The Mothers of Invention - Hungry Freaks, Daddy

Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.

In his teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Varèse and 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands—he later switched to electric guitar. He was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often impossible to categorize. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was one of rock, jazz or classical. He wrote the lyrics to all his songs, which—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech and the abolition of censorship.
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Mr. America, walk on by your schools that do not teach
Mr. America, walk on by the minds that won't be reached
Mr. America try to hide the emptiness that's you inside
But once you find that the way you lied
And all the corny tricks you tried
Will not forestall the rising tide of HUNGRY FREAKS DADDY!

They won't go on four no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren't afraid to say what's on their minds
The left behinds of the great society

HUNGRY FREAKS, DADDY!

Mr. America, walk on by your supermarket dream
Mr. America, walk on by the liquor store supreme
Mr. America try to hide the product of your savage pride
The useful minds that it denied
The day you shrugged and stepped aside
You saw their clothes, and then you cried,
"Those HUNGRY FREAKS, DADDY!"

They won't go on four no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren't afraid to say what's on their minds
The left behinds of the great society

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[EMILIOMARENGO]

In Autumn of '67 i was turned on simultaneously to Freak Out and cannabis...and after all this time i'm still addicted to the Mothers. Thanks for uploading FreakOut. It is a real treat!!

[Carlislehanson]

schools  minds back in the 60s 70s

he was way before his time

a genius

[taolig66]

First YouTube comment is for this song!

[65rock4ever]

I had never heard of this band until a friend took me to a live concert in 1966 at the "Cheetah" night club in Venice, Ca. The music was simply good Rock & Roll. Frank was certainly unique, although I must sadly confess his compositions took a downward turn when he succumbed to the "Media Sound" pressure that destroyed so many gifted and talented musicians. As a guitar player he was second to none. Great Band !

[seanmckillip]

@streetspiritlive haha, i stole this album from my dad 14 years ago and my mom wanted to do the same thing.. bahahahaha...... I'm glad there are some Zappa fans out there..

[zkxb]

This was the first double album ever released.

[tubemann413]

Zappa had such great "tone". Guitar sounds compressed..could it be? Maestro fuzz my guess. Analog echo on voices "wow!".

[newfuckingwave]

this album has always fascinated the hell outta me. truly the first meeting of rock and, dare i say it, 'avant garde'. then again it always turns out that the first one to do something is never the one who gets famous for it. so who really knows when that meeting first took place. all i know is zappa beat the the beatles to it

[newfuckingwave]

@000MidnightSun but the terrible voices are part of its appeal lol

[lancedonahue13]

19 tomorrow and i figured this is something to prep my mind for the new year