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Apart from this the album also has several instrumental
Its cover is particularly memorable for offering the first [[Sgt.
The album is [[Trope Namer]] for [[Only in It For The Money]].
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=== This album provides example of: ===
* [[Accentuate the Negative]]:
* [[And I Must Scream]]: The victims in the concentration camps in
* [[Art Initiates Life]]: Some of the rumors about concentration camps for hippies turned out to have some truth in them.
* [[Audience Participation]]: In the liner notes Zappa asks the audience to read
* [[Bawdy Song]]:
** Two people collecting urine and smearing boogers on windows in "Let'
** Rape in
** "What'
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]: "Harry You'
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]:
* [[Broken Record]]: The infamous needle scratch sound on
* [[Body Horror]]: "What'
* [[Born Unlucky]]:
* [[Bowdlerized]]: The entire original album has completely been revised and re-recorded. This re-recorded version is now the official version. When one compares the older and newer version one notices extreme differences and changes made, mostly in sound quality and montage.
* [[Call Back]] and [[Continuity Nod]]: "What'
** The quote
** Engineer Gary Kellgren contributes
** In the liner notes Zappa asks the audience
** The classical piece heard in
* [[The Cameo]]:
** [[Jimi Hendrix]] on the album cover. And yes,
** Eric Clapton says
* [[Concept Album]]
* [[Crapsack World]]
* [[Creator Cameo]]:
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: The person tortured in
* [[Cryptic Conversation]]: At various points on the album
* [[Dark Comedy]]
* [[Dramatic Thunder]]: On the album cover.
* [[Electronic Speech Impediment]]: Sped up voices can be hear regularly on the album, mostly for comedic effect.
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**
* [[Everybody Laughs Ending]]: On the final track
* [[Evil Laugh]]: See above.
* [[Evil Twin]]: Some CD packages describe this album as
* [[Fading Into the Next Song]]: Each track - it's a gapless album.
* [[Family
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Mocked in "Who Needs The Peace Corps?", "Absolutely Free" and "Flower Punk".
* [[The Future Will Be Better]]: The lyrics of
* [[Genre Roulette]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The line
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Eric Clapton claiming he sees
** The line about a hippie going to get crabs in "Who Needs The Peace Corps?" becomes much more funnier after family restaurant chain Joe's Crab Shack released psychedelic t-shirts promoting "Peace, Love and Crabs", blissfully unaware of the potential double entendre related to the album.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]
* [[Hype Backlash]]: A key moment that led to the creation of this album was when Zappa went to check out the music scene in San Francisco and came back unimpressed, feeling that the music wasn't as revolutionary as they claimed.
* [[Inner Monologue Conversation]]:
** Gary Kellgren's ranting about erasing
** Rock musicians fantasize about the amount of money and groupies
* [[Intercourse With You]]: Harry wants sex with Madge on the track "Harry You'
* [[Last
* [[Match Cut]]
* [[My Country Right or Wrong]]:
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**
**
**
* [[Non
* [[The Not
* [[One Woman Song]]:
* [[Only in It For The Money]]: [[Trope Namer]]
* [[Out
* [[Parental Hypocrisy]]: The parents in
* [[Parental Obliviousness]]:
* [[The Parody]]/[[Whole Plot Reference]]: The album spoofs The Beatles
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: The entire album has a very paranoid feeling to it complete with many conspiracy theories and tracks frequently interrupted by snippets of mumbling people.
* [[Protest Song]]
* [[Rage Against the Author]]:
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: "Mom and Dad", which calls out the parents who said the hippies deserved to get shot by the cops, when it's the parents' lack of concern and love for their children that played a huge role in it happening in the first place.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: This is basically the definitive critique on the late 1960s.
* [[Reference Overdosed]]:
**
** [[Lyndon B Johnson]] can be seen twice on the album cover.
** Owsley Stanley in
** [[Jimi Hendrix]]
**
** Ronny and Kenny Williams in "Let'
** [[Lenny Bruce]] on the album cover and "Harry You'
** [[Franz Kafka]] in the liner notes
* [[Sampling]]
* [[Scare Chord]]
* [[Sgt.
* [[Scunthorpe Problem]]: Some producers asked Zappa to change the line
* [[Shout Out]]:
** The Beatles on the album cover
** Jimi
** [[Lenny Bruce]]
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]:
* [[Spoken Word in Music]]
* [[Stage Names]]:
* [[Studio Chatter]]: Various moments on this album.
* [[Take That]]:
** Hippies in
** The commercialization of rock
**
** The police in
** The U.S.A in
** Ignorant parents in
** Gary Kellgren's line
* [[Take That, Audience!]]: The listener himself is attacked in
* [[Throw It In]]: The word
** The track
* [[This Trope Is Bleep]] The tracks "Harry You'
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: The album criticizes the hippie movement and [[The Beatles]] and therefore is both very dated and a document of its time at the same time.
* [[Write Who You Know]]:
** The lyrics in "Let'
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