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Frank Zappa – We’re Only In It For The Money
If you want to persuade people to give Frank Zappa a second go, you play them ‘Trouble Every Day’, it’s one of the greatest songs ever, and it sounds like it could have been off one of the first two Velvet Underground albums. Again this is an album that Mark Smith played me. Just the other day I played ‘Concentration Moon’ in which he’s having a go at the VU. He hated everyone, the Velvet Underground, the beatniks, the hippies… it was a landmark album because it was the end of hippie culture. People say it was after the stabbing at Altamont but musically this was it. It has the Beatles referenced in the pastiche on the cover. It’s really fabulous, really cynical.
Selected in other Baker’s Dozens: Lord Spikeheart, Tom Ravenscroft
