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Frank Zappa with The Mothers Of Invention Lyrics

@dessmith7658

No way to delay that trouble coming every day

@fuzzywzhe

The Internet is nothing more than a reflection of how you use it. You can talk to Ukrainians, Russians, Iraqis, Somalis, Afghani, Libyans, Yemenis, Syrians, Pakistani, anybody you wish. Have you NEVER talked to anybody in a nation the US is bombing? Why not?

Because television controls you. You can't even THINK well enough to ask questions that damned box controls you so completely.

@mtnnoonan

The slime is now oozing out of your phone onto your hands

@johnmichel4865

Exactly!

@David_USF

RIP Ralph Humphrey, who played drums on this track. He passed away from cancer on 4/23/23 at 79.

@chuckspencer8540

I have been a drummer for nearly 50 years,and I can tell you,this is still some of the best drumming I have ever heard. The whole album is incredible,on so many levels.Overnite sensation will always be in my top 100 albums list!!!

@-RandomBiz-

What???!!! Oh no I know we all have to go but damn

@DavidRoss-mf2qp

A true legend. Sadly missed.

@brunoblivious

RIP Tina Turner
The job she and the Ikettes did on this track was simply the best.

@gib59er56

Damn straight Bruno. Those voices are so powerful and the recording would not be anywhere as great without them.

@n0denz

"You will do as you are told until the rights to you are sold."
Frank was a prophet. Back when this was written, it was hyperbole. Today, with companies buying and selling everyone's info online, it's cold dead reality.

@amadrummerr

vry astute observation bout frank's prophetic vision of today, from all the way back then - too bad we didn't heed the warning! It's almost too late to get out of this dystopia

@fuzzywzhe

No, television has always been this, always.

The man who invented television was Philo Farnsworth. A true genius and a good man. He made television expecting it to be an educational device, now a single person could teach the entire country, no matter how remote a person was. That was his dream, but it became a propaganda box instead.

When his son asked him why they did not have a television set, he is said to have told his son "There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet."

And that was in the 1950's or so, when television was just starting to be adopted. It is FAR worse today.

Television has always been this, and always will be this. I will not own a television set. It destroys your mind, and it subtly controls you. When I went to college to study electrical engineering, I simply did not have time to watch the propaganda box, and when I got out of school, I was surprised at how much I discovered I detested it.

@jeepstergal4043

I don't think it was hyperbole. He thought it through to the logical end.

@marks814

It was never hyperbole. It is now more open and intense. Sorry man, dystopia inbound......

@n0denz

@@marks814 Inbound? We're already in it.

@gawentaylor6838

Could not be a more appropriate tune for the times we are living in, Frank you were way ahead of your time!

@RageAgainstTheMachine.

👍👍👍

@marjet

Tv set = Iphone

@billydeewilliams9104

@@RageAgainstTheMachine. Uh, no. Communism is not the answer. Free enterprise helps everyone.

@davidbowman4259

HE'd be aghast at the orange/mango/tangerine slime with the initials DJTe

@sideshow45

It's always been this way. Before us and after us. The man will run the world and the slaves will build it.

@kryptonic269

it’s always feels like a privilege to listen to zappa, more then any other artist I listen to.

@kerbygator

I went to 4 or 5 of his concerts in the 1970's when I was growing up in Chicago. Seen a lot of great bands play, but Frank's were the best.

@loquivirusramoncin465

Zappa, The Kinks and The clash are the only bands matters

@deanjustdean7818

I was introduced to him in 1988, and I was ten years old then. It felt like a great privilege to hear his words and listen to the composition he accompanied with them. I am pretty sure that if he lived to see the world we live in now, he would weep for us.

@Warp75

You should see it all now Frank
Absolutely bonkers

@briansamuel246

Time of the Slime

@dessmith7658

We see it all now Frank
Absolutely bonkers

@yvetteisais604

My dad played the congas with Frank Zappa at his parties on the 60's. My dad was an original beatnik from Hollywood and professional conga player. He said Frank Zappa never did drugs he was just originally different and a musical genius. I grew up without a TV cause my dad knew just like Zappa that it was slime.

@michiwonderoutdoors2282

I stopped watching in 1999, I didn't know about 9/11 until 4pm when a guy came to fix the windshield on my Jeep.

