We're Only In It For The Money

I mean this is shit right??? Absolute garbage, hot poop is the way I would describe it. How in good conscience do you say this album is better than Weezer blue album for example? Just pretentious assholes who think listening to this is cool. Hipster bullshit. 1/10 Top song... None, it is shit. Didn't you read above?

I don’t get it…

Not great, but this album has certainly had an effect on me. I managed to get the word ‘discorporate’ into a work Teams call about cyber security yesterday. Today I’m going to try to mention ‘hot poop’ in my year end appraisal.

I was entertained.

Dogshit.

It’s not all bad, there’s some good satire and biting lyrics, but it’s hard to catch when musically a good amount of of this sounds like…hot poop

This feels like a perfect use for 2 stars.

Personally just cause you satirize a popular album. I don’t think you that makes your album worth listening too.

Im Tired of this grandpa!

The Sgt. Pepper parody that's also a genuine artistic statement — Zappa using the Beatles' format against itself, the satire aimed at hippie culture, the music industry, censorship, and everything else within range. The intent is clear and the historical importance is real. None of which makes it enjoyable to listen to. Where Hot Rats earned a three for genuine craft underneath the indulgence, this one's deliberately confrontational chaos works against the listener rather than with them — the satire landing as exhausting rather than funny, the abrasion purposeful without being pleasurable. A two for a record that didn't connect on any level, delivered without ambiguity.

I had a friend who lived Frank Zappa. For a while, he was a professional jouster at the Renaissance Faire. Died too soon. Never did care for Zappa myself, though, but adding a couple of stars for the memory.

The Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money I listened twice to make sure my ears, or brain, weren't malfunctioning the first time. Truly the weirdest album we've been dealt from this list so far. And we've had some pretty 'off-piste' stuff. But it is hard to not be enchanted in some way by this collection of hippydom pisstakes and critiques if the shallowness of psychedelia. And to think this was being written and performed simultaneously with the very world it lampoons shows just how on the ball Zappa and his crazy gang were. A hundred ideas all squashed together but some real musicality, some adventures, some real laughter. I enjoyed and I'd ride this ride again. Best Track - How the fuck do you pick one cos each track is like multiple tracks on its own? Let's say Concentration Moon cos a loved the 60s LA pop pastiche it repeatedly broke into. Worst Track - The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny. This one was too much even for me. 7.5/10

Didn't do anything for me

This whispery start is giving me the ick. This is all a bit mad? Old school experimentation not really doing it for me. 2.5 stars

Way too 'zany' for me. No chance I'd listen to it again

Enjoyed this, though probably more thematically than musically. The critique of SF/CA from both the left and the right (some parallels to K. Dick's Black Iron Prison) also seems highly applicable to current times, albeit through a slightly different lens.

Well, that was interesting in a trippy bat shit crazy kind of way! I listened to it on headphones and had to pause it on several occasions as it was too much sensory overload! Very distinct. Not sure I’d play it at the mythical Cafe Kelvinos though.

Frank Zappa group. Very experimental with moments of genuine talent throughout

Reverso ácido del Sgt. Peppers. Más asequible que Hot rats o Freak Out! Toda una crítica a la puerilidad del movimiento Hippy que sigue aún vigente con el movimiento Woke y en nivel político actual. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? es una delicia que se repite a lo largo del disco. Flower Punk es una de sus joyas, por letras y por complejidad. The idiot bastard son tiene efectos que para sí quisieran los Floang Lips. Lonely little girl es lo más accesible que haría Zappa en su vida. Mención a parte su portada, con referencia al Sgt. Peppers y en la que participó el propio Zappa y Jimi Hendrix. Entre las figuras notables que aparecen en la portada se incluyen Lee Harvey Oswald , Lyndon B. Johnson , Franz Kafka , Big Mama Thornton , Lon Chaney Jr. , Sgt. Fury , Cal Schenkel , Ginevra de' Benci , Jim Leavelle , el Papa Pablo III , el Conde Orlok ( Max Schreck ), George Liberace , Eddie Haskell , Ed Wynn , Eric Burdon , Pauline Butcher (secretaria de Zappa), Lloyd Price , Rod Serling , Richard E. Byrd , David Crosby , Theda Bara , Gracie Allen , Mary Martin , la Estatua de la Libertad , Herb Cohen , el Capitán Beefheart , Nancy Sinatra , Hieronymus Bosch , Sandy Hurvitz ( Suzy Creamcheese ), Elvis Presley , Albert Einstein , Gail Zappa y los padres de Frank Zappa. [ 30 ] Otras figuras incluyen a los padres de Frank Zappa, miembros de la familia, asociados, profesores de secundaria y compañeros de clase...

