Frank Zappa - Who Are The Brain Police? Lyrics

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Good one.

wow just wow

pipol daaaaaayyyy

As the Acid starts kicking in... and the chrome is too soft

This sounds like Syd Barrett's music.

Ah, yes, the music my wife loves to tell me to turn off.

I think I am so used to weird music that this song doesn't strike me as strange at all, especially compared to a lot of Zappa's other music.

1984 by G.Orwell?

Mauro Vargas i thought the same thing

Frank didn't give a damn what anyone thought of him and he put his ALL into trying to tell us kids what was really going on back then..MK Ultra, etc

A song so creepy even Zappa doesn't know why he wrote it. I know that feeling. When you write something like this and after listening to it, you realize how, demented, it is. Its a creepy feeling.

I see this song as a mirror.

"What will you do if you met a Jiboo..."
FZ meets Dr. Seuss. Now there's a concept.

Keep in mind; According to Zappa, this album was unfinished.

Zappa had disdain..kind of a cunt

as a hardcore mindless self indulgence fan who has just discovered frank zappa, i can say i have not found a track by him that does not sound like something i would listen to. this man was a fucking genius.

This is not by Frank Zappa. It's by the Mothers of Invention.

a distinction without a difference.
slow_clap

@tigress and the u-fraidees I imagine it is to the living members of the Mothers, and to all true Mother-people

The question Frank asked in 1966 can now be answered....Google are-is the brain police!

"At five o’clock in the morning someone kept singing this in my mind and made me write it down. I will admit to being frightened when I finally played it out loud and sang the words."


— Frank Zappa, Freak Out! liner notes, 1966.

The liberal SJW's are the brain police.

Like Aldous Huxley, they were Seers of the future ! -Which has come to pass !

This song hits hard, but i think plastic people hits harder

Prescient.

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In this decade, Zappa produced no less than 22 albums (!!!), in an amazing and unprecedented artistic frenzy of rock, a fertility that exists only in classical composers and not in rock musicians. In five months, between 1967 and 1968, he recorded no fewer than four albums at the same time, One of which is even double (Uncle Meat 1969). In this decade, and especially in the first three years, with Zappa’s first "Mothers of Invention" (of three), Zappa records his most polished, tight, innovative, and intriguing works, and is an enormous influence on countless prog-rock and kraut-rock artists. But everything that Zappa produced after Bongo Fury, his joint album with the legendary Captain beefheart, a bad album for both sides that catches Zappa on a mediocre day and Beef at the low of his career, is just not that.

“Heavy zapaists”would throw rotten tomatoes at me,but I did not like anything of Zappa I heard after 1976. Zappa has changed direction, has become a kind of flamboyant technical virtuoso, a music masturbator who always works with the sharpest musicians, beats long guitar solos from the exile in trillard rhythms at a rate of 180 characters per second until it gets nasty. It may be very impressive, but for me albums like Sheik Yerbouti or Joe's Garage will always be an impressive show of emptiness, and I just do not connect to it. Crazy. I do not even want to talk about the eighties of Zappa.
This time I wanted to talk a bit about the album with which Zappa started. The album was not only ahead of its time, it was not only twenty leagues above any album that was around, not only was radically innovative, not only spared the rock of his stupid love songs, but created an independent musical universe, Of exemplary albums, which proved that things Zappa did in the 60’s will not be repeated in the 60’s of the 22nd century. And that is Freak Out !.

That's how: In 1964, Zappa, a man with four years of independent experience in recording in small studios, meets Ray Collins, somewhere in Los Angeles. Collins offers Zappa to be a member of the Collins Blues group, The Giant of Soul. The band includes Collins in song, Mexican Roy Astrada in bass and a troubling supernova, Jimmy Carl Black, the Indian on the drums, and a guy named Devi Coronado on a saxophone. Zappa joins the band and offers them to play original material. The band agrees, Coronado leaves, joins guitarist Elliott Ingber, Zappa serves as a musical director in the band as a guitarist, singer and writer of all the material and the design of the concept. The five members of the band were ugly and strange, with long hair. Super-producer Tom Wilson happened to be recording another band of five ugly and strange people this time from New York, who will also change the world's music - the velvet Underground, of course. Wilson is enthusiastic about signing the band for a contract for MGM. In 1966, after changing the band's name to "Mothers" and then to "Mothers of Invention," Mother’s enters the studio and begins recording.




