You Are What You Is

Release Info

You Are What You Is

Released September 1981.

Tracks

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

Background

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

See also: "Clean Cuts from You Are What You Is".