@deanjustdean7818

I have not watched broadcast TV in decades but I love a good visually-interpreted drama and will use a TV to watch them. I always watch carefully and think about what I am seeing, and what the maker of the visual entertainment wants me to think. But I always hear Frank in my head warning me about American or Hollywood productions. He is a little less urgent about European and Asian televisual entertainment, but I still think about it often.

@anncoleman

@@deanjustdean7818yes absolutely

@gib59er56

That is cool as hell. Did you ever meet Frank?

@JamesMcComas-dr2xi

I heard this as a young man, and it helped save me from a life of virtual slavery. Thank you, frank

@alancumming6407

The guitar solo is total filth. Brilliant.

@bodhisattva71

The Artwork for the album cover is astounding.

@perryneum

That poor grapefruit.

@wsilver58

Frank could see into the future!

@peterpandemonium3336

Preciously prescient.

@williambevins

RIP. Tina Turner. Not too many people know that she and the Ikettes did the background vocals.

@davidbowman4259

Gone 30 years. A true original. The word "genius" is often bandied about casually and carelessly, but it truly applies to Mr. Zappa.

@greenjay1043

Now the slime oozes from monitors and phone screens too

@paulsaxo8754

First Zappa song I ever heard - in 1974, in my mate's house - went straight out and bought Over-Nite Sensation. Like all his work, so far ahead of its time. Such funk, such groove, such intelligence, such humour, such prescience and such feckin guitar. RIP Frank - one of a kind.

@lembittork5421

This is great music, I can listen to it over and over again. And the lyrical message has, shamefully, never been more true...

@johnmichel4865

Even by his standards, this is some seriously prescient shit. He is beyond legendary. Such a shame most people will never hear a note of his vast oeuvre.

@betty_q

+1 for using "oeuvre"

@johnmichel4865

@@betty_q Thanks. I like you already.

@TheiRenaissance

The internet is forever 🙏

@stevemcgill355

I know Zappa had more complicated music but IMO he never made a better song than "I'm the Slime".

@kerbygator

He knew what was happening all the way back then.

@HankChillin

I wonder sometimes if frank is back here on earth discovering his own music again

@DavidAlejandroYT

Never thought of it before, and now I'm going to with every artist I love.

@HusaCreature

Well, he'd be around 30 years old... ;)

@deanjustdean7818

@@HusaCreature If things went well, he would be thinking "goddamn, this man was so right".

@johnkimball7919

Will not get enough of Frank Zappa, I can still listen till my ears feel off, then lay my hands on the speaker and rock on. I could say more but I believe the people will surely understand, oh yes Tina Turner and Ikettes contributed ,
wonderful asset. Marvelous, the slime is oozing into your brain 😅

@dietbepsi4709

i used this song for reference for my 3D art final and got an A, i used Frank for reference for 3 or 4 other projects and always got an A so thank you Frank and I'm sorry you're so under-appreciated these days, so glad i found you

@nyccherrygroove2968

Frank also said you can roll up your diploma and smoke it

@nicholasgismondi9346

Way ahead of his time, spot on for today's times!

@benmerliss7702

The slime’s the same. It’s just gotten more fierce.

@sequoiariley4517

Man's got such a unique style

@BURN1NGx1NS1D3

Outstanding guitar work

@rodedc

Frank was a genius ...

@kushking420

His tone is soooo good!

@massapower

And yet here we are in the 21 st Century and Nobody has even come close to FRANK"S amazing MUSICAL GENIUS 🤔

@stephentroisi5827

"Can't stop the slime."

@PrimitiveInTheExtreme

Fantastic song 🔥

@axelheld6655

Haha! That is impossible! I wanted to recommend this song to you. And now I find you here. so cool!

@billytuesday4492

When he wrote this song there was no cable and only 3 channels!

@vinto34

Great album...and the Visualizer brings the cover to life.

@mikeoverbaugh4686

Absolutely prophetic!!!

@philminervino5351

1973, Zappa knew the vile tv mind damage.

@eargasm1072

Used to do this one with Ancient Infant band many moons ago...we had a lot of fun attempting it lol Tina & the Ikettes' background vocals hit the spot!

@gawentaylor6838

Possibly one of the only Mother's tunes us mere mortals could cover! I'd have a go at it, this and My Guitar wants Kill Your Mama!

@scottbettencourt6658

I love the echoing vocals from the demo, I want a mashup

@billsaupe1243

Classic Zappa!

@cozmowiz5593

I still have this album with the plastic cover and the Peaches Records and Tapes sticker on it.