Absolutely batshit, my dad’s kind of music. He saw them twice in the 70s

Classic Zappa.

A very unusual yet fascinating experience. I’d only heard Zappa away from the mothers before and this is different; it’s 60’s and flower power yet diametrically opposed apparently, and yet still heavily anti-establishment. Silly and weird yet also quite political. Not sure I’d revisit but glad I went there.

Some people will tell you that putting We're Only In It For The Money and Method-Tical Man together, on a playlist, on shuffle is madness. They are FOOLS!

Gibberish

Nigh unbearable to listen to but I can always respect bullying the Beatles. As they deserve. 3.5 rounded down to 3.

The musical embodiment of jealousy. Get over it, Zappa. Paul’s on Amy Pohler’s podcast discussing his life and career and how he loves being a goofy little Brit who loves Bob Dylan. Zappa is Diogenes, mocking and throwing his shit on the wall. Paulo don’t care.

Listen, I’m fully on board with mocking the hippie movement, criticizing it, and calling out its superficiality—it did real, reprehensible damage to American society. I just finished Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles and thoroughly enjoyed his scathing takedown. That being said, this ain’t it. This is music for people who live for creating in-groups and out-groups. Music for people convinced they’re simply smarter than everyone else. Music for people whose favorite novel is still The Catcher in the Rye. Yes, The Beatles are popular. No, that isn’t a bad thing. If the Mothers of Invention had gone full Weird Al Yankovic—or actually sat down and tried to write a good song—this might have worked. As it stands, I’d hate to be locked in a room with someone who genuinely enjoys this.

A freewheelin' collage of pig noises and late-60s soundscapes. Fun and sometimes funny ("the ugliest part of your body is your mind"), but it doesn't prove anything except...Frank Zappa couldn't write songs like Paul and John, lol. Kinda superfluous to make fun of a group that A) already critiques both sides of the political spectrum and B) already has a great sense of humor about their public persona and art and C) always maintains tenderness. I'm sorry, Frank, but I'd really rather just listen to Sgt. Pepper. Go make more free jazz stuff--you're better at that (probably?). Get outta town!

This was an interesting mix. A good parody of a lot of the stuff that annoys me about 60s hippie pop but often put together with music that is a better version of the stuff it was parodying. I think they leaned into messing with the vocals and production a bit too much, to the detriment of the actual song quality. Probably all felt like the right choices when high as a kite. Frank Zappa's talent is clear but the actual album isn't one I'd rush back to. 3.5.

Not sure what all that was about. A take on Sgt. Pepper, I believe, but it was pretty nasty. Really messy concept, all over the place with the music and singing. Feels like they were making it up as they went along, and I don't like the master either, sounds fuzzy and I can't distinguish a lot of the overlapping instruments. Vocals too quiet for the most part.

Feels like it's trying too hard to be different and it's largely not that good... Bits and pieces of interesting stuff here and there but that's about it. Are they trying to take the piss out of the Beatles? Kinda all for that, but not sure this is even a good job of doing that 2

Nope, again

Not for me - 1/5

Fucking hippies mother fuckers.

Probablemente el álbum más raro que escuché. No creo que lo vuelva a escuchar.

I get the point it's trying to make but at the end of the day I'm never listening to this again. DNF

Day1010 - i’m glad to hear this album, not because it’s great but frank zappa is a genius and he deserves his voice heard

Dad, I'll be honest I don't get this one that much

Might have been hilarious, once...

Odd. Darkly silly. Inventive. Musically brilliant at times. It’s not a relaxing album to listen to but it’s good, and worth investigating. You may enjoy it less than me, but you will feel something towards it. Anything but bland.

