Tinsel Town Rebellion

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Tinsel Town Rebellion
Live album by Frank Zappa

Publication
(s)

May 11, 1981

Label (s) Barking Pumpkin Records
CBS
Rykodisc (CD)

Format (s)

LP vinyl , CD

Genre (s)

Rock music

Title (number)

15th

running time

67:38

occupation
  • Peter Wolf - keyboard
  • David Logeman - drums on Fine Girl
    and the first half of Easy Meat
  • Greg Cowan

production

Frank Zappa

Studio (s)

UMRK

chronology
Joe's Garage
(1979) 		Tinsel Town Rebellion Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar
(1981)

Tinsel Town Rebellion (dt. Hollywood Rebellion) is a rock album by Frank Zappa , which was released in 1981 on the label Barking Pumpkin Records ,newly founded by Zappa. It consists of old, already published and new pieces that were recorded at various concerts, mostly from 1979 and 1980, andsubsequently revisedin Zappa's own studio, Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, which has just been set up. There Zappa put the individual songs together from passages from various concerts. The album is also the first record on which the then 20-year-old guitarist Steve Vai is introduced to a larger audience.

Track list

  1. Fine Girl - 3:31
  2. Easy Meat - 9:19 am
  3. For the Young Sophisticate - 2:48
  4. Love of My Life - 2:15
  5. I Ain't Got No Heart - 1:59
  6. Panty Rap - 4:35
  7. Tell Me You Love Me - 2:07
  8. Now You See It- Now You Don't - 4:54
  9. Dance Contest - 2:58
  10. The Blue Light - 5:27
  11. Tinseltown Rebellion - 4:35
  12. Pick Me, I'm Clean - 5:07
  13. Bamboozled by Love - 5:46
  14. Brown Shoes Don't Make It - 7:14
  15. Peaches III - 5:01


reception

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Tinsel Town Rebellion
  US 66 07/04/1981 (11 weeks)

The album peaked at number 66 on the Billboard charts. The critics were not overly impressed. Steve Huey appreciated the new versions of the already known pieces, but criticized the sometimes violent-sexual youthfulness in pieces such as Fine Girl , Easy Meat or Pick me, I'm Clean . However, Fisher Lowe thinks the album is better than the reviews said, if only because the band is "very likely Zappa's best". The performances by Ed Mann and Vinnie Colaiuta are consistently impressive. Barry Miles criticized the piece Fine Girl for being "an insult to the black population group" and saw Zappa's blatant dislike of the women's movement in the play.

literature

  • Kelly Fisher Lowe: The Words and Music of Frank Zappa . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-6005-4 , Chapter 6, Section Tinsel Town Rebellion , pp. 160-166 .
  • Barry Miles : Zappa . Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweiausendeins, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8077-1010-8 , p. 329-332 .
  • Ben Watson: Frank Zappa. The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play . Quarted Books Ltd., London 1996, ISBN 0-7043-0242-X , Chapter 8, Section Tinsel Town Rebellion , p. 380-388 .
  • Frank Wonneberg : Grand Zappa - International Frank Zappa Discology . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-581-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Frank Zappa Album Versions Guide. Tinsel-Town Rebellion . Retrieved June 15, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Charts US
  3. ↑ a b Kelly Fisher Lowe: The Words and Music of Frank Zappa . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-6005-4 , Chapter 6, Section Tinsel Town Rebellion , pp. 160-166 .
  4. ↑ Tinsel Town Rebellion on Allmusic (English)
  5. ↑ Barry Miles : Zappa . Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweiausendeins, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8077-1010-8 , p. 329-332 .