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Frank Zappa meets the Mothers Of Prevention

 

  1 I don’t even care [Frank Zappa, Johnny Watson]
  2 One man, one vote
  3 Little beige sambo
  4 Aerobics in bondage
  5 We’re turning again
  6 Alien orifice
  7 Yo cats [Frank Zappa, Tommy Mars]
  8 What’s new in Baltimore?
  9 Porn wars
10 H.R. 2911 {Porn wars}

 

All compositions by Frank Zappa, except as noted above.


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Back side text (Senator Ernest Hollings - September 19, 1985)
“We haven’t got ‘em whipped on this one yet. You got a bear by the tail here, uh? Jeezis!”

1. I don’t even care


[Johnny Watson] Would ya b’lieve it
Uh-huh, don’t even care
Uh-huh, listen!
I said
I-I-I-I
Talkin’ ‘bout this evenin’
DON’T EVEN CARE
So let me tell you why this evenin’
Listen, not enough have been said
I-I-I-I
About the white, the blue and the red
DON’T EVEN CARE
So everybody just a-runnin’ off scared
And I, OW!
I’ll tell you that
I-I-I-I
Talkin’ ‘bout ME, y’all
DON’T EVEN CARE
I don’t even care
No I don’t, no I don’t
Listen, standin’ in the bread line
I-I-I-I
Everybody lyin’ an’ lyin’
DON’T EVEN CARE
Ain’t nobody doin’ fine?
O-OW, let me tell you why
I said, OW!
I-I-I-I
I’m talkin’ ‘bout… I…
Don’t even…
DON’T EVEN CARE
Don’t give me no incentive
Don’t give me NO incentive
I know you know what I’m talkin’ ‘bout
I-I-I-I
Uh-huh, yeah!
DON’T EVEN CARE
Oh no, I don’t…
Now listen…
Everybody’s sayin’ be big hearted
I-I-I-I
Everybody’s sayin’ be big hearted
DON’T EVEN CARE
How in the world has this mess got started
I never know, never know got started
OW!
I-I-I-I
Yes sir! I don’t even care
DON’T EVEN CARE
Uh-huh, yes sir!
I-I-I-I
DON’T EVEN CARE
I-I-I-I
Help me, uh-huh
DON’T EVEN CARE
Don’t care no more
Don’t you… Don’t you know!
I-I-I-I
Everybody’s doin’ line in tellin’ them lies an’…
They want me to b’lieve it!
DON’T EVEN CARE
Everybody’s tryin’ to offer me somethin’
Ain’t nothin’ I need to live
I said
I-I-I-I
Yeah! I don’t even…
DON’T EVEN CARE
No, no, I don’t…
Ha-tch-tch-tch-tch
I-I-I-I
Ha-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch
DON’T EVEN CARE
Uh-huh, now listen, now ain’t that som’thin’, oof!
I said
I-I-I-I
Alright
DON’T EVEN CARE
Lemme tell you why
What was whole
Now, what was whole
I-I-I-I
What was whole is… is just less than half
DON’T EVEN CARE
What was whole is less than half
Lemme tell you
OW!
I-I-I-I
Hey, you can’t hold on to it ‘cause it ain’t gonna last!
DON’T EVEN CARE
Would you listen to me, baby?
I’m just talkin’ ‘bout…
I-I-I-I
OW!
DON’T EVEN CARE
Shit, I don’t care!
Listen, I said now
I-I-I-I
Uh-huh
DON’T EVEN CARE
So listen, lemme tell ya

