[beowulven]

@LayenPipes

Mmm... The Hollies?

[LayenPipes]

@beowulven Well you seem like a 40 year old with a financial problem,luckily i wasnt like you.Zappa is the greatest song writer ever.He wrote about 250 songs in 15 years

[beowulven]

@LayenPipes

250 suck ass songs. Amazing.

[xxxslayerxxx666]

@beowulven great point....you must be an intelligent man!

[LayenPipes]

@beowulven ahah!I found your problem!Youve never gotten a BJ!loser haha!

[beowulven]

@d13lzebub

Probably 50 since I started releasing my music in 1987, only 30 of which were any good at all. But no songs about eating urine-saturated snow, no anti-drug tunes sung while smoking cigarettes, and no novelty tunes about shopping malls and getting your nails done.

I understand it's a matter of taste. I think Black Flag is great, lots of people don't.

[beowulven]

@d13lzebub

Can't argue with that!

[85cube]

@beowulven he hated drugs for their effects on behaviour, not for dependency or health. so he tolerated tobacco but not heavy drinking, for example. novelty tunes about malls are double-level satire, if you get that. he didn't just write "songs", he composed in every possible genre, pop, doo-wop, prog, psych, avantgarde, jazz-rock and classical, he collaborated with ponty, etc. listen to Peaches En Regalia or The Little House I Used to Live In and just TRY to say that's not great, total music.

[TMundo]

@beowulven I certainly don't know what the yellow snow song is about, I think there's a satirical double meaning, but I enjoy the fact that it's weird, not straight-forward, and comical. You need to have your lid flipped every once and a while, artistically speaking, staring at a perfectly done painting of an object, well, it's impressive that someone can paint an object with photographic accuracy, but then there is impressionism, cubism, fauvism, and surrealism, which also have merit.

[beowulven]

@TMundo

Can't disagree with any of that!

[jancivil]

@beowulven "no songs about eating urine-saturated snow, no anti-drug tunes sung while smoking cigarettes, and no novelty tunes about shopping malls and getting your nails done. Black Flag is great"

No metaphor, subtle social commentary, no multi-level satire, just taking yourself and some dull sludge very seriously. Got it.

[beowulven]

@jancivil

Great! Cheers.

[Steve7508]

@beowulven Oh yeah? What about George Harrison and Bob Marley?

[beowulven]

@Steve7508

Dead of cancer and... cancer?

[OpethToolMetallica]

@beowulven

If you think cancer is a fitting 'cure' for a problem than you're the person who deserves that cure the most.

[WieteEdz]

@OpethToolMetallica hei headbanger your favcorite bands adore this musaic wonder you just offendet musicitself saying this poisen stupidity and childish small talk cancrer gan get you to lets see where your big mouth is then

[OpethToolMetallica]

@WieteEdz

Troll?

If not, you should learn to read.

[WieteEdz]

@beowulven hope it cures bad mannered and stupid people you y hope will be next

[ertansaygi]

@beowulven I am against most of the chemical drugs (not marijuana or weed) and i smoke and drink alcohol. My main logic is this: You will be around about 78 years (in the country i'm living as a male average) no need to blur your mind. As this life is a probably one time experience you'd better have your conscious as open as it can be to enjoy the trip.

[beowulven]

@ertansaygi

I can't disagree with any of that.

[ezemouro2]

He was a great artists and he was against drugs, in fact if someone was in drugs in his band he just fire him.

[pineappaloupe]

13 coke tooting republicans did not like this video.

[indrajem7vwh]

:) i like it when vai played the happy birthday tune! :) :) :)

[analyzingfunny]

Chad Wackerman rocks

[TheBrilliantGeniuses]

i feel like i lost a certain amount of freedom here

[Cklamingol]

"They're shooting people with rifles?"

"That means I have to get my cigarettes."

[drreedindeed]

With a nose like that, you'd think he'd be a natural for the Peruvian Marching Powder. But no, Frank was never into drugs. Hard to believe, I know.

[MastaSwallows]

LOL 1:10 to 1:14 pro

[dippywatcher]

What can I say? Satire at it's simple best...

[locodorado]

@dippywatcher

This is not satire or sarcasm, is the freaking truth!

[dippywatcher]

@locodorado Hey, Thanks dude! I stand corrected.

I meant the truth satirized in song.

Which politician(s) was he singing about? Go on, be a daredevil...

[locodorado]

@dippywatcher

sorry dude, my mistake i forgott what satire stands for.

[dippywatcher]

@locodorado It's all good. Except for the bad stuff...

Happy Trails Dude.

