Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III

Joe's Garage: Acts I, II & III is a 1979 rock opera by Frank Zappa, which tells the story of what could possibly happen if music was made illegal. The album features Ike Willis as the voice of "Joe", a stereotypical garage band youth who unwittingly journeys through the miasma of the music business. Zappa provides the voice of the "Central Scrutinizer" character—a mechanical voice that narrates the story and haunts Joe's psyche with McCarthyistic 50s-era discouragement and "scrutiny."The album was originally issued in two parts, the first part being a single LP of Act I, and the second part being a double-LP set of Acts II & III. All three acts were later issued together as a box set, and on compact disc as a double-CD. The major themes of the story include groupie migration, mockery of Scientology, appliance fetishism, garage bands, and above all censorship of music as an artform.Joe's Garage is particularly noteworthy for its extensive use of Zappa's xenochrony technique, in which guitar solos from older, completely unrelated recordings were extracted and overdubbed onto new songs. With the exception of "Watermelon in Easter Hay" and "Crew Slut", all Zappa's solos on the album were constructed in this way.

Disc 1
1: The Central Scrutinizer
2: Joe's Garage
3: Catholic Girls
4: Crew Slut
5: Fembot in a Wet T-shirt
6: On the Bus
7: Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
8: Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
9: Scrutinizer Postlude
10: A Token of My Extreme
11: Stick It Out
12: Sy Borg

Disc 2
1: Dong Work for Yuda
2: Keep It Greasey
3: Outside Now
4: He Used to Cut the Grass
5: Packard Goose
6: Watermelon in Easter Hay
7: A Little Green Rosetta

Number of Discs: 2

Producer: Frank Zappa

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