History Music / JoesGarage

* RepurposedPopSong: "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" was originally a song from a 1969 album by Jeff Simmons, produced by Zappa himself.

* PausedInterrupt:
--> '''Poor Joe, he’s getting tired of bending over. But we tried to warn him ... didn't we?''

* OverlyLongTitle: "Watermelon in Easter Hay" was originally titled: "Playing a Guitar Solo with This Band Is Like Trying to Grow a Watermelon in Easter Hay" when Zappa introduced it during his Star Special radio appearance on BBC Radio 1 in 1980.

--> ''This is exciting, I never plooked a tiny chrome-plated machine...''

* CorruptHick: Bald-Headed John is voiced with a rather grating redneck drawl that only makes his actions more disturbing.

* HumiliationConga: In a way, the [[UpToEleven whole ''album'']] is this for Joe. [[spoiler: He gets an STD from a groupie, joins a cult, gets arrested for breaking a robot he was having sex with, gets gangraped in prison and when leaves jail society has banned music, forcing him to settle for a job at a muffin factory.]]

** L. Ron ''Hoover'' and his Church of ''Appliantology'' reference UsefulNotes/LRonHubbard, founder of Scientology.

* {{Corpsing}}: Zappa clearly finds the word "[[InherentlyFunnyWords plooking]]" hilarious. Every time he says it he cracks up.
** He also loses it after the "Ultimately who gives a fuck anyway" line in "Watermelon in Easter Hay". He even apologizes in the Central Scrutinizer voice.

** In "A Little Green Rosetta," Zappa references both [[Music/ExodusAlbum "Jamming" by Bob Marley]] and "I'm The Japanese Sandman" by {{Doowop}} band The Cellos. He also mentions Steve Gadd, at the time one of the highest paid session drummers of all time:

"Joe's Garage" is a bit of a BrokenBase among fans, with some claiming it's his last "great work" before a long period of lesser albums in the 1980s began, To where some even claimed it to his Best album. Others point to ''Music/SheikYerbouti'' as his final great record and say that "Joe's Garage" actually ''started'' a decline in quality, with more obnoxious voices, bawdy comedy, sparse musical instrumentation and topical ProtestSong material that nowadays is heavily dated. Nevertheless, "Joe's Garage" has some popular fan favorites, including the TitleTrack, "Catholic Girls", "Crew Slut" and "Watermelon In Easter Hay".

* AfraidOfNeedles: From “Why Does it Hurt When I Pee?”

* AlbumFiller: This RockOpera is a BrokenBase among fans. Some people adore it, others feel there is a lot of padding. The plot often goes nowhere and focuses to much on bawdy comedy that doesn't drive the story forward. The long guitar solos on CD 2 have also divided audiences. Some like them, others claim they it's just noodling for the sake of noodling. Zappa's interludes as the Central Scrutinizer also irk some listeners, because when you play the tracks it's always the first thing you have to endure before you get to the music. In the otherwise beautiful "Watermelon in Easter Hay" Zappa's jabbering takes up more than a minute and he even talks over the guitar intro! And then there is the final track, "A Little Green Rosetta", which has nothing to do with the rest of the plot and just seems to be there to go out on a less depressive note.

"Joe's Garage" is a bit of a BrokenBase among fans, with some claiming it's his last "great work" before a long period of lesser albums in the 1980s began. Others point to ''Music/SheikYerbouti'' as his final great record and say that "Joe's Garage" actually ''started'' a decline in quality, with more obnoxious voices, bawdy comedy, sparse musical instrumentation and topical ProtestSong material that nowadays is heavily dated. Nevertheless, "Joe's Garage" has some popular fan favorites, including the TitleTrack, "Catholic Girls", "Crew Slut" and "Watermelon In Easter Hay".

* CreepyMonotone: The Central Scrutinizer talks like this most of the time.

* WolfWhistle: Can be heard several times during "Wet T-Shirt Nite", including one made by a guitar.

* HumiliationConga: In a way, the [[UpToEleven whole ''album'']] is this for Joe. [[spoiler: He gets an STD from a groupie, joins a cult, gets arrested for breaking a robot he was having sex with, gets gangraped in prison and when leaves jail society has banned music, causing him to become a factory worker.]]

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# "Fembot in A Wet T-Shirt Nite"(4:44)
# "On The Bus" (4:32)

'''Personnel'''

* TakeThatCritics: Zappa didn't have a high opinion of rock 'n roll critics. He famously said: "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." In his autobiography, ''Literature/TheRealFrankZappaBook", he also devoted a few lines about the inaneness of most critics and argued that somebody may like an album, even if someone gave it a bad review. Zappa himself was a good example, because he discovered his main musical inspiration Music/EdgardVarese thanks to a horrible review in a magazine and felt he had to check it out, just because of that. "Packard Goose" is a pointed attack at rock 'n' roll journalists.

* [[ChurchOfHappyology Church Of Appliantology]]: Joe visits it and ends up paying fifty dollars to L. Ron Hoover for his consultation.

* [[ThePowerOfRock The Power Of Music]]:

->''"This is the Central Scrutinizer. It is my responsibility to enforce all the laws that haven't been passed yet. It is also my responsibility to alert each and every one of you to the potential consequences of various ordinary every day activities you might be performing, which could eventually lead to...the death penalty."''

* {{Corpsing}}: Zappa clearly finds the word "plooking" hilarious. Every time he says it he cracks up.

** In "Crew Slut" and "Sy Borg" a thing that "looks just like a [=TeleFunken=] U-47" is mentioned.