The cow used to jump over the moon!
An’ now he’s jumpin’ over the fence!
I-I-I-I
Is that cold?
It don’t make no sense do it
DON’T EVEN CARE
OW! Yep, that’s the reason! That’s the reason! That’s the reason! OW!
I just don’t care!
I-I-I-I
Uh-huh
No, no, no!
DON’T EVEN CARE
Say, look, they thought it was a man in the moon
I wonder was it a woman
Just don’t care!
Yeah yeah hey!
I said
I-I-I-I
YEAH!
Well well hey
DON’T EVEN CARE
Somethin’ in the mornin’
I don’t care in the evenin’
I don’t care at night
No, no, I just don’t care, I said that…
I-I-I-I
Say, would you b’lieve they tried to send me up to fix the satellite?
Oh no
DON’T EVEN CARE
OW! No good!
AAAAAAAH!
Listen, talkin’ ‘bout…
I-I-I-I
Said I don’t care
DON’T EVEN CARE
Woh no, I don’t this evenin’…
No I don’t! I don’t care! Yeah! Sayin’ that…
I-I-I-I
You know I said, I…
DON’T EVEN CARE
Oh no… ha ha… oh lordy!
Oh no, tell you, I don’t really…
I-I-I-I
Somebody better hold me this evenin’
Say it again
‘Cause I don’t even care
DON’T EVEN CARE
Want you to know, want you… know that I said…
Hold me tight, hold me tight, hold me tight this evenin’ ‘cause
I-I-I-I
B’lieve it!
Tell ya what, tell ya what, I don’t…
DON’T EVEN CARE
Lord have mercy! Pull them guitar strings!
OW!

2. One man, one vote


[Instrumental]

3. Little beige sambo


[Instrumental]

4. Aerobics in bondage


[Instrumental]

5. We’re turning again


[FZ] Turn, turn
Turn, turn
We’re turning again
Turn, turn
Turn, turn
We’re turning again
 
They took a whole bunch of acid
So they could see where it’s at
It’s over there, over there, over there, over there and under here also
Doont da-doodem doodem!
They lived on a whole bunch of nothing
They thought they looked very good
They’d never ever worry, they were always in a hurry
To convince themselves that what they were was really very groovy
 
Yes, they believed in all the papers
And the magazines that defined their folklore
They could never laugh at who or what they thought they were
Or even what they thought they sorta oughta be
They were TOTALLY EMPTY
Totally empty
And their lives were really useless, so what the fuck?
They didn’t have no sense of humor
Oodly-oodly-yeah!
Now they got nothing left to laugh about, including themselves
 
Turn, turn
Turn, turn
We’re turning again
Turn, turn
Turn, turn
We’re turning again
 
[Ike Willis] The year 1967 drug-crazed youth discovered vagrancy as a way of life
EWW-WW!

They were mellow, they were yellow, they were wearing smelly blankets, they looked like DONOVAN fans

HU-UR-DE-EE GU-UR-DE-EE
They walkin’ ‘round with stupid flowers in their hair an’ everywhere, they tried to stuff ‘em up the guns
 
Of all the cops and other servants of the law
LA LA-LA-LA LA-LA
Who tried to push ‘em around and later mowed ‘em down
But they were full of all that shit that they believed in
PHEW!
So what the fuck?
WHAT THE FUCK?
 
Now, I seen ‘em tightenin’ up their headbands on the weekend and they get loaded when they came to town
They walk around in Greenwich Village to buy posters they could hang up in dem smelly little secret black light bedrooms on LONG ISLAND singin’:
JIMI COME BACK!”
Now come back and regulate de boy’s furz-tone

Yo’ HAZE was so PURPLE

It caused your AXIS to be BOLD AS LOVE
JIMI-JIMI-JIMI-JIMI-JIMI FEED BACK
Now Jimi gimme some feedback
Come back and feed back on my knapsack
You can feed back the fuzz tone from your WAH-WAH while you bend down and set your stuff on fire
 
[FZ] Turn, turn
Turn, turn
We’re turning again
Turn, turn
Turn, turn
We’re turning again
 
We can turn it around, we can do it again, we can go back in time

Through the canyons of your mind on the EVE O’ DESTRUCTION
We can act like we are something really special
[Ike Willis] WOOOH
We’ll just jump in the bathtub with that other guy JIM
And make him be more careful
We can visit Big Mama
And whap her on the back
When she eats her sandwich
LA LA LA LA
 
We can take care of Janis
When she gets so depressed
She can’t take it no more
We can laugh at Keith Moon’s jokes
HA HA HA HA HA!
And the color TV
HA HA!
He threw out de windum fum de second flew-ah!
YEAAHHHH!
 
