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[[File:Zappa Uncle Sam.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Frank Zappa dressed up as Uncle Sam for a 1988 publicity shoot to promote voting in the presidential elections.]]
 
[[File:Zappa Uncle Sam.jpg|500px|thumb|right|Frank Zappa dressed up as Uncle Sam for a 1988 publicity shoot to promote voting in the presidential elections.]]
  
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==Track and album references to America==
 
==Track and album references to America==
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* [[200 Years Old]]: (Pennsylvania mentioned)
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* [[Hungry Freaks Daddy]]: "Mr. America walk on by..."
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* [[Agency Man]]: "Let's try California..."
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* [[Trouble Every Day]]: was inspired by the [[wikipedia:Watts riots|Watts riots]]
 
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* [[It Can't Happen Here]]: "Who could imagine that they would freak out in [[wikipedia:Minnesota| Minnesota]] (...), [[wikipedia:Kansas| Kansas]], (...) [[wikipedia:Washington D.C.|Washington D.C.]]?"
 
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* [[The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet]]: "America's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful... it really makes it!"
 
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* [[Plastic People]]: "Ladies and gentlemen: the President of the United States!" (...) "My fellow Americans""
 
 
* [[America Drinks]]
 
* [[America Drinks]]
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* [[Soft-Sell Conclusion]]: "Worshipping together in the church of your dreams. Only in America!"
 
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* [[Brown Shoes Don't Make It]]: "I'd like her do a nasty/on the White House lawn."
 
 
* [[America Drinks & Goes Home]]
 
* [[America Drinks & Goes Home]]
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* [[Who Needs The Peace Corps?]]: "Go to [[San Francisco]]"
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* [[Amnerika]]
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* [[Concentration Moon]]: "American way/how did it start? Thousands of creeps killed in the park..."
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* [[Be In My Video]] (satire of [[MTV]])
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* [[Harry You're A Beast]]: "That's you, American womanhood."
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* [[The Beltway Bandits]]
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* [[Flower Punk]]: "I'm going up to Frisco to join a psychedelic band." (...) The youth in America today is so wonderful."
 
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* [[Let's Make The Water Turn Black]]: "Selling lamps and chairs to San Ber'dino squares"
 
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* [[The Idiot Bastard Son]]: "The father's a Nazi in Congress today/The mother's a hooker somewhere in L.A."
 
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* [[It's From Kansas]]
 
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* [[The Voice Of Cheese]]: "Hello teenage America!"
 
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* [[Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague]]: "Going to [[El Monte Legion Stadium]]"
 
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* [[God Bless America]]
 
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* [[If We'd All Been Living In California...]]
 
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* [[Willie The Pimp]] ("standing on the porch of the Lido Hotel")
 
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* [[Road Ladies]]: "I remember there was one time in Minneapolis..."
 
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* [[Would You Go All The Way?]] (for the U.S.A.?)
 
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* [[Semi-Fraudulent/Direct-From-Hollywood Overture]]
 
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* [[Lonesome Cowboy Burt]]  "I'm from Texas"
 
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* [[Redneck Eats]]
 
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* [[Dental Hygiene Dilemma]]: (...) a rancid motel in Orlando, Florida, with the highest MILDEW rating of any commercial lodging facility within the territorial limits of the United States"
 
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* [[Strictly Genteel (The Track)|Strictly Genteel]]: "A disaster area the size of Atlantic City, New Jersey."
 
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* [[Just Another Band From L.A.]]
 
 
* [[Billy The Mountain]]
 
* [[Billy The Mountain]]
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* [[Bobby Brown Goes Down]]  "Oh God, oh God, I'm the American dream!"
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* [[Broadway The Hard Way]]
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* [[Brown Shoes Don't Make It]]: "I'd like her do a nasty/on the White House lawn."
 
* [[Camarillo Brillo]]  "... and every newt in Idaho" (...) "by the bush in Buffalo"
 
* [[Camarillo Brillo]]  "... and every newt in Idaho" (...) "by the bush in Buffalo"
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* [[Montana]]
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* [[A Chance Encounter In Cincinnati]]
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* [[Village Of The Sun]]
 
 
* [[Cheepnis]]: "Then I watched a movie from [[Hollywood]]..."
 
