When Zappa's "We're only in it for the money" came out, WTF did people think???

[Taverner]

I mean, talk about a dadaist excursion through satire, double and triple meanings, surrealism without the psychadelia - what did people think?

This must have made listeners let out a collective "WTF???"

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. According to Frank, it did well for a while until someone clued in the radio stations

that the album was satire and all the other stuff you mentioned, and then it pretty much stopped being played and Frank was lambasted for "lying" to everyone by not having made a "real" album with "real" music, even though the music itself had garnered good reviews earlier.

:eyes:

Frank's response, of course, was incredulity.

Americans being pretty stupid people, this is not to be taken with any surprise that they would applaud something one minute, and then upon being told what it is, decide that it isn't any longer good, even though the music itself never changed, only the way they received the words.

Morons.

And did, of course, serve as proof of everything the album (and pretty much all of Frank's oeuvre) was about.

[Taverner]

2. Wow...what did they think it was??

I'm just amazed that an album like this was even released!

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Whoops - I was talking about "Cruising with Ruben and the Jets"

Got my parody/satire albums mixed up.

It was the doo-wop of Ruben that they loved, until they found out how dumb they were, and then they decided they didn't like the doo-wop.

[Initech]

4. I seriously had a major WTF look on my face the first time I heard it.

Now it's tied with Freak Out and One Size Fits All for my favorie Zappa album.

[edbermac]

5. Probably what they thought of every other Zappa album. WTF???

FZ was far ahead of his time. Even now a lot of folks haven't caught up with him.