Bro, you’re fucking everywhere. And I mean everywhere, especially in these reaction videos. Over 500 subscribers with no videos what so ever. That’s impressive. You’re a legend. 😂👌
In Germany it was on 4th place of the single charts!😂And nearly nobody spokes english at this time so they didn't understood the text and thought 'what a nice song'!🤣
Fun reaction, guys! I like that you dig the vocals. The production of this song is so well done, and note the he’s singing the lead 3-ways, right left and center, in quasi-unison, which adds quite an impact, never mind the harmonisations! Absolutely stunning! This is my first unconcious memory of any Zappa song, because my older brother (we were born in ‘63 and ‘66) would randomly blurt out “Watch me now, I’m going down!” In Denmark. Around 1980. So he must have heard it on the radio. There were no Zappa albums in our house. And I remember calling a class mate Frank Zappa, because his first name was Frank. Other than that, I had no clue about Zappa until a few years later. This song made Zappa a houshold, even in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Cheers!
This is Frank Zappa's all-time biggest selling record. It was No. 1 on the German charts for weeks. It's about a journalist who interviewed him in 1977. He was accompanied by a female assistant, and he kept asking Frank about his lyrics that he deemed offensive to women. Frank saw through his ruse and could see that he was only asking these questions to show how enlightened he was to the women's liberation movement in an attempt to get a little "sumthin'-sumthin'" from his assistant later that night.
Was it Barry Miles because he was always banging on that he argued with Frank about woman's lib and the feminist movement...The writer of the feminist book''the female eunuch'' Germaine Greer loved Frank and understood he is being journalistic in his anthropology ....Barry Miles had a problem with ''dead girls of London'' and said Frank wrote it cause they would not put out in a London club...sorry to burst people's bubble...Gloria Steinem the purveyor of the first feminist magazines has openly said the CIA funded her....and Aaron Russo the director said Nick Rockafella claimed they created women's liberation for two reasons...to increase the number of tax payers but most important was to get their children into early child care and make the state the surrogate parents of the young minds....''red traffic light....green traffic light..traffic cop....Do people ever wonder why a stop sign is octagonal,,,..octaves my friends...they don't want the people having quantum leaps of consciousness...
@@andrewschmal6004 On the Halloween '77 3 disc release he tells the story before performing the song. Also if you have the Halloween '77 box set he tells it every show.
can't believe you haven't done this before...had to pause halfway through, was laughing too much thinking 'the guys won't be miming ALL of this' haha...:)
One reason the song is so popular is because you can dance slow. All over Europe plenty of people slow dance to this and don’t really understand the lyrics. Fantastic riffing on the song titles guys. You’re definitely getting the hang of conceptual continuity.
cant believe I missed this one til now! ugh. love it guys. I love how the line "he'll doing anything to get ahead" translates to anything for head, lol! Thanks
I always hated this song, but only because people who don't know him think it's Zappa 's only accomplishment, they always pick this one. But you guys already know what he's about, so it was nice to hear it again after avoiding it for a few years.
One quick way to scare people away from Frank lmao.... People always send this to people who have never heard Zappa just to get a reaction and they're always just completely repulsed by it and they end up never understanding what Frank was truly capable of as a composer. Kinda sad how the songs we know artists by can sometimes be some of their most throw-away material. Todd Rundgren's "Bang On the Drum All Day" is a good example of that.
OH MY GOD THANK FUCK FOR YOU GUYS ❤️ YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT SATIRE IS! All the other reactions on YT are just going "oh my god he has no filter, how can he say that, that's horrible, blah blah blah" It's so infuriating that people don't understand these basic concepts. I guess they were never taught about what comedy is and satire in particular, thank you for doing your part to educate the masses!!
This album was my first confrontation with Zappa. My brother brought it into the house when I was 13 years old. I hated it! But after a few months I was the one playing this record every day. Not a long time later I bought my first LP. It was called Hot Rats. And a little later 'life in New York'. Yes, I was an addict at a very young age.
Fun simple tune that cuts like a knife. I laughed to tears when I first heard this in concert. Doesn't so much press the limits of musicianship, like say, Inca Roads, but it's an easily-accessible pleasure.
Notice that the lyric reference to "I jingle my change" is a subtle 'echo' of the album's title -- SHEIK YERBOUTI -- which, of course, is a spoof of K.C. & the Sunshine Band's hit disco tune "Shake Your Booty" . . . to jingle your change (i.e. the coins in your pocket) is synonymous with shaking your 'booty' -- booty also referring to money, as in what pirates buried in their treasure chests. Zappa was a clever bastard when it came to his lyrical choices.
