Line #100 Music/OverNiteSensation


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3	''Over-Nite Sensation'' is a 1973 album by Music/FrankZappa which is widely considered to be one of his best, as well as a commercial best-seller. It's well known for the Zappa fan favorites "Camarillo Brillo", "Dirty Love", "I'm The Slime", "Dinah-Moe Humm" and "Montana". Often named a companion piece to ''Music/{{Apostrophe}}'' (1974) for its similar heavy rock sound it won Zappa legions of new rock fans.
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5	Together with ''Music/{{Apostrophe}}'' it was subject of an episode of the TV music documentary series ''Series/ClassicAlbums''.
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7	A 50th Anniversary [[https://www.zappa.com/over-nite-sensation reissue]], including demos, alternate takes, surround and quadrophonic mixes, and two live shows from 1973, was released in November, 2023.
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9	!! Tracklist
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11	[[AC:Side One]]
12	# "Camarillo Brillo" (3:59)
13	# "I'm The Slime" (3:35)
14	# "Dirty Love" (2:59)
15	# "Fifty-Fifty" (6:10)
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17	[[AC:Side Two]]
18	# "Zomby Woof" (5:10)
19	# "Dinah-Moe Humm" (6:03)
20	# "Montana" (6:33)
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22	!!Personnel
23	* Music/FrankZappa: vocals, guitar
24	* George Duke: keyboard, synthesizer
25	* Bruce Fowler: trombone
26	* Tom Fowler: bass
27	* Ralph Humphrey: drums
28	* Sal Marquez: trumpet, vocals
29	* Jean-Luc Ponty: violin, baritone violin
30	* Music/TinaTurner & The Ikettes: backing vocals
31	* Ian Underwood: flute, clarinet, alto & tenor sax
32	* Ruth Underwood: percussion
33	* Kin Vassy: backing vocals
34	* Ricky Lancelotti: backing vocals
35	* Dave [=McMacken=]: album cover design
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37	!! ''Zircon-encrusted tropes''
38	* AllMenArePerverts: "Dinah-Moe Humm"
39	--> ''She could prove it any time/ all men were scum''
40	* AnswerCut: "I'm The Slime"
41	--> ''I'm the best you can get.''
42	--> ''Have you guessed me, yet?''
43	--> ''I'm the Slime oozin' out from your TV set.''
44	* AntiLoveSong:
45	** "Dirty Love".
46	--> ''I don't need you sweet devotion''
47	--> ''And I don't want you cheap emotion''
48	--> ''Whip me up your dragon lotion''
49	--> ''For your dirty love, your dirty love''
50	** "Fifty-Fifty"
51	--> ''Ain't gonna sing you no love song''
52	--> ''How my heart is all sore''
53	--> ''Will not beg your indulgence''
54	--> '' 'cause you heard it before''
55	* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Surprise, surprise: "Montana" is not an accurate description of how "dental floss" is made.
56	* BawdySong: "Camarillo Brillo" and "Dinah-Moe Humm" are both about sexual encounters, while "Dirty Love" is about lust.
57	* BrokenAesop: "Fifty Fifty".
58	--> ''I've taken your time, I've sung you my song''
59	--> ''Ain't no great revelation, but it wasn't too long''
60	--> ''And that's alright, people!''
61	* CallBack and ContinuityNod:
62	** The album cover shows huge hands, something that pops up often on Zappa album covers, from ''Music/BurntWeenySandwich'' to ''Music/OneSizeFitsAll''. A "Holiday Inn" can be spotted in the background, a throwback to the hotel mentioned on ''Music/FillmoreEastJune1971''. The tv is oozing with slime, in reference to "I'm The Slime". An extinguisher can be seen as well, in reference to imagery from "Camarillo Brillo".
63	** "Now is that a real poncho or is that a Sears Poncho?" and "the toads of the short forest" in "Camarillo Brillo" would be referenced again on ''Music/{{Apostrophe}}'' during "Cosmik Debris" . The toads of the short forest being referenced earlier on ''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh (1970)''. A star on the album back cover of ''Music/OneSizeFitsAll'' (1975) is called "Henna Brillo".
64	** A "frenzy" is mentioned during "Camarillo Brillo" and would return again in Zappa songs like "Father O' Blivion" (from ''Music/{{Apostrophe}}'' (1974)) "Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?" (from ''Music/ZappaInNewYork'' (1978))), "Watermelon in Easter Hay" (from ''Music/JoesGarage (1979))'', "Smell My Beard" (from ''You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 4'' (1991)).
65	** Fido the poodle and his call "Here Fido, Here Fido" are introduced in "Dirty Love". He made his first appearance on the album back cover of ''Music/AbsolutelyFree (1967)'', where one of the advertisements reads "Buy a Fydo fits swell". The dog and his call "Here Fido, Here Fido" would reappear again during "Nanook Rubs It" and "Stink-Foot" from ''Music/{{Apostrophe}}'' and the track "Cheepnis" from ''Music/RoxyAndElsewhere (1974)''. The line "the poodle bites, the poodle chews it" from "Dirty Love" would reappear again at the end of "Stink-Foot" on ''Music/{{Apostrophe}}''.
66	** An "aroma" is mentioned during "Dirty Love", a conceptual continuity nod that was referenced earlier during "Dental Hygiene Dilemma" from ''Film/TwoHundredMotels'' ("It's still damp! What an aroma!") and would be reprised later during "Jewish Princess" from ''Music/SheikYerbouti'' (1979) ("With a garlic aroma that could level Tacoma") and "For The Young Sophisticate" from ''Music/TinseltownRebellion'' (1981) ("A radiator bad aroma").