* [[Cheepnis]]: "Then I watched a movie from [[Hollywood]]..."
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* [[San Ber'dino]]
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* [[Cocaine Decisions]]
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* [[Concentration Moon]]: "American way/how did it start? Thousands of creeps killed in the park..."
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* [[Conehead]]
 
* [[Debra Kadabra]] "Just across East L.A."  
 
* [[Debra Kadabra]] "Just across East L.A."  
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* [[Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead]] (about the 200th birthday of the U.S.A.)
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* [[Dental Hygiene Dilemma]]: (...) a rancid motel in Orlando, Florida, with the highest MILDEW rating of any commercial lodging facility within the territorial limits of the United States"
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* [[200 Years Old]]: (Pennsylvania mentioned)
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* [[Dickie's Such An Asshole]] (about [[Richard Nixon]])
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* [[Cucamonga]]
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* [[Do Not Pass Go]] (from the American board game "Monopoly")
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* [[Legend Of The Illinois Enema Bandit]]: "A famous criminal from right around Chicago".  
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* [[Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague]]: "Going to [[El Monte Legion Stadium]]"
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* [[Dumb All Over]]
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* [[Elvis Has Just Left The Building]]
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* [[Emperor Of Ohio]]
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* [[Fembot in A Wet T-Shirt Nite]]: "And Mary is the kind of red-blooded American girl who'll do anything..."
 
* [[Flakes]]: "California's got the most of them." (...) "All what we got here is American made."  
 
* [[Flakes]]: "California's got the most of them." (...) "All what we got here is American made."  
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* [[Bobby Brown Goes Down]] "Oh God, oh God, I'm the American dream!"
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* [[The Florida Airport Tape]]
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* [[Fembot in A Wet T-Shirt Nite]]: "And Mary is the kind of red-blooded American girl who'll do anything..."
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* [[Flower Punk]]: "I'm going up to Frisco to join a psychedelic band." (...) The youth in America today is so wonderful."
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* [[Tinsel Town Rebellion]]
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* [[Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America]]
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* [[Conehead]]
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* [[God Bless America]]
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* [[Mudd Club]]
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* [[H.R. 2911]]
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* [[The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing]]
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* [[Harry-As-A-Boy]]: ''"just like every other American, I'm too concerned with my own personal health and well-being to think of devoting any of my precious time to something as boring as reproduction!"''
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* [[Dumb All Over]]
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* [[Harry You're A Beast]]: "That's you, American womanhood."
 
* [[Heavenly Bank Account]]
 
* [[Heavenly Bank Account]]
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* [[Hotel Atlanta Incidentals]]
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* [[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1966 - Los Angeles)|Hungry Freaks Daddy]]: "Mr. America walk on by..."
 
* [[I Don't Wanna Get Drafted]]
 
* [[I Don't Wanna Get Drafted]]
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* [[Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch]]: "America's polluted waters"
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* [[I Left My Heart In San Francisco]]
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* [[Valley Girl]]  (about girls from the San Fernando Valley)
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* [[The Idiot Bastard Son]]: "The father's a Nazi in Congress today/The mother's a hooker somewhere in L.A."
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* [[Cocaine Decisions]]
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* [[If We'd All Been Living In California...]]
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* [[The Radio Is Broken]]
 
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* [[Love Story]]  (about an old Republican couple)
 
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* [[Truck Driver Divorce]]
 
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* [[Stevie's Spanking]]
 
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* [[Harry-As-A-Boy]]: ''"just like every other American, I'm too concerned with my own personal health and well-being to think of devoting any of my precious time to something as boring as reproduction!"''
 
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* [[Be In My Video]]  (satire of [[MTV]])
 
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* [[What's New In Baltimore?]]
 
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* [[Porn Wars]]
 
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* [[H.R. 2911]]
 
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* [[Let's Move To Cleveland]]
 
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* [[The Beltway Bandits]]
 
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* [[Republicans]]
 
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* [[Do Not Pass Go]] (from the American board game "Monopoly")
 
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* [[Jim & Tammy's Upper Room]]
 
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* [[Were We Ever Really Safe In San Antonio?]]
 
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* [[Hotel Atlanta Incidentals]]
 
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* [[Orrin Hatch On Skis]]
 
 
* [[It Ain't Necessarily The Saint James Infirmary]]
 
* [[It Ain't Necessarily The Saint James Infirmary]]
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* [[The Florida Airport Tape]]
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* [[It Can't Happen Here]]: "Who could imagine that they would freak out in [[wikipedia:Minnesota| Minnesota]] (...), [[wikipedia:Kansas| Kansas]], (...) [[wikipedia:Washington D.C.|Washington D.C.]]?"
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* [[Broadway The Hard Way]]
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* [[It Has Just Been Passed…]] is about a ridiculous law in Arizona.
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* [[Elvis Has Just Left The Building]]
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* [[It's From Kansas]]
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* [[Dickie's Such An Asshole]] (about [[Richard Nixon]])
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* [[JCB & Kansas On The Bus 1]]
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* [[When The Lie's So Big]]
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* [[JCB & Kansas On The Bus 2]]
 
* [[Rhymin' Man]]  (about [[Rhymin'_Man#Notes_About_This_Song|Jesse Jackson]])
 
* [[Rhymin' Man]]  (about [[Rhymin'_Man#Notes_About_This_Song|Jesse Jackson]])
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* [[Promiscuous]]  (about [[C. Everett Koop]])
 
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* [[The Untouchables]]
 
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* [[Why Don't You Like Me?]]  (about [[Michael Jackson]])
 
 
* [[Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk]]
 
* [[Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk]]
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* [[Ride My Face To Chicago]]
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* [[Jim & Tammy's Upper Room]]
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* [[Nig Biz]]
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* [[Just Another Band From L.A.]]
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* [[I Left My Heart In San Francisco]]
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* [[Legend Of The Illinois Enema Bandit]]: "A famous criminal from right around Chicago".
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* [[Theme From "Bonanza"]]
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* [[Let's Make The Water Turn Black]]: "Selling lamps and chairs to San Ber'dino squares"
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* [[Let's Move To Cleveland]]
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* [[Lonesome Cowboy Burt]]  "All my family from down in Texas" and "Come out here to Californy"
 
* [[Lonesome Cowboy Burt (Swaggart Version)]]
 
* [[Lonesome Cowboy Burt (Swaggart Version)]]
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* [[Love Story]]  (about an old Republican couple)
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* [[The Madison Panty-Sniffing Festival]]
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* [[The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing]]
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* [[Montana]]
 
* [[More Trouble Every Day (Swaggart Version)]]
 
* [[More Trouble Every Day (Swaggart Version)]]
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* [[Mudd Club]]
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* [[Nig Biz]]
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* [[Orrin Hatch On Skis]]
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* [[Outrage At Valdez]]
 
* [[Penguin In Bondage (Swaggart Version)]]
 
* [[Penguin In Bondage (Swaggart Version)]]
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* [[Plastic People]]: "Ladies and gentlemen: the President of the United States!" (...) "My fellow Americans""
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* [[Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead]]  (about the 200th birthday of the U.S.A.)
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* [[Porn Wars]]
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* [[Porn Wars Deluxe]]
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* [[Promiscuous]]  (about [[C. Everett Koop]])
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* [[The Radio Is Broken]]
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* [[Reagan At Bitburg]]
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* [[Redneck Eats]]
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* [[Republicans]]
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* [[The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet]]: "America's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful... it really makes it!"
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* [[Ride My Face To Chicago]]
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* [[Road Ladies]]: "I remember there was one time in Minneapolis..."
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* [[San Ber'dino]]
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* [[Semi-Fraudulent/Direct-From-Hollywood Overture]]
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* [[Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch]]: "America's polluted waters"
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* [[Soft-Sell Conclusion]]: "Worshipping together in the church of your dreams. Only in America!"
 