Well... again... you are completely correct about the meaning. I find it curious that when this song came out... the musical performer and husband of the late Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown was an unknown 11 year old that was about to become famous... Today... he is pretty much forgotten. But this song keeps goin' like the energizer bunny.
Loved the pantomime! That book is the bomb. My Mom (RIP) gave it to me for Christmas around '92 or '93. I couldn't put it down, and now my 19-year-old son who's a jazz musician is enthralled with it!
I could tell you once again had such fun. What I find funny, that Germans love this song so immensely. Every radio show that lets you call in an wish for a song, somebody would ask for this. At first I wondered whether they all understood the lyrics. But Germans don’t give a shit about dirty words. Nothing ever gets beeped
Holy Shit you get this song! I have seen 0 other reaction people that get this. If you were a nerd in the late 70s early 80s and you got no women but you saw all these like you said "quarterbacks" that got all the women and treated them like shit, this was an anthem for you. I graduated high school in 1981. This was so good back then.
This song and Dinah Moe Hum are my favorites in the "in your face" category of Frank's work. Not very elaborate instrumentally but the lyrics are so "bad" they're good.
I can’t believe it took you this long to react to this! As noted, the Norwegians loved. So much so that they would slow dance to it. There may have been something lost in the translation, or Norwegians are just that weird. Who knows?
last christmas, drunk in my sister's house, i insisted i wasn't singing any fucking karaoke until my brother-in-law (who knew what he was doing) threw this on. 4 minutes later i think it was the raping the cheerleader lyric that sat with the party goers the most. this is far from my preferred area of frank, but sheik yerbouti was actually the first frank album i ever owned, so these lyrics are ingrained.
Two things-this was number 1 in sweden and norway i thing-how eeurd is that? Also Dan yr Frank impressions are precious and in my opinion right on the money :)
I'm not 100% sure but the low vocal part sounds like Ike Willis to me. A bit of advice: NEVER listen to this song when you are experiencing a severe fever of the kind that gives you nightmares! I learned this through experience 😄
Yes, Bobby Brown was the name of the Whitney Houston’s ex husband who was in trouble for a lot of dui’s but never abused or was said to have abused Whitney Houston in any way. They were both heavily addicted to drugs while together. Whitney had already had a bad drug habit when she married Bobby(also an addict) because of her own brother Gary who had turned her on to cocaine during her modeling days. Since Bobby was born in 69 and his legal troubles didn’t start until the 90s, we doubt this song is about him☺️
Prime Zappa era. Mid 75 - early 78. Bongo - Live in NY - Zoot - Halloween 77,The original play your guitar live recorded solos - Baby Snakes Movie - New years Eve Concert UCLA - Hammersmith. Everything in it. Nothing left out musically, even metal. After early 78, Frank became merely a variation on this 3 yr Zappa peak era.
With the do-wop vocals it really piles on the cheese, so of course it's American (ha). Try and release such a piece of satire today and the woke brigade would pile on and have you tarred and feathered and run out of town before the sun goes down... and Frank would be pissing himself laughing at the stupidity if it all! Now THAT is art!
Disagree with you guys a bit. Funny? Yes, first few times you hear it. How long does the same joke stay funny?. I think it's sad that of all Frank's wonderful work, it's a 3 minute throwaway ditty some "fans" offer up as his best work...almost criminal. Still, it's not surprising. The sheer diversity of his work you'll get a diversity of fans too This is a firm favourite of the pond dwellers/mud flappers of Frank's following. Yes, it's part of Frank's make-up, but only a small part. Much prefer his musical humour to this school children type humour.
You can't listen to the "fans". They don't understand music. They do, however, jump all over sexual innuendo and cheesy toilet humor. Especially when it came out because it was "dangerous". For most of us it's just the shit we have to wade through to get to the serious music.
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This is the only Zappa song that still gets airtime on German public radio... 😂😂😂😂
As the song's namesake, my friends and enemies used to sing this to me in high school. 😄😅😁
Oh boy ☺️
Bro, you’re fucking everywhere. And I mean everywhere, especially in these reaction videos. Over 500 subscribers with no videos what so ever. That’s impressive. You’re a legend. 😂👌
Franks biggest hit, even now, over 36 million plays on spotify alone
Mostly Europe that's my guess This song made the charts everywhere overthere and big time in Sweden !
This was HUGE in europe, but nowhere else lol
This was a Mega hit in Norway.
This was the very first thing I ever heard from Frank, because our "Rock" radio plays it quite often.
