Joe's Garage

Joe's Garage is a 1979 triple LP by Frank Zappa, featuring such memorably offensive tunes as "Catholic Girls," a sequel to "Jewish Princess."

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1979 - LP - Frank Zappa

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The major themes of the album (which Frank's libretto says "should be performed as a bad school play") include groupie migration, mockery of Scientology, robot appliance sex (machine fetishism), garage bands, and above all censorship of music as an artform (eerily predicting the PMRC).

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Groupie - Scientology - Fetishism - PMRC

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The album heavily featured Ike Willis as the voice of "Joe", a sterotypical garage band youth who unwittingly journeys through the miasma of the music business. Zappa provides as the voice of the "Central Scrutinizer" character —a mechanical voice which narrates the story and haunts Joe's psyche with McCarthyistic 50s-era discouragement and "scrutiny."

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Ike Willis - Garage band - McCarthyistic

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