What happens in the music world in 1966? On the one side of the ocean, in High-Ashbury, San Francisco, the hippie movement begins to form, with bands such as Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead starting to consume more and more psychedelic drugs, and the influence of the Beat generation on building an alternative way of life. On the other hand, the Beach Boys are releasing their own Pet Sounds, an album that is thought to be groundbreaking in innovative recording techniques, arrangements that have not yet been heard in the world,and a slew of inventions of Bryan Wilson's feverish mind. Dylan leads the nation of singer-songwriters in his classic album Blond On Blond. On the other side of the ocean, the Beatles release their Revolver, a classic in its own right (and to my personal taste, frantically added), an album that may include the important song of the time, Tomorrow Never Knows. Things change: people think differently, they dress differently. Rock albums come out of the tab and start to be - what's the word? - Oh, interesting. In New York, Reed is already planning his revolution.

And here comes Zappa the “hooligan”and completely devours the cards! What is this album? What is this freak out that you did to us? Is this supposed to be a doo wop album? Of blues? Psychedelia? satire? Classical music? What the fuck? Duplicate album? A poem that takes half a side, which is not a song at all, just noises and nonsense? Laughing? Drugs? Madness? What's the matter with you, Mr. Zappa? That's how you do not make music! The first album Zappa recorded is a music school. I crown it as the first interesting album. True, very pretentious of me, the Beatles and the Beach Boys and the byrds and Dylan and the hippies also grew up then, but Zappa is just a few leagues above them, in every field. The music is much more sophisticated - a combination of half-parody, blues and RnB, with the influences of avant-garde composers, primitive sound and sound experiments under direct influence by Wasser and Stokhausen, innovative studio experiments like Cut and Fist and Fitch Games Hysterical in the air, and especially a lot of humor and sarcasm.Literally, it is superfluous to say that nothing else came close to that. In some of the songs, Zappa attacks the hollow American culture and splits it into pieces. In some of the songs, Zappa strikes with particularly dumb lyrics, a kind of parody of rock at the same time. And in the last part of the album there are no words but shouting, laughter, crisp gibberish and a lot of inventions that nobody dared to do in 1966. And something else is very important - the cover of the album also looks like something else. Beyond the design of the cheesy deliberately, Zappa is amazingly glittering, and although the disappointment is not lyrics,it is worth reading the comments he gives each song and the stupid biography he writes about himself and the band members ("At the age of 11 I was five feet tall with hairy legs, 'Buyers and Mustaches'').

Not just this album sounds strange even today - it is just a creation on a temporary basis. And this is perhaps the most important aspect of freak out! Achieves - the sense of being strange, being bold and avant-garde, being silly and dressing like an idiot.
Zappa's school begins with the '' Hungry Freaks Daddy '' bluesy, in which Collins excels at singing and Zappa fakes vigorously the subversive text against Zappa; From there comes the "I Aint Got No Heart", which is beautifully decorated and decorated with brass instruments; We continue with the first extreme song on the album, "Who Are The Brain Police," whose title makes it possible to understand Zappa's influence with German kraut-rock bands, a particularly shocking and sickening song; Continue with "Wowie Zowie" which is a masterpiece of bad taste, fun and campy song with criminal words ,”You Did not Try To Call Me '' and 'Anywhere The Wind Blows' which prove that Zappa was also a talented pop writer, a second without cynicism and satire, excited by the kitsch and fun of '' You're Sure Wondering Why I'm Here, "and only then do they digest the defiant words against the rotting and deceptive American way of life; Head-to-head with the acute political protest in Trouble Everyday, almost an ancient rap song that Zappa wrote in the wake of the riots in the Watts quarter of Los Angeles about racism and nationalism; And then there are twenty minutes of trip from outer space in three parts, three '' songs '' which are a wonderful collage of bizarre - strange sounds, cuts and surprising studio edits and lots of mess and tasteless fun, with the climax in the last track ending the album, The Son Of Monster Magnet '', twelve minutes after which the world of rock has changed forever, just like that. This ends with a particularly nasty and spoiled trip of four vinyl sides and exactly sixty minutes. But how disgusting, how delicious ...

It's hard to estimate how many 'freak out’ Is an important album. How much each album Zappa produced in the Sixties is important. Without this album and those that followed it, the whole experimental rock genre would sound quite different. And to complete the historical picture, a year later the velvet’s underground ' banana album was released, after which nothing was left as it was. These two albums, a complete antithesis to hippies, or psychedelics from the toxic side of the acid, are the most important ever. What's really big about Freak Out! Is that he's really fun, and you can really enjoy him. He is not necessarily recommended for the beginner zapheist, but this is an advanced material, but anyone who considers himself a music lover must hold it, along with We're Only In It For The Money, where Zappa included his anti-hippie insights into art. Not everyone. But in fact.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

ZAPPA BRILLIANCE MAGNIFICENCE!!

1:27 PSYCHEDELIC

admit it, we all got stoned and scared as fuck by this song at least once in our lives

Frank zappa, a Baltimore native, less than 2 years after his death was inducted in the rock and roll Hall of fame in 1995, along with led zepplin, the allman brothers, Janis Joplin, and Neil young

We're all unwittingly assets of the 1950s housewives war on consciousness...daddy hides his anal bleach under mommies special armpit Nair.

