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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Album by The Mothers of Invention</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the album. For the Canadian band, see <a href="/wiki/Absolutely_Free_(band)" title="Absolutely Free (band)">Absolutely Free (band)</a>. For the song by Frank Zappa, see <a href="/wiki/Absolutely_Free_(song)" title="Absolutely Free (song)">Absolutely Free (song)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent haudio"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary album" style="font-style: italic; color: inherit; background-color: lightsteelblue; font-size: 125%;">Absolutely Free</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:FrankZappa-AbsolutelyFree.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/FrankZappa-AbsolutelyFree.jpg/220px-FrankZappa-AbsolutelyFree.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/FrankZappa-AbsolutelyFree.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="316" data-file-height="316" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="/wiki/Album" title="Album">Studio album</a> by <div class="contributor" style="display:inline"><a href="/wiki/The_Mothers_of_Invention" title="The Mothers of Invention">the Mothers of Invention</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data published">May 26, 1967<span style="display: none;"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1967-05-26</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">November 15–18, 1966<br />March 6, 1967<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Studio</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/TTG_Studios" title="TTG Studios">TTG Studios</a>, Los Angeles</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Avant-garde_rock" class="mw-redirect" title="Avant-garde rock">Avant-garde rock</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avant-pop" title="Avant-pop">avant-pop</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="duration"><span class="min">39</span>:<span class="s">51</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Verve_Records" title="Verve Records">Verve</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_producer" title="Record producer">Producer</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Wilson_(record_producer)" title="Tom Wilson (record producer)">Tom Wilson</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa">Frank Zappa</a> chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="color:inherit; background: transparent; width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; display: inline-table;"> <tbody><tr style="line-height: 1.4em;"> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0"><i><a href="/wiki/Freak_Out!" title="Freak Out!">Freak Out!</a></i><br />(1966) </td> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em"><i><b>Absolutely Free</b></i><br />(1967) </td> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em"><i><a href="/wiki/Lumpy_Gravy_(1967_album)" title="Lumpy Gravy (1967 album)">Lumpy Gravy</a></i><br />(1967) </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lightsteelblue;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/The_Mothers_of_Invention" title="The Mothers of Invention">The Mothers of Invention</a> chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="color: inherit; background: transparent; width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; display: inline-table;"> <tbody><tr style="line-height: 1.4em;"> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0"><i><a href="/wiki/Freak_Out!" title="Freak Out!">Freak Out!</a></i><br />(1966) </td> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em"><i><b>Absolutely Free</b></i><br />(1967) </td> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em"><i><a href="/wiki/We%27re_Only_in_It_for_the_Money" title="We're Only in It for the Money">We're Only in It for the Money</a></i><br />(1968) </td></tr> </tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lightsteelblue;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">Singles</a> from <i> Absolutely Free </i></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align:left"> <ol><li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"Son of Suzy Creamcheese"</span><br />Released: 1967</span></li></ol> </div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Absolutely Free</b></i> is the second album by American <a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">rock</a> band <a href="/wiki/The_Mothers_of_Invention" title="The Mothers of Invention">the Mothers of Invention</a>, released on May 26, 1967, by <a href="/wiki/Verve_Records" title="Verve Records">Verve Records</a>. Much like their 1966 debut <i><a href="/wiki/Freak_Out!" title="Freak Out!">Freak Out!</a></i>, the album is a display of complex musical composition with political and social satire, whose blend of jazz, classical, avant-garde and rock idioms within multi-sectional, suite-like compositions is seen as an important and influential precursor to progressive rock. The band had been augmented since <i>Freak Out!</i> by the addition of <a href="/wiki/Woodwinds" class="mw-redirect" title="Woodwinds">woodwinds</a> player Bunk Gardner, <a href="/wiki/Keyboardist" title="Keyboardist">keyboardist</a> <a href="/wiki/Don_Preston" title="Don Preston">Don Preston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhythm_guitarist" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhythm guitarist">rhythm guitarist</a> <a href="/wiki/Jim_Fielder" title="Jim Fielder">Jim Fielder</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Drummer" title="Drummer">drummer</a> <a href="/wiki/Billy_Mundi" title="Billy Mundi">Billy Mundi</a>; Fielder quit the group before the album was released, and his name was removed from the album credits. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background_and_recording">Background and recording</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Absolutely_Free&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background and recording"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Freak_Out!" title="Freak Out!">Freak Out!</a></i> cost Verve $20,000 to make, more than double the cost of a typical album at the time. When it struggled to sell, the record company only allowed a budget of $11,000 for the follow up, which was recorded on four-track over just four days from November 15–18, 1966 at TTG studios in Los Angeles, with additional mixing and editing at MGM in New York City a week later.<sup id="cite_ref-libretto_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-libretto-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Tom_Wilson_(record_producer)" title="Tom Wilson (record producer)">Tom Wilson</a> again sat in the producer's chair, although it is generally agreed that he took a hands-off approach and let Zappa have full creative control. Unlike <i><a href="/wiki/Freak_Out!" title="Freak Out!">Freak Out!</a></i>, which used extensive orchestration, the budget this time only allowed for orchestral additions to "Brown Shoes Don't Make It", with the band playing virtually live in the studio for most tracks. Since many of the songs were complex multi-sectional pieces, the group would do up to 30 takes of each specific section of a track, which were then strung together in editing.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Zappa, the group had "one day with 15 minutes per tune to do all the vocals on that album. That's right. It's called 'sing or get off the pot'."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Songs">Songs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Absolutely_Free&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Songs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Zappa intended the album to be divided into two operatic suites with all the songs continually linked, which at the time of recording predated the release of The Who's "<a href="/wiki/A_Quick_One_While_He%27s_Away" class="mw-redirect" title="A Quick One While He's Away">A Quick One While He's Away</a>" and The Beatles' <i><a href="/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band" title="Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band">Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</a></i>. The first suite, entitled "Absolutely Free", is essentially a send-up of a romantic love story with fruits and vegetables acting as a metaphor for people; the second suite, "The M.O.I. American Pageant", is a trenchant social commentary on American life including aspects of social status and mobility, consumerism, alcoholism, greed, and political corruption. </p><p><b>Plastic People</b> </p><p>"Plastic People" evolved from the group's cover of "<a href="/wiki/Louie_Louie" title="Louie Louie">Louie Louie</a>", with new lyrics. It opens with an announcement of the President of the United States, who is ill and needs chicken soup, before going on to critique the "plastic" hippies who hung out at clubs like Pandora's Box, the epicenter of the <a href="/wiki/Sunset_Strip_curfew_riots" title="Sunset Strip curfew riots">Sunset Strip Riots</a> happening at the time of the album's recording.<sup id="cite_ref-IT_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IT-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Son of Suzy Creamcheese" later in the album goes further into the subject, which presages the themes of The Mothers' next album. </p><p><b>The Duke of Prunes</b> </p><p>The primary subject of the suite, food, appears on this mock-<a href="/wiki/Album-oriented_rock" title="Album-oriented rock"><abbr title="">AOR</abbr></a> love ballad with comedic lyrics improvised by <a href="/wiki/Ray_Collins_(musician)" title="Ray Collins (musician)">Ray Collins</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-NecessityIs_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NecessityIs-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who, as the Duke of Prunes, attempts to pick up a woman at the supermarket by using food references that are meant as euphemisms for sex.<sup id="cite_ref-IT_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IT-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The track was based on an original piece called "And Very True", which Zappa had composed for the score of a <a href="/wiki/Western_film" title="Western film">Western</a> called <i><a href="/wiki/Run_Home,_Slow" title="Run Home, Slow">Run Home, Slow</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-NecessityIs_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NecessityIs-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-slavan_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-slavan-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Amnesia Vivace</b> </p><p>According to the album's libretto, the Duke attempts to pick up two cheerleaders in a parking lot when they bash him in the face, giving him amnesia.