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Zappa started his career in the advertising business as a designer of greeting cards. Later, as a composer, he kept criticizing and referring advertising in his work. | Zappa started his career in the advertising business as a designer of greeting cards. Later, as a composer, he kept criticizing and referring advertising in his work. | ||
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==Companies and merchandising products created by Zappa== | ==Companies and merchandising products created by Zappa== | ||
| − | * [[Bizarre]] | + | * [[Barfko-Swill]] |
| + | * [[Barking Pumpkin Records]] | ||
| + | * [[Bizarre Records]] | ||
| + | * [[DiscReet Records]] | ||
| + | * [[Honker Home Video]] | ||
* [[Straight Records]] | * [[Straight Records]] | ||
| − | * [[ | + | * [[The Toilet Poster]] |
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* [[Zappa Records]] | * [[Zappa Records]] | ||
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==Commercial jingles written by Zappa== | ==Commercial jingles written by Zappa== | ||
| + | * [[Luden's Cough Drop Commercial]]/[[The Big Squeeze]] | ||
* [[Remington Electric Razor]] | * [[Remington Electric Razor]] | ||
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==Conceptual Continuity== | ==Conceptual Continuity== | ||
* [[Beer]] | * [[Beer]] | ||
| − | * [[Cars | + | * [[Cars]] |
| − | * [[Motorcycles | + | * [[Cheeseburger]] |
| − | * [[Sears Poncho | + | * [[Cologne]] |
| − | * [[Vacuum Cleaner | + | * [[Motorcycles]] |
| − | + | * [[Sears Poncho]] | |
| + | * [[Vacuum Cleaner]] | ||
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==References to companies, slogans, jingles, advertising, commercials, buying, selling,... == | ==References to companies, slogans, jingles, advertising, commercials, buying, selling,... == | ||
| − | * [[Hungry Freaks Daddy]] | + | * ''[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1966 - Los Angeles)|Hungry Freaks Daddy]]'' |
| − | * The entire concept and album cover of [[Absolutely Free]] | + | * The entire concept and album cover of ''[[Absolutely Free]]'' |
| − | * [[Plastic People]] | + | * ''[[Plastic People]]'' |
| − | * [[Uncle Bernie's Farm]]: about violent toys | + | * ''[[Uncle Bernie's Farm]]'': about violent toys |
| − | * [[Soft-Sell Conclusion]], references the "soft sell" marketing technique. | + | * ''[[Soft-Sell Conclusion]]'', references the ''"soft sell"'' marketing technique. |
| − | * [[Suzy Creamcheese]]: "Blew her mind on too much Kool-Aid" | + | * ''[[Suzy Creamcheese]]'': ''"Blew her mind on too much Kool-Aid"'' |
| − | * The title of [[Lumpy Gravy]] was based on Loma Linda Gravy mix. | + | * The title of ''[[Lumpy Gravy]]'' was based on Loma Linda Gravy mix. |
| − | * The title of [[We're Only In It For The Money]] refers to the rock industry. | + | * ''[[At The Gas Station]]'':'' "And so I got a fifty-six Olds. About the time I got it running decently, she got in it and wrecked the trans... tore it completely up, so I had to get another [[Oldsmobile]] (...)"'' |
| − | * [[Bufferin Man]] can be seen on the cover of [[We're Only In It For The Money]]. | + | * The title of ''[[We're Only In It For The Money]]'' refers to the rock industry. |
| − | * [[Who Needs The Peace Corps?]]: "I'll buy a wig" | + | * On the album cover of ''[[We're Only In It For The Money]]'' [[Barbie]], [[Ken]] and [[Cindy]] can be seen in front of the letter "h" of ''"Mothers".'' |
| − | * [[Absolutely Free (The Track)]]: "Escape from the weight of your corporate logo | + | * [[Bufferin Man]] can be seen on the cover of ''[[We're Only In It For The Money]]''. |
| − | * [[Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution]] | + | * A cut-out from an advertisement for [[Medalo Bops]] glasses can be seen on the cover of ''[[We're Only In It For The Money]]''. |
| − | * [[ | + | *'' [[Who Needs The Peace Corps?]]'': ''"I'll buy a wig"'' |
