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

The songs are presented as a musical pastiche but are not offering music that actually rises above the limits of the respective genres they are meant to make fun of. I don't see the point of these parodies at all really, where they do a simple blues it's still a simple blues, if they mock a sticky crooner, they're still just playing a sticky crooner, nothing more. Regardless how daft the lyrics are meant to be, this music remains unremarkable, it's another Zappa album that will remain sealed for me forever, it's been like this for 20 years and I don't expect any change in the coming decades.

Uninteresting unless you're digging the lyrics and consequently can appreciate it as the work of art it was meant to be. When just considering the music, I can't see more then 2 stars. Zappa has made tons of albums that are better then this one. Anyway, I'm obviously missing out on whatever everybody else hears, but if I want absurd humour I'll pop a Monty Python episode into the DVD. I certainly won't play this album.

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