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

(Considering this an album by THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION and not a FRANK ZAPPA album)

"We're only in it for the money" was a very strange record (by its time) in which THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION went further in the fields of experimental music than they ever got before; coming and going through the most diverse selection of songs and short weird instrumental almost musicless segments, this record was a huge evolution in the band's musical development. While the sound of THE MOTHERS was getting much more psychedelic and obscure in some moments, the early comedy based on the sixties pop music was becoming much more complex and diverse.

Once again THE MOTHERS were making fun of everything, especially THE BEATLES with the shameless parody cover in which even Jimi HENDRIX was part of the picture, musically I don't find a lot of resemblance to the Liverpool guys so I don't consider the whole album being a parody of "Sgt. Pepper's", only the cover. After this record, Frank ZAPPA launched his first solo album "Lumpy gravy", which I believe took its scarce good parts directly from what he learned and created with THE MOTHERS in "We're only in it for the money".

As much as I like this record, I wouldn't consider it a masterpiece of prog since the music was still very far from getting into this musical style, however, it is one of those obligated albums in order to appreciate the roots of Avant-Garde and non-European Progressive Rock music.

SONG RATING: Are you hung up? 3 Who needs the corps? 4 Concentration Moon, 4 Mom and dad, 4 Telephone conversation, 3 Bow tie daddy, 3 Harry, you're a beast, 4 What's the ugliest part of your body? 4 Absolutely free, 5 Flower punk, 4 Hot poop, 3 Nasal retentive calliope music, 4 Let's make the water turn black, 5 The idiot bastard son, 5 Lonely little girl, 4 Take your clothes off when you're dancing, 4 What's the ugliest part of your body? (Reprise), 3 Mother people, 4 The chrome-plated megaphone of destiny, 5

AVERAGE: 3.95

PERCENTAGE: 78.95

ALBUM RATING: 4 stars

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