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Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
We’re Only in It for the Money
September, 1968
Art Rock
Frank Zappa was a freak, but he was never a hippie. Once the counterculture went mass during the Summer of Love, Zappa’s worst suspicions about the alternative youth culture were soon confirmed, and 1968’s We’re Only In It For The Money, his third album with the Mothers of Invention, was a witty, troubling, and prescient satire of the hippie movement and the follies of the generation gap. Funny, smart, and despite being inspired by a specific time and place, it still feels timely.
- Mark Deming
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