And in Sweden. People just sang along having no idea what golden shower meant. Wasn't no Google around in those days if you wanted to find out.
@@outernothingness1177 We loved Zappa in Finland even before he was born.
That makes a lot of sense actually
In Germany it was on 4th place of the single charts!😂And nearly nobody spokes english at this time so they didn't understood the text and thought 'what a nice song'!🤣
Such a heartwarming song. Hilarious rection! 😁
Glad you enjoyed Canadian Studmuffin!
R u kidding me? The notorious CS is here too? Kudos and many thanks for ur hilarious videos!
@@alexanderkalinchenko4038 Thank you!
Fun reaction, guys! I like that you dig the vocals. The production of this song is so well done, and note the he’s singing the lead 3-ways, right left and center, in quasi-unison, which adds quite an impact, never mind the harmonisations! Absolutely stunning! This is my first unconcious memory of any Zappa song, because my older brother (we were born in ‘63 and ‘66) would randomly blurt out “Watch me now, I’m going down!” In Denmark. Around 1980. So he must have heard it on the radio. There were no Zappa albums in our house. And I remember calling a class mate Frank Zappa, because his first name was Frank. Other than that, I had no clue about Zappa until a few years later. This song made Zappa a houshold, even in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Cheers!
Thanks so much for sharing!
An amazing sharing😎 story
This is Frank Zappa's all-time biggest selling record. It was No. 1 on the German charts for weeks. It's about a journalist who interviewed him in 1977. He was accompanied by a female assistant, and he kept asking Frank about his lyrics that he deemed offensive to women. Frank saw through his ruse and could see that he was only asking these questions to show how enlightened he was to the women's liberation movement in an attempt to get a little "sumthin'-sumthin'" from his assistant later that night.
Was it Barry Miles because he was always banging on that he argued with Frank about woman's lib and the feminist movement...The writer of the feminist book''the female eunuch'' Germaine Greer loved Frank and understood he is being journalistic in his anthropology ....Barry Miles had a problem with ''dead girls of London'' and said Frank wrote it cause they would not put out in a London club...sorry to burst people's bubble...Gloria Steinem the purveyor of the first feminist magazines has openly said the CIA funded her....and Aaron Russo the director said Nick Rockafella claimed they created women's liberation for two reasons...to increase the number of tax payers but most important was to get their children into early child care and make the state the surrogate parents of the young minds....''red traffic light....green traffic light..traffic cop....Do people ever wonder why a stop sign is octagonal,,,..octaves my friends...they don't want the people having quantum leaps of consciousness...
Where did you hear this? Can I get the source lol
@@mikedemike5393 I don't know. Frank never said. But I really don't care for the Barry Miles book.
@@andrewschmal6004 On the Halloween '77 3 disc release he tells the story before performing the song. Also if you have the Halloween '77 box set he tells it every show.
@@zappafan012 ok thanks my friend
can't believe you haven't done this before...had to pause halfway through, was laughing too much thinking 'the guys won't be miming ALL of this' haha...:)
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F.Y.I. The two times a year a Zappa song gets played on Dutch FM radio it is always this song!
So we’ve heard!
TV dinner by the pool....I'm so glad I finished school. Life is such a ball, i'll run the world from city hall.
One reason the song is so popular is because you can dance slow. All over Europe plenty of people slow dance to this and don’t really understand the lyrics. Fantastic riffing on the song titles guys. You’re definitely getting the hang of conceptual continuity.
Thanks Barry!
Why shouldn’t we understand the lyrics????????🤔
true story
@@ferenchegedus3256 he said "plenty of people" and it's true: Plenty of people think it sounds nice but they have no idea about the lyrics.
cant believe I missed this one til now! ugh. love it guys. I love how the line "he'll doing anything to get ahead" translates to anything for head, lol! Thanks
❤ Its always fun to hear bobby brown
The best part is they're kind of trying not to laugh but they can't help it. Which is just the reaction Zappa would have found amusing
I always hated this song, but only because people who don't know him think it's Zappa 's only accomplishment, they always pick this one. But you guys already know what he's about, so it was nice to hear it again after avoiding it for a few years.
Yup right on the money.
I always liked this song, it's a scathing indictment of the macho male myth, met my fair share of those guys in my life, phonies the lot of them.
One quick way to scare people away from Frank lmao.... People always send this to people who have never heard Zappa just to get a reaction and they're always just completely repulsed by it and they end up never understanding what Frank was truly capable of as a composer. Kinda sad how the songs we know artists by can sometimes be some of their most throw-away material. Todd Rundgren's "Bang On the Drum All Day" is a good example of that.