@darkangelw8472

In this crazy world, I'm going back to before I was born and my younger years, being born in 1976

@kerbygator

I went to see Frank in '76, tripping on 2 hits of 4-Way Windowpane LSD. Everything was melting.

@martinkent333

PARANOIA IS SO ADORABLE! AT WHAT AGE DO YOU START TO SCARE KIDS, PUSSYCAT?

@Klug71

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@robertgraham9722

Man! I wish Frank was here to see and react to the shit going on now...

@vishnudas3328

thought I was tripping for a while looking at the cover art, Jeezzz!!

@lildeli3rddimention

One of the greatest !!!

@tomsherwood4650

This needs an updated video presentation encapsulating the current state of media affairs, being still painfully relevent.

@davidsanderson5918

Where and when would you start? And would you need an update every few years? Nahhhh we got it first time.

@whiskeyriver4322

Frank Zappa – guitar, vocals on all tracks except "Fifty-Fifty" and most of "Zomby Woof"
Kin Vassy – vocals on "I'm the Slime", "Dinah-Moe Humm" and "Montana"
Ricky Lancelotti – vocals on "Fifty-Fifty" and "Zomby Woof"
Sal Marquez – trumpet, vocals on "Dinah-Moe Humm"
Ian Underwood – clarinet, flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Bruce Fowler – trombone
Ruth Underwood – percussion, marimba, vibraphone
Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, baritone violin
George Duke – synthesizer, keyboards
Tom Fowler – bass
Ralph Humphrey – drums
Tina Turner and the Ikettes – backing vocals (uncredited) (Tracks 2-3 and 5-7)

@Hacknora

Sounds great to me 👽

@TheSunAndTheMoonrising

If this does not resonate with you all, it's too late!
Years ahead of his foresight concerning fascism.
It is not too late to stop the insanity.

@cliveclerkenville2637

Yes yes yes yes yes

@stephentroisi5827

Luv ❤️ it.

@ExposedTyranny

Some of us get to say. I told you so.

@cornelisverhoef9282

The slime oozing out from your INTERNET.

@MrPianodueler1

Another FZ song on a similar subject.
Trouble Coming Every Day.
Frank was a genius.

@HolgerMeschenmoser-gv3qw

Mega❤

@petepassmore8975

'I am the toxic slime' Earth media 2022

@Clemmy54

A fitting tribute to the WEF and Mr. Shwabb

@williambelford9661

Prophetic

@MinhthanhDo

Yep

@WhiteMaster6751

Rock, Progressive rock, Jazz fusion, Hard rock, Funk rock, Comedy rock

@ronald5563

Truth

@rusamousika9813

zappa figured it out early.

@miriaborgess

🖤

@patsyparisi2620

The guitar solos ooof

@tinaluoma-welcome9607

The latch key generation took a lot of lessons from his music. The education of this song is one. Many other lessons along with insanely good music said don’t give it away free, stay away from drugs etc!! He warned of the pitfalls of life if you listened and believed in him. He also had some nasty lyrics but also a lesson. I felt he was always saying something to steer clear from, sometimes just hysterical but always set to the most interesting and tightest band probably ever. Rip FZ, Miss ya much!!!

@bosola6

Just think of the songs Frank would have written about the Internet and social media,

@VacaLactica-zb4fe

We didn't listen. Frank, you were right all along.

@ModelCitizenTube

He was signed to Warner brothers for six f ing years

@ayiorgos

I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little had changed
I am the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin' out
From your TV set

You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't got for help...no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold

That's right, folks..
Don't touch that dial

Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin'room floor

I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go

@feikotemme8736

State the western world is in now - same when Frank recorded this song😊

@charlesviner1565

👍🎵🎼🎸🎶

@deanjustdean7818

I have to wonder if Tina looked back on this song during the height of her solo career and reflected on how "and you will do as you are told until the rights to you are sold" summed up her time with Ike perfectly.

@jameslauth544

Frank always knew the shit that we are being fed!! And it gets worse every day!!!

@martinkent333

PARANOIA IS SO CUTE! AT WHAT AGE DO YOU START TO TERRORIZE KIDS, CUPCAKE?

@Snowbird_89

This song perfectly describes the media during the COVID 19 pandemic

@yishkabadishka4422

Scam_demic...

@RasMix1

rip tina turner.

@waynejohanson1083

Everything Frank is saying about TV in this song is true.

