You Are What You Is

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You Are What You Is
Released September 1981
See also: Crush All Boxes Clean Cuts from You Are What You Is

Players

• Frank Zappa -- lead guitar, vocals
• Ike Willis -- rhythm guitar, vocals
• Ray White -- rhythm guitar, vocals
• Bob Harris -- boy soprano, trumpet
• Steve Vai -- guitar
• Tommy Mars -- keyboards
• Arthur Barrow -- bass
• Ed Mann -- percussion
• David Ocker -- clarinet, bass clarinet
• Motorhead Sherwood -- tenor saxophone, vocals
• Denny Walley -- slide guitar, vocals
• David Logeman -- drums
• Craig Steward -- harmonica
• Jimmy Carl Black -- vocals
• Ahmet Zappa -- vocals
• Moon Zappa -- vocals

Tracks

1. Teen-age Wind (03:02)
2. Harder Than Your Husband (02:28)
3. Doreen (04:44)
4. Goblin Girl (04:06)
5. Theme From The 3rd Movement Of "Sinister Footwear" (03:32)
6. Society Pages (02:27)
7. I'm A Beautiful Guy (01:56)
8. Beauty Knows No Pain (03:02)
9. Charlie's Enormous Mouth (03:37)
10. Any Downers? (02:08)
11. Conehead (04:19)
12. You Are What You Is (04:23)
13. Mudd Club (03:11)
14. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing (03:10)
15. Dumb All Over (04:03)
16. Heavenly Bank Account (03:45)
17. Suicide Chump (02:49)
18. Jumbo Go Away (03:43)
19. If Only She Woulda (03:47)
20. Drafted Again (03:07)

Background Information

The girl-hitting incident heard in Jumbo Go Away represented yet another case of Frank reporting on real events and letting listeners come to their own conclusions (rather than force-feeding them any “message songs”); Zappa guitarist Denny Walley had slapped a woman.

Dweezil’s line “Leave my nose alone, please” from the end of Drafted Again was originally heard at the end of Flower Punk on the Money album.

Versions

ZFT #	Version #	# discs	Format	Catalog #	Release (YYYY-MM-DD)	Barcode (EAN-13)	Artwork	Comment
34	1.1 Original Stereo	2	LP	Barking Pumpkin PW2 37537	1981-09-23	None		US edition.
		2	LP	CBS CBS 88560	1981-10	None		UK edition.
	1.2 Medium quality master with complete Dumb All Over solo[1]	1	CD	EMI CDP 7-90075-2	1986	0077779007523?		US edition.
	1.3 Lower quality master with incomplete Dumb All Over solo[1]	1	CD	Rykodisc RCD 40165	1990-05-14	0014431016523		US edition.
		1	CD	Zappa CDZAP 27	1990-05?	0501658360275?		UK edition.
		1	CD	VideoArts VACK 5044	1994-11-25	4988112405844		Japanese edition.
		1	CD	Rykodisc RCD 10536[2]	1995-05-02	0014431053627		US edition.
		1	CD	VideoArts VACK 5130	1995-10-25	4988112407893		Japanese edition.
		1	CD	VideoArts VACK 5265	1996-05-30	4988112408654		Japanese edition.
	1.4 Higher quality master with incomplete Dumb All Over solo[1]	1	CD	Rykodisc RCD 10536[2]	1998	0014431053627		US edition. Matrix # IFPI L503 IFPI 8725 DISCTRONICS RCD 10536 01
		1	CD	VideoArts VACK 1242	2002-05-29	4988112413276		Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve.

Notes

1. According to the Zappa Patio.
2. The 1998 booklet mentions "digitally remastered for CD in 1998 at UMRK by Spencer Chrislu".

See Also

• Clean Cuts from You Are What You Is