Well they could have sent them "The Torture Never Stops" XD
People don't understand satire, it's maddening
OH MY GOD THANK FUCK FOR YOU GUYS ❤️ YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT SATIRE IS! All the other reactions on YT are just going "oh my god he has no filter, how can he say that, that's horrible, blah blah blah"
It's so infuriating that people don't understand these basic concepts. I guess they were never taught about what comedy is and satire in particular, thank you for doing your part to educate the masses!!
Subbed just for this fact
We’re glad you’re here J, thanks!
First time I heard this song was live in London around the late seventies. Dancing’ Fool was the other he always used to do back then.
This album was my first confrontation with Zappa. My brother brought it into the house when I was 13 years old. I hated it! But after a few months I was the one playing this record every day. Not a long time later I bought my first LP. It was called Hot Rats. And a little later 'life in New York'. Yes, I was an addict at a very young age.
Fun simple tune that cuts like a knife. I laughed to tears when I first heard this in concert. Doesn't so much press the limits of musicianship, like say, Inca Roads, but it's an easily-accessible pleasure.
Notice that the lyric reference to "I jingle my change" is a subtle 'echo' of the album's title -- SHEIK YERBOUTI -- which, of course, is a spoof of K.C. & the Sunshine Band's hit disco tune "Shake Your Booty" . . . to jingle your change (i.e. the coins in your pocket) is synonymous with shaking your 'booty' -- booty also referring to money, as in what pirates buried in their treasure chests. Zappa was a clever bastard when it came to his lyrical choices.
He was for sure!
Well... again... you are completely correct about the meaning. I find it curious that when this song came out... the musical performer and husband of the late Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown was an unknown 11 year old that was about to become famous...
Today... he is pretty much forgotten.
But this song keeps goin' like the energizer bunny.
This piece of music is so ahead of time, so smart and incredible👌🏻…
Finally the album version
He is the central scrutinizer.
Loved the pantomime!
That book is the bomb. My Mom (RIP) gave it to me for Christmas around '92 or '93. I couldn't put it down, and now my 19-year-old son who's a jazz musician is enthralled with it!
Thanks so much for watching iRenegade!
I could tell you once again had such fun. What I find funny, that Germans love this song so immensely. Every radio show that lets you call in an wish for a song, somebody would ask for this. At first I wondered whether they all understood the lyrics. But Germans don’t give a shit about dirty words. Nothing ever gets beeped
Ha ha.... great mime action guys, such a funny track, you nailed it!
☺️thanks Sonic Art!
🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 Great song. Not a throw away as "purists" might think. He does pop, psych, guitar, orchestra. Always good.
purists? Music lovers rather than gutter tramps
Holy Shit you get this song! I have seen 0 other reaction people that get this. If you were a nerd in the late 70s early 80s and you got no women but you saw all these like you said "quarterbacks" that got all the women and treated them like shit, this was an anthem for you. I graduated high school in 1981. This was so good back then.
Thanks so much Frank!
According to Frank, this was written about 3 'music journalists
It's beautiful. It's deep. Loved the reaction.
Thanks for watching Randy!
This song and Dinah Moe Hum are my favorites in the "in your face" category of Frank's work. Not very elaborate instrumentally but the lyrics are so "bad" they're good.
I can’t believe it took you this long to react to this! As noted, the Norwegians loved. So much so that they would slow dance to it. There may have been something lost in the translation, or Norwegians are just that weird. Who knows?
😆thanks for the info Thomas!
It was a number 1 hit
On the contrary, Norwegians as well as other Scandinavians are very normal if they loved Bobby Brown.
@@alexanderkalinchenko4038 that was said tongue in cheek. No offense meant.
What’s new in Baltimore?
Please do a Zappa track from a Halloween concert, in honor of Frank's favorite holiday.
😂🙃😉 all german school kids ran for this hit single and they didn't understand a word, so funny!
Ahh, a cautionary tale!😀
This is a crazy album, Rat Tomago is an epic Zappa guitar riff
My favorite Frank's solo !
Absolutely!
give your ears a drink of "Dino moe hum" by Zappa, of course.
last christmas, drunk in my sister's house, i insisted i wasn't singing any fucking karaoke until my brother-in-law (who knew what he was doing) threw this on. 4 minutes later i think it was the raping the cheerleader lyric that sat with the party goers the most. this is far from my preferred area of frank, but sheik yerbouti was actually the first frank album i ever owned, so these lyrics are ingrained.