<sup id="cite_ref-libretto_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-libretto-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is portrayed musically as a one minute free-jazz freak out which eventually quotes Stravinsky's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Firebird" title="The Firebird">The Firebird</a></i>. </p><p><b>The Duke Regains His Chops</b> </p><p>The Duke suddenly recovers his memory as a reprise of "Duke of Prunes" appears in a faster tempo before the Duke attempts his final pick-up by singing a <a href="/wiki/The_Supremes" title="The Supremes">Supremes</a>-like tune reminiscent of "<a href="/wiki/Baby_Love" title="Baby Love">Baby Love</a>". </p><p><b>Call Any Vegetable</b> </p><p>The food imagery continues on this frantic rocker, although Zappa claimed "vegetables" referred to people who are inactive in society, but who might be "woken up" if moved sufficiently—hence the idea to call the vegetable and release the person from apathy.<sup id="cite_ref-IT_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IT-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Invocation and Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin</b> </p><p>This seven-minute instrumental opens with a quote from Holst's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Planets" title="The Planets">The Planets</a></i> before morphing into a wild, proto-<a href="/wiki/Jazz_fusion" title="Jazz fusion">jazz fusion</a> group jam in which Zappa displays his improvisational guitar skills for the first time on record. </p><p><b>Soft-Cell Conclusion</b> </p><p>A reprise of "Call Any Vegetable", somewhat slower and bluesier with harmonica accompaniment, in which Zappa instructs his listeners how to call to vegetables. The speed then increases to a very fast tempo before ending on a series of sexual pants. </p><p><b>America Drinks</b> </p><p>The second suite opens with this send-up of a lounge ballad, sung deliberately off-tempo as if the singer is very drunk, to illustrate the empty phoniness of American culture. This is followed by quotes from Fucik's "<a href="/wiki/Entrance_of_the_Gladiators" title="Entrance of the Gladiators">Entrance of the Gladiators</a>" and the overture to Rimsky-Korsakov's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tsar%27s_Bride" title="The Tsar's Bride">The Tsar's Bride</a></i>, for a cartoonish circus ambience. </p><p><b>Status Back Baby</b> </p><p>One of Zappa's doo-wop parodies, although there are oblique insertions of quotes from Stravinsky and Debussy. The lyrical content skewers high school social cliques, as a self-absorbed jock finds he's losing status with the pom-pom girls.<sup id="cite_ref-IT_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IT-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Uncle Bernie's Farm</b> </p><p>This relatively straightforward, fast-paced rocker critiques the makers of violent children's toys and compares them to the child's equally plastic parents. It closes with several overlapping voices attempting to sell the listener toy bombs, rockets, intestines, brass knuckles, and other grotesque products. </p><p><b>Son of Suzy Creamcheese</b> </p><p>The character of Suzy Creamcheese, a groupie, was first introduced on <i><a href="/wiki/Freak_Out!" title="Freak Out!">Freak Out!</a></i> Here we learn more about her desire to be "in" as she drops acid, stays out all night on Sunset Strip, steals her boyfriend's stash of drugs and attends a protest march in Berkeley.<sup id="cite_ref-IT_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IT-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Zappa admitted that the rocker was one of the most difficult songs for <a href="/wiki/The_Mothers_of_Invention" title="The Mothers of Invention">The Mothers</a> to learn to play due to its dizzying change of time signatures, moving between 4/4, 8/8, 9/8, 4/8, 5/8, 6/8 and back to 4/4.<sup id="cite_ref-Frank_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frank-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Brown Shoes Don't Make It</b> </p><p>Described by François Couture of <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> as a "condensed two-hour musical", the album's longest song, at over seven minutes, moves through 22 distinct sections covering <a href="/wiki/Psychedelia" title="Psychedelia">psychedelia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chamber_music" title="Chamber music">chamber music</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sprechgesang" title="Sprechgesang">Sprechstimme</a>, <a href="/wiki/Garage_rock" title="Garage rock">garage rock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical</a>, <a href="/wiki/Music_hall" title="Music hall">music hall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doo-wop" title="Doo-wop">doo-wop</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Beach_Boys" title="The Beach Boys">The Beach Boys</a>, <a href="/wiki/Electronic_music" title="Electronic music">electronics</a>, and more.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the only track on the album to feature outside orchestration, which climaxes the piece. There is also a homemade synthesizer played by Don Preston, one of the earliest appearances of such an instrument on a rock record. The song's primary subject is corruption in politics, as a city hall official fantasizes sleeping with a thirteen-year-old girl in graphic detail. The line "I'd like to make her do a nasty on the White House lawn" apparently held up the album's release, as an MGM exec protested its inclusion and wanted to change the line to "I'd like to make her do a crossword puzzle on the back of TV Guide."