History Music / JoesGarage

* ButtMonkey: Joe.

** The plot of this ConceptAlbum about a society where music is made illegal was directly inspired by the 1979 coup in Iran by ayatollah Khomeini. During a radio broadcast aired on July 23rd, 1979, Khomeini called for a ban on any form of music, however no specific law was edicted at the time. Khomeini said: ''Music should not be broadcast over the radio and television. Music is something that everybody is attracted to naturally, but it takes them out of reality to a futile and lowly livelihood. Like opium, music also stupefies persons listening to it and makes their brain inactive and frivolous"'' It was only some months later that the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, adopted by referendum, granted the Leader full power to appoint and dismiss the head of the Radio and Television (Chapter XII [Article 175]). Zappa even mentions this fact in the liner notes of the album.
** "Dong Work For Yuda" is full of inside jokes and anecdotes regarding Frank's then bodyguard John Smothers and his strange way of talking. His wife Freckles is referenced to. In a 1990 interview with Zappa named "They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 3" he explained: ''"Once upon a time, on his first trip to Copenhagen, we were playing at a place called the Falkoner Center (...) and we didn't have a limousine. I had to take a cab to the place. We get in the car. It's just this little tiny car, (laughter) not a Fiat, but maybe, slightly larger than a Fiat. You know how big John is ...(...)and it's a cab, and the driver is Danish, and he doesn't speak English. I get in the back, and John gets in the front, and the cab driver is just sittin' there, 'cause he doesn't know where to go, and John finally realizes that he must tell the driver where to go, so, he just turns to him, and goes, "FALCUM." (laughter), and the guy looks at him, y'know, kinda lookin' up like this, and John goes, "FALCUM." (...) and the guy DOESN'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. And then, John gets vehement. He goes, "TAKE ME TO THE FALCUM!"''.

* BigWhat: Happens in "A Token Of My Extreme".
--> '''Joe''': "Are you telling me I should come out the closet now, Mr. Ron?"
--> '''L. Ron Hoover''': "No my son, you must go INTO THE CLOSET!"
--> '''Joe''': "What?"
--> '''L. Ron Hoover''': "And you will have..."
--> '''Joe''': "He?"
--> '''L. Ron Hoover''': "... a lot of fun!"

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''Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music, music is the best!''

* BlackComedyRape: See PrisonRape

* BrokenRecord: "The white zone is for loading and unloading only. If you gotta load or unload go to the white zone".

* CorruptChurch: The First Church of Appliantology is basically demanding fees for giving pretty worthless advice.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: L. Ron ''Hoover'' and his Church of ''Appliantology''.

* OneWomanSong: "Lucille (Has Messed My Mind Up)"

* RagingStiffie: "Stick It Out"

** "Dong Work For Yuda" is full of inside jokes regarding Frank's then bodyguard John Smothers and his strange way of talking.

** In "A Little Green Rosetta," Zappa references both "Jamming" by Music/BobMarley and "I'm The Japanese Sandman" by The Cellos.
* SpokenWordInMusic: The Central Scrutinizer narrates. Also the track ''Wet T-Shirt Nite'' is more or less a spoken word sketch, with some singing narration.

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Father Riley goes from being a Catholic priest at the start of the story ("Catholic Girls") to an MC at a BikiniBar ("Wet T-Shirt Nite") to being the chaplain at the prison Joe is sent to.

* SpokenWordInMusic: The Central Scrutinizer narrates.

!!!The White Zone is for troping and un-troping only. If you have to typ tropes, go to the White Zone. You'll love it. It's a way of life.

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[[caption-width-right:224:Not approved by the Central Scrutinizer.]]

!!!The White Zone is for troping and un-troping only. If you have to trope, go to the White Zone. You'll love it. It's a way of life.

* EpicRocking: "Packard Goose" (11:34) is the longest example, but much of the album counts, including Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (7:17), Sy Borg (8:56), Keep It Greasey (8:22), He Used to Cut the Grass (8:35), Watermelon In Easter Hay (9:09), and A Little Green Rosetta (8:15).

** Appliantology is not even a good pun on Scientology!

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Zappa too was once jailed for "conspiracy to make pornography" (just a tape full of sex noises) and spent much of his prison time imagining guitar solos in his cell.

* WaxingLyrical: During "Sy Borg" Joe is having sex with a robot, but gets to excited, causing the robot to malfunction and shout: "You're plooking too hard! Plooking too hard on me!" This is a reference to the 1966 song "Pushin' Too Hard" by The Seeds.

** In "Sy Borg" the robot sings he'll go "aaaaalll the waaaaay!" This is a reference to Frank Sinatra's song "All The Way". In the same song he also claims Joe is "pushin' too hard, pushin' too hard on me", which is a reference to "Pushin' Too Hard" by The Seeds.
** In "A Little Green, Rosetta" Zappa references both "Jamming" by Music/BobMarley as the evergreen "I'm The Japanese Sandman".

* [[WetSariScene Wet T-Shirt Contest]]: "Wet T-Shirt Nite", of course!

* STDImmunity: Averted ''hard'' with Lucille and Joe in "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?"

* MediumAwareness: Exhibited in "Sy Borg" when Joe mentions to the Central Scrutinizer that he is unable to pay due to having given all his money to L. Ron Hoover "a couple of songs ago".

'''''Joe's Garage''''' is a 1979 RockOpera by Music/FrankZappa that follows the trials and tribulations of Joe, a guitarist in a world where music has been made illegal. It is told through the eyes of the Central Scrutinizer, who reminds us throughout how music can mess you up. Originally, it was released as two albums: ''Joe's Garage Part I'' (a single album) and ''Joe's Garage Parts II and III' (a double album). On CD, the first disc consists of Part I and the first half of Part II and the second disc contains the rest of the album.

** The line "What is that? Musk?" in "Packard Goose" is a reference to "Dental Hygiene Dilemma" from ''Film/TwoHundredMotels''.

Joe's Garage is a 1979 RockOpera by Music/FrankZappa that follows the trials and tribulations of Joe, a guitarist in a world where music has been made illegal. It is told through the eyes of the Central Scrutinizer, who reminds us throughout how music can mess you up. Originally, it was released as two albums: Joe's Garage Part I (a single album) and Joe's Garage Parts II and III (a double album). On CD, the first disc consists of Part I and the first half of Part II and the second disc contains the rest of the album.

* AudienceParticipation: The presenter of the wet t-shirt nite interacts with the lustful audience.

* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Bald-Headed John. [[spoiler:Inverted, as he's the one who [[PrisonRape rapes Joe]] and the whole point of ''Dong Work for Yuda'' is that it will ''hurt''.]]

** The line "That looks like that stuff that Freckles lets out once a month" can be heard in "Dong Work For Yuda". On the album "Thing-Fish" during the song "Won Ton On" the same line is repeated again.
** The line "What is that? Musk?" in "Packard Goose" is a reference to "Dental Hygiene Dilemma" from TwoHundredMotels.
** In "Crew Slut" and "Sy Borg" a thing that "looks just like a TeleFunken U-47" is mentioned.

* IncrediblyLamePun:

* JustForFun: That CrowningMomentOfAwesome line in "A Little Green Rosetta": "'cause this is a stupid song/ and that's the way I like it!"

** In "Cy Borg" the robot sings he'll go "aaaaalll the waaaaay!" This is a reference to Frank Sinatra's song "All The Way". In the same song he also claims Joe is "pushin' too hard, pushin' too hard on me", which is a reference to "Pushin' To Hard" by The Seeds.
** In "A Little Green, Rosetta" Zappa references both "Jamming" by BobMarley as the evergreen "I'm The Japanese Sandman".

* STDImmunity: Averted ''hard'' with Lucille and Joe in "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?"
* ThrowItIn: The final track "A Little Green Rosetta" has nothing to do with the rest of the story, but is just thrown in as a more amusing closing song.

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: Joe gives up at the end, and simply retreats into his room so he can play one last imaginary guitar solo before he comes back to sanity and gets a job at the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen.]]

* STDImmunity: Averted ''hard'' with Lucille and Joe.

The story starts with the Central Scrutinizer introducing the premise of the tale: this is a government-sponsored album about how music can mess you up. It then moves on to tell the tale of Joe, who started a rock band as the government was planning to outlaw music, and what happened after he got arrested for disturbing the peace. Soon enough, his girlfriend Mary leaves him and turns into a slut, his priest becomes an MC at a Florida bar, and he contracts an STD from a girl he met named Lucille. With nowhere to go, he eventually turns to the [[ChurchOfHappyology Church of Appliantology]] and pays them 50 dollars to learn that he is apparently a [[Robosexual latent appliance fetishist]]. This in mind, he learns German and dresses up as a housewife before going into a bar called "The Closet" that apparently caters to appliances. After picking one up, he takes it home and ends up breaking it. For this, he is arrested and taken to jail. Specifically, he is put in a special jail for people in the music business, as the government has just enacted a law banning music.

* [[WetSariScene Wet T-Shirt Contest]]: "Wet T-Shirt Nite", of course!

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: Joe gives up at the end, and simply retreats into his room so he can play one last imaginary guitar solo before he comes back to sanity and gets a job at the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen.

Joe's Garage is a 1979 RockOpera by Music/{{FrankZappa}} that follows the trials and tribulations of Joe, a guitarist in a world where music has been made illegal. It is told through the eyes of the Central Scrutinizer, who reminds us throughout how music can mess you up. Originally, it was released as two albums: Joe's Garage Part I (a single album) and Joe's Garage Parts II and III (a double album). On CD, the first disc consists of Part I and the first half of Part II and the second disc contains the rest of the album.

-->''Opening lines of the album.''

While in prison, he is [[PrisonRape raped]] many times, and when he eventually gets out, has gone somewhat insane, a condition not helped by the fact that music is illegal and he so has nothing to do. Instead, he becomes sullen and withdrawn, and decides to "dwindle off into the twilight realm of my own secret thoughts", wherein he dreams of imaginary guitar notes that he knows would irritate all the music executives that tortured him. [[spoiler:He continues to wander around town, dreaming of guitar notes, until eventually he realizes that the notes only exist in his mind. As such, he goes into his room, plays one last imaginary guitar solo (Watermelon in Easter Hay), and then hocks his guitar in order to get a job at the Utility Muffin Research Factory.]] The album closes with the Central Scrutinizer pointing out once again that yes, music can really mess you up, and singing the last song on the album in order to prove it.

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Joe's Garage is a 1979 RockOpera by Music/{{FrankZappa}} that follows the trials and tribulations of Joe, a guitarist in a world where music has been made illegal. It is told through the eyes of the Central Scrutinizer, who reminds us throughout how music can mess you up. Originally, it was released as two albums: Joe's Garage Part I (a single album) and Joe's Garage Parts II and III (a DoubleAlbum). On CD, the first disc consists of Part I and the first half of Part II and the second disc contains the rest of the album.

The story starts with the Central Scrutinizer introducing the premise of the tale: this is a government-sponsored album about how music can mess you up. It then moves on to tell the tale of Joe, who started a rock band as the government was planning to outlaw music, and what happened after he got arrested for disturbing the peace. Soon enough, his girlfriend Mary leaves him and turns into a slut, his priest becomes an MC at a Florida bar, and he contracts an STD from a girl he met named Lucille. With nowhere to go, he eventually turns to the [[ChurchOfHappyology Church of Appliantology]] and pays them 50 dollars to learn that he is apparently a [[Robosexual latent appliance fetishist]]. This in mind, he learns German and dresses up as a housewife before going into a bar called "The Closet" that apparently caters to appliances. After picking one up, he takes it home and ends up breaking it. For this, he is arrested and taken to jail. Specifically, he is put in a special jail for musicians, as the government has just enacted a law banning music.