| − | * [[Bwana Dik]]: "I am endowed beyond your wildest Clearasil-spattered fantasies, oh oh oh.." | + | * ''[[Flower Punk]]'': ''"When my royalty check comes I think I'm going to buy a Mustang. No, I think I'll... I think I'll get a Corvette. No, I think I'll get a Harley Davidson."'' |
| − | * [[Do You Like My New Car?]]: "All that's true, and sometimes I even dig it with a Doctor Brown's Cream Soda..." | + | * ''[[Absolutely Free (The Track)]]'': ''"Escape from the weight of your corporate logo!"'' |
| − | * [[Billy The Mountain]] | + | * ''[[Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution]]'' |
| − | * [[It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal]] | + | * ''[[The Air]]'':'' "We can crash in our Nash."'' |
| − | * [[I'm The Slime]]: "I'm the tool of the government and industry too." | + | * The album cover of ''[[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]]'' was a spoof on an advert for razor machines. |
| − | * [[Montana]]: references dental floss | + | * ''[[Would You Go All The Way?]]'': ''"A '59 Chevy that his father just sold."'' |
| − | * The scene in [[Stink-Foot]] where the poodle brings the slippers was a parody | + | * ''[[Bwana Dik]]'': ''"I am endowed beyond your wildest Clearasil-spattered fantasies, oh oh oh.."'' and ''"My dick is a Harley. You kick it to start!"'' |
| − | * [[Penguin In Bondage]]: "With some Kleenex wrapped around the coat-hanger wire!" | + | * ''[[Do You Like My New Car?]]'': ''"All that's true, and sometimes I even dig it with a Doctor Brown's Cream Soda..."'' |
| − | * [[Cheepnis]] | + | * ''[[Billy The Mountain]]'': mentions [[Studebaker Hawk]], [[Jack-In-The-Box]], [[Kaiser Broiler Foil]] and [[Wikipedia:Aunt Jemima|Aunt Jemima]]. |
| − | * [[Can't Afford No Shoes]]: "Went to buy some cheap detergent" | + | * ''[[It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal (1972 - Paramount Studios)|It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal]]'' |
| − | * [[Florentine Pogen]]: "Read 'em and | + | * ''[[I'm The Slime]]'': ''"I'm the tool of the government and industry too."'' |
| − | * [[Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead]] | + | * ''[[Montana]]'': references dental floss |
| − | * [[Wonderful Wino]]: "A five dollar bill, and a Florscheim shoe" | + | * ''[[Nanook Rubs It]]'': ''"A fur trapper who was strictly from commerical!"'' |
| − | * [[Disco Boy]]: "She's gonna fall for your line and feed you a box full of "Chicken Delight". | + | * The scene in ''[[Stink-Foot]]'' where the poodle brings the slippers was a parody of a 1974 TV commercial for ''Dr. Scholl's'' foot spray. |
| − | * [[The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary]] | + | * ''[[Penguin In Bondage]]'': ''"With some Kleenex wrapped around the coat-hanger wire!"'' |
| − | * [[Time Is Money]] | + | * ''[[Cheepnis]]'' |
| − | * [[Flakes]]: "All what we've got here is American made/It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed." | + | * ''[[Can't Afford No Shoes]]'': ''"Went to buy some cheap detergent"'' |
| − | * [[Crew Slut]]: The line " | + | * ''[[Florentine Pogen]]'': ''"Deep in the street she rode a '59 Morgan"'' and ''"Read 'em and weep" was her adjustable slogan".'' |
| − | * [[Crew Slut]] and [[Sy Borg]]: "It looks just like a | + | * ''[[Debra Kadabra]]'': ''"Turn it to Channel 13!"'' |
| − | * [[Packard Goose]]: "Maybe you thought I was (...) the Ronald McDonald of the nouveau-abstruse." (...) "Selling punk like some new kind of English disease." | + | * ''[[Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead]]'' |
| − | * [[You Are What You Is (The Track)]]: "He thinks he's got the whole thing down/from the Nivea lotion to the Royal Crown" | + | * ''[[Wonderful Wino]]'': ''"A five dollar bill, and a Florscheim shoe"'' |
| − | * [[Drowning Witch]]: the witch drowns in industry polluted waters. | + | * ''[[Disco Boy]]'': ''"She's gonna fall for your line and feed you a box full of "Chicken Delight"."'' |