This is most definitely "ahead of its time". Imagine listening to this in the year 1966, wtf!

amazing how self aware this music was. I think Frank Zappa as a person was a revolutionary figure in his time

The answer is becoming clear in the 21st century...

the game

Interesting

lol this song is still relevant to todays times

imagine the look on the face of the people that listened to this in 1966.

imagine their psyche crumbling under the weight of all that lsd and this

I thought it Great,
I laughed.

This was the first Mothers' track I heard back in 1966. It really was a "where did that come from?" moment. Incisive and deeply worrying.

A Cohesive/Complete Works. I recall that this was "the Single" to promote the LP "Freak Out". The LP is likely to be the Greatest, most Far Reaching (Musically Defining) Works ever laid down to Vinyl. I have to claim "Freak Out" the Musical Masterpiece of the last 50 Years, every song sounds just as fresh today as it did the day I first placed it on my Sears 33rpm LP Player back in 1968.  Influential beyond all others, thanks for posting...

Oh wow, my LSD days 1970-72, the brain police are back but this time they are far left fascist's and the whole Western World is kowtowing to the RoP ! Frank and The Mother's were way ahead of their time.

"Who Are The Brain Police ?"
ultimately they are the internalized monster that obliges you to conform to social norms - as well as those who will arrest you and lock you away if and when that monster fails to do its job properly..

I'll take acid brownies for 100 please.

The guy at zappa left looks like matteo renzi

He sounds like Layne Staley at times.

Even after all this time...This song scares me....It's like Fire by The Beach Boys. It stirs up so many hidden emotions.

1:27 shows up later on Help I'm A Rock. Conceptual Continuity dating right back to the first album. Hotcha!

And, it continues into his later work, even past 79.

I can only imagine buying this record in 1966 to first get blown away by Hungry Freaks, Daddy only to hear this 2 songs later.

Who does police thought and punishes people for what is in their minds?

The Brain Police are today's Big Brother, Google, Facebook and Twitter. Whoops! I may forever be banished from the Kingdom.

Do you know what it was like trippin to this back then?

The Question Remains.

Much love!

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the beginning of this reeks of taking a huge bong rip, the first "stoner doom song"

This song should be played back to back with 'Mr. Blue' (preferably the Clear Light version).

Zappa did too much acid

I think Frank must have been getting some serious contact highs ... hahaha

FZ was as straight and a teetotaler as they came...his only vices were black coffee by the gallon, and cigarettes by the carton. He expected perfection from his musicians, which meant they had to be straight and sober, too. He didn't care what they did with their own personal time away from the music.

I respect this man and was always super curious about him... buttt ... i dont get it.. every once in a while ill try to listen to his best ofs... but i dont enjoy it... as much as i want to like it... i cant

Mr. Mister Missedher Thats ok. I get maybe 10% of his stuff - but it can be brilliant. “Hot Rats” is the most musically accessible. Zappa wouldn’t be Zappa if everyone liked him :)

This anticipates by a decade 'Welcome to the Machine' by Pink Floyd. Frank liked to play on this theme with a humorous wink, Floyd did it deathly serious. Both are about the programmed destruction of individuality. I like both versions.

Society and the Government are the fucking Brain Police. Watch what you say or think you might offend someone. Be careful what you put in Your Own body it could be illegal.

I think Zappa was the re-incarnation of Spike Jones...without Spikes insatiable penchant for precision and timing, of course.

This is really freaky stuff, in particular for 1966.

Kinda sucks but interesting sounds

Homage, I use the term loosely, to The Beach Boys.

Search who Frank liked to listen to. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

Prescient! In the age of political correctness control of language is the way to control thought!

born in the right generation

1966 song ,.... sounds like the 80's ,...

sounds like today -- an Apple executive just got censored for saying something true but unacceptable because it didn't feed the current PC agenda.

Zappa predicted Tame impala (almost 50 years ago! holy shit)

Azul G. sorry, I don't understand what are you saying. Do you think Tame Impala are innovative? Psychedelic music exists since 1966, and even became a mode later in those years. Tame Impala are just the usual pop rock band that sells a commercial pop version of psychedelic music. The same way Beatles did with Stg. Pepper. It's nothing new, really... it has been there for 50 years.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/do-we-have-a-right-to-mental-privacy-and-cognitive-liberty/

amazing - scary - real - intuitive - brilliant - fucking great -----------------------BE WARNED 💥 SOME PEOPLE may boo and hiss and fall off the dancefloor ! 😾

Highly relevant song for our time.

What are the kidney firemen?

