The Mothers of Invention - Brown Shoes Dont Make It

[puntagordy]

1966, who would back this kind of music? What a pay off!

[DarrenA1000]

brown shoes really dont make it

[CtrlRm]

This is probably one of the greatest pieces of music I've ever heard

[LUTREK1976]

Szczewiki łod pani Bronzowy niy chcom działac?

[MsAhuman]

I heard this at 13 and saw him perform numerous times. His death was a great loss.

[valeriemci1]

Rick Metzger from the band, The Cloud sang this one night backstage....Life was great in those days.....Ok, time to write a book folks....smile at every ugly....this song was one I sang while I walked from one class to another in high school....it keeps others away from you in the hallway.

[saculvad]

...when 'she' can do it on the White House lawn, ....then that's livin'

...gonna smother my daughter.....wow....where's that comin' from...only a genius...and a music major!...God bless ya Frank....been listenin' since '65............

[tippimail1]

Frank Zappa=genius.Great song,great album.

[staingler]

Every friday while I'm waiting for the bus to go to work, I listen to this song. I love fridays monrnings so much

[beatler111]

One of my favorite songs of all time.



[derangedband]

theres so much going on in this song its always interesting to listen to. the lyrics still makes me laugh :D

[KirkFetkovic]

This is the greatest masterpiece the world has ever known

[snowfare]

To RICHADAL 175. The mothers were playing at the Chicago police ball, and the commissioner shouted out for "Strangers in the night!"

[richadal175]

@snowfare. You sure that's it? I swear I hear someone saying something about stopping the War In Vietnam when I turn it up

[cpdaddy7]

What WOULD you do, Daddy?

[cpdaddy7]

do your job and do it right, TV tonight

[SuperStuey2]

If you ever see this ....thank You Nibber!!

[MegaYoshitsune]

I just find the bit starting at 5:17 really hilarious for some reason.

[snowfare]

Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform

[richadal175]

@snowfare. Ahhh, quoting the ever-so-amazing Burnt Weeny Sandwich album from 1970.

I wish I could understand what the audience member is yelling to him in the end of that song.

[sharpjwe]

sure would fuck him again

[DimensionsofChange]

Did I just hear a Justin Bieber parody from the mid 60s?

[rupilan]

@DimensionsofChange fuck u. dont say the B word here

[CornyPoopDude]

@DimensionsofChange what

[trojanlol]

ahaha, best album ever

[gizmojean1]

My Mom and Dad did not like it at all.....Hence I loved Frank..Gizmojean1

[dotothenn]

Damn it. This was basically made in 1966. Incredable. Better than any miusic made in 2011. If you disagree then you must give at least 1 example. ZAPPA IS, WAS, AND, ALWAYS WILL BE THE BEST!!!!

[empireo00]

Come al solito Frank Zappa, sorprende. Ma questo pezzo che potrebbe costituire una colonna sonora "fortemente montata" per un film d'avanguardia, è un distillato di esperienze contraddittorie non solo musicali, ma anche culturali della società americana. Questo sincretismo "freak" si nutre pure di Brecht e Stravinskij.

[AZAFVET]

best line in any song ever,,,,"Do you love it? Do you hate it? There it is the way you made it."

[OsvaldoPaese]

I love early Zappa the best. Something about it...it was more simple and visceral at the same time. Some of the creative music ever produced. If anyone is interested...i'm in a band called THE PENTATONIC SNAILS....u may like it. Find us on facebook. I personally have played the first few Mothers albums over and over and would consider them a huge influence. I love the song, "Anyway The Wind Blows" off of "Freak out". That song is a summation of my life at the moment.

[nicodagger]

The music here is fucking genius...sounds like Stravinsky at times...

[johnmccool21]

I'm so glad I finished school!!!!

[ilovekelly75]

4 people are entitled to their opinions.

[serpentineflame]

going to work, jerk

[shitfunn]

I love MOTHERS!

[trails053]

4 people wear brown shoes.

[monted9]

Thanks for posting this!!!!

[vonbontee]

4 people are loyal plastic robots

[GrampieBob]

Saw them in Berlin in 68 or 69. They got run off the stage by the SDS who were chanting, "Mothers of Reaction; mothers of reaction..." Cops cleared the hall after they had performed 1/2 of Brown Shoes. Warm-up band was Paul Revere and the Raiders and they were great!

[theoriginalbadbob]

@GrampieBob Not many people know that SDS stood for Students for a Democratic Society. They were a bunch of Commie bastards who demanded free speech for themselves, but didn't want anyone with an opposing view to be heard. It is supremely ironic that your experience with those bozos was in Berlin, the capitol of Nazi Germany, as Commies are just as facistic as Nazis.

Paul Revere is always great.

