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

Even after over forty years, this album still shines. While many people focus on Zappa's skewering of the hippie movement, this album is much more than that. In fact, if you listen to the lyrics, he appears to be aiming at the hangers-on around the movement, and the corporate suits who turned it into a mass-marketing tool (just like they do with everything that gets popular). Also in Zappa's crosshairs are parents, politicians, and other miscreants. There is also an interlude where he just goes off on an odd story of some of his friends.

Verve records was not too happy with this album, and censored the sh*t out of it (Zappa left the label as soon as he could). Despite the censoring, the album is still a masterpiece of it's time. Zappa upped the experimentation in songs that otherwise sounded poppy, by throwing in odd time signatures and sound effects and snippets of what sounds like music meant for "Lumpy Gravy".

Maybe you need to have a certain mind set to really appreciate this album so far from the generation that it was aimed at, but it still should be in every prog fan's collection.

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