FRANK ZAPPA "POJAMA PEOPLE" (reaction) 

A poll taken by a large group of zappa fans,mid 80's. They picked this album as their favorite. Guess what number one song was? Inca roads. Guess what frank's bestselling album of all time, by extremely high levels over any other? anyone know?

I love the guitar tone on this one.

@@globextradingsystemsllc1740 Has to be Joe's Garage... Everyone had it back then...

@@alldayadventures5418 BTW,Joe's garage had a huge FREE album promotion. My cousin worked for a record company , and she received some albums free, as promo's, One of them was joe's garage ,so she remembered I was a zappa freak and gave it to me as a present. But Sheik yer bouti is the all time top selling Zappa album.

@@marlon-jl4ge Thanks. A clown with a 180 IQ.That's a complement.

What a line up of muscians on that album

Give that man a cigar, but you know what? It was a badge of honor to have him write a song about a band member. Bozzio got Punky's Whips, Vai got Stevie's Spanking...I'm sure there are others but can't think of them off the top of my head... 🤘

@@Peter-K Yeah. Also Yo Mama was a bit of a dig at Tommy Mars. Indeed, Zappa definitely had a habit of writing songs razzing band members then have the offending members play it!

@@brandonhendrix7223 Yo Mama is about a road manager who committed suicide

@@tomgrosemusic I think that was Suicide Chump. I mean it possible he was also an inspiration for Yo Mama as well but Mars was an inspiration too.

@@brandonhendrix7223 Shit, there are a lot, my favorite being Jazz Discharge Party Hats, about some of the crew AND band members, going nameless"So their girlfriend's won't find out," ha ha!

Dan likes down to earth pop rock jazz groove. Its obvious. I'm the slime, torture never stops, call any vegetable, Most of the songs Dan grooves to ,is on Zoot allures and Sheik yer bouti, the two albums zappa fan fakers never request.If it gets too complicated, he gets irritated. Sifa completely checks out, if its too aberrated. Remember his reaction to city of tiny lights baby snakes? - "Frank can get down and dirty with the rest of them". I can actually compile a list of zappa songs, from 66 to 88, that would be Dans top 10! I already agree with his list ,so far. but he's got 6 more to go he hasn't heard yet.

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Lyrics reference the Bedroom society, my children, which some of his band members were accustomed to living that life. It wasn't towards the band members, per se. More towards the actual cultural phenomenon of staying home in your p,j's, watching TV, lazy waiting for the sales at Woolworth! Frank couldn't get along with those type of individuals in the society, which amounted to the majority of americans. His band members were members of that club. Look at it today, Even worse. The only difference is that we're on our smart phones and computers,while the reality and News programs continuously play advertisements, to shop your ass off and save money now. Akin to the sealed tuna sandwich reference in 200 motels. Suburban america.

brilliant! go straight to go and collect $200.00 I am still laughing. Thanks.

@@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 Bwana dik,You still play monopoly?

@@globextradingsystemsllc1740 - Wow, you are such a genius!!! You know everything about everything!!!

😂thanks for the breakdown! We also don’t mind reading books in the evening!

Thanks for watching Dave!

Wow what an amazing collection you made at have! Thanks so much for your support David!

Jhc, David, are you for real? An incredible story!!!

😄wow, what a story!

George Duke , indeed

yeah...point your ear at the chordal exchanges of Duke and see a new town.

Absolutely, George Duke kills it with the piano in here. My favorite instrument in that song

The scientific community love Zappa. Naming bacteria after him, Naming asteroids, e.g. zappafrank asteroid.etc, etc.

Seems like all the other comments agree with yours. Thanks for watching!

In honor of this, you must do “77 Screaming Diz-Busters” by Blue Oyster Cult.

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Mine too, in fact probably my favourite album of all time

@Rossa Sheridan - A huge amount of Zappa fans rate OSFA as their favorite album or in their top 5. Your opinion is certainly a popular one. The funny thing is the album didn't sell, so most OSFA lovers came to it later.

I always imagine a stripy blue and white pyjama with the matching hat and slippers

@@KutayCoskun your fantasy is as good as mine lol

I would like to say almost the same. It's my favorite Zappa album. And you should definitely do Sofa#1 and #2 in one video. 😁

Perfectly sung, if not perfect German, on Sofa... Now the Flo and Eddie version, not so much...

arf! arf!

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@@Peter-K Soweeee!

@@Peter-K Hotcha!

Glad you enjoyed IT?!

Hot rats and one size fits all and don’t forget about Zoot allures

Adamnealis did just that only one minute after your suggested it😀

@@altohippiegabber Yeah, didn't figure it would take long, these SAD/FZ comment sections always have great stories.

@@Peter-K Don't be annoyed, Take this at face value and smile. Lyrics reference the Bedroom society, Suburban America, which some of his band members were accustomed to living that life. Akin to the sealed tuna sandwich reference in 200 motels. Excellent choice, Peter K. This was my favorite song on one size, back in 10th grade, when it was released. We ran to the TSS store to buy it, the same day I remember,along with ELP's 3 album live set, Welcome back my friends. 1974 Roxy killer group, just not successful enough for Franks goals. You know what I mean. Frank always had a sort of aberrated way of pretentiously being a contrarian. Slowed up his world success,until Bozzio came along, and helped set him in the right direction!

Solo was a bit too long, but amazing, nevertheless. a little too long. Even ralph humphrey complained in 73 about franks endless solos.

Thanks Peter❤️!

Correct...it was motown unemployed muso's Frank hired for Grand Wazoo...when he toured they were static.

Dweezil said he look like a chicken fighting a spider.

The chicken and the spider. Chicken - Plucking the strings. Spider - left hand dexterity,but not picking every note.

@@globextradingsystemsllc1740 - Wow, you know everything. You are a genius!!!

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Zoot and sheik gets more down and dirty as hard rock style albums. This has too many jazz musicians in it but you can see the change frank was changing into. Terry Bozzio catapulted him to stardom with his new hard rock style.Of course keeping the organics there from time to time.

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In 1967, paleontologist Leo P. Plas, Jr., identified an extinct mollusc in Nevada and named it Amaurotoma zappa with the motivation that, "The specific name, zappa, honors Frank Zappa".[211] In the 1980s, biologist Ed Murdy named a genus of gobiid fishes of New Guinea Zappa, with a species named Zappa confluentus.[212] Biologist Ferdinando Boero named a Californian jellyfish Phialella zappai (1987), noting that he had "pleasure in naming this species after the modern music composer".[213] Belgian biologists Bosmans and Bosselaers discovered in the early 1980s a Cameroonese spider, which they in 1994 named Pachygnatha zappa because "the ventral side of the abdomen of the female of this species strikingly resembles the artist's legendary moustache".[214] A gene of the bacterium Proteus mirabilis that causes urinary tract infections was in 1995 named zapA by three biologists from Maryland. In their scientific article, they "especially thank the late Frank Zappa for inspiration and assistance with genetic nomenclature".[215] Repeating regions of the genome of the human tumor virus KSHV were named frnk, vnct and zppa in 1996 by Yuan Chang and Patrick S. Moore who discovered the virus. Also, a 143 base pair repeat sequence occurring at two positions was named waka/jwka.[216]

Thanks Zippy Doodah!

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Thanks for the tip!

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Frank’s got a great nack for the serious mixed with the funny!

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@@SightAfterDark Way to go!!

Great line!

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