STRAIGHT noice pollution. Some good harmonies

I love the idea and the imagination of this. Not really tracks you could pick out as outstanding. You really have to listen the whole album through as it kinda plays like one long track. At times it's unsettling and lucid, other times kinda funny. But it's interesting experimentation that doesn't feel completely like music but a different thing all together

Rock de hippies perché, un peu marrant, ça m'a fait penser à Nick Cave/Grindeman dans leurs morceaux les plus perchés

Je mets 3 parce qu'il y a du très bon et du très mauvais (ou plutôt du très bizarre) mais quelques sonorités m'ont plu quand même

I hated this on a cellular level.

1/1

No fav song

Might be my fav Zappa album? Idk this one is just endlessly quotable for me. It’s a weird one without being so up its own ass like later Zappa albums. I love tight-assed Zappa too but there’s something really loose about this record I enjoy.

(Strong 7/10) A concept record that satirizes hippie culture and mocks conservative political stances and even crticizes the kent state shooting. It's quite an amazing thing to come out at this time, and also for it to be as well-loved as it was. I think conceptually the album succeeds where some of the music kind of gets lost in the absurdity. The sound collage and music concréte that separates some of the tracks gets a bit too silly and off putting for me, but honestly that's Zappa for you. I think there's other stuff from him I enjoy better overall, but this one is pretty solid.

Glad Zappa gave people this option in the late 60s.

Wild

Ok so obviously the first and last tracks are garb, and the track titles are stupid. But lowkey... some of these songs are good. I kinda get it. I was expecting to give this album 1 star but I understand the concept. It's interesting to me. What was it like to live through the hippie movement and be artistic but now in league with that movement? Zappa could have been a super commercially successful artist but he just didn't give a rip I guess. Kinda a bummer to me, but oh well.

Not a fan, never been, never will be. I just get tired of the whole snarky, we're smarter/cooler than you. I mean, just play the shit straight instead of being a holier-than-thou smartass. It's better than Trout Mask Replica though (but not as good as Safe As Milk or even Mirror Man. It's at least 2x as good as any ABBA/ELO, there's that). For the most part, this is just an exercise in Frank's masturbating "brilliance". Which I don't actually like. 2 "I did actually listen to the whole damned thing" stars.

Ok

This was really weird too

Ugh. Utter bobbins

This album is straight garbage. It’s not good, it’s not influential, it’s just straight up bad.

Well that was something

Frank's semse of humour gets a bit stale

So much of Zappa's output comes off as novelty songs, but I appreciate the skewering of all subcultures of the time. I'm awarding an extra star in appreciation of all the times I listened to this record stoned out of my gourd.

Better than most Beatles albums lmao

Zappa at his least cool and interesting.. The 1960s were so unserious.

Garbage but funny garbage

This was ok but a bit too avant-garde/weird for my typical tastes. The humor was helpful, and wasn’t too overlong

I like Frank Zappa sometimes. This is not one of those times.

From the reviews I was expecting to hate this but it was actually fine—better than Freak Out, I think.

Miserable listening experience

I guess I kinda get what they were going for but late 60's musique concrete is a really easy way to ruin a vibe

I knew this would be weird because it was Frank Zappa's band, but this was weirder than I thought it would be. I kind of enjoyed it though. The songs were super short and entertaining. Just odd.

First Zappa album! Actually, this might be the first time I've gone out of my way to listen to Zappa... This is... weird. It's experimental and trippy and jammy, even though the songs are mostly really short. Reading the Wiki about the censorship in this record is crazy. An exec removing a word because they thought it was a maxi-pad and not an order pad is nuts. Fuck censorship. It's not my thing at all, but I can respect the musicianship. I feel like if I'd taken some LSD, this would have completely blown my mind.

Experimental music filled with satire of hippies. I love Zappa but it's clear they weren't interested in making actual songs and it's closer to a concept album. There were some highlights and it was an interesting listen but it's not something I'd want to listen to again. Even the good songs like Flower Punk, Concentration Moon and What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body have bits that I'd probably skip.

Another album I am unsure of how to rate. It is narrowly locked in on trying to appeal to an audience that I am not a part of. There were a couple moments that appealed to me, but overall this was too avant-garde for me.

