- rock, art rock
- 34 min
- 6 tracks
- EMI
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch is the 35th album by American musician Frank Zappa, released on May 3, 1982 and digitally remastered in 1991. It features five tracks composed by Zappa, and one song, "Valley Girl", co-written with his then-14 year old daughter Moon Zappa, who provided the spoken monologue mocking valley girls, including phrases like "Gag me with a spoon!".
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Contemporary, open-ended, ironic and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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Tracks
- 1No Not Now5:51
- 2Valley Girl4:50
- 3I Come From Nowhere6:10
- 4Drowning Witch12:03
- 5Envelopes2:45
- 6Teen‐Age Prostitute2:41
6 tracks, 34 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Frank Zappa
- Label
- EMI
- Released
- 1982
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Vinyl
- Country
- GB
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