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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 PĂ©ril 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". |
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