(1981) Frank Zappa - Tinsel Town Rebellion


Review:
An uneven, nearly all-live double-record set, Tinseltown Rebellion mixes new material and versions of Zappa oldies like "Love of My Life," "I Ain't Got No Heart," "Tell Me You Love Me," "Brown Shoes Don't Make It," and a reworked "Peaches en Regalia," titled "Peaches III." These songs, as well as the band's stellar instrumental work, provide the album's best moments. Elsewhere, the title track is an only partially accurate satire of punk; Zappa's intentionally smarmy crowd banter is featured on "Dance Contest" and "Panty Rap," the latter a bit involving the collection of female audience members' underwear. More problematic is the sometimes violent sexual juvenilia of songs like "Fine Girl," "Easy Meat," "Pick Me, I'm Clean," and "Bamboozled by Love"; if, as Zappa insisted, this part of his oeuvre simply mixes dumb fun and satire of both sexes' peccadillos, with no underlying misogyny, it's rather difficult to tell.





Tracklist:
1 Fine Girl 3:29
2 Easy Meat 9:19
3 For the Young Sophisticate 2:36
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 5:01
9 Dance Contest 3:00
10 The Blue Light 5:26
11 Tinseltown Rebellion 4:35
12 Pick Me, I'm Clean 5:00
13 Bamboozled by Love 5:46
14 Brown Shoes Don't Make It 7:14
15 Peaches III 4:56


Media Report:
Genre: art rock
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits