The Mothers of Invention - It Can't Happen Here

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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Lyrics here:
http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Freak_Out.html

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[cockneysontour]

@enterprise1954 I remember that as well. Probably the only time I'd ever listened to a MOI or Zappa track!

[zkxb]

Imagine the record company guy that signed this band.

[IExposeMormonism]

They're freaking out in fucking Fukushima. With cause.

[kitbeethoven]

Zappa's music (still surprising, highly innovative) and social insight resonate decades later. You can be sure he'd be out there at Occupy Wall Street today, full of intelligent comment, original energy, and irony.

[enterprise1954]

I can remember, as if it were yesterday, this being reviewed on 'Juke Box Jury', a weekly BBC TV review of new singles. The 4 person 'jury' vote the song as a 'Miss' after about thirty seconds and the show host, David Jacobs, pompously said something about how it definitely could not happen here. Would love to see that clip posted. For me, at the age of 12, it was a pointer to a whole new world of music. Still exploring it now.

[RandomMedley1]

Frank was a genius.

[Madnessfan34537]

@Bottlehead666 I think you are a looser.

[Bottlehead666]

wow, from that 25 visitors, i think i have 50% of the visits :))

[fluffydolly]

awesome zappa....great stuff!!!!