* [[Star Wars Won't Work]]
 
* [[Star Wars Won't Work]]
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* [[Stevie's Spanking]]
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* [[Strictly Genteel (The Track)|Strictly Genteel]]: "A disaster area the size of Atlantic City, New Jersey."
 
* [[Take Me Out To The Ball Game]]
 
* [[Take Me Out To The Ball Game]]
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* [[JCB & Kansas On The Bus]]
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* [[Theme From "Bonanza"]]
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* [[The Madison Panty-Sniffing Festival]]
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* [[This Ain't CNN]]
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* [[Emperor Of Ohio]]
 
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* [[Agency Man]]: "Let's try California..."
 
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* [[Outrage At Valdez]]
 
 
* [[Times Beach]]
 
* [[Times Beach]]
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* [[Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America]]
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* [[Tinseltown Rebellion]]
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* [[Trouble Every Day]]: was inspired by the [[wikipedia:Watts riots|Watts riots]]
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* [[Truck Driver Divorce]]
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* [[The Untouchables]]
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* [[Valley Girl]]  (about girls from the San Fernando Valley)
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* [[Village Of The Sun]]
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* [[The Voice Of Cheese]]: "Hello teenage America!"
 
* [[Welcome To The United States]]
 
* [[Welcome To The United States]]
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* [[Reagan At Bitburg]]
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* [[Were We Ever Really Safe In San Antonio?]]
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* [[Amnerika]]
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* [[What's New In Baltimore?]]
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* [[This Ain't CNN]]
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* [[When The Lie's So Big]]
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* [[When Yuppies Go To Hell]]
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* [[Who Needs The Peace Corps?]]: "Go to [[San Francisco]]"
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* [[Why Don't You Like Me?]]  (about [[Michael Jackson]])
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* [[Willie The Pimp]] ("standing on the porch of the Lido Hotel")
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* [[Would You Go All The Way?]] (for the U.S.A.?)
  
 
* Various characters associated with the U.S.A. can be seen in ''[[You Are What You Is (The Music Video)]]'', including President Reagan, a Ku Klux Klan member and a Playboy Bunny
 
* Various characters associated with the U.S.A. can be seen in ''[[You Are What You Is (The Music Video)]]'', including President Reagan, a Ku Klux Klan member and a Playboy Bunny
 
* [[Clean American Version]], a text that can also be seen on the artwork for [[Absolutely Free]]
 
* [[Clean American Version]], a text that can also be seen on the artwork for [[Absolutely Free]]
 
* The M.O.I. American Pageant is the name of side two of [[Absolutely Free]] (track 10-15 on the CD version)
 
* The M.O.I. American Pageant is the name of side two of [[Absolutely Free]] (track 10-15 on the CD version)
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* Zappa often used the monicker ''"American composer"'' to describe himself in the most straightforward way.
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* Zappa often used the moniker ''"American composer"'' to describe himself in the most straightforward way.
  
 
==Locations==
 
==Locations==
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* [[125th]]
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* [[Alabama]]
 
* [[Baltimore]]
 
* [[Baltimore]]
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* [[Boney's Market]]
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* [[Broadway]]
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* [[Cafe au-Go-Go]]
 
* [[California]]
 
* [[California]]
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* [[Canal]]
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* [[Fembot in A Wet T-Shirt Nite#Notes About This Song|Canoga Park]]
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* [[Canter's Deli]]
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* [[Cheviot Hills]]
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* [[Chicago]]
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* [[Cucamonga]]
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* [[Detroit]]
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* [[Downey]]
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* [[Edwards Air Force Base]]
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* [[El Monte Legion Stadium]]
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* [[Encino]]
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* [[Fillmore Venues|Fillmore East]]
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* [[Fillmore Venues|Fillmore West]]
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* The [[Freak Out! Hot Spots]]  (where all 69 locations are American)
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* [[Freak 2: Hot Spots]]
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* [[Fresno]]
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* [[Garrick Theatre]]
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* [[Georgia]]
 
* [[Glendale]]
 