67	** "Well my dandruff is loose" in "Fifty-Fifty" would receive a CallBack in "Disco Boy" on ''Music/ZootAllures'' (1976): "Some dandruff might be hiding there."
68	** "Zomby Woof" evokes monster movie imagery, which Zappa used time and time again in his music.
69	** "My right foot is bigger than my other foot is" in "Zomby Woof" would receive a continuity nod during ''Dancin' Fool'' from "Music/SheikYerbouti" (1979) with the line "one of my legs is shorter than the other/ and both of my feet is too long".
70	** Zircon-encrusted tweezers are mentioned in "Dinah-Moe Humm" and "Montana" and would appear again on the album cover of ''Music/OneSizeFitsAll'' (1975), where "Zircon" is a constellation and at the left bottom of the back cover a tweezer can be seen cutting the archeries/holes.
71	** In ''The Story Of Uncle Meat'', inside the liner notes of ''Music/UncleMeat'' the following line can be read: ''We are travelling across the wasteland toward a huge hydro-electric dam. Dynamo hum increases as we near it''. This is referenced again during "Dinah-Moe Humm" on this album.
72	** Pubic lice ("cooties") are mentioned in "Dinah-Moe Humm". These creatures were referenced other times in Zappa's work:
73	*** "Who Needs The Peace Corps?" on ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney'' ("I'll stay a week and get the crabs, and take a bus back home").
74	*** "Our Bizarre Relationship" on ''Music/UncleMeat'' (Suzy: "... and we had a cat and we had fleas and we had lots of crabs that we proceeded to give to everyone in Laurel Canyon except for Elmer and Phil...").
75	*** "Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You?" on ''Film/TwoHundredMotels'' ("... A dog, a car, an epidemic of body lice with your own record company, your name on the door, electric buzzer to the inner office...").
76	*** "Attack! Attack! Attack!" on ''Civilization Phaze III'' (Roy: "That's why they have a lot of crabs...", Louie: "Yes, and uhm...", Roy: "A set of crabs?!").
77	** Dental floss is mentioned in "Montana", a call back to "Dental Hygiene Dilemma" from ''Film/TwoHundredMotels''.
78	** Zappa rides a pygmy pony in "Montana", which brings back the ponies from ''Music/LumpyGravy''.
79	* CarefulWithThatAxe: Some of the singing in "Fifty-Fifty" and "Zomby Woof".
80	* ExhaustedEyeBags: "Zomby Woof".
81	--> ''Did you ever wake up in the morning''
82	--> ''With a zomby woof behind your eyes?''
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84	* TheImmodestOrgasm: "Dinah-Moe Humm", where Dinah and her sister are excited into orgasmic ecstasy.
85	* IntercourseWithYou: "Camarillo Brillo", "Dirty Love" and "Dinah-Moe Humm".
86	* LocationSong: "Montana", where Zappa imagines himself moving to this state to raise dental floss on a farm.
87	* MindControlDevice: "I'm The Slime".
88	--> ''I'm the tool of the government and industry too''
89	* MisterMuffykins: Zappa introduced the concept of Fido the poodle in the lyrics of "Dirty Love", which would become a RunningGag on later albums too. A reference to a dog named Fido happened earlier on the album back cover of ''Music/AbsolutelyFree''. He would later elaborate on the question why humans would modify this dog species according to their own kitschy desires?
90	* MotorMouth: The Ikettes, in "Montana":
91	--> ''I'm ridinasmall tiny hoss / His name is Mighty Little / He'sagoodhoss / Even though \
92	He'sabitdinkytostrapabigsaddleorblanketonanyway / He'sabitdinkytostrapabigsaddleorblanketonanyway / Anyway''
93	* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Montana", a song about raising dental floss.
94	* NeverSleepAgain: "Zomby Woof"
95	--> ''You know I'll never sleep no more''
96	* NightmareFace: Zappa on the TV set on the album cover.
97	* NonAppearingTitle: "Over-Nite Sensation" is never mentioned in any of the titles or lyrics.
98	* OurMonstersAreDifferent, OurMonstersAreWeird and OurZombiesAreDifferent: "Zomby Woof".
99	* PunBasedTitle: "Dinah-Moe Humm", a pun on the dynamo of a car ''humming''.
100	* ShoutOut:
101	** Steve Harris wears a T-shirt in the sleeve photos of ''Music/TheNumberOfTheBeast'' by Music/IronMaiden with the following text: "NO! We are not an English rock band... we are dental floss salesmen from Montana!".
102	** "Dirty Love" was used in the film ''Le Péril Jeune'' (1994) and ''Film/TheIceStorm'' (1997).
103	** Music/ArjenAnthonyLucassen covered "I'm The Slime" on his solo album ''Music/LostInTheNewReal''.
104	* SpecialGuest: Tina Turner and the Ikettes on background vocals, although they're uncredited, by order of Ike Turner.
105	* WhamLine:
106	** "I'm The Slime".
107	--> ''Your mind is totally controlled/ You have been stuffed into my mold/ And you will do as you are told/ until the rights to you are sold.''
108	** "Dinah-Moe Humm"
109	--> '' 'Cause I can't get into it unless I get out of it''
110	--> '' An' I gotta get out of it before I get into it''
111	--> '' 'Cause I never get into it unless I get out of it''
112	--> '' An' I gotta be out of it to get myself into it ''
113	* YouWatchTooMuchX: "I'm The Slime".

Context Music / OverNiteSensation