#Frank zappa ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch tv#
It was a typically bold, spontaneous and very successful career move by FZ resulting in a timely hit single (peaking at #32 in the US).īut we then unfortunately segue into ‘I Come From Nowhere’, a fairly unlistenable track about the inanity of TV personalities with a ghastly vocal performance by Roy Estrada over an uninvolving, sub-Men At Work riff.īut side two of Ship demonstrates all that’s essential about ’80s Zappa. ‘Valley Girl’ placed killer new-wave rock around daughter Moon’s hilarious vocal exclamations. Opening track ‘No Not Now’, concerning the sexual dilemmas of a long-distance truck driver, is a six-minute disaster area that would surely test the patience of even the most diehard Zappa fan. Ship ditched the lush, multi-tracked sound of 1981’s You Are What You Is in favour of a no-reverb, claustrophobic mix featuring Chad Wackerman’s busy drums, blaring synths, in-your-face bass and loads of wacky guitar processing. I was going to say that Ship was not the ideal album to start with, but actually with hindsight it probably was it’s maddening, brilliant, tawdry, overblown – basically a microcosm of Zappa’s ’80s output. Before Ship, I had only heard choice cuts courtesy of a friend’s career-spanning compilation. It was a cheapo Fame Records/EMI cassette edition. This is the first Zappa album I ever bought. Barking Pumpkin Records, released 3rd May 1982īought: Virgin Megastore, Oxford Street, 1988 (directly after seeing Robert Fripp play instore…)
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