- rock, blues, hard rock
- 69 min
- 20 tracks
- Barking Pumpkin Records
You Are What You Is is a 1981 double album by American musician Frank Zappa. His 34th album, it consists of three musical suites which encompass pop, doo-wop, jazz, hard rock, reggae, soul, blues, new wave and country. The album's lyrics satirize a number of topics, including hippies, socialites, fashion, narcotics use, cultural appropriation, religion, televangelists and the military draft.
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Spare, character-led, cool and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3.5/5 ★
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Tracks
- A1Teen‐age Wind3:01
- A2Harder Than Your Husband2:29
- A3Doreen4:43
- A4Goblin Girl4:07
- A5Theme From the 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear3:34
- B1Society Pages2:27
- B2I’m a Beautiful Guy1:56
- B3Beauty Knows No Pain3:01
- B4Charlie’s Enormous Mouth3:36
- B5Any Downers?2:09
- B6Conehead4:20
- C1You Are What You Is4:22
- C2Mudd Club3:11
- C3The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing3:10
- C4Dumb All Over5:50
- D1Heavenly Bank Account4:03
- D2Suicide Chump2:50
- D3Jumbo Go Away3:42
- D4If Only She Woulda3:47
- D5Drafted Again3:05
20 tracks, 69 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Frank Zappa
- Label
- Barking Pumpkin Records
- Released
- 1981
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- NL
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