* [[Glendale]]
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* [[Glenoaks]]
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* [[Granada Hills]]
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* [[Greenwich Village]]
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* [[Hollywood]]
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* [[Hollywood Boulevard]]
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* [[Houston]]
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* [[Huntingpark]]
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* [[Irwindale]]
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* [[Jai Alai Fronton]]
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* [[Kansas]]
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* [[Lancaster]]
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* [[Langley]]
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* [[Lankershim Boulevard]]
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* [[Las Vegas]]
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* [[Laurel Canyon]]
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* [[Lincoln Center]]
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* [[Los Angeles]]
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* [[Massachusetts]]
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* [[Miami]]
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* [[Mojave Desert]]
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* [[Monterey]]
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* [[New Jersey]]
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* [[New York]]
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* [[Ontario]] (California)
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* [[Orange County]]
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* [[Pal Studio]]
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* [[Palmdale]]
 
* [[Palo Alto]]
 
* [[Palo Alto]]
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* [[Los Angeles]]
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* [[Park Avenue]]
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* [[Pauley Pavilion]]
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* [[Pennsylvania]]
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* [[Playa del Rey]]
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* [[Pomona]]
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* [[Reseda]]
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* [[Royce Hall]]
 
* [[San Diego]]
 
* [[San Diego]]
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* [[San Fernando]]
 
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* [[Ontario]] (California)
 
 
* [[San Fernando Valley]]
 
* [[San Fernando Valley]]
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* [[San Francisco]]
 
* [[San Joaquin Valley]]
 
* [[San Joaquin Valley]]
 
* [[San Quentin]]
 
* [[San Quentin]]
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* [[San Francisco]]
 
 
* [[Santa Monica]]
 
* [[Santa Monica]]
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* [[Saint Louis]]
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* [[Shrine Exposition Hall]]
 
* [[Sun Village]]
 
* [[Sun Village]]
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* [[Palmdale]]
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* [[Sunset Boulevard]]  
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* [[Irwindale]]
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* [[Uptown Hall]]
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* [[Lancaster]]
 
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* [[El Monte Legion Stadium]]
 
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* [[Orange County]]
 
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* [[Encino]]
 
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* [[Monterey]]
 
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* [[Edwards Air Force Base]]
 
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* [[Las Vegas]]
 
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* [[Pomona]]
 
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* [[Park Avenue]]
 
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* [[Chicago]]
 
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* [[Nevada]]
 
 
* [[Utah]]
 
* [[Utah]]
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* [[Georgia]]
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* [[Ventura]]
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* [[Alaska]]
 
 
* [[Virginia]]
 
* [[Virginia]]
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* [[Wall Street]]
 
* [[Washington]]
 
* [[Washington]]
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* [[Miami]]
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* [[Westchester]]
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* [[Alabama]]
 
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* [[New York]]
 
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* [[Manhattan]]
 
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* [[Madison Square Garden]]
 
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* [[New Jersey]]
 
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* [[Broadway]]
 
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* [[The Broadway]]
 
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* [[Lankershim Boulevard]]
 
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* [[Laurel Canyon]]
 
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* [[Long Island]]
 
 
* [[White Street]]
 
* [[White Street]]
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* [[Canter's Deli]]
 
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* [[Mojave Desert]]
 
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* [[Cucamonga]]
 
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* [[Garrick Theatre]]
 
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* [[Greenwich Village]]
 
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* [[Reseda]]
 
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* [[Houston]]
 
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* [[Sunset Boulevard]]
 
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* [[Westchester]]
 
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* [[Huntingpark]]
 
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* [[Langley]]
 
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* [[Cheviot Hills]]
 
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* [[Boney's Market]]
 
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* [[Pal Studio]]
 
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* [[Granada Hills]]
 
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* [[Lincoln Center]]
 
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* [[Hollywood]]
 
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* [[Hollywood Boulevard]]
 
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* [[Fresno]]
 
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* [[125th]]
 
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* [[Pomona]]
 
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* [[Fillmore Venues|Fillmore East]]
 
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* [[Fillmore Venues|Fillmore West]]
 
