You Are What You Is
by Frank Zappa
- Type: Album
- Released: 23 September 1981
- Label: Barking Pumpkin
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:10:01
- Community rating: 3.55/5 from 6 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Frank Zappa launches a wildly dense, fiercely satirical attack on American television culture, religion, and Reagan-era politics on this complex double album. 'You Are What You Is' seamlessly weaves incredibly intricate progressive rock musicianship and uncommon time signatures with deeply humorous, relentlessly vulgar comedy rock and quirky pop sensibilities.
Genres
Descriptors: fusion, avant-garde, satirical, uncommon-time-signatures, complex, anti-religious, vulgar
Tracklist
- Teen-age Wind (3:02)
- Harder Than Your Husband (2:28)
- Doreen (4:43)
- Goblin Girl (4:06)
- Theme From The 3rd Movement Of Sinister Footwear (3:35)
- Society Pages (2:26)
- I'm A Beautiful Guy (1:56)
- Beauty Knows No Pain (3:01)
- Charlie's Enormous Mouth (3:36)
- Any Downers? (2:08)
- Conehead (4:28)
- You Are What You Is (4:23)
- Mudd Club (3:10)
- The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing (3:10)
- Dumb All Over (6:14)
- Heavenly Bank Account (4:02)
- Suicide Chump (2:49)
- Jumbo Go Away (3:43)
- If Only She Woulda (3:47)
- Drafted Again (3:06)
Credits
- Frank Zappa - primary artist, arranged by, guitar, vocals, composed by, liner notes
- Arthur Barrow - bass
- David Ocker - clarinet
- David Logeman - drums
- Allen Sides - engineer
- Mark Pinske - engineer
- John Vince - graphics
- Steve Vai - guitar
- Denny Walley - guitar, vocals
- Ike Willis - guitar, vocals
- Ray White - guitar, vocals
- Craig Steward - harmonica
- Tommy Mars - keyboards
- Jo Hansch - lacquer cut by, mastered by
- Ed Mann - percussion
- John Livzey - photography by
- Motorhead Sherwood - saxophone, vocals
- Bob Harris - trumpet, vocals
- Ahmet Zappa - vocals
- Jimmy Carl Black - vocals
- Moon Zappa - vocals