<sup id="cite_ref-Frank_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frank-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>America Drinks and Goes Home</b> </p><p>A reprise of "America Drinks" set at the "Pompadour-a-Go-Go", this is a similar piano-based lounge ballad Zappa penned in 1964 over which sounds of drinking, gambling, and slot machines get louder until the song fades and only the sounds of drunk partygoers' grotesque laughs and screams remain, meant to illustrate the casual disrespect such audiences have for the performers.<sup id="cite_ref-IT_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IT-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a stylistic similarity between this number and the later <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">Beatles</a> B-side "<a href="/wiki/You_Know_My_Name_(Look_Up_the_Number)" title="You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)">You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)</a>" as well as <a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones" title="The Rolling Stones">The Rolling Stones</a>' "On with the Show". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Album_Cover_and_libretto">Album Cover and libretto</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Absolutely_Free&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Album Cover and libretto"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The album was planned for release in January 1967 but ran into trouble when Verve objected to Zappa's idea of printing the lyrics on the back cover, as well as to the phrase "war means work for all" on a billboard included in the illustrated collage which had also been constructed by Zappa.<sup id="cite_ref-Frank_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frank-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Months passed before a compromise was reached: the lyrics would not be printed on the album, but it was allowed for an ad to be placed in the gatefold for listeners to send one dollar for a complete libretto booklet containing lyrics and plot explanations. </p> <table class="wikitable floatright" style="width:24.2em;font-size:88%;text-align:center;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em;padding:0;border-spacing:0"><caption style="font-size:115%">Professional ratings</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;color:#202122;background:#d1dbdf;font-size:100%">Review scores</th></tr><tr><th scope="col">Source</th><th scope="col">Rating</th></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="4.5/5 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="4.5/5 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/20px-Star_half.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/40px-Star_half.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-Huey_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Huey-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><i><a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Popular_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="Encyclopedia of Popular Music">Encyclopedia of Popular Music</a></i></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="5/5 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="5/5 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><i><a href="/wiki/Martin_C._Strong" title="Martin C. Strong">The Great Rock Bible</a></i></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle">8/10<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><i><a href="/wiki/Kerrang!" title="Kerrang!">Kerrang!</a></i></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="1/5 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="1/5 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><i><a href="/wiki/MusicHound" title="MusicHound">MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide</a></i></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="4/5 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="4/5 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/11px-Star_empty.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/17px-Star_empty.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Star_empty.svg/22px-Star_empty.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><i><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Fabretti" class="extiw" title="it:Claudio Fabretti">OndaRock</a></i></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle">9/10<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rolling_Stone_Album_Guide" title="The Rolling Stone Album Guide">The Rolling Stone Album Guide</a></i></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><span role="img" style="white-space:nowrap" title="4.5/5 stars"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="4.5/5 stars"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/20px-Star_full.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Star_full.svg/40px-Star_full.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/20px-Star_half.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Star_half.svg/40px-Star_half.