 
* [[Wyoming]]
 
* [[Wyoming]]
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* [[Playa del Rey]]
 
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* [[Pauley Pavilion]]
 
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* [[Shrine Exposition Hall]]
 
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* [[Jai Alai Fronton]]
 
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* [[Royce Hall]]
 
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* [[Uptown Hall]]
 
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* [[Glenoaks]]
 
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* [[Canal]]
 
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* [[Cafe au-Go-Go]]
 
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* [[Fembot in A Wet T-Shirt Nite#Notes About This Song|Canoga Park]]
 
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* [[Circle Star Theatre]]
 
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* The [[Freak Out! Hot Spots]]  (where all 69 locations are American)
 
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* [[Freak 2: Hot Spots]]
 
 
* [[:Category:Clubs And Bars]]
 
* [[:Category:Clubs And Bars]]
 
* [[:Category:Radio Stations]]
 
* [[:Category:Radio Stations]]
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* [[American Civil Liberties Union]]
 
* [[American Civil Liberties Union]]
 
* [[American Medical Association]]
 
* [[American Medical Association]]
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* [[American Society of University Composers]]
 
 
* [[Barbie]], [[Ken]] and [[Cindy]]
 
* [[Barbie]], [[Ken]] and [[Cindy]]
 
* [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival]]
 
* [[Boston Globe Jazz Festival]]
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* [[Burger King]]
 
 
* [[Capitol Records]]
 
* [[Capitol Records]]
 
* [[Central Intelligence Agency]]
 
* [[Central Intelligence Agency]]
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* [[DownBeat]]
 
* [[DownBeat]]
 
* The [[Wikipedia:Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]
 
* The [[Wikipedia:Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]
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* The [[FCC]]
 
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* [[The First Lady]]
 
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* [[Free Press]]
 
 
* [[Guitar Player Magazine]]
 
* [[Guitar Player Magazine]]
 
* [[Hustler]]
 
* [[Hustler]]
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* [[Look]]
 
* [[Look]]
 
* [[Los Angeles Free Press]]
 
* [[Los Angeles Free Press]]
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* [[Los Angeles Museum Of Contemporary Art]]
 
 
* [[Los Angeles Philharmonic]]
 
* [[Los Angeles Philharmonic]]
 
* [[Lucky Strike]]
 
* [[Lucky Strike]]
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* [[MCA]]
 
 
* [[MGM Records]]
 
* [[MGM Records]]
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* [[M.P.A.A.]]
 
 
* [[MTV]]
 
* [[MTV]]
 
* [[Miami Pop Festival]]
 
* [[Miami Pop Festival]]
 
* [[Mormons]]
 
* [[Mormons]]
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* [[NBC]]
 
* [[The New York Times]]
 
* [[The New York Times]]
 
* [[Newport Jazz Festival]]
 
* [[Newport Jazz Festival]]
 
* [[Oldsmobile]]
 
* [[Oldsmobile]]
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* [[PCP]]
 
 
* [[PTA]]
 
* [[PTA]]
 
* [[Parents Music Resource Center]]
 
* [[Parents Music Resource Center]]
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* [[Uncle Ben's Rice]]
 
* [[Uncle Ben's Rice]]
 
* [[Village Voice]]
 
* [[Village Voice]]
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* [[Wall Street Journal]]
 
* [[Warner Brothers]]
 
* [[Warner Brothers]]
 
* [[The Washington Post]]
 
* [[The Washington Post]]
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* [[Aaron Copland]]
 
* [[Aaron Copland]]
 
* [[Robert Craft]]
 
* [[Robert Craft]]
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* [[Fred E. Graff]]
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* [[The World’s Greatest Sinner (The Film)|Fred E. Graff]]
 
* [[Michael Hedges]]
 
* [[Michael Hedges]]
 
* [[Charles Ives]]
 
* [[Charles Ives]]
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* [[Wikipedia:Z-Trip|DJ Z-Trip]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Z-Trip|DJ Z-Trip]]
 
* [[I'm The Slime#Notes About This Song|Ill Bill]]
 