| − | * [[Valley Girl]]: "Could you just like picture me in, like, a leather Teddy?" | + | * ''[[Punky's Whips]]'': ''"In today's rapidly changing world, musical groups appear almost every day with some new promotional device . . . Some of these devices have been known to leave irreparable scars on the minds of foolish young consumers ..."'' |
| − | * [[Be In My Video]]: a parody of [[MTV]] | + | * ''[[The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary]]'': ''"Every morning little Greggery drives his little red Volkswagen"'' and ''"Big Swifty & Associates: Trend Mongers!"'' |
| − | * [[Promiscuous]]: makes reference to C-Span | + | * ''[[Time Is Money]]'' |
| − | * [[The Blue Light]]: references Winchell's Dough Nuts | + | * ''[[Flakes]]'': ''"All what we've got here is American made/It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed."'' |
| − | * [[Do Not Pass Go]], a reference to the board game Monopoly. | + | * ''[[Joe's Garage (Track)]]'': ''"In the corner over by the Dodge".'' |
| − | * [[When Yuppies Go To Hell]] | + | * ''[[Catholic Girls]]'': the phrase ''"Kinda young, kinda wow"'' refers to a flagrance for women called ''"Charlie"''. |
| − | * [[Agency Man]] | + | * ''[[Crew Slut]]'': The line ''"Add water, makes its own sauce"'' is a reference to a dog food commercial for Gravy Train. ''"So call before midnight tonight"'' is a typical line from tv commercials. |
| − | * [[Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America]]: "When the last decrepit factory /Has dumped its final load of toxic waste into the water supply/And shipped its last badly manufactured,/Incompetently designed consumer-thing" | + | * ''[[Crew Slut]]'' and ''[[Sy Borg]]'': ''"It looks just like a TeleFunken U-47."'' |
| − | * [[This Is Phase III]]: "Remember Haight-Ashbury and how we commercialized on that scene?" | + | * ''[[Packard Goose]]'': ''"Maybe you thought I was (...) the Ronald McDonald of the nouveau-abstruse." (...) "Selling punk like some new kind of English disease."'' |
| − | * [[This Ain't CNN]] | + | * ''[[You Are What You Is (The Track)]]'': ''"He thinks he's got the whole thing down/from the Nivea lotion to the Royal Crown"'' and the quote ''"[[Mercedes Benz]]!"'' |
| + | * ''[[Drowning Witch]]'': the witch drowns in industry polluted waters. | ||
| + | * ''[[Valley Girl]]'': ''"Could you just like picture me in, like, a leather Teddy?"'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Be In My Video]]'': a parody of [[MTV]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Promiscuous]]'': makes reference to C-Span | ||
| + | * ''[[Clowns On Velvet]]'': ''"....specially since his TV wife, Opal, be in de next room drinkin' Jack Daniels..."'' | ||
| + | * ''[[The Blue Light]]'': references Winchell's Dough Nuts and Straw Hat Pizza | ||
| + | * ''[[Approximate]]'' on ''[[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4|YCDTOSA 4]]'': ''"There's a '39 Buick' blockin' the drive!"'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Do Not Pass Go]],'' a reference to the board game Monopoly. | ||
| + | * ''[[When Yuppies Go To Hell]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Agency Man]]'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America]]'': ''"When the last decrepit factory /Has dumped its final load of toxic waste into the water supply/And shipped its last badly manufactured,/Incompetently designed consumer-thing"'' | ||
| + | * ''[[Ronnie's Booger Story]]'': ''"We used [[Ajax]] to get this damn things off..."'' | ||
| + | * ''[[This Is Phase III]]'': ''"Remember Haight-Ashbury and how we commercialized on that scene?"'' | ||
| + | * ''[[This Ain't CNN]]'' | ||
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| + | ==Miscellaneous== | ||
| + | * [[Ajax]] | ||
| + | * [[Alcaselzer]] | ||
| + | * [[Charmin]] | ||
| + | * [[Cologne]] | ||
| + | * [[Drano]] | ||
| + | * [[Dodge]] | ||
| + | * [[Dristan]] | ||
