Frank Zappa - Them or Us
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Artist: Frank ZappaEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1995-05-02
Music Label: Zappa Records
Soundtracks:
- Closer You Are
- In France
- Ya Hozna
- Sharleena
- Sinister Footwear II
- Truck Driver Divorce
- Stevie's Spanking
- Baby, Take Your Teeth Out
- Marque-Son's Chicken
- Planet of My Dreams
- Be in My Video
- Them or Us
- Frogs With Dirty Little Lips
- Whipping Post
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Free Music Review: Good Zappa, though not great...
Hit: 3 Stars
This is a mixed album, like a lot of Zappa's 80's work. It's got some brilliant stuff alongside some highly questionable material. Most of the instrumentals are really good, but a lot of the lyrics are quite dated and borderline stupid.
The opener, The Closer You Are, is a doo wop ballad from the 1950's and is quite beautiful. Zappa loved the doo wop ballads, and here he covers an obscure one, but he does it well. It doesn't sound like it's tongue in cheek either. The next song, In France, has a good vocal by Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, but the lyrics are really juvenile. They almost sound like they were written by Republicans at the time of the Iraq War when French bashing was all in vogue. Ya Honza is a great song, with a killer rhythm guitar part by Zappa and strange, backward vocals that really enhance the song. Sharleena is good, though not great.
Sinister Footwear II is a great title, and it's one of Zappa's best instrumentals. Truck Driver Divorce is a stupid song, well, at least the first half of it. The first part is Zappa trashing (obviously) Truck Driver Divorce and country music in general. Then after singing about "delivering string beans to Utah" (a line Zappa used in No Not Now from the Ship Arriving album, and a better song), the song kicks into a totally unrelated jam (probably recorded at another venue) and is quite good. Personally, I didn't like Zappa trashing country music, as I like old country music very much and it has a lot of depth to it. Maybe I'm just being overly sensitive, but that's how I feel. Zappa actually wrote a good, funny country song called Harder than Your Husband on one of his best albums, You Are What You Is.
Stevie's Spanking is funny, with 2 killer solos by Steve Vai and Frank himself. Marque's Son's Chicken is a great instrumental, along with the title track, which sports a fantastic guitar workout by Frank. The other songs have their moments (Frogs with Dirty Little Lips, a strange ditty written by Frank and his son Ahmet, is one of the better later songs), but overall this is an uneven, inconsistent album where there are some outstanding tracks alternating with Zappa's lowbrow, juvenile humour (which was funny when I was 18, not so much now). If you're a Zappa fan, pick it up, otherwise avoid it.
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Japanese reissue of 1984 album, packaged in a miniature gatefold LP sleeve. Videoarts. 2002.Classic Rock Music CDs
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