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* OverlyLongTitle: "Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch".
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* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover is a droodle cartoon by Roger Price. Zappa got permission to use his original picture.
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''Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch'' is a 1982 album by Music/FrankZappa. It is best remembered for "Valley Girl", a satirical novelty single featuring by Zappa's then 14-year old daughter Moon Unit, targeting [[ValleyGirl a specific kind of girls who live in the San Fernando Valley in California]] and who speak a specific "slang". Unexpectedly it became Zappa's biggest hit in the USA, reaching #32 on the Hot 100 - his only Top 40 placement - and even becoming a pop culture phenomenon that inspired a lot of merchandising sold by and bought by [[MisaimedFandom people who clearly didn't get the joke]]. As a result "Valley Girl" became a BlackSheepHit for Zappa, atypical of his usual NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly music, and inspiring the kind of sociological trends he actually hated. He never performed it live either.
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''Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch'' is a 1982 album by Music/FrankZappa. It is best remembered for "Valley Girl", a satirical novelty single featuring by Zappa's then 14-year old daughter Moon Unit, targeting [[ValleyGirl a specific kind of girls who live in the San Fernando Valley in California]] and who speak a specific "slang". Unexpectedly it became Zappa's biggest hit in the USA, reaching #32 on the Hot 100 - his only Top 40 placement - and even becoming a pop culture phenomenon that inspired a lot of merchandising sold by and bought by [[MisaimedFandom people who clearly didn't get the joke]]. As a result "Valley Girl" became a BlackSheepHit for Zappa, atypical of his usual NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly eclectic music, and inspiring the kind of sociological trends he actually hated. He never performed it live either.
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''Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch'' is a 1982 album by Music/FrankZappa. It is best remembered for "Valley Girl", a satirical novelty single sang by Zappa's then 14-year old daughter Moon Unit, targeting [[ValleyGirl a specific kind of girls who live in the San Fernando Valley in California]] and who speak a specific "slang". Unexpectedly it became Zappa's biggest hit in the USA, reaching #32 on the Hot 100 - his only Top 40 placement - and even becoming a pop culture phenomenon that inspired a lot of merchandising sold by and bought by [[MisaimedFandom people who clearly didn't get the joke]]. As a result "Valley Girl" became a BlackSheepHit for Zappa, atypical of his usual NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly music, and inspiring the kind of sociological trends he actually hated. He never performed it live either.
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''Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch'' is a 1982 album by Music/FrankZappa. It is best remembered for "Valley Girl", a satirical novelty single sang featuring by Zappa's then 14-year old daughter Moon Unit, targeting [[ValleyGirl a specific kind of girls who live in the San Fernando Valley in California]] and who speak a specific "slang". Unexpectedly it became Zappa's biggest hit in the USA, reaching #32 on the Hot 100 - his only Top 40 placement - and even becoming a pop culture phenomenon that inspired a lot of merchandising sold by and bought by [[MisaimedFandom people who clearly didn't get the joke]]. As a result "Valley Girl" became a BlackSheepHit for Zappa, atypical of his usual NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly music, and inspiring the kind of sociological trends he actually hated. He never performed it live either.
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''Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch'' is a 1982 album by Music/FrankZappa. It is best remembered for "Valley Girl", a satirical novelty single sang by Zappa's then 14-year old daughter Moon Unit, targeting [[ValleyGirl a specific kind of girls who live in the San Fernando Valley in California]] and who speak a specific "slang". Unexpectedly it became Zappa's biggest hit in the USA, reaching as high as #12 in the ''Mainstream Rock'' charts and even becoming a pop culture phenomenon that inspired a lot of merchandising sold by and bought by [[MisaimedFandom people who clearly didn't get the joke]]. As a result "Valley Girl" became a BlackSheepHit for Zappa, atypical of his usual NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly music, and inspiring the kind of sociological trends he actually hated. He never performed it live either.
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''Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch'' is a 1982 album by Music/FrankZappa. It is best remembered for "Valley Girl", a satirical novelty single sang by Zappa's then 14-year old daughter Moon Unit, targeting [[ValleyGirl a specific kind of girls who live in the San Fernando Valley in California]] and who speak a specific "slang". Unexpectedly it became Zappa's biggest hit in the USA, reaching as high as #12 in #32 on the ''Mainstream Rock'' charts Hot 100 - his only Top 40 placement - and even becoming a pop culture phenomenon that inspired a lot of merchandising sold by and bought by [[MisaimedFandom people who clearly didn't get the joke]]. As a result "Valley Girl" became a BlackSheepHit for Zappa, atypical of his usual NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly music, and inspiring the kind of sociological trends he actually hated. He never performed it live either.
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* SpecialGuest: Lisa Popeil, whose track "Lisa's Life Story" would appear on Zappa's "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 6" (1992). On her debut album, "Lisa Popeil" (1984) Music/SteveVai was guest musician. In 1983 she sang backup vocals on Music/WeirdAlYankovic' "Mr. Popeil" and his 2014 song "Tacky".
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* SpecialGuest: Lisa Popeil, whose track "Lisa's Life Story" would appear on Zappa's "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 6" (1992). On her debut album, "Lisa Popeil" (1984) Music/SteveVai was guest musician. In 1983 she sang She would go on to become a regular backup vocals on Music/WeirdAlYankovic' "Mr. Popeil" and his 2014 song "Tacky". singer for Music/WeirdAlYankovic.
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''Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch'' is a 1982 album by Music/FrankZappa. It is best remembered for "Valley Girl", a satirical novelty single sang by Zappa's then 14-year old daughter Moon Unit, targeting [[ValleyGirl a specific kind of girls who live in the San Fernando Valley in California]] and who speak a specific "slang". Unexpectedly it became Zappa's biggest hit in the USA, reaching as high as #12 in the ''Mainstream Rock'' charts and even becoming a pop culture phenomenon that inspired a lot of merchandising sold by and bought by [[MisaimedFandom people who clearly didn't get the joke]]. As a result "Valley Girl" became a BlackSheepHit for Zappa, atypical of his usual NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly music, and inspiring the kind of sociological trends he actually hated. He never performed it live either.
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''Ship Arriving Too Late To to Save A a Drowning Witch'' is a 1982 album by Music/FrankZappa. It is best remembered for "Valley Girl", a satirical novelty single sang by Zappa's then 14-year old daughter Moon Unit, targeting [[ValleyGirl a specific kind of girls who live in the San Fernando Valley in California]] and who speak a specific "slang". Unexpectedly it became Zappa's biggest hit in the USA, reaching as high as #12 in the ''Mainstream Rock'' charts and even becoming a pop culture phenomenon that inspired a lot of merchandising sold by and bought by [[MisaimedFandom people who clearly didn't get the joke]]. As a result "Valley Girl" became a BlackSheepHit for Zappa, atypical of his usual NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly music, and inspiring the kind of sociological trends he actually hated. He never performed it live either.
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Apart from "Valley Girl" is generally not regarded as one of Zappa's more memorable albums, though "Envelopes" and "Drowning Witch" are fan favorites.
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** "No Not Now" appeared twice on ''Music/ThingFish'' (1984), once under its original title and second as "Won To On" (which is the same track played backwards).
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* BlackComedy: "Teen-Age Prostitute", about a seventeen year old prostitute who RanAwayFromHome from her uncaring parents and is treated "like a dog" by her pimp.
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''Grody to the max!'']]
'''Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch''' is a 1982 album by Music/FrankZappa. It is best remembered for "Valley Girl", a satirical novelty single sang by Zappa's then 14-year old daughter Moon Unit, targeting [[ValleyGirl a specific kind of girls who live in the San Fernando Valley in California]] and who speak a specific "slang". Unexpectedly it became Zappa's biggest hit in the USA, reaching as high as #12 in the ''Mainstream Rock'' charts and even becoming a pop culture phenomenon that inspired a lot of merchandising sold by and bought by [[MisaimedFandom people who clearly didn't get the joke]]. As a result "Valley Girl" became a BlackSheepHit for Zappa, atypical of his usual NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly music, and inspiring the kind of sociological trends he actually hated. He never performed it live either.
Apart from "Valley Girl" is generally not regarded as one of Zappa's more memorable albums, though "Envelopes" and "Drowning Witch" are fan favorites.
'''Tracklist'''
[[AC:Side One]]
# "No Not Now" (5:50)
# "Valley Girl" (4:50)
# "I Come From Nowhere" (6:20)
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Drowning Witch" (12:01)
# "Envelopes" (2:44)
# "Teen-Age Prostitute" (2:40)
'''Personnel'''
* Music/FrankZappa: vocals, guitar
* Music/SteveVai: guitar
* Ray White: vocals, rhythm guitar
* Tommy Mars: keyboards
* Bobby Martin: vocals, keyboards, saxophone
* Ed Mann: percussion
* Scott Thunes, Arthur Barrow, Patrick O' Hearn: bass
* Chad Wackerman: drums
* Roy Estrada, Ike Willis, Bob Harris, Lisa Popeil, Moon Unit Zappa: vocals
!! ''Barf Out! Trope Me With A Spoon!''
* AlbumTitleDrop: "Drowning Witch"
--> ''There's a ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch''
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''N'''o '''N'''ot '''N'''ow".
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: "Drowning Witch"
--> ''She could mutate insanely''
--> ''You know, she could go on the freeway and grow up to be 15 feet tall''
--> ''And scary-lookin' ''
--> ''And then ...''
--> ''Cars could crash all over the place''
--> ''As a result of people with Hawaiian shirts on ...''
--> ''Lookin' up to see her face''
--> ''Sardines in her eyebrows ...''
--> ''Lobsters up 'n down her forehead''
--> ''All of them HORRIBLY LARGE FROM RADIATION ...''
--> ''And smelling very bad and DANGEROUS!''
* BlackComedy: "Teen-Age Prostitute", about a seventeen year old prostitute who RanAwayFromHome from her uncaring parents and is treated "like a dog" by her pimp.
* CallBack and ContinuityNod:
** "No Not Now" mentions the lines "those cowboy pants" and "the waitress", referencing "Lonesome Cowboy Burt" from ''Film/TwoHundredMotels''. The "trans-continental hobby-horse" mentioned in the song would reappear during "Truck-Driver's Divorce" from ''Music/ThemOrUs'' (1984).
** "No Not Now" appeared twice on ''Music/ThingFish'' (1984), once under its original title and second as "Won To On" (which is the same track played backwards).
** "Valley Girl" mentions the conceptual continuity item leather, as well as orthodonics (see "Dental Hygiene Dilemma" on ''Film/TwoHundredMotels'' and "Montana" from ''Music/OverNiteSensation'')
--> ''Could you just picture me in like a leather teddy?''
** "Drowning Witch" uses B-movie imagery, something referenced a lot in his work, by imagining a witch growing to enormous size. The final line also mentions ritual sacrifice, which brings in mind "Ritual Sacrifice Of The Young Pumpkin" from ''Music/AbsolutelyFree''.
** "Envelopes" would be performed again in a different arrangement on ''Music/LondonSymphonyOrchestra'' (1984).
** The parents in "Teenage Prostitute" don't care about their daughter, which is a common theme in many Zappa songs, including on ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: "Valley Girl"
--> ''I do not talk funny, I'm sure.''
--> ''What's the matter with my talk?''
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover is a droodle cartoon by Roger Price. Zappa got permission to use his original picture.
* EpicRocking: The 6:20 "I Come From Nowhere" and the 12:01 "Drowing Witch".
* EvilLaugh: "Drowning Witch" features a few halfway the work.
* GreenAesop: "Drowning Witch"
--> ''She's on the ocean floor''
--> ''And the water's all green down there''
--> ''And it's not very clean down there''
* IntercourseWithYou: "No Not Now" about a girl who "can't decide who she wants to ride" and "goes up and down on a bull".
* {{Instrumentals}}: "Envelopes".
* LiveAlbum: The second half of the album are live recordings.
* MinimalisticCoverArt: The cover is a droodle.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: It's fairly obvious that the lyrics of "Drowning Witch" were just written to fit the theme of the droodle on the album cover. Yet the music itself is impressively complex.
* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "Drowning Witch"
--> ''Now even a witch oughta be caught''
--> ''On the bottom of America's spew-infested waterways, hey-hey''
--> ''She could get radiation all over her''
--> ''She could mutate insanely''
* OneWordTitle: "Envelopes".
* OverlyLongTitle: "Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch".
* ShoutOut:
** "No Not Now" has the line "Book 'Em, Dano!", which was a recurring phrase in the police series ''Series/HawaiiFiveO''.
* TheRunaway: "Teen-Age Prostitute"
--> ''She ran away from home''
--> ''Here mom was destitute''
--> ''Her daddy doesn't care''
--> ''She's a teenage prostitute''
* SpecialGuest: Lisa Popeil, whose track "Lisa's Life Story" would appear on Zappa's "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 6" (1992). On her debut album, "Lisa Popeil" (1984) Music/SteveVai was guest musician. In 1983 she sang backup vocals on Music/WeirdAlYankovic' "Mr. Popeil" and his 2014 song "Tacky".
* SpokenWordInMusic: Zappa sings "Drowning Witch" in "Sprechstimme" technique, where one combines singing with talking.
* StepfordSmiler: "I Come From Nowhere"
--> ''I come from nowhere''
--> ''And you should go there''
--> ''Just try it for a while''
--> ''The people from nowhere always smile''
--> ''Their eyes are all frozen over''
--> ''The sides of their faces pooch out at the corners''
--> ''Because that's what happens when their mouths turn up on both sides''
--> ''Which is why we can tell they're smiling''
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Zappa's teenage daughter Moon Unit does the lead vocals of "Valley Girl".
* TakeThat: "Valley Girl", aimed at female inhabitants of the San Fernando Valley in California and their typical speak.
--> ''She's a valley girl and there is no cure!''
* TooDumbToLive: "Valley Girl"
--> ''Tosses her head 'n' flips her hair''
--> ''She got a whole bunch of nothing in there''
* ValleyGirl: Zappa was pretty much the TropeCodifier. His single" Valley Girl" became an unexpected radio hit and spawned off an entire pop culture phenomenon in the USA based on the kind of girls he satirized in the song.
[[caption-width-right:350: ''Grody to the max!'']]
'''Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch''' is a 1982 album by Music/FrankZappa. It is best remembered for "Valley Girl", a satirical novelty single sang by Zappa's then 14-year old daughter Moon Unit, targeting [[ValleyGirl a specific kind of girls who live in the San Fernando Valley in California]] and who speak a specific "slang". Unexpectedly it became Zappa's biggest hit in the USA, reaching as high as #12 in the ''Mainstream Rock'' charts and even becoming a pop culture phenomenon that inspired a lot of merchandising sold by and bought by [[MisaimedFandom people who clearly didn't get the joke]]. As a result "Valley Girl" became a BlackSheepHit for Zappa, atypical of his usual NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly music, and inspiring the kind of sociological trends he actually hated. He never performed it live either.
Apart from "Valley Girl" is generally not regarded as one of Zappa's more memorable albums, though "Envelopes" and "Drowning Witch" are fan favorites.
'''Tracklist'''
[[AC:Side One]]
# "No Not Now" (5:50)
# "Valley Girl" (4:50)
# "I Come From Nowhere" (6:20)
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Drowning Witch" (12:01)
# "Envelopes" (2:44)
# "Teen-Age Prostitute" (2:40)
'''Personnel'''
* Music/FrankZappa: vocals, guitar
* Music/SteveVai: guitar
* Ray White: vocals, rhythm guitar
* Tommy Mars: keyboards
* Bobby Martin: vocals, keyboards, saxophone
* Ed Mann: percussion
* Scott Thunes, Arthur Barrow, Patrick O' Hearn: bass
* Chad Wackerman: drums
* Roy Estrada, Ike Willis, Bob Harris, Lisa Popeil, Moon Unit Zappa: vocals
!! ''Barf Out! Trope Me With A Spoon!''
* AlbumTitleDrop: "Drowning Witch"
--> ''There's a ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch''
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''N'''o '''N'''ot '''N'''ow".
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: "Drowning Witch"
--> ''She could mutate insanely''
--> ''You know, she could go on the freeway and grow up to be 15 feet tall''
--> ''And scary-lookin' ''
--> ''And then ...''
--> ''Cars could crash all over the place''
--> ''As a result of people with Hawaiian shirts on ...''
--> ''Lookin' up to see her face''
--> ''Sardines in her eyebrows ...''
--> ''Lobsters up 'n down her forehead''
--> ''All of them HORRIBLY LARGE FROM RADIATION ...''
--> ''And smelling very bad and DANGEROUS!''
* BlackComedy: "Teen-Age Prostitute", about a seventeen year old prostitute who RanAwayFromHome from her uncaring parents and is treated "like a dog" by her pimp.
* CallBack and ContinuityNod:
** "No Not Now" mentions the lines "those cowboy pants" and "the waitress", referencing "Lonesome Cowboy Burt" from ''Film/TwoHundredMotels''. The "trans-continental hobby-horse" mentioned in the song would reappear during "Truck-Driver's Divorce" from ''Music/ThemOrUs'' (1984).
** "No Not Now" appeared twice on ''Music/ThingFish'' (1984), once under its original title and second as "Won To On" (which is the same track played backwards).
** "Valley Girl" mentions the conceptual continuity item leather, as well as orthodonics (see "Dental Hygiene Dilemma" on ''Film/TwoHundredMotels'' and "Montana" from ''Music/OverNiteSensation'')
--> ''Could you just picture me in like a leather teddy?''
** "Drowning Witch" uses B-movie imagery, something referenced a lot in his work, by imagining a witch growing to enormous size. The final line also mentions ritual sacrifice, which brings in mind "Ritual Sacrifice Of The Young Pumpkin" from ''Music/AbsolutelyFree''.
** "Envelopes" would be performed again in a different arrangement on ''Music/LondonSymphonyOrchestra'' (1984).
** The parents in "Teenage Prostitute" don't care about their daughter, which is a common theme in many Zappa songs, including on ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: "Valley Girl"
--> ''I do not talk funny, I'm sure.''
--> ''What's the matter with my talk?''
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover is a droodle cartoon by Roger Price. Zappa got permission to use his original picture.
* EpicRocking: The 6:20 "I Come From Nowhere" and the 12:01 "Drowing Witch".
* EvilLaugh: "Drowning Witch" features a few halfway the work.
* GreenAesop: "Drowning Witch"
--> ''She's on the ocean floor''
--> ''And the water's all green down there''
--> ''And it's not very clean down there''
* IntercourseWithYou: "No Not Now" about a girl who "can't decide who she wants to ride" and "goes up and down on a bull".
* {{Instrumentals}}: "Envelopes".
* LiveAlbum: The second half of the album are live recordings.
* MinimalisticCoverArt: The cover is a droodle.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: It's fairly obvious that the lyrics of "Drowning Witch" were just written to fit the theme of the droodle on the album cover. Yet the music itself is impressively complex.
* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "Drowning Witch"
--> ''Now even a witch oughta be caught''
--> ''On the bottom of America's spew-infested waterways, hey-hey''
--> ''She could get radiation all over her''
--> ''She could mutate insanely''
* OneWordTitle: "Envelopes".
* OverlyLongTitle: "Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch".
* ShoutOut:
** "No Not Now" has the line "Book 'Em, Dano!", which was a recurring phrase in the police series ''Series/HawaiiFiveO''.
* TheRunaway: "Teen-Age Prostitute"
--> ''She ran away from home''
--> ''Here mom was destitute''
--> ''Her daddy doesn't care''
--> ''She's a teenage prostitute''
* SpecialGuest: Lisa Popeil, whose track "Lisa's Life Story" would appear on Zappa's "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 6" (1992). On her debut album, "Lisa Popeil" (1984) Music/SteveVai was guest musician. In 1983 she sang backup vocals on Music/WeirdAlYankovic' "Mr. Popeil" and his 2014 song "Tacky".
* SpokenWordInMusic: Zappa sings "Drowning Witch" in "Sprechstimme" technique, where one combines singing with talking.
* StepfordSmiler: "I Come From Nowhere"
--> ''I come from nowhere''
--> ''And you should go there''
--> ''Just try it for a while''
--> ''The people from nowhere always smile''
--> ''Their eyes are all frozen over''
--> ''The sides of their faces pooch out at the corners''
--> ''Because that's what happens when their mouths turn up on both sides''
--> ''Which is why we can tell they're smiling''
* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Zappa's teenage daughter Moon Unit does the lead vocals of "Valley Girl".
* TakeThat: "Valley Girl", aimed at female inhabitants of the San Fernando Valley in California and their typical speak.
--> ''She's a valley girl and there is no cure!''
* TooDumbToLive: "Valley Girl"
--> ''Tosses her head 'n' flips her hair''
--> ''She got a whole bunch of nothing in there''
* ValleyGirl: Zappa was pretty much the TropeCodifier. His single" Valley Girl" became an unexpected radio hit and spawned off an entire pop culture phenomenon in the USA based on the kind of girls he satirized in the song.