I didn't do the whole thing, I can't imagine anything less enjoyable. I think I mentioned it before but Frank Zappa is the kind of dude who makes a fart joke then looks down on you for laughing at it because you don't truly understand the socioeconomic commentary that was the fart joke. He's the Neil DeGrasse Tyson of low humor joke songs.

TERRIVEL um dos piores álbuns desse desafio. ele tenta ser engraçaralho criticando todo mundo e só fica uma coisa cringe, pretensiosa e vazio. parabéns, uma grande merda.

"Psychedelic" is indeed the word, very weird but some real funny bits

Really liked it. Clearly an album you need to listen to actively. Gave me all the feels, with an extra dose of melancholy for all the things that have gotten much worse over the years. The instrumentals were an absolute treat in my headphones, lots of fun, psychedelic stereo effects, and I don’t care if they were ironic. I’ve never gotten into Zappa before, and this felt like a good way in. I’m interested to listen to more now.

I can tell

A fairly interesting experimental album. Zappa critiques hippy culture in America. The Beatles were definitely inspired by this when they made some white album songs. Pretty cool. I MIGHT come back to this.

Out of all the Frank Zappa albums I’ve heard, this one is definitely one of my favorites. It’s hard to pick just one, especially since his catalog spans so many styles, but when it comes to experimental and avant-garde 60s psychedelia, this one always scratches that itch. One thing I’ve always admired about Frank Zappa is how he never got caught up in the left versus right politics of the counterculture. He mocked both sides equally. This album is a great example of that mindset. It’s subversive, and a satirical response to flower power idealism and the commercialization of the hippie movement. It tears down social norms and musical conventions with humor and absurdity. The production techniques alone were way ahead of their time. This album is built like a sound collage, using tape splicing, abrupt stylistic shifts, spoken word interludes, mock interviews, and manipulated sound textures. A lot of these techniques foreshadowed what would later become common practice of the post punk and industrial scenes of the 80s. This album was originally intended as a direct conceptual counterpart to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the cover art even parodied the Beatles album, though it had to be replaced due to legal threats. Still, even that change only feed into the album’s rebellious, anti-commercial spirit. Frank Zappa attacks conformity on all sides, like consumer culture, flower children, politicians, and even his own fans. And beyond all the clever ideas, this album just holds up musically. It’s strong from start to finish, keeps you engaged, and takes you on a wild ride.

There's a song called Hot Poop on this album and like, hey, I didn't decide that. Normally I like experimental stuff and there's some decent songs on here but it's mostly loud and obnoxious. The cover art kicks ass though.

I didn't even make it through this. Utter pish.

1/10

God, I gotta listen to more Zappa.

Unironically loved this. CRAZY for 1968.

silly man

Not good

It's humoristic/satirical, but as far as music goes it's not good. Will not revisit.

I don't think such a sarcastic piece of art is something that appeals to me. It's ironically shit on purpose but it's still shit.

So what's this guys deal, anyways? Admittedly I didn't hate this. It's not really... Music, though, is it? It's more of just a collection of feelings and ideas and sounds. I feel like he's being pretentious, but again, it's hard to tell exactly. Idk. What a weirdo

Not for me 1 out of 5

leuk maar zappa kan het niet verder brengen dan dat

I understand what they are going for here with the satire, but I just think musically it falls flat sometimes. The sounds, vocal clips, and song fragments don’t feel like something I will want to come back to. Freak Out was weird sometimes but that one had enough full songs. I did like how What’s The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? Had a reprise to keep with the Sgt Peppers parody.

2026.09.09

Drugs for harmed in the making of this album

I just wish he would dial the wackiness down about 30%

I'm sure it was funnier back in the day.

Another well-known band with a well-known singer :-) A bit too experimental this time, but still quite nice. Two stars...

2nd album from them here. I think the other one was more listenable. This one is just pure randomness. And I do respect them for doing weird experimental things back in 1968 but I just didn't hear any songs I'm gonna listen to again 2/5

I'm just not a Zappa guy

Probably a really effective commentary or statement, but one of the worst albums I've ever listened to. I don't even really know how to explain it other than: it's bad and it's a mess Standouts Hot Poop 1/5