Line #41 Music/WakaJawaka


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''You can be scared when it gets too real. But you should be diggin' it, while it's happening (...) 'Cause it just might be a one-shot deal.'']]
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4	''Waka/Jawaka'' is a 1972 album by Music/FrankZappa that forms the center piece in what could be called his {{Jazz}} Fusion trilogy, along with ''Music/HotRats'' (1969) and the follow-up ''Music/TheGrandWazoo'' (1972). The album is best remembered for the fan favorites "Big Swifty" and "Waka/Jawaka".
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6	!!Tracklist
7	[[AC:Side One]]
8	# "Big Swifty" (17:22)
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10	[[AC:Side Two]]
11	# "Your Mouth" (3:12)
12	# "It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal" (4:16)
13	# "Waka/Jawaka" (11:18)
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15	!!Personnel
16	* Music/FrankZappa: vocals, guitar, percussion, electric bed springs
17	* Kris Peterson: vocals
18	* Janet Ferguson: vocals
19	* Sal Marquez: trumpets, vocals, chimes, flugelhorn
20	* Alex Dmochowski, aka "Erroneous": vocals, fuzz bass, electric bass
21	* Aynsley Dunbar: drums, washboard, tambourine
22	* Tony Duran: vocals, slide guitar
23	* George Duke: ring-modulated and echoplexed electric piano, tack piano
24	* Mike Altschul: baritone saxophone, piccolo, bass flute, bass clarinet, tenor sax
25	* Joel Peskin: tenor saxophone
26	* Jeff Simmons: vocals, Hawaiian guitar
27	* Don Preston: piano, mini-Moog
28	* Bill Byers: trombone, baritone horn
29	* Ken Shroyer: trombone, baritone horn
30	* Sneaky Pete Kleinow: pedal steel guitar solo
31	* Marvin Mattelson: album cover design
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33	!! One Shot Tropes
34	* BeliefMakesYouStupid: "Your Mouth"
35	--> ''Your mouth is your religion''
36	--> ''You put your faith in a hole like that?''
37	--> ''You put your trust and your belief''
38	--> ''Above your jaw, and nor relief have I found''
39	* CallBack and ContinuityNod:
40	** The water tubs on the album cover show the words "hot" and "rats", giving the first clue that this album is a SpiritualSuccessor to "Hot Rats".
41	** "Big Swifty" would reappear as "Big Swifty & Associates", the company in "The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary" from ''Music/StudioTan'' (1978) and ''Music/{{Lather}}'' (1993).
42	** "It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal" mentions a forest and a frog, referencing "Toads Of The Short Forest" from ''Music/WeaselsRippedMyFlesh'' (1970).
43	--> ''And if a forest grows up from the dirt on the floor''
44	--> ''That the frog with the satchel had just dumped behind the door''
45	* EpicRocking: The 17:22 "Big Swifty's". and the 11:18 "Waka/Jawaka".
46	* {{Instrumental}}: Apart from "Your Mouth" and "It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal" the music is mostly instrumental.
47	* ItCameFromTheSink: Implied with the cover art, featuring a sink with the faucets marked "hot" and "rats".
48	* ItOnlyWorksOnce: "It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal"
49	--> ''You can be scared when it gets too real.''
50	--> ''You can be scared when it gets too real.''
51	--> ''But you should be diggin' it, while it's happening (...)''
52	--> '' 'Cause it just might be a one-shot deal.''
53	* LongestSongGoesFirst: The 17-and-a-half-minute "Big Swifty" opens the album, occupying the entire first side.
54	* {{Pun}}: The album cover shows a sink with the words [[Music/HotRats "hot" and "rats"]] instead of "hot" and "cold".
55	* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: "Waka/Jawaka". Zappa declared in an interview by Jerry Williams, November 1972, that the title was "something that showed up on a Ouija board at one time".
56	* TitleTrack: "Waka/Jawaka".
57	* TrrrillingRrrs: "It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal" has a section that is sang this way:
58	--> ''And if a forest grows up''
59	--> ''From the dirt on the floor,''
60	--> ''That the frog with the satchel''
61	--> ''Had just dumped beside the door''
62	--> ''You're just startin' to get worried,''
63	--> ''You ain't going out no more''

Context Music / WakaJawaka