* [[I'm The Slime#Notes About This Song|Ill Bill]]
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* [[J Dilla]]
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* [[Dance Contest#Notes About This Song|J Dilla]]
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* [[J*Davey]]
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* [[Dirty Love#Trivia|J*Davey]]
 
* [[Madvillain]]
 
* [[Madvillain]]
 
* [[MF Doom]]
 
* [[MF Doom]]
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* [[Mr. Dibbs]]
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* [[Little Umbrellas#Notes About This Song|Mr. Dibbs]]
 
* [[Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire]]
 
* [[Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire]]
 
* [[Tyler, The Creator]]
 
* [[Tyler, The Creator]]
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* [[Young Chris]]
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* [[Uncle Remus#Notes About This Song|Young Chris]]
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==Blues singers==
 
==Blues singers==
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* [[Captain Beefheart]]
 
* [[Captain Beefheart]]
 
* [[Richard Carpenter]]
 
* [[Richard Carpenter]]
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* [[Harry Chapin]]
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* [[Zappa Picks By Larry LaLonde Of Primus#Background Information|Les Claypool]]
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* [[Les Claypool]]
 
 
* [[Kurt Cobain]]
 
* [[Kurt Cobain]]
 
* [[Alice Cooper]]
 
* [[Alice Cooper]]
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* [[Larry Fischer|Wild Man Fischer]]
 
* [[Larry Fischer|Wild Man Fischer]]
 
* [[Jon Fishman]]
 
* [[Jon Fishman]]
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* [[The Flock]]
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* [[Flo & Eddie]]
 
* [[John Frusciante]]
 
* [[John Frusciante]]
 
* [[The Fugs]]
 
* [[The Fugs]]
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* [[Jefferson Airplane]]
 
* [[Jefferson Airplane]]
 
* [[Janis Joplin]]
 
* [[Janis Joplin]]
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* [[Henry Kaiser]]
 
 
* [[The Leaves]]
 
* [[The Leaves]]
 
* [[Little Richard]]
 
* [[Little Richard]]
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* [[Moe.]]
 
* [[Moe.]]
 
* [[The Monkees]]
 
* [[The Monkees]]
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* [[Keith Moon]]
 
 
* [[Jim Morrison]]
 
* [[Jim Morrison]]
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* [[Mötley Crüe]]
 
 
* [[Ted Nugent]]
 
* [[Ted Nugent]]
 
* [[The Osmonds]]
 
* [[The Osmonds]]
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* [[Tiny Tim]]
 
* [[Tiny Tim]]
 
* [[The Tubes]]
 
* [[The Tubes]]
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* [[The Turtles]]
 
 
* [[Twisted Sister]]
 
* [[Twisted Sister]]
 
* [[Umphrey's McGee]]
 
* [[Umphrey's McGee]]
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* [[The Velvet Underground]]
 
* [[The Velvet Underground]]
 
* [[Frank Vignola]]
 
* [[Frank Vignola]]
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* [[The Village People]]
 
 
* [[Tom Waits]]
 
* [[Tom Waits]]
 
* [[Walk the Moon]]
 
* [[Walk the Moon]]
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* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]
 
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]
 
* [[Yonder Mountain String Band]]
 
* [[Yonder Mountain String Band]]
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==Writers==
 
==Writers==
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* [[Pee-Wee Herman]]
 
* [[Pee-Wee Herman]]
 
* [[Larry King]]
 
* [[Larry King]]
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* [[Ted Koppel]]
 
 
* [[Harold Lloyd]]
 
* [[Harold Lloyd]]
 
* [[Soupy Sales]]
 
* [[Soupy Sales]]
 
* [[Rod Serling]]
 
* [[Rod Serling]]
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* [[The Three Stooges]]
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* [[Annie Sprinkle]]
  
 
==Politics, Religion and Business==
 
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* [[Jerry Falwell]]
 
* [[Larry Flynt]]
 
* [[Larry Flynt]]
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* [[Barry Goldwater]]
 
 
* [[Al Gore]] and [[Tipper Gore]]
 