@manlypedro75

RIP Tina Turner

@thestopper5165

Great drumming on this track - particularly the work on the bass pedal

I would've preferred a ride cymbal at the start of the second verse, but that's just me.

@gib59er56

Times like these days now are when we need Frank. The govt. is slimy as hell about now. What do you all say?

@donaldmerrill4056

This song is more real today!!! Frank Zappa was a man who has proved to be a modern day nostradomas!!!

@martinkent333

SMOKING CIGGIES TIL CANCER CAME.............................

@chrisbarry4467

Absolutely amazing drumming. I believe it was Humphries?

@thomaswilson4441

RIP Tina Turner, and what’s up took

@lindseyb0303

Zappa wrote a song about cable news

@dingleydb

30 years to the day 12-4-1993

@nickgodalin6487

Wow! You're right. You know what? I just randomly decided to put this album on for reappraisal purposes.
And suddenly, there was your comment. Hard to reconcile in the head....30 years. Seems like just yesterday I was watching MTV News with Kurt Loder or some chick last name Quinn I forget.... giving the latest scoop on Zappa's appearance before the US Senate Whatever Joint Unamerican Committee, in support of the 1st Amendment for recording artists. It was actually 1985...ouch.

@OHIOverdrive

I always thought that boot on the cover was a Jabba the hut poop monster singing on a microphone cord lmao

@saqibshabir9755

Lmaooo I thought the same thing! XD

@FreakRoosterMan

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

@douglasveragino9706

@TheBiggestMansEver

Summer of Love by Mike Love (Ov the BEACH BOYS fame!!)

@ksbans1

YouTube just accused me of "harassment and cyberbullying" for posting some of the lyrics from this song in a comment. I used quotes on the lyrics. And cited Frank Zappa as the artist with the name of the song. The video I posted the comment on was making fun of Mainstream Media. So the songs lyrics were Completely Appropriate. They CENSORED the comment by removing it. And Falsely and Maliciously accused me of "violating terms of service". They also threatened to remove my channel or block me from commenting if I continue to commit the evil crime of quoting Frank Zappa lyrics. Apparently. This songs lyrics violate their terms of service. Its funny that YouTube will continue to play and happily collect ad revenue from a song that they consider to be "harrassment and cyberbullying". I imagine that my sharing of the lyrics. Which were completely relevent to the video. Would likely have resulted in more traffic on this channel and more plays of this song. And perhaps some new Zappa fans exploring this channel and bringing in more revenue for the channel. But... Censorship once again has reared its ugly head.

@David_USF

It totally sucks man, and Frank would definitely have something to say about it too, but don't let it get you down. Freeform rock will always live on among us underground dwellers, and nobody can censor that!

@mud6992

Government censorship is completely different from ToS.

@ksbans1

@@mud6992 Libel and Slander charges apply equally to both.

@zanetamatjacic7595

2024

@peterpandemonium3336

Brown shoes don't make it. To this day, I never wear brown shoes.

@user-yv4lm7my9v

Been saying this for years and no one will listen to me.....smash TV& computers

@eddiemurphy2036

What was formerly on a single screen is now in the frontal lobes of all who parrot these new truths that fail to even follow the dictionary rule of definition being the common ground - for although violence is injurious , only physical violence is a focus , w bureaucratic and corporate and class now free to use all the seriously harmful forms of violence , be cause Maher and others “ just know “ that only physical is REAL violence instead of the true definition in Websters , which allowed for physical to be seen as one type of “ intentional injury to another “ —Websters collegiate 2001 - “ Violence “
definition , now it’s all slime ..

@TommyWashow

missed opportunity to show the back side of the cover

@trochslerfritz

#antifrostmalt freuts merci

@bernardjanisset1112

dans les choeurs il y avait Tina et les ikettes
(elles ne sont pas créditées car ike turner avait trouvé que le morceau c'etait de la merde .... bravo ike ! ) ( il n'a jamais brillé par son intelligence.)

@anthonypreziosi30

The SLIME started when GARBAGE got on TV, first...then other medias followed

@djo-dji6018

Zappa feared the US could soon become a theocracy. If only he'd known how wrong he was...

@wildrover9650

A satanic dictatorship is on the way compliments of the soon coming antichrist

@richardmcglothlin7867

This should be the theme song for Fox News channel.

@mustardtigerbaaaaaam

It's for all of them, they're all the same thing

@skarekrowonthelow5303

🦜👽🍄