😂wow
Love the backup vocals!! 😃😝
Love the hand jive : hilarious
☺️thanks!
Great to see you guys laughing at this. It's funny as hell and makes fun of rich assholes!
U have clearly become Zappa fans and its very cool. Broken hearts are for assholes, flakes etc. Great album.
Thanks for watching Bill!
You both had heard that before, you can't fool us you know 🤣😋
We really haven’t. We just know music. We’re music maniacs!
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Sifa you looked very convincing when you cracked the whip.
🤣I went to catholic school
Hoy! hoy hoy.
Rat Tomago is also on Sheik Yerbouti and I don't believe you've done that one yet. Its a great solo, you should get to it at sometime in the future.
Have you guys done ‘Why does it hurt when I pee’? Like this, crazy lyrics, great musically
Not yet!
Not many people know this, but Lindsay Graham's pseudonym is actually Bobby Brown.
Well I reckon John McCain knew that before the military executed him...Lindsay was always saddling up with McCain the godfather of ISIS.
I suggest you guys check what a tower of power is... Arf!
You bought his book? Cool! 😁
Two things-this was number 1 in sweden and norway i thing-how eeurd is that? Also Dan yr Frank impressions are precious and in my opinion right on the money :)
Look here BOBBY...who you Jivin with that "tower of power"..debris?
P.S.....and get the REAL Frank Zappa book!
Not the Sears version...
I love your deep references.
Thanks Kelly!
Interesting, wouldn't you say?
I'm not 100% sure but the low vocal part sounds like Ike Willis to me. A bit of advice: NEVER listen to this song when you are experiencing a severe fever of the kind that gives you nightmares! I learned this through experience 😄
Woah☺️
Sheik yerbouti is thé first cd i bought 20 years ago
Try The Dangerous kitchen for a laugh, ....or seriously City of Tiny lights, it's fantastic
Next do frank Zappa: valley girl
you gotta do Flakes off this album
am I a boy or a lady? I don't know which? / Gonna get a good job and be real rich....
lol... 😄
Please do 'Valley Girl' he did with Moon
At least, you tried doin this in a proper way. Hehe.
Wasn't Bobby Brown Whitney Houston's abusive boyfriend or husband?
Yes, Bobby Brown was the name of the Whitney Houston’s ex husband who was in trouble for a lot of dui’s but never abused or was said to have abused Whitney Houston in any way. They were both heavily addicted to drugs while together. Whitney had already had a bad drug habit when she married Bobby(also an addict) because of her own brother Gary who had turned her on to cocaine during her modeling days.
Since Bobby was born in 69 and his legal troubles didn’t start until the 90s, we doubt this song is about him☺️
Get a head, not get ahead right ? :)
Kind of think the lyrical content (amazing!) is offering some real criticism of several perceptions... shallow society traits maybe?
Prime Zappa era.
Mid 75 - early 78.
Bongo - Live in NY - Zoot - Halloween 77,The original play your guitar live recorded solos - Baby Snakes Movie - New years Eve Concert UCLA - Hammersmith.
Everything in it. Nothing left out musically, even metal.
After early 78, Frank became merely a variation on this 3 yr Zappa peak era.
With the do-wop vocals it really piles on the cheese, so of course it's American (ha).
Try and release such a piece of satire today and the woke brigade would pile on and have you tarred and feathered and run out of town before the sun goes down...
and Frank would be pissing himself laughing at the stupidity if it all!
Now THAT is art!
Bobby Brown == Donald Trump.
I think you two cheated and pre-listened so you could work out the choreography.
Lol think whatever you want. Thanks for watching!
Disagree with you guys a bit. Funny? Yes, first few times you hear it. How long does the same joke stay funny?. I think it's sad that of all Frank's wonderful work, it's a 3 minute throwaway ditty some "fans" offer up as his best work...almost criminal. Still, it's not surprising. The sheer diversity of his work you'll get a diversity of fans too This is a firm favourite of the pond dwellers/mud flappers of Frank's following. Yes, it's part of Frank's make-up, but only a small part. Much prefer his musical humour to this school children type humour.
Don't you wish you were listening to Grizzly Bear right now...😄?
@@Joe-Flow Haha...it has about the same musical depth as them, I agree, lol
Well, at least it's not another damned Chicago song.
@@zappafan012 Haha, there is that James🤣
You can't listen to the "fans". They don't understand music. They do, however, jump all over sexual innuendo and cheesy toilet humor. Especially when it came out because it was "dangerous". For most of us it's just the shit we have to wade through to get to the serious music.
Terrible 😂