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="108" data-file-height="110" /></span></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-RSguide_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RSguide-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle">Sputnikmusic</td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle">5/5<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><i><a href="/wiki/Uncut_(magazine)" title="Uncut (magazine)">Uncut</a></i></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle">8/10 <sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Village_Voice" title="The Village Voice">The Village Voice</a></i></td><td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle">B−<sup id="cite_ref-Robert_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Robert-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Release_and_reception">Release and reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Absolutely_Free&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Release and reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The album was eventually released on May 26, 1967. This was incidentally the same day as the UK release of <i><a href="/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band" title="Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band">Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</a></i>, which also had the idea of printed lyrics and no gaps between its songs; had <i>Absolutely Free'</i>s release not been significantly delayed by issues over its cover art and lyrics, it would have predated The Beatles on these innovations. The album fared much better overall than <i><a href="/wiki/Freak_Out!" title="Freak Out!">Freak Out!</a></i>, charting at #41 on Billboard and becoming a favorite of the underground. </p><p>In a contemporary review, <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> magazine wondered whether the band were putting their audience on, but concluded that the album would rack up huge sales.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Retrospectively, the album has received high praise as an early peak for Zappa's lyrical and compositional innovation, which had evolved considerably since <i><a href="/wiki/Freak_Out!" title="Freak Out!">Freak Out!</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a> calls it a "fabulously inventive record, bursting at the seams with ideas"<sup id="cite_ref-Huey_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Huey-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <i>The New Rolling Stone Album Guide</i> awarded four-and-a-half stars. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Christgau" title="Robert Christgau">Robert Christgau</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Village_Voice" title="The Village Voice">The Village Voice</a></i> was somewhat less charitable, claiming that "as rock and roll it's a moderately amusing novelty record, much too obvious in its satire."<sup id="cite_ref-Robert_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Robert-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the book <i>Necessity Is...</i>, former <a href="/wiki/The_Mothers_of_Invention" title="The Mothers of Invention">Mothers of Invention</a> band member <a href="/wiki/Ray_Collins_(rock_musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ray Collins (rock musician)">Ray Collins</a> said that <i>Absolutely Free</i> is probably his favorite of the classic Mothers albums.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Versions">Versions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Absolutely_Free&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Versions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The UK-67 release (Verve VLP/SVLP 9174) came in a laminated flip-back cover, with a Mike Raven poem at the reverse that was not on any other issue. </p><p>The CD reissue adds, between sides one and two, two songs that were featured on a rare Verve single of the time. The songs from the single, "Why Dontcha Do Me Right?" (titled "Why Don't You Do Me Right" on the 45) and "Big Leg Emma", were both described as "an attempt to make dumb music to appeal to dumb teenagers".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Track_listing">Track listing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Absolutely_Free&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Track listing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236635009">.mw-parser-output .tracklist{border-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .tracklist tr{background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist tr:nth-child(2n-1){background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist caption{text-align:left;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tracklist td,.mw-parser-output .tracklist th[scope="row"]{vertical-align:top}.mw-parser-output .tracklist th[scope="col"]{text-align:left;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist th.tracklist-length-header,.mw-parser-output .tracklist th.tracklist-number-header,.mw-parser-output .tracklist th[scope="row"],.mw-parser-output .tracklist-length,.mw-parser-output .tracklist-total-length td{padding-right:10px;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tracklist th[scope="row"]{font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-number-header{width:2em;padding-left:10px}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-length-header{width:4em}.mw-parser-output .tracklist tr.tracklist-total-length{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tracklist .tracklist-total-length th{padding:0;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-total-length th>span{float:right;padding:0 10px;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)}.mw-parser-output .tracklist-total-length td{background-color:var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0);font-weight:bold;padding:0 10px 0 0}</style><div class="track-listing"><p>All tracks are written by Frank Zappa</p><table class="tracklist"><caption>Side one: "Absolutely Free" (#1 in a Series of Underground Oratorios)