Everybody come back
No one can do it like you used to
If you listen to the radio and what they play today
You can tell right away: all those assholes really need you!
 
[FZ] Turn, turn
Turn, turn
We’re turning again
Turn, turn
Turn, turn
We’re turning again
 
Turn, turn
Turn, turn
We’re turning again
Turn, turn
Turn, turn
We’re turning again

6. Alien orifice


[Instrumental]

7. Yo cats


[Ike Willis] Yo’ cats, yo-yo
Yo’ chooch, way to go
You is dead, but you don’t know
Yo’ let’s carve, hey, where’s the blow?
 
Get your fiddle, get your bow
Play some footballs on your hoe
Watch your watch, play a little flat
Make the session go overtime, that’s where it’s at
 
Hey, saxophone, clarinet
How many doubles can you get?
Special rules provide the way
To help you maximize your pay
 
Your Girl, Arlyn’s, what’s the diff?
What’s the service that you’re with?
So long as you can suck the butt
Of the contractor who calls you up
 
Your career could take a thud
Unless you kneel and scarf his pud
And when the dates come rollin’ in
You can wipe your lips and flash a grin
That tells them all at the jingle date
That you enjoyed what you just ate
 
Yum yum, dog-food
Hemorrhoid cream but the bread’s so good
New RV and the leisure suit
Hey, I play shit but I love that loot
 
Thank the union, it’s so great
Only a few get to be on the date
Those other schmucks with electric guitars
Got to play for poot in the B scale bars
 
You have made it, you are cool
You have been to the Berklee school
You give clinics on the side
Music has died… and… no one cried
 
Yo’ cats, yo-yo
Yo’ chooch, way to go
You is dead
 
Hey! Have a nice one, guy!

8. What’s new in Baltimore?


[Instrumental]

9. Porn wars


[Chairman] The reason for this hearing is not to promote any legislation. Indeed, I don’t know of any suggestion that any legislation be passed. But to simply provide a forum for airing the issue itself, for ventilating the issue, for bringing it out in the public domain. Senator Hollings.
 
[Senator Hollings] I’ve had the opportunity to uh… attend… a showing, you might say, or presentation of uh… this porn rock, as they call it. In the test of pornography, one of the things to look at is it… it does not have any redeeming social value. Ah, there could be an exception here, because having attended that pres presentation, the redeeming social value I find that is inaudible. I have a hard time understanding it, then, Paul, since I traveled the country for 3 years, an’ they said they could not understand me. Maybe I could make a good rock star; I don’t know. Heh. But in all candor, I would tell you it’s… it’s outrageous filth.
So, I’ll be looking from this Senator’s standpoint, not just to bring pressures but to try to see if there is some constitutional provisions to tax, or approach that can be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth.
 
[Chairman] Senator Trible
 
[Senator Trible] Rape, incest, sexual violence
[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
[Senator Trible] Is like sandpaper to the soul
Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage is more subtle

[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains and…
[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
[Senator Hawkins] Other objectionable tools of gratification in some twisted mind
[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
[Senator Trible] The mere announcement of this heari censorship
[Senator Hollings] If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains and… other objectionable…
[Senator Hollings] Rock porn
[Senator Hawkins] Tools of gratification in some twisted mind
[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage…
[Senator Hollings] If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
[Senator Hawkins] This issue is too hot not to cool down
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
[Senator Hawkins] Burn! Burn!
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
[Senator Hollings] Rock porn… Rock porn… Rock porn
[Senator Hawkins] This issue is too hot not to cool down
[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains and… other objectionable tools of gratification in some twisted mind
[Senator Hawkins] This issue is too hot not to cool down
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
[Senator Hawkins] This issue is too…
 
[Spider Barbour] This must be the end of the world! All the people turning into pigs and ponies. I can’t let it happen to me!
 