* [[Al Gore]] and [[Tipper Gore]]
 
* [[Billy Graham]]
 
* [[Billy Graham]]
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* [[Religion|Thomas Jefferson]]
 
* [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
 
* [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
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* [[John F. Kennedy]]
 
* [[Henry Kissinger]]
 
* [[Henry Kissinger]]
 
* [[C. Everett Koop]]
 
* [[C. Everett Koop]]
 
* [[Religion|Abraham Lincoln]]
 
* [[Religion|Abraham Lincoln]]
 
* [[Ed Meese]]
 
* [[Ed Meese]]
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* [[Merrill Lynch]]
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* [[Sun Myung Moon]]
 
* [[Richard Nixon]]
 
* [[Richard Nixon]]
 
* [[Oliver North]]
 
* [[Oliver North]]
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* [[Bob Packwood]]
 
* [[John Poindexter]]
 
* [[John Poindexter]]
 
* [[Ronald Reagan]]
 
* [[Ronald Reagan]]
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* [[Pat Robertson]]
 
* [[John D. Rockefeller IV]]
 
* [[John D. Rockefeller IV]]
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* [[George Lincoln Rockwell]]
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* [[Rothschild Venture Capital]]
 
* [[Jimmy Swaggart]]
 
* [[Jimmy Swaggart]]
 
* [[Strom Thurmond]]
 
* [[Strom Thurmond]]
 
* [[Robert Tilton]]
 
* [[Robert Tilton]]
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* [[Ted Turner]]
 
 
* [[Religion|George Washington]]
 
* [[Religion|George Washington]]
 
* The [[Iran-contra affair]]
 
* The [[Iran-contra affair]]
 
* The [[Cold War]]
 
* The [[Cold War]]
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* [[The World Church]]
  
 
==Criminals==
 
==Criminals==
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==Miscellaneous==
 
==Miscellaneous==
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* [[Richard E. Byrd]]
 
* [[Church of American Secular Humanism]]
 
* [[Church of American Secular Humanism]]
 
* [[The Flag Salute]]
 
* [[The Flag Salute]]
 
* [[Great Society]]
 
* [[Great Society]]
 
* [[Hawaiian Lunch]]
 
* [[Hawaiian Lunch]]
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* [[KABC-TV L.A.]]
 
 
* [[The Log Cabin]]
 
* [[The Log Cabin]]
 
* [[Willie Mays]]
 
* [[Willie Mays]]
 
* [[Palladium]]
 
* [[Palladium]]
 
* [[The Plaster Casters Of Chicago]]
 
* [[The Plaster Casters Of Chicago]]
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* [[Sam Goody's Record Store]]
 
 
* [[Mark Spitz]]
 
* [[Mark Spitz]]
 
* [[United Mutations]]
 
* [[United Mutations]]

Latest revision as of 17:54, 1 January 2023


Frank Zappa dressed up as Uncle Sam for a 1988 publicity shoot to promote voting in the presidential elections.

While Zappa was born and raised in the United States he was often critical of the American government, its foreign policy, organized religion, media, corporations and the consumer culture.

Track and album references to America

  • Various characters associated with the U.S.A. can be seen in You Are What You Is (The Music Video), including President Reagan, a Ku Klux Klan member and a Playboy Bunny
  • Clean American Version, a text that can also be seen on the artwork for Absolutely Free
  • The M.O.I. American Pageant is the name of side two of Absolutely Free (track 10-15 on the CD version)
  • Zappa often used the moniker "American composer" to describe himself in the most straightforward way.

Locations

References to American institutions and brands

Composers and conductors


Hip hop Musicians

Blues singers

Doo-wop and R&B singers

Jazz Composers

Rock, Folk and Pop Artists

Writers

Comedians and TV Presenters

Politics, Religion and Business

Criminals


Fictional characters


Scientists

Painters

Bandmembers, Supporting Cast, Family Members and Other

Note: Most of the people listed here are or were Americans and therefore would be too numerous to list each one of them indvidually on this page. Occasionally some of them might be born in another country:

Miscellaneous

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