You Are What You Is

Occupation

  • Frank Zappa - lead guitar, vocals
  • Ike Willis - rhythm guitar, vocals
  • Ray White - rhythm guitar, vocals
  • Steve Vai - Guitar ( " Strat Abuse" - dt Stratocaster abuse)
  • Tommy Mars - keyboards
  • Arthur Barrow - Bass
  • Ed Mann - percussion
  • David Ocker - clarinet and bass clarinet
  • Denny Walley - slide guitar, vocals
  • David Logeman - drums
  • Craig "Twister" Steward - Harmonica

Guest vocals:

You Are What You Is (English You are what you is ) is a rock album by Frank Zappa, released in 1981 on vinyl. The album was recorded largely in Zappa's Utility Muffin Research Kitchen own studio and also produced there. Here, Zappa continued extensive overdubbing techniques. You Are What You Is was originally released as a double album, each page is dedicated to the manner of a concept album, a separate topic. The individual pieces merge into each other and some are linked together through spoken transitions. The album exerts significant criticism of American society in the era of the Reagan administration; it parodies the demanding attitude of teenagers, self-love and vanity of yuppies as well as those of older society women in small towns. Religion, too, as the driving force of war and destruction and the profit motive of the televangelist is denounced.

Title list

Reception

Zappa himself described the album as one of his best, but he complained that it was not accepted by the audience. The album peaked on the Billboard Charts place 93 Kelly Fisher Lowe sees in You Are What You Is Zappa's most significant political work since Absolutely Free We're Only in It or for the Money. It was an incredibly good work in terms of songwriting and studio work. Ben Watson writes, the album remains one of the most ambitious public Gegenpositonen to Reaganism.

Record label Barking Pumpkin Records Columbia Records EMI Rykodisc Genre Rock music Singing Electronic keyboard Moon Zappa Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch Televangelism Ronald Reagan Freak Out! Lumpy Gravy Uncle Meat Mothermania Hot Rats Burnt Weeny Sandwich Weasels Ripped My Flesh Fillmore East – June 1971 Just Another Band from L.A. Waka/Jawaka The Grand Wazoo Over-Nite Sensation One Size Fits All (Frank Zappa album) Bongo Fury Zoot Allures Sleep Dirt Sheik Yerbouti Orchestral Favorites Tinsel Town Rebellion The Man from Utopia Baby Snakes (soundtrack) London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I Them or Us Francesco Zappa (Album)
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