[Senator Exon] What is the reason for these hearings in front of the Commerce Committee?
[FZ] Sex!
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
[FZ] Sex!
[Senator Hawkins] Thank you, I think that statement… tells the story to this committee

[Rev. Jeff Ling] Listen you little slut, do as you are told
[Senator Exon] What is the reason…
[FZ] Sex!
[Senator Exon] For these hearings in front of the Commerce Committee?
[FZ] Sex! Underwear! Bondage!
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Listen you little slut
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Listen you little slut, do as you are told
[FZ] Sex, and lots of it
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Fixed her good
[FZ] Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex!
 
[Senator Hawkins] I’d be interested to see what toys your kids ever had
[FZ] Why would you be interested?
[Senator Hawkins] Just as a point of interest in this…
[FZ] Well, come on over to the house. I’ll show ‘em to you.
[FZ] Really!
[Senator Hawkins] I… I might do that
[Senator Trible] Rape, incest, sexual violence… is like sandpaper to the soul
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains and… other…
[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
[Senator Hawkins] Objectionable tools of gratification in some twisted minds
[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
[Senator Hawkins] Fire and chains and… other…
[Senator Hollings] If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
[Senator Hawkins] Objectionable tools of gratification in some twisted minds
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
[Senator Hollings] Something that we have got to give some kind of attention to
[Senator Trible] The mere announcement of this hearing led to cries of censorship
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
[Senator Hollings] Porn rock
[Senator Trible] Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
[Senator Hollings] If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
[Senator Trible] Rather the emotional damage…
[Chairman] Thank you very much, Mr. Zappa. You understand that the… the uh… previous witnesses were not asking for legislation. And uh… I don’t know, I can’t speak for Senator Hollings, but I think that the prevailing view here is that nobody is asking for legislation. The question is just focusing on what a lot of people perceived to be a problem, and you have indicated that you at least understand that there is another point of view.
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
[Chairman] Senator Gore
[Senator Gore] Thank you ve very much, Mr. Chairman. I found your statement very interesting and… let me say, although I disagree with some of the statements that you make and have made on other occasions, I have been a fan of your music, believe it or not. And I… I… respect you as a true original and a tremendously talented musician.
 
[Spider Barbour] Ooh, wait a minute!
 
[Senator Hollings] Maybe I could make a good rock star; I don’t know
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Come with… Come with… Come with daddy!
[Senator Hollings] Maybe I could make a good rock star; I don’t know
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Come with… Come with daddy!
[Senator Hollings] Maybe I could make a good rock star; I don’t know
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Come with… Come with… Come with daddy!
 
[Spider Barbour] They don’t even understand their own music. Of course nobody does, but…
[John Kilgore] They don’t… They don’t even know what they’re doing
[Spider Barbour] No!
[John Kilgore] I’ve… I’ve seen ‘em a couple of times
[Spider Barbour] Did… Did you see their uniforms?
[John Kilgore] Unbelievable!
[Monica Boscia] Which ones? They, the red ones?
[John Kilgore] All those rhinestones over their rings and things like that
[Monica Boscia] Do you know what I…
[John Kilgore] Gold lamé hoof-covers… unbelievable!
 
[Senator Hollings] Maybe I could make a good rock star
[Senator Hollings] Maybe I could make a good rock star

