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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]]
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* [[Barfko-Swill]]
* [[Straight Records]]
 
 
* [[Barking Pumpkin Records]]
 
* [[Barking Pumpkin Records]]
* [[Barfko-Swill]]
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* [[Bizarre Records]]
* [[Zappa Records]]
 
 
* [[DiscReet Records]]
 
* [[DiscReet Records]]
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* [[Honker Home Video]]
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* [[Straight Records]]
 
* [[The Toilet Poster]]
 
* [[The Toilet Poster]]
* [[Honker Home Video]]
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* [[Zappa Records]]
  
 
==Commercial jingles written by Zappa==
 
==Commercial jingles written by Zappa==
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* [[Luden's Cough Drop Commercial]]/[[The Big Squeeze]]
 
* [[Remington Electric Razor]]
 
* [[Remington Electric Razor]]
* [[Luden's Cough Drop Commercial]]/[[The Big Squeeze]]
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==Conceptual Continuity==
 
==Conceptual Continuity==
 
* [[Beer]]
 
* [[Beer]]
 
* [[Cars]]
 
* [[Cars]]
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* [[Cheeseburger]]
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* [[Cologne]]
 
* [[Motorcycles]]
 
* [[Motorcycles]]
 
* [[Sears Poncho]]
 
* [[Sears Poncho]]
 
* [[Vacuum Cleaner]]
 
* [[Vacuum Cleaner]]
* [[Cologne]]
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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]]''
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* ''[[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]]''
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* ''[[Absolutely Free (The Track)]]'': ''"Escape from the weight of your corporate logo!"''
 
* ''[[Absolutely Free (The Track)]]'': ''"Escape from the weight of your corporate logo!"''
 
* ''[[Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution]]''
 
* ''[[Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution]]''
* ''[[Electric Aunt Jemima]]'' refers to the product [[Aunt Jemima]]
 
 
* ''[[The Air]]'':'' "We can crash in our Nash."''
 
* ''[[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.   
 
* The album cover of ''[[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]]'' was a spoof on an advert for razor machines.   
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* ''[[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!"''  
 
* ''[[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..."''
 
* ''[[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]].
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* ''[[Billy The Mountain]]'': mentions [[Studebaker Hawk]], [[Jack-In-The-Box]], [[Kaiser Broiler Foil]] and [[Wikipedia:Aunt Jemima|Aunt Jemima]].
* ''[[It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal]]''
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* ''[[It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal (1972 - Paramount Studios)|It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal]]''
 
* ''[[I'm The Slime]]'': ''"I'm the tool of the government and industry too."''  
 
* ''[[I'm The Slime]]'': ''"I'm the tool of the government and industry too."''  
 
* ''[[Montana]]'': references dental floss
 
* ''[[Montana]]'': references dental floss
 
* ''[[Nanook Rubs It]]'': ''"A fur trapper who was strictly from commerical!"''
 
* ''[[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 on a TV commercial for Mennen foot spray.
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* 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!"''
 
* ''[[Penguin In Bondage]]'': ''"With some Kleenex wrapped around the coat-hanger wire!"''
 
* ''[[Cheepnis]]''
 
* ''[[Cheepnis]]''
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* ''[[Catholic Girls]]'': the phrase ''"Kinda young, kinda wow"'' refers to a flagrance for women called ''"Charlie"''.  
 
* ''[[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]]'': 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]]."''
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* ''[[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."''  
 
* ''[[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]]!"''
 
* ''[[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]]!"''
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==Miscellaneous==
 
==Miscellaneous==
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* [[Ajax]]
 
* [[Alcaselzer]]
 
* [[Alcaselzer]]
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* [[Charmin]]
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* [[Cologne]]
 
* [[Drano]]
 
* [[Drano]]
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* [[Dodge]]
 
* [[Dristan]]
 
* [[Dristan]]
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* [[Foster Grants]]
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* [[Freedent Gum]]
 
* [[Hilton]]
 
* [[Hilton]]
* [[Sheraton]]
 
* [[Teflon]]
 
* [[Vega]]
 
* [[Cologne]]
 
* [[Ajax]]
 
 
* [[Ignint McNugget]]
 
* [[Ignint McNugget]]
* [[Freedent Gum]]
 
* [[Foster Grants]]
 
 
* [[Jack-In-The-Box]]
 
* [[Jack-In-The-Box]]
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* [[Mercedes Benz]]
 
* [[Nivea Lotion]]
 
* [[Nivea Lotion]]
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* [[No-Doz]]
 
* [[Old Zircon]]
 
* [[Old Zircon]]
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* [[Oldsmobile]]
 
* [[Porcelana Fade Cream]]
 
* [[Porcelana Fade Cream]]
* [[Woolite]]
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* [[Porsche]]
* [[Burger King]]
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* [[Sheraton]]
* [[Uncle Ben's Rice]]
 
* [[Tupper-Ware]]
 
 
* [[Smith-Barney]]
 
* [[Smith-Barney]]
 
* [[Strato-Caster]]
 
* [[Strato-Caster]]
* [[Dodge]]
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* [[Teflon]]
* [[Oldsmobile]]
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* [[Tupper-Ware]]
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* [[Uncle Ben's Rice]]
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* [[Vega]]
 
* [[Volkswagen]]
 
* [[Volkswagen]]
* [[Mercedes Benz]]
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* [[Woolite]]
* [[Porsche]]
 
  
 
[[Category:Targets]]
 
[[Category:Targets]]

Latest revision as of 07:53, 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

Commercial jingles written by Zappa


Conceptual Continuity


References to companies, slogans, jingles, advertising, commercials, buying, selling,...

Miscellaneous