| + | * [[Foster Grants]] | ||
| + | * [[Freedent Gum]] | ||
| + | * [[Hilton]] | ||
| + | * [[Ignint McNugget]] | ||
| + | * [[Jack-In-The-Box]] | ||
| + | * [[Mercedes Benz]] | ||
| + | * [[Nivea Lotion]] | ||
| + | * [[No-Doz]] | ||
| + | * [[Old Zircon]] | ||
| + | * [[Oldsmobile]] | ||
| + | * [[Porcelana Fade Cream]] | ||
| + | * [[Porsche]] | ||
| + | * [[Sheraton]] | ||
| + | * [[Smith-Barney]] | ||
| + | * [[Strato-Caster]] | ||
| + | * [[Teflon]] | ||
| + | * [[Tupper-Ware]] | ||
| + | * [[Uncle Ben's Rice]] | ||
| + | * [[Vega]] | ||
| + | * [[Volkswagen]] | ||
| + | * [[Woolite]] | ||
[[Category:Targets]] | [[Category:Targets]] | ||
Latest revision as of 06:53, 28 December 2021
Zappa started his career in the advertising business as a designer of greeting cards. Later, as a composer, he kept criticizing and referring advertising in his work.
"The whole logic behind that is, the only way you can teach an American is by example, because they've gone past the point where they'll believe what you tell them. That's the way it is. They have to get it from a different source. They have to be shown by example. So – in other words, the American advertising system, which is one of the main evils of contemporary society – the whole idea of making people buy things that they don't need is morally wrong. And the only way you're going to mak'em know is to do it, really overdo it – buy, sell, cram. Until they finally say, "What the f*** is this?" (FZ in Frank Kofsky interviews FZ)
"Well, the problem with the youth market is the fact that they go to U.S. schools. And the United States' school system has been turned into a kind of assembly line for really ignorant little consumer clones. I was lucky. I got out of school back when they were still teaching kids to read and write. The market you're talking about now is basically people who can't spell, can't count, don't know anything about economics and think the most important thing in the world is dressing properly and having a party. So your guess is as good as mine as to what sort of music will fulfill the emotional needs of those people. I just think they've been cheated by the government. They're talking about yet another budget cut for education. And things are ugly enough already." (...) "Yeah, well, what they're being taught in school is how to respond to advertising. The enemy of advertising is logic. Anybody with logic or common sense has got to look at what you see on television and say, "This is bullshit." But nobody is providing these kids with the criteria by which to judge between anything with any quality, or even to help them spot bullshit. They just don't know. They come into the whole thing completely unprepared for the tricks that are being played on them by the car companies and everybody else. They're just being used. It's really not fair." (FZ in Dynamo Frank)
Companies and merchandising products created by Zappa
- Barfko-Swill
- Barking Pumpkin Records
- Bizarre Records
- DiscReet Records
- Honker Home Video
- Straight Records
- The Toilet Poster
- Zappa Records
Commercial jingles written by Zappa
Conceptual Continuity
References to companies, slogans, jingles, advertising, commercials, buying, selling,...
- Hungry Freaks Daddy
- The entire concept and album cover of Absolutely Free
- Plastic People
- Uncle Bernie's Farm: about violent toys
- Soft-Sell Conclusion, references the "soft sell" marketing technique.
- Suzy Creamcheese: "Blew her mind on too much Kool-Aid"
- The title of Lumpy Gravy was based on Loma Linda Gravy mix.
- At The Gas Station: "And so I got a fifty-six Olds. About the time I got it running decently, she got in it and wrecked the trans... tore it completely up, so I had to get another Oldsmobile (...)"
- The title of We're Only In It For The Money refers to the rock industry.
- On the album cover of We're Only In It For The Money Barbie, Ken and Cindy can be seen in front of the letter "h" of "Mothers".