[nicodagger]

@theoriginalbadbob yes thanks to Paul Revere for warning the British not to fuck with our American guns.

[theoriginalbadbob]

@nicodagger Have you ever seen Paul Revere and the Raiders in person? For a very long time, Paul had a Single Action Army pistol, from which he fired blanks during the show. It was, of course, a pain in the ass to empty the cases and load new blanks in it. In late 1980, or early '81, he switched to a BEAUTIFUL 6" nickel-plated Colt Python. He had several speed-loaders, and fired dozens of blanks during each show.

[GrampieBob]

@theoriginalbadbob You're right badbob. The Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund was different from the American Students for a Democratic Society but their goals were essentially the same. While I was in Berlin their leaders Fritz Teufel and "Red" Rudi Dutschke ruined many of my Friday nights by taking to the streets forcing me into the Operations Center to monitor their antics. The German SDS died in 1969; many of it's proponents later joined the Green party.

[sexykatie90]

thumbs up if you like The Mothers of Invention - Brown Shoes Dont Make It

[SarahAntsez]

@ kbidus ... fuck you brown shoes !

[kbidus]

Geez, Zappa was a pretentious asshole.



[vonzeke]

@kbidus Maybe, but he was a big-brained creative genius asshole. Who are you?

[MitjaShi]

3:34 I see what Justin did there.

[MrSandygravel]

Saw Zappa and the Mothers of Invention live in Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. He was a brilliant musician and composer, writing all of his music. This one has always been one of my favorites. In spite of the contoversy back in the day, there is so much underlying truth in its message.

[shuttledr]

It's nice to hear stuff that made music free speech frank rocks

[bucknorm]

DIck and Pat on the White House lawn.

"Maybe we could call Henry out for a threesome?"

"No Pat."

[didoleibniz91]

3 people wouldn't fuck on the White House grass.....

[zappascum]

just like a mini rock opera!! amazing!

[postdrop]

Greatest song ever. 50 years later, it is still as real as it was then.

What would you do, Daddy?

[woodenthomas]

I remember this from the Dr. Demnto Show in the 1980's.

[JayneDucksfield]

Futuristic!

[didoleibniz91]

"smother my daughter in chocolate syrup.." ahhahahha he speaks seriously... xD

zappa was very rigid for some things

[Cantearya]

If ever there was one song that best showcases Zappa's breadth of talent and depth of satire, it is this one. It blew my mind when I first listened to it as a teenager and it still impresses me as a 50-plus year old adult.

[TheNEWfilmfanatic99]

Is that Captain Beefheart i'm hearing?

[vonbontee]

@TheNEWfilmfanatic99 It DOES kinda sound like the Captain, doesn't it! But no, that's just one of the Mothers doing a Howlin' Wolf impression-type-thing. (And the Wolf was one of the Cap'n's major influences, of course...)

[francoboy100]

lets see justin beaver cover this!

[swampdodger33]

hydrogen is not the most abundant element in the universe...stupidity is...

[LilliePuttin]

I still have this album.

[DimensionsofChange]

This is the part where somebody makes an anti-Justin Bieber comment right? I guess I'll be that guy. Justin Bieber's music isn't as good as Zappa's. There

[FranksDead]

@DimensionsofChange I see your Justin Bieber and raise you one "I'm twelve and I like this"

[DimensionsofChange]

@FranksDead Well Played. I see your "I'm twelve and I like this" and raise you a why doesn't the Zappa family trust have a Vevo?

[Sparkina]

It's about the perversions of a politico

[andrewjshepherd]

.....only thirteen and she knows how to nasty.....!

[MARANZAMENCHOV]

ALL THE MUSIC IN MINUTES... the greatest

[48squinnav]

Absolutely!

[gnukev]

This shit is the total bomb!!!

Zappa was the absolute greatest.

[Greenless001]

I love this man.

[valeriemci1]

OMG!!! I first heard of the Mothers from a band called The Ill Wind. I was hanging out with these guys...it was around 1967. Their guitar player, Rick Metzger was singing this song. I asked where he got it...then the WHOLE band told me about the Mothers. The next day I went out and found Absolutely Free. I owe so much of my education to so many rock bands....thanks all of you guys:)

[christopherm2k]

Thanks to RakyMaky, I listened to some of these selections and I recently bought 5 of the albums that I used to enjoy in my hs years. My friends had memorized all of the lyrics and one could start a song and we would all join in and finish it in unison. "tv dinner by the pool, I'm so glad I finished school, so I could afford to buy this stuff." lol Seriously, though .. Brown Shoes don't make it.

[thatluckyoldsun]

This song is so ahead of it's times, it's still timeless... , it's got almost everything. Well, how did you fix this one, uncle Frankie.....?

