Line #33 Music/JazzFromHell


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3	-> ''"Well, things in America can be from Hell. Right now we have [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan a president from Hell]], and the National Security Council from hell, so we should add jazz from hell also."''
4	-->-- '''Music/FrankZappa''', interviewed at the start of his home video "Video from Hell" (1987).
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6	''Jazz from Hell'' is an {{instrumental}} album by Music/FrankZappa. Released in 1986 through Barking Pumpkin Records in the US and Creator/{{EMI}} internationally, it won him his first MediaNotes/GrammyAward (for "Best Rock Instrumental" via the TitleTrack). The album was (yet another) NewSoundAlbum for Zappa as it was almost entirely made on the Synclavier computer, save for the one live track "St. Etienne". The album is well known for the audience favorites "Night School", "St. Etienne" and the incredibly catchy "G-Spot Tornado", which would be performed live on ''Music/TheYellowShark'' and is reportedly the song that Germaine Greer wants to be played at her funeral. The album is also notable for allegedly being the only Zappa record to have a Parental Advisory sticker slapped onto it, despite not featuring any lyrics whatsoever, with the title of "G-Spot Tornado" being cited as the reasoning behind the sticker's inclusion.[[note]]This is an urban legend that has never been truly verified, spread around no doubt thanks to Zappa's activism against Tipper Gore and the [=RIAA=]'s censorship campaigns. However, it has been reported that the Portland-based Meyer Music Markets (sometimes erroneously confused with hypermarket chain Fred Meyer) sold the album with their own parental advisory warning affixed to the packaging.[[/note]]
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8	''Jazz From Hell'' was the final studio album that Zappa would release in his lifetime; all later releases that he lived to see were live recordings, and his next (and last) new studio album, ''Music/CivilizationPhazeIII'', would be released nearly a year after his passing[[note]]this is discounting ''Music/{{Lather}}'', which is technically not "new" in the sense that it was assembled during the 1970's and initially split across several other albums before finally being released in its original form in 1996[[/note]].
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10	!!Tracklist
11	[[AC:Side One]]
12	# "Night School" (4:47)
13	# "The Beltway Bandits" (3:25)
14	# "While You Were Art II" (7:17)
15	# "Jazz from Hell" (2:58)
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17	[[AC:Side Two]]
18	[numlist:5]
19	# "G-Spot Tornado" (3:17)
20	# "Damp Ankles" (3:45)
21	# "St. Etienne" (6:26)
22	# "Massaggio Galore" (2:31)
23	[/numlist]
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25	!!Personnel
26	* Music/FrankZappa: Composition, lead guitar, synclavier, keyboards, percussion
27	* Ed Mann: percussion
28	* Tommy Mars: keyboards
29	* Bobby Martin: keyboards, saxophone
30	* Scott Thunes: bass guitar, keyboards
31	* Steve Vai: rhythm guitar
32	* Chad Wackerman: drums
33	* Ray White: rhythm guitar
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35	!! G-Spot Trope-nado:
36	* AlbumTitleDrop: The TitleTrack "Jazz from Hell".
37	* AlliterativeTitle: "The '''B'''eltway '''B'''andits".
38	* CallBack: "While You Were Art II" was based on the track "While You Were Out" from ''Music/ShutUpNPlayYerGuitar''. The "Hi Ho Silver" yells in "Massaggio Galore" were referenced before during "Jewish Princess" on ''Music/SheikYerbouti''.
39	* ContinuityNod: "G-Spot Tornado" would be performed live on ''Music/TheYellowShark'' (1993).
40	* CoversAlwaysLie:
41	** None of the music on this album could be called {{Jazz}}.
42	** If we give any credit to the urban legend that some stores labelled the album with the RIAA warning sticker (at the time, "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics"), we have a further example, as the entire album was instrumental.
43	* EpicRocking: The 7:17 "While You Were Art II" and the 6:26 "St. Etienne".
44	* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Orgasmic screams, rubbed glass, sneezes and the yell "Hi Ho Silver", are heard during "Massaggio Galore".
45	* FaceOnTheCover: Zappa's face is featured on the album cover in close-up.
46	* {{Instrumentals}}: All tracks are instrumental.
47	* LiveAlbum: Only one track is live and performed by human beings: "St. Etienne", lifted from a 1982 concert in Saint-Étienne, France that has been captured on camera too. It features Zappa played a minuscule guitar that is so small that he has to sit on a chair to properly play it. Originally it was a solo from "Drowning Witch", but it was renamed "St. Etienne" after the name of the location where it was first performed.
48	* NewSoundAlbum: This was Zappa's first major album performed on his Synclavier computer.
49	* RefugeInAudacity: Naming the most catchy track on the album after a g-spot is bound to baffle some people.
50	* ShoutOut: "Hi, Ho Silver" is a reference to ''Series/TheLoneRanger''. It was the phrase that cowboy star Tom Mix used to lead his horse Trigger into action.

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