- Bufferin Man can be seen on the cover of We're Only In It For The Money.
- A cut-out from an advertisement for Medalo Bops glasses can be seen on the cover of We're Only In It For The Money.
- Who Needs The Peace Corps?: "I'll buy a wig"
- Flower Punk: "When my royalty check comes I think I'm going to buy a Mustang. No, I think I'll... I think I'll get a Corvette. No, I think I'll get a Harley Davidson."
- Absolutely Free (The Track): "Escape from the weight of your corporate logo!"
- Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution
- The Air: "We can crash in our Nash."
- The album cover of Weasels Ripped My Flesh was a spoof on an advert for razor machines.
- Would You Go All The Way?: "A '59 Chevy that his father just sold."
- Bwana Dik: "I am endowed beyond your wildest Clearasil-spattered fantasies, oh oh oh.." and "My dick is a Harley. You kick it to start!"
- Do You Like My New Car?: "All that's true, and sometimes I even dig it with a Doctor Brown's Cream Soda..."
- Billy The Mountain: mentions Studebaker Hawk, Jack-In-The-Box, Kaiser Broiler Foil and Aunt Jemima.
- It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal
- I'm The Slime: "I'm the tool of the government and industry too."
- Montana: references dental floss
- Nanook Rubs It: "A fur trapper who was strictly from commerical!"
- The scene in Stink-Foot where the poodle brings the slippers was a parody of a 1974 TV commercial for Dr. Scholl's foot spray.
- Penguin In Bondage: "With some Kleenex wrapped around the coat-hanger wire!"
- Cheepnis
- Can't Afford No Shoes: "Went to buy some cheap detergent"
- Florentine Pogen: "Deep in the street she rode a '59 Morgan" and "Read 'em and weep" was her adjustable slogan".
- Debra Kadabra: "Turn it to Channel 13!"
- Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
- Wonderful Wino: "A five dollar bill, and a Florscheim shoe"
- Disco Boy: "She's gonna fall for your line and feed you a box full of "Chicken Delight"."
- Punky's Whips: "In today's rapidly changing world, musical groups appear almost every day with some new promotional device . . . Some of these devices have been known to leave irreparable scars on the minds of foolish young consumers ..."
- The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary: "Every morning little Greggery drives his little red Volkswagen" and "Big Swifty & Associates: Trend Mongers!"
- Time Is Money
- Flakes: "All what we've got here is American made/It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed."
- Joe's Garage (Track): "In the corner over by the Dodge".
- Catholic Girls: the phrase "Kinda young, kinda wow" refers to a flagrance for women called "Charlie".
- Crew Slut: The line "Add water, makes its own sauce" is a reference to a dog food commercial for Gravy Train. "So call before midnight tonight" is a typical line from tv commercials.
- Crew Slut and Sy Borg: "It looks just like a TeleFunken U-47."
- Packard Goose: "Maybe you thought I was (...) the Ronald McDonald of the nouveau-abstruse." (...) "Selling punk like some new kind of English disease."
- You Are What You Is (The Track): "He thinks he's got the whole thing down/from the Nivea lotion to the Royal Crown" and the quote "Mercedes Benz!"
- Drowning Witch: the witch drowns in industry polluted waters.
- Valley Girl: "Could you just like picture me in, like, a leather Teddy?"
- Be In My Video: a parody of MTV
- Promiscuous: makes reference to C-Span
- Clowns On Velvet: "....specially since his TV wife, Opal, be in de next room drinkin' Jack Daniels..."
- The Blue Light: references Winchell's Dough Nuts and Straw Hat Pizza
- Approximate on YCDTOSA 4: "There's a '39 Buick' blockin' the drive!"
- Do Not Pass Go, a reference to the board game Monopoly.
- When Yuppies Go To Hell
- Agency Man
- Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America: "When the last decrepit factory /Has dumped its final load of toxic waste into the water supply/And shipped its last badly manufactured,/Incompetently designed consumer-thing"
- Ronnie's Booger Story: "We used Ajax to get this damn things off..."
- This Is Phase III: "Remember Haight-Ashbury and how we commercialized on that scene?"
- This Ain't CNN
