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@TommiBrem
Жыл бұрын
This is the only Zappa song that still gets airtime on German public radio... 😂😂😂😂
@HakanTunaMuzik
Жыл бұрын
Franks biggest hit, even now, over 36 million plays on spotify alone
@Frankincensedjb123
Жыл бұрын
As the song's namesake, my friends and enemies used to sing this to me in high school. 😄😅😁
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
Oh boy ☺️
@ethantinsley8185
Жыл бұрын
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. 😂👌
@CSMuffin
Жыл бұрын
Such a heartwarming song. Hilarious rection! 😁
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed Canadian Studmuffin!
@alexanderkalinchenko4038
Жыл бұрын
R u kidding me? The notorious CS is here too? Kudos and many thanks for ur hilarious videos!
@TheCanadianStudmuffin
Жыл бұрын
@@alexanderkalinchenko4038 Thank you!
@peteharper2687
11 ай бұрын
He is the central scrutinizer.
@zappafan012
Жыл бұрын
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.
@mikedemike5393
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
Where did you hear this? Can I get the source lol
@zappafan012
Жыл бұрын
@@mikedemike5393 I don't know. Frank never said. But I really don't care for the Barry Miles book.
@zappafan012
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@andrewschmal6004
Жыл бұрын
@@zappafan012 ok thanks my friend
@barrywilson1294
Жыл бұрын
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.
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Barry!
@ferenchegedus3256
Жыл бұрын
Why shouldn’t we understand the lyrics????????🤔
@wowwhywow
Жыл бұрын
true story
@Flipomat1
23 күн бұрын
@@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.
@TheUtke
Жыл бұрын
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!
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for sharing!
@alexanderkalinchenko4038
Жыл бұрын
An amazing sharing😎 story
@rolfjamne8922
Жыл бұрын
This was a Mega hit in Norway.
@mrkv4k
Жыл бұрын
This was the very first thing I ever heard from Frank, because our "Rock" radio plays it quite often.
@outernothingness1177
Жыл бұрын
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.
@LohiHarHar
Жыл бұрын
@@outernothingness1177 We loved Zappa in Finland even before he was born.
@romeosyne
Жыл бұрын
That makes a lot of sense actually
@dennis.stolle
Жыл бұрын
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'!🤣
@johnsrensen3366
3 ай бұрын
❤ Its always fun to hear bobby brown
@altohippiegabber
Жыл бұрын
F.Y.I. The two times a year a Zappa song gets played on Dutch FM radio it is always this song!
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
So we’ve heard!
@kengregory6026
Жыл бұрын
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...:)
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
😆
@amedeeabreo7334
Жыл бұрын
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.
@TarantuLandoCalcuLingus
Жыл бұрын
This was HUGE in europe, but nowhere else lol
@Lemopalm
Жыл бұрын
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
@steveschmitz2839
Жыл бұрын
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
@greendoor49
9 ай бұрын
give your ears a drink of "Dino moe hum" by Zappa, of course.
@tauronval1404
Жыл бұрын
This piece of music is so ahead of time, so smart and incredible👌🏻…
@SalamaSond
Жыл бұрын
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.
@jatichsicharta
Жыл бұрын
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.
@stevedotwood
Жыл бұрын
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.
@davetothebeard
Жыл бұрын
Yup right on the money.
@Peter-K
Жыл бұрын
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.
@ljw5768
Жыл бұрын
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.
@wowwhywow
Жыл бұрын
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.
@thomasvieth578
Жыл бұрын
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
@iRenegade164
Жыл бұрын
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!
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for watching iRenegade!
@randybaker6042
Жыл бұрын
It's beautiful. It's deep. Loved the reaction.
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching Randy!
@tampawakos
Жыл бұрын
Finally the album version
@patricktilton5377
Жыл бұрын
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.
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
He was for sure!
@mjdaniel8710
Жыл бұрын
This is a crazy album, Rat Tomago is an epic Zappa guitar riff
@MrTortureneverstops1
Жыл бұрын
My favorite Frank's solo !
@alexanderkalinchenko4038
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
@markdearlove8634
Жыл бұрын
Ahh, a cautionary tale!😀
@michaelhallen2808
Жыл бұрын
Please do a Zappa track from a Halloween concert, in honor of Frank's favorite holiday.
@ianhamilton2035
7 ай бұрын
Love the backup vocals!! 😃😝
@ManuMasson
Жыл бұрын
I suggest you guys check what a tower of power is... Arf!
@jungliatpil9124
Жыл бұрын
You both had heard that before, you can't fool us you know 🤣😋
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
We really haven’t. We just know music. We’re music maniacs! m.youtube.com/@musicmaniacspod
@markofrontz1343
Жыл бұрын
According to Frank, this was written about 3 'music journalists
@GoodCorporateRobot
Жыл бұрын
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?
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
😆thanks for the info Thomas!
@IvanLeirvik
Жыл бұрын
It was a number 1 hit
@alexanderkalinchenko4038
Жыл бұрын
On the contrary, Norwegians as well as other Scandinavians are very normal if they loved Bobby Brown.
