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== Background ==
 
== Background ==
The shape of the enlarged Droodle on the front cover spells out “ZA” (and even an arguably incomplete “FZ”).
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The shape of the enlarged Droodle on the front cover spells out “ZA” (and even an arguably incomplete “FZ”).
 
 
In 1916, when German poet Ernie Ball opened a dictionary to a random page in order to find a term for his new artistic movement, he arrived at dada, which means “goodbye” in German and “hobby horse” in French. Ball now gave it a third meaning, which went along with Zappa’s motif “anything, anytime, anywhere, for no reason at all.” It centered on the comic derision of society’s fixtures and a belief in the interconnectedness, on one level or another, of everything and everyone. In forcing connections between initially unrelated things, Dadaists questioned the value of certain types of art over others. This was one general idea behind Zappa’s inclusion of unconventional ingredients in pieces framed and presented as music. Non-instrument objects and musically unorthodox mouth sounds were presented as being just as “valid” as customary musical sources, and mistakes and covertly recorded conversations made art out of real life, not some mystical, transcendent or “lofty” state.
 
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;”No Not Now” from this album provides a great example of the above: a single addictive, melodious rock song manages to poke fun at truckers, Mormons, truckers hauling string beans (a food popular with Mormons), Mormon entertainers Donny and Marie Osmond, Hawaiian Punch (for which the siblings once sang a TV jingle, which can briefly be heard instrumentally after a remark about Hawaiian shirts in “Drowning Witch,” as well as during other concert pieces from this period), and the ‘60s TV show Hawaii Five-O. A hobby horse is even mentioned in this opening song.
 
  
 
== Conceptual Continuity ==
 
== Conceptual Continuity ==

Revision as of 04:44, 30 March 2006

Release Info

Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch

Released May 1982.

Tracks

  1. No Not Now (05:50)
  2. Valley Girl (04:50)
  3. I Come From Nowhere (06:09)
  4. Drowning Witch (12:04)
  5. Envelopes (02:45)
  6. Teen-age Prostitute (02:43)

Players

Background

The shape of the enlarged Droodle on the front cover spells out “ZA” (and even an arguably incomplete “FZ”).

Conceptual Continuity

Versions

ZFT # Version # # discs Format Catalog # Release
(YYYY-MM-DD)
EAN.UCC-13
(barcode)
Artwork Comment
35 1
Original
Stereo
1 LP Barking Pumpkin
FW 38066
1982-05-03 None   US edition.
1 LP CBS
CBS 85804
  None   UK edition.
1 CD EMI
CDP 7-90074-2
Unknown 0724379007421?   UK edition, coupled with The Man From Utopia.
1 CD Barking Pumpkin
D2 74235
1991 0013347423524?   US edition.
1 CS Barking Pumpkin
D4 74235
1991 0013347423548   US edition.
1 CD Zappa
CDZAP 42
1991? 5016583604226   UK edition.
1 CS Zappa
TZAPPA 42
1991? 5016583604240?   UK edition.
1 CD Intercord
i.r.s. 970742
      German edition.
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10537
1995-05-02 0014431053726   US edition. Matrix # IFPI L502 IFPI 8732 DISCTRONICS RCD 10537 01
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5088
1995-06-25 4988112406858   Japanese edition.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5223
1996-04-15? 4988112408234   Japanese edition.
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 1243
2002-05-29 4988112413283   Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve.