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3	''Chunga's Revenge'' is a 1970 album by Music/FrankZappa. From this album on and the three that followed (''Music/FillmoreEastJune1971'' (1971), ''Film/TwoHundredMotels'' (1971), ''Music/JustAnotherBandFromLA'' (1972)) Zappa would work together with two former lead singers from Music/TheTurtles, while most of the music would be InTheStyleOf comedy sketches, satirizing life on the road with rock bands.
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5	!!Tracklist
6	[[AC:Side One]]
7	# "Transylvania Boogie" (5:02)
8	# "Road Ladies" (4:10)
9	# "Twenty Small Cigars" (2:17)
10	# "The Nancy & Mary Music" (9:28)
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12	[[AC:Side Two]]
13	# "Tell Me You Love Me" (2:34)
14	# "Would You Go All the Way?" (2:30)
15	# "Chunga's Revenge" (6:15)
16	# "The Clap" (1:23)
17	# "Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink" (2:44)
18	# "Sharleena" (4:05)
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20	!!Personnel
21	* Frank Zappa (guitar, vocals, Condor, harpsichord, drum set, wood blocks, temple blocks, boobams, tom-toms, etc.)
22	* Max Bennett (bass)
23	* George Duke (electric piano, vocal drum imitations, organ, trombone)
24	* Aynsley Dunbar (drums, tambourine)
25	* John Guerin (drums)
26	* Don "Sugarcane" Harris (organ)
27	* [[Music/TheTurtles Mark Volman]] as The Phlorescent Leech (vocals)
28	* Jeff Simmons (bass, vocals)
29	* Ian Underwood (rhythm guitar, alto sax, electric piano, electric alto sax with wah-wah pedal, grand piano, tenor sax, organ, piano, pipe organ)
30	* [[Music/TheTurtles Howard Kaylan]] as Eddie (vocals, rhythm guitar)
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32	!! Would You Trope All The Way?
33	* BMovie: "Would You Go All The Way?"
34	--> ''Remember Freddie and Joe?''
35	--> ''The night she went to the show: a monster movie?''
36	--> ''(...) The monster came out, everybody shout''
37	--> ''People all around you, screaming at the monster''
38	--> ''The monster from the USO''
39	* CallBack and ContinuityNod:
40	** The liner notes on the album cover beneath the photograph make mention of a "gypsy mutant industrial vacuum cleaner" and "dozens of imported castanets, clutched by the horrible suction of its heavy duty hose". Gypsies would turn up in other Zappa songs too, like "Packard Goose" from ''Music/JoesGarage'' ("sounds like an elegant gypsy"). Vacuum cleaner imagery is prominent in ''Film/TwoHundredMotels'' (1971) and the Central Scrutinizer in ''Music/JoesGarage'' (1979) is also described as a "cross between a vacuum cleaner and a piggy bank with marital aid stuck all over with it". The woman in "Camarillo Brillo" (''Music/OverNiteSensation'') also hangs her castagnets up. The word "heavy duty" returns in "Montana" (also from ''Music/OverNiteSensation'') in the line "heavy duty zircon encrusted tweezers". Hoses are also part of Zappa's conceptual continuity.
41	** "Chunga's Revenge" sounds like a typical B-monster movie title. "Transylvania Boogie" also brings up imagery from ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', with the image of a dancing gypsy around a fire inside the album sleeve another stereotypical Romanian folk image. In "Would You Go All The Way?" the protagonists are watching a monster movie, delving into Zappa's conceptual continuity about monster movies.
42	** "Would You Go All The Way?" mentions a '55 Chevy, continuing Zappa's conceptual continuity around cars. A "Chevy" was also mentioned in The ''Music/UncleMeat'' song "Dog Breath (In The Year Of The Plague)". The same song also mentions socks ("His new white socks") which have also turned up in earlier and later Zappa songs.
43	** "Tell Me You Love Me?" would be played again on ''Music/TinseltownRebellion'' (1981) and with new lyrics targeting Music/MichaelJackson on Zappa's album ''Music/BroadwayTheHardWay'' (1988).
44	* CarefulWithThatAxe: Some of the screaming in the third part of "The Nancy & Mary Music".
45	* CelebrityIsOverrated: "Road Ladies", a song about the bleak, tiresome and lonesome life on the road of a rock band:
46	--> ''You got nothing but groupies and promoters to love you''
47	--> ''And a pile of laundry by the hotel door ''
48	--> ''(...) Don't it ever make a young man wanna go back home?''
49	--> ''When the P.A. system eats it,''
50	--> ''And the band plays some of the most terrible shit you've ever known''
51	--> ''(...) Don't you better get a shot from the doctor what the road ladies do to you?''
52	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The photo on album cover.
53	* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The art work within the cover is done by Cal Schenkel.
54	* FaceOnTheCover: A photograph of Zappa, yawning. It was taken by Phil Franks.
55	* GroupieBrigade: "Road Ladies" and "The Clap" both address groupies.
56	* {{Instrumental}}: "Transylvania Boogie", "Twenty Small Cigars", "The Nancy & Mary Music", "Chunga's Revenge" and "The Clap".
57	* IntercourseWithYou:
58	** "Road Ladies" and "The Clap" both reference sex with groupies and the fact they can give musicians the clap afterwards.
59	** "Tell Me You Love Me?"
60	--> ''Burning with fire, one desire, cause I gotta make love to you''
61	** "Would You Go All The Way?"
62	--> ''With his arm around your waist''
63	--> ''And his hand is in your pants''
64	* InTheStyleOf: "Road Ladies" is played in the style of a {{Blues}} song.
65	* LocationSong: "Trannsylvania Boogie", an instrumental about this Romanian province.
66	* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "Would You Go All The Way?"
67	--> ''Would you go all the way''
68	--> ''For the U.S.A.?''
69	--> ''Would you go all the way''
70	--> ''For the U.S.O.?''
71	--> ''Lift up your dress, if the answer is "no" ...''
72	* NameAndName: "The Nancy & Mary Music".
73	* ObsessionSong: "Tell Me You Love Me".
74	--> ''I love you so hard now,''
75	--> ''I'm cryin' for you''
76	* OneWomanSong: "Sharleena".
77	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Rudy the union man in "Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink".
78	--> ''The work is here; it's a couple a bucks.''
79	--> ''I'm sure you're glad to pay.''
80	--> ''Whip it out, here is your receipt''
81	--> ''Now I'll go away, now I'll go away...''
82	* PorkyPigPronunciation: "Would You Go All The Way?"
83	--> ''T-T-Tell me baby''
84	* QuestioningTitle: "Would You Go All The Way?"
85	* ShoutOut:
86	** "Road Ladies" references the blues song "Hot Little Mama" by Zappa's idol blues singer Music/JohnnyGuitarWatson
87	--> ''Don't you ever miss your house in the country and your hot little mama too?''
88	** "Chunga's Revenge" was used on the soundtrack of "Happy Together" (1997) by Wong Kar-Wai.
89	* STDImmunity: Averted with "Road Ladies" and the instrumental "The Clap".
90	--> ''Don't you better get a shot from the doctor what the road ladies do to you?''
91	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Sharleena", which is a song about a girl whom the protagonist misses and it is sang completely straight. A sharp contrast with the more comedic songs on this album.
92	* TakeThat: "Would You Go All The Way?" aimed at the American military, while "Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink" targets unions.
93	* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: "Road Ladies" about rock musicians on tour.
94	--> ''Don't it ever make a young man wanna go home?''

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