@GoodCorporateRobot
Жыл бұрын
@@alexanderkalinchenko4038 that was said tongue in cheek. No offense meant.
@MrJMS814
Жыл бұрын
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.
@cazgerald9471
Жыл бұрын
Well they could have sent them "The Torture Never Stops" XD
@0Linerider0forever0
Жыл бұрын
People don't understand satire, it's maddening
@davehagi9883
Жыл бұрын
Hoy! hoy hoy.
@sootikins
Жыл бұрын
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.
@stonebringer1
Жыл бұрын
🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 Great song. Not a throw away as "purists" might think. He does pop, psych, guitar, orchestra. Always good.
@paulfenwick8767
Жыл бұрын
purists? Music lovers rather than gutter tramps
@michaosanna
Жыл бұрын
😂🙃😉 all german school kids ran for this hit single and they didn't understand a word, so funny!
@badbruise
Жыл бұрын
What’s new in Baltimore?
@sonicart1808
Жыл бұрын
Ha ha.... great mime action guys, such a funny track, you nailed it!
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
☺️thanks Sonic Art!
@kevinmulligan9055
Жыл бұрын
Next do frank Zappa: valley girl
@zappafan3473
Жыл бұрын
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.
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
😂wow
@frankgarcia1
Жыл бұрын
you gotta do Flakes off this album
@scottmoquin
Жыл бұрын
Sifa you looked very convincing when you cracked the whip.
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
🤣I went to catholic school
@0Linerider0forever0
Жыл бұрын
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!!
@0Linerider0forever0
Жыл бұрын
Subbed just for this fact
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
We’re glad you’re here J, thanks!
@markrobinson938
Жыл бұрын
Interesting, wouldn't you say?
@ludofuzz3012
Жыл бұрын
Sheik yerbouti is thé first cd i bought 20 years ago
@ButternutGOLD
Жыл бұрын
Love the hand jive : hilarious
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
☺️thanks!
@vrankholland8113
8 ай бұрын
Please do 'Valley Girl' he did with Moon
@marcribe6483
Жыл бұрын
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.
@frankgarcia1
Жыл бұрын
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.
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much Frank!
@ljw5768
Жыл бұрын
Have you guys done ‘Why does it hurt when I pee’? Like this, crazy lyrics, great musically
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
Not yet!
@AndyMmusic
Жыл бұрын
Great to see you guys laughing at this. It's funny as hell and makes fun of rich assholes!
@kellywann3794
Жыл бұрын
I love your deep references.
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Kelly!
@mrtyreus0
Жыл бұрын
Not many people know this, but Lindsay Graham's pseudonym is actually Bobby Brown.
@mikedemike5393
Жыл бұрын
Well I reckon John McCain knew that before the military executed him...Lindsay was always saddling up with McCain the godfather of ISIS.
@MC-pl3zd
Жыл бұрын
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 :)
@SpaceCattttt
Жыл бұрын
You bought his book? Cool! 😁
@DrSardonicuss
Жыл бұрын
lol... 😄
@yesh3
Жыл бұрын
Try The Dangerous kitchen for a laugh, ....or seriously City of Tiny lights, it's fantastic
@T23000PLUS
Жыл бұрын
am I a boy or a lady? I don't know which? / Gonna get a good job and be real rich....
@ManuMasson
Жыл бұрын
Get a head, not get ahead right ? :)
@billostroff22
Жыл бұрын
U have clearly become Zappa fans and its very cool. Broken hearts are for assholes, flakes etc. Great album.
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching Bill!
@jonassundell9366
Жыл бұрын
At least, you tried doin this in a proper way. Hehe.
@davidbonner4556
Жыл бұрын
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 😄
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
Woah☺️
@shipahoy8832
Жыл бұрын
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.
@chrisoleary9876
Жыл бұрын
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...
@justaguy2365
Жыл бұрын
Wasn't Bobby Brown Whitney Houston's abusive boyfriend or husband?
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
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☺️
@peteriuliano5846
Жыл бұрын
Kind of think the lyrical content (amazing!) is offering some real criticism of several perceptions... shallow society traits maybe?
@stevious7278
Жыл бұрын
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!
@martinperry5072
Жыл бұрын
Bobby Brown == Donald Trump.
@gabrielgolden4336
Жыл бұрын
I think you two cheated and pre-listened so you could work out the choreography.
@SightAfterDark
Жыл бұрын
Lol think whatever you want. Thanks for watching!
@paulfenwick8767
Жыл бұрын
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.
@Joe-Flow
Жыл бұрын
Don't you wish you were listening to Grizzly Bear right now...😄?
@paulfenwick8767
Жыл бұрын
@@Joe-Flow Haha...it has about the same musical depth as them, I agree, lol
@zappafan012
Жыл бұрын
Well, at least it's not another damned Chicago song.
@paulfenwick8767
Жыл бұрын
@@zappafan012 Haha, there is that James🤣
@chazblitz
Жыл бұрын
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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