Liquorice

Where are the gallbladder paramedics?

r stevie moore feels it

I'm smoking weed to this right now. 😎✌

Ok, not the best song from the album but its funny :)

Rock music paised only by music students.

fucking 1966

F'n Awsome

In today's world we all have to be the brain Police. Rule # 1 is to protect the innocent from the Brain. Police whose facist brains have turned to shit

https://web.archive.org/web/20170510160313/https://www.cbs.mpg.de/171247/flyer_babylabor.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20170510160231/https://www.cbs.mpg.de/180242/flyer_MRT.pdf

It kinda reminds me of the doors. Definitely something Morrison would sing

Thats was 1966. Wow!

lyonel, 60's music was incredibly diverse and culture rich, but the good stuff was "underground" and NOT played on mainstream stations.

proto sludge and doom metal.

Proto punk, too.

even fans of hendrix,sabbath,zeppelin,mc5,stooges,hawkwind can digged this stuff.i know i did.

proto metal shit from frank zappa.yay.

Never more relevant than it is today

This probably scared a lot of people in 1966

nope. but then, adults didn't know about it.

This is freaky even by today's standards. I wonder how many people had panic attacks listening to this back in 1966...

I was listening to this back then i still have the album no panic attacks just Acid trips, You think this is strange listen to "The chrome plated megaphone of destiny" off the were only in it for the money album.

Could Zappa be talking about the people who maintain controlled opposition among the masses...hagaelian dialect?

The liberal SJW's are the brain police.

stop listening to Frank Zappa...you do not understand, nor are you worthy enough to listen to this mans work. youre a disgrace

Frank zappa hated hippies, I hate hippies. We have something in common. Get off your high horse.

youre a closet racist with a little wiener. thats why youre angry buddy..its okay.

Frank Zappa had a nose. I have a nose. He & I have something in common. Get of your fucking head trip.

@Jayo Caine Stereotype much? My wife is a white social justice Catholic. There are a LOT of them. Always amazing how people seem to think they know how the "other" thinks about the rest. Ironically, itself a form of thought policing....

this song is 50 years old..beatles were doing revolver. floyd had yet to release piper. distortion didnt exist.. this was a seminal moment

you kidding me there is sludge and doom metal going on here too! lol. it's incredible . "you're going to die youre going to die youre going to die i think im going to die im going to die i think you're think gonna die think die im gonna youre going die to im gonna die "

wow

@Mike Malley You are stupid, Pink Floyd were experimenting a lot with distortion before piper.

@Andi Pandi I think ur too young

@Harry Schwartz

i think that you need to read the appropriate history book..

@Andi Pandi https://youtu.be/_jchyev9bNk

"A lot of people police their own brains. They're like citizen soldiers, so to speak. I've seen people who will willingly arrest, try and punish their own brains. Now that's really sad. That's vigilante brain policism. It's not even official, it's like self-imposed. ... It's hard to pin it down to one central agency when you realize that so many people are willing to do it to themselves. I mean, the people who want to become amateur brain police, their numbers grow every day – people who say to themselves, 'I couldn't possibly consider that', and then spank themselves for even getting that far. So, you don't even need to blame it on a central brain police agency. You've got plenty of people who willingly subject themselves to this self-mutilation."

FZ for president ! He had distortion on guitar in 1966...HOW THE F DID HE DO THAT?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Frank Zappa died over 20 years ago.

The first fuzz box came out in 1965. You could also poke holes in your speaker cone.

definitely early use of distortion, but I think Link Wray was pioneering that sound a little earlier than Frank. Not taking anything away from FZ...truly a master, but don't overlook old Link! :-)

Distortion can be attained in multiple ways, which were available way before 65. It was just not desirable to most, and wasn't 'a thing'.
Poking holes in speaker cones, stacking gain stages, blasting out volumes microphones couldn't handle, it's all been possible before dedicated fuzzes, it just wan't acknowledged. He certainly was an early adopter though.

We loved it. 1966 is the year I graduated from high school, and we were listening to this in Ohio.

i never thought of this music as tracks. oh, i agree completely...

ALL SAFE SPACE MICRO AGGRESSOR LIBERAL FAGS SHOULD LISTEN TO THIS SONG. FUCK YOUR POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND BULLSHIT LEFTIST MIND CONTROL....

Here, hear !

hear hear, i cant believe the government is trying to trick me into using toilet paper i read an article that said toilet paper is actually gonna poison you so now i just dont wipe my ass anymore thank god for trump!

And the brain-dead Trump-lickers. Like you, for instance.

They're deaf and blind....

it's not republicans who are suppressing freedom of speech, and other Constitutional rights. people supporting denial of Constitutional rights WISH we were deaf and blind, for that is required to allow the rampant trampling of rights.
AND FYI -- just because someone believes in the freedom of speech et al, which INCLUDES dissenting opinions, does not make them a licker of ANYTHING.
what jackasses.

FRANK ZAPPA IS THE BEST!!

yes I'm 132 next weak.