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Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is (1981) [Ryko RCD10536 1998]

Posted By: Sartre
Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is (1981) [Ryko RCD10536 1998]

Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is (1981) [Ryko RCD10536 1998]
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You Are What You Is was another of Frank Zappa's periodic post-Over-Nite Sensation efforts that concentrated on tight songwriting supported by satirical lyrics. Originally a two-record set featuring 20 songs, You Are What You Is skewered a variety of targets, from teenagers, punk rock, disco, and country music to the media, yuppies, the beauty-and-fitness industry, upper-class vice, religious hypocrisy, suicide, and the military draft – all the trappings of Reagan-era America. Occasionally, Zappa's satirical points seem ill-thought-out, if not unnecessarily malicious; "Jumbo Go Away" is perhaps the most offensive song in Zappa's huge canon of potentially offensive songs, a tale of a whining, VD-riddled groupie who is portrayed as deserving the punch in the face she gets from an irritated musician. Despite that misstep, though, You Are What You Is is quite ambitious in scope and in general one of Zappa's most accessible later-period efforts; it's a showcase for his songwriting skills and his often acute satirical perspective, with less of the smutty humor that some listeners find off-putting.

This is the much-vaunted Spence Chrislu remaster from 1998 that fixes a lot of EQ/dropout/editing issues with the previous releases and offers a much improved sound overall.


In May 2000, DK de la Mar was the first to report that Ryko had somehow got a new master of this CD - and that the problems have been FIXED! Yes, the new printing of the "1995 CD" was a remaster. Days later, we're proud to present, from the remaster engineer himself, Mr Spence Chrislu:

Oooh golly this is fun! Geez, you think that you tune out of a newsgroup for a few months, check back in, and all hell breaks loose! Did he do it on his own? Did he circumvent the ZFT? Is Ryko secretly changing all the masters? I understand the breakup was less than amicable?

This is so much fun I can hardly stand it. OK, Spencer here to put your minds at ease (and to piss some of you off as well. I don't know why, but someone on this newsgroup always gets pissed off about something).

Some time in '98 after reading the various complaints about You Are What You Is and Tinsel-Town Rebellion (and hearing about it personally from Mike Keneally and Joe Travers) I decided to take it upon myself to re-master those two titles. However, I did do it with Gail and Dweezil's complete knowledge and understanding (no intrigue here so stop looking). We used the same sort of care on these masters as we had done on the Au20 projects [audiophile versions of Apostrophe (') and One Size Fits All] and the results, I think, speak for themselves.

Now for the obvious questions:

Q: Why did the original release sound so bad?

A: I can't answer that one directly other than to say that FZ was always experimenting with new technology. I believe that these CD releases coincided with an experiment using a (then) state-of-the-art digital mastering console with neato DSP compression, limiting, etc.

Q: Why the artificial reverb? Was it on the master? Did you use the original master?

A: Rest assured that I used the original 2-track master extracted straight from the vault.

Q: What's the deal on the edit between sides 3 & 4? Where's the missing music?

A: As the dukeoprunz so recently pointed out, there is indeed an edit between sides 3&4 of You Are What You Is. Why? Because I thought it sounded stupid to have a piece of music on a CD fade out and then fade back in during a guitar solo. Continuity (conceptually speaking of course) and all that. And yes, the edit was a bitch and no, it's not seamless. But I thought it worked and it glues the whole thing together as well.

Q: How come you didn't tell us about it sooner?

A: Because you would have been moaning and groaning and complaining that it's sitting there just out of your reach. Besides, I never knew when (or if) it would be released and letting on would only torture you guys. I guess you could consider this a present from me, Gail, Dweezil, and Rykodisc.

Q: Why didn't you do Sheik Yerbouti as well?

A: I never considered Sheik Yerbouti to be nearly as offensive as Tinsel-Town Rebellion and You Are What You Is. It suffers from some digi-titis for sure but it's difficult to put yourself in FZ's shoes and re-release something that he specifically approved as being final. I felt I could make a good argument for the other two as being worthy of fixing but on borderline calls like Sheik Yerbouti, it becomes a matter of putting my opinions ahead of FZ's and I really don't feel that's my right. Again, let me reitereate that I got Gail and Dweezil's approval on these projects before ever going forward and then I got their approval after the work was done (like signing off on the above-mentioned edit). Who knows? Maybe I'll get to re-master the whole catalog for DVD-A! There's a lot of Quad mixes down there that would sound great through a surround system …


Tracks
1 Teen-Age Wind
2 Harder Than Your Husband
3 Doreen
4 Goblin Girl
5 Theme from the 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear
6 Society Pages
7 I'm a Beautiful Guy
8 Beauty Knows No Pain
9 Charlie's Enormous Mouth
10 Any Downers?
11 Conehead
12 You Are What You Is
13 Mudd Club
14 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
15 Dumb All Over
16 Heavenly Bank Account
17 Suicide Chump
18 Jumbo Go Away
19 If Only She Woulda
20 Drafted Again


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Frank Zappa / You Are What You Is (Spence Chrislu Remaster)

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