[therealCanablisS]

every zappa tune i watch/listen to on here i do a few times bv4 movin on to the next one

[olflatop]

I love everything Mr. FZ ever did, but what the hell is he wearing? Self-parody, perhaps? "kozy little footies on their minds"....

[dippywatcher]

@olflatop FZ: "It's just a token of my extreme...."

[gallardito14]

FRANK eres un dios. Para mi no estas muerto

[Mrjoeypunkrock]

THIS WAS ONE THE BEST HALLOWEEN PARTYS AT THE PALLADIUM 14th STREET NEW YORK CITY....R.I.P." FRANK ZAPPA."

[windmillsmill]

hehe, how can someone create such a song from second hand experiences??

[afroeroticus]

long life to cocaine.... its the purificator of the consume society

[samacdcrule]

NOBODY WOULD SHARE THEIR COKE WITH FRANK DUE TO HIS MASSIVE NOSE, SO HE TOOK UP THE FAGS. BIG FAN, NOBODY HAS PUT MUSIC INTO ITS RIGHT PLACE, BUT YOU.

[redhavok666]

"that means i have to get my ciagrette"

[Swervedeal]

From one extreme..



[funkomite187]

dude.. that is the best video ever, zappa with a bullet proof vest goin to get his smokes durin the 82 riot

[southrules]

Only the coolest mother fucker who ever lived can get away with wearing a cleavage showing pink pleated jump suit

[MrGoldfangaz49]

@southrules haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

[anynamewillification]

@southrules Only he can get away with wearing such a shirt.

[chriskoehn]

@southrules

true...I tried the other day and the reactions weren't as I had hoped...

[hammerman3737]

@southrules agreed.

[rsman169]

@southrules No actually that's just the 70's.

[ElectricIndica420]

what a great point!

[1zappa]

Bobby Martin ftw at 2:20

[BeepBall]

yeah coz cocaine is bad but smoking good huh frank?

[eganbarry]

Zappa was a genius, pure and simple. He saw through everything.

[habbadou]

this is absolutely horrible.

[tps607]

great video!

[promisedeyes]

This is an excellent public service announcement about the evils of cocaine.

They should show this on PBS.

[Naderkucairo]

horror movie!!!!

[wonimnotwen]

Remember this song from the early 80's...

Good stuff

[jiggybilly]

i think that camp pink jumpsuit looks like a coke decision imo. WTF ?

[jon1carlo]

@jiggybilly It was the 80's?

[jiggybilly]

@jon1carlo Yes 83, From the LP "The man from utopia"

[therealCanablisS]

simply genious

[skorcha]

Zappa & George Clinton may be the wackiest/ most prolific composers of modern times. . . .

[MrCrackaplease]

@skorcha Captain Beefheart and Primus, too.

[stonedpimpdaddy]

Goddamn he has a big fucking nose!

[SpineHunt]

@stonedpimpdaddy Yes he may, but you my friend have a big fucking head.

[stonedpimpdaddy]

@SpineHunt Yes, the girls say the head of my cock is huge. Nice observation!

[DAVO1984FI]

Fenomeno!!!

Hyoe!!!

[SasoriWoodstock]

2:04 ...EPIC

[Kickarsemcgee]

0:47 to 1:05 are the best chord changes everrrrr

[greengofly]

Isn't this song perfectly suitable for the guys that led us to the Credit Crunch?

[narozzz]

@greengofly - Indeed it is.

[badgrandpa1]

CHOP A LINE NOW!

[muscritiq80]

In the end there, does Frank say "that means i have to get my zebra"? lol

[DenPay]

@muscritiq80 Its does sound like zebra.. or maybe cigarette?

[lexter43]

frank rules!!

[muscritiq80]

A fine song, Zappa is great!

[scmboy1]

zappatastic

[Alterofsacrafice]

No you can get high from chewing coke leaves, and I said alcohol not heroin. Their is a plant in Africa where the fruit ferments on the tree and everybody eats it and gets wasted. But thanks for letting us know your out there!

[richcapo]

Coke leaves and cocaine aren't the same. The leaves are one component of cocaine -- it very much is a chemically processed drug. Plus, it takes an unbelievable mass of leaves to produce a small bit of cocaine. Big difference.

[spam6669]

is this from a dvd ??? or movie

[1zappa]

@spam6669 The Dub Room Special.

[spam6669]

@1zappa cool thanks im goona get it

[deedose]

yayo decisions

[fatmantam]

you make expensive ugliness

[Alterofsacrafice]

Cocaine and alcohol come from plants too .

[fuer321]

hey retard, the diffrence is you need to MAKE COKE AND HERION, do you have to make weed? no, you set it on fire and smoke it, you dont have to make it,and hash is just thc that breaks off the plant, learn before you speak please ,idiot.