[Rev. Jeff Ling] Gonna drive my love inside you
[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
[Senator Hollings] It’s outrageous filth
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Come with daddy!
[Senator Hollings] Rock, rock, porn rock
[Senator Hollings] Rock porn
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
[Senator Hollings] An’ I think your suggestion is a good one. If you print those words, that would go a long way to satisfying everyone’s objections.
[FZ] All we have to do is find out how it is going to be paid for
[Senator Hawkins] This issue is too hot not to cool down
[Senator Hawkins] Pyromania. Burn the building! Burn! Burn! Burn! No question. Burn the building! Burn! Burn! Burn!
[Senator Trible] The mere announcement of this hearing led to cries of censorship
[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
[Senator Trible] Not the self-appointed guardians of the national morality, as some would suggest
[Senator Hollings] If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
[Senator Hollings] Within the constrictions of free speech
[Senator Hollings] Willy nilly over the air
[Senator Hawkins] This issue is too hot not to cool down
[Senator Hollings] So, I’ll be looking from this Senator’s standpoint, not just to bring pressures but to try to see if there is some constitutional provisions to tax, or approach that can be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth.
[Johnny Watson] YEAH!
 
[Thing-Fish] We’ll get back to de wimp and his low-budget conceptium of personal freedom in just a moment. But foist, welcome to… WHAT DE FUCK GWINE ON HERE? A celebratium o’ de American way o’ life!
I see some o’ y’all be FROWNIN’… ‘cause mebbe y’think what I’s tellin’ ya is a LIE!
Am I right?
Les’ jes’ have a test… How many o’ you nice folks think I knows what I’s talkin’ ‘bout? RAISE Y’HAIN UP! Uh-huh!
An’ how many thinks my potato been bakin’ too long? RAISE YO’ MIZZABLE HAIN UP! Uh-huh!

Now… how many you folks is CONVINCED de gubnint be totally “UNCONCERNED” wit de proliferatium o’ UNDESIRABLE TENANTS in de CONDOMINIUM o’ LIFE? An’ how many folks believe THEY number won’t come up, next time de breeze blow fum de Easterly directium?
Les’ face it, peoples! Ugly as I mights be, I AM YO’ FUTCHUM!
Ain’t that right, Sister Ob’dewlla? Hmm-hmm! Oh oh YEAH! Thass right!
 
[Chairman] Senator Gorton
[Senator Gorton] Mr. Zappa, I uh… am astounded at the courtesy and soft-voiced nature of the comments of my friend, the Senator from Tennessee. I can only say that I found your statement to be boorish uh… incredibly and insensitively insulting to the people that were here previously; that you could manage to give the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States a bad name, if I felt that you had the slightest understanding of it, which I do not. You do not have the slightest understanding of the difference between Government action and private action, and you have certainly destroyed any case you might otherwise have had with this Senator.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[FZ] Is this private action?
 
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Degradation. Humiliation. Thrusting, shoving. Animals humping.
[Senator Hawkins] There’s no absolute right to free speech
[FZ] I don’t think this is constitutional
[Tipper Gore] A voluntary labeling is not censorship

[Rev. Jeff Ling] Bend up and smell my anal vapor
[Tipper Gore] A voluntary… voluntary… voluntary… A voluntary labeling is not censorship
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Degradation… humiliation… thrusting
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Whips in their hands
[Senator Hawkins] I’d be interested to see what toys your kids ever had
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Gonna drive my love inside you
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
[FZ] Is this private action?
[Rev. Jeff Ling] In chains
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Listen you little slut, do as you are told
[Senator Hawkins] There’s no absolute right…
[Senator Hawkins] There’s no absolute right…
[Rev. Jeff Ling] My apologies
[Senator Hawkins] There’s no absolute right…
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Whips in their hands
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
[FZ] Ladies, how dare you?
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Dressed in leather bondage masks
[Senator Hawkins] Well…
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Brutal erotica
[Senator Hollings] You and I would differ on what’s ignorance and educated
[FZ] Bondage!
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Bend up and smell my anal vapor
[Senator Hawkins] There’s no… There’s no…
[Rev. Jeff Ling] Come with daddy!
 
[Chairman] Mr. Zappa, thank you very much for your testimony
[FZ] Thank you
[Chairman] Next witness is John Denver
 
[Senator Hollings] We haven’t got ‘em whipped on this one yet. You got a bear by the tail here, uh? Jeezis!

10. H.R. 2911 {Porn wars}


[Instrumental]





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