The Man from Utopia

The Man from Utopia is a 1983 album by Frank Zappa. It is a more song-driven, and less conceptual work than many others in Zappa's oeuvre. The album is named after a 1950s song, written by Donald and Doris Woods, which Zappa covers as part of "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou".http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/The_Man_From_Utopia.html#Utopia The sleeve art features the work of RanXerox artist Tanino Liberatore.

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1983 - Frank Zappa - 1950s - RanXerox - Tanino Liberatore

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The album's best known track is probably "Cocaine Decisions", with its Zappa groove redolent of skiffle washboards and its contribution to the great mis-rhymes of rock history: "...you are a doctor or a lawyer / you got an office with a foyer..."

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Also included is "Dangerous Kitchen", a track which describes a place "where the cream is all clabbered and the salad is frightful..." and "the milk can hurt you". In a similar vein is the satire on 1950s sci-fi B-movies, "The Radio Is Broken".

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Sci-fi - B-movies

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