[tomestubbs]

Brilliant!  This is one of the things that got me into politics, music and art!

[BenAliGtor]

I was listening to this in junior high, 1968. 

[rookieninetynine]

This is great stuff. I remember this jam on an album from the early 70's.

[HeyStupidFlanders]

watch your brother grow a beard!- classic

ps- fuk the establishment

[superpwrflbangstick]

Imagine, two different generations disagreeing.

[beatler11]

First , I bought (') , I went: oh wow! Then I snuck Overnite Sensation into the house. Things got dangerous then. I bought Absolutley Free....circa, 1974

[synapsecracklepop]

gawud what a FLICKIN' genius

[kevin4peace]

Life motto: What would Zappa do?

[2inchtube]

@kevin4peace - WWJD?

[kevin4peace]

@2inchtube WWZD?

[LuneyTune72]

@kevin4peace I swear to God I ask myself that question multiple times everyday.

[Koolkitties]

@kevin4peace what wouldnt zappa do?

[Fazedlight]

Hmm... You know I think I rather the Tinseltown Rebellion version... Then again, I heard that one first..

[jackhillty1]

the great american novel

[BiblicalReader]

@Windylicker74 So, because I like this old music then the stuff today, I have no musical taste. Hmm.And you can't look me in the eye and say that the most 'popular' music today isn't Hip-Hop and Rap. I'm sorry, but there aren't a lot of bands that I like today. There's a lot of old classical music, but older doesn't necessarily mean better or worse. You seem to have the unintelligent idea that there is the same amount of 'good' and 'bad' music in every decade, and that simply is not true.

[Windylicker74]

@BiblicalReader The most popular music of the 60's wasnt Zappa, he bearly bothered the charts. Mediocrity has been the norm since the conception of media, Dickens had a lot of his wok serialised, which makes a lot of it rambling nonsense for the sake of this rent

Bill Laswell has been trying to do goods things with Hip Hop, it doesnt always work, but thats the nature of experimentation, Tom Jenkinson has been pushing boundaries for 20 years and the nature of free jazz means its in good health

[shinybald36]

@BiblicalReader i have to disagree, if your argument was about the promotion of 'good' and 'bad' music in every decade, I could agree. But to ignore the impact of payola, the regulation and lack of it, in past and current media (in all it's forms) is to leave a very large, and important variable out of your argument.

[Fry1077]

what would you do frankie?

[didoleibniz91]

@Fry1077 daddy...

[BiblicalReader]

@rocknroll14live Good. There isn't a lot of people who are appreciating this music. I think out of all of my friends, I know two who even think the least of Zappa. And don't you agree that the world is going to hip-hop et cetera?

[BiblicalReader]

I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS SONG. I love the complex rhythms and conceptual continuity! We need Frank around today to make music like this and make fun of the world like he did back then. The way music is being taken today by the younger generations such as I is so dreadful, with rap and hip-hop and geniuses like this never heard of. It's so stressing to think of all the wasted minds! I think that the world could sacrifice all modern music for the return of Frank, and we'd still get the better end!

[rocknroll14live]

@BiblicalReader im 14 and i love this

[GabbanaStylez]

@rocknroll14live

me to

[Windylicker74]

@BiblicalReader Theres loads of innovative and talented musicians today, and in 1967 there was a load of shite released as well. Zappa spent his life moving on, you should try it and stop looking to the charts for inspiration, bit like rocknroll14live has.

[christopherm2k]

When I first heard this album some 35+ years ago, I was quite certain that I didn't want to identify with the target of the song. Perhaps, I can use it as an excuse for not wearing brown shoes and using chocolate syrup only for ice cream. Zappa had an acute sense of being able to pinpoint the faults and fallibles of modern society among the middle class. Thank you for posting this with great sound production.

[Lhildebrand0604]

Oh YES !!!!!!

[SweetSweetWaldo]

I often times heard my old man mutter about "TV dinner by the pool, I'm so glad I finished school," but I didn't understand it 'till I wuz all growed up!

[OlRetro]

Excellent sound & this classic is a fave for sure.  Regards, '62 Mathew St. (Total Retro Rock)

[SongsTheLordTaughtUs]

Be a loyal plastic robot for a world that doesn't care.

[smokindog]

If frank did this today he would have been arrested LOL. God bless FZ!

What would you do daddy???

[grandier3]

Tell it like it is Frank.

[haarpcloud911]

I'm having a Tribute show live on TalkShoe Monday night 5/24/10 @ 9:11pm edt.

If you want to join in the link to the show is on my page.

Have a great day...!

[haarpcloud911]

I'm having a Tribute show live on TalkShoe Monday night 5/24/10 @ 9:11pm edt.

If you want to join in the link to the show is on my page.

Have a great day...!