THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION: WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY

Okay...first things first. DO NOT make this your first Frank Zappa album. It is very hard to get into if you are not yet interested in Frank Zappa. I am saying this from experience, which means, yes, this was the first Zappa album that I bought. I hated it at first, but after a while, I began to appreciate it for what it is: a great cohesive satirical work of art. Not to imply that the songs take a backseat to the concept at all....but many of them are very short(I love short songs), very experimental and segue into the next song(which I love veeery much also). This album was the result of much great effort by Zappa as a producer. ALOT of complex tape editing and manipulation was involved in its making. Most of the vocals are altered in pitch and speed by recording at a slower tape speed, so that when played back they would be unnaturally high. Also, this record revolves around one subject: the artificiality and superficiality of flower-power counterculture. This concept is tackled with large amounts of acerbic sardonic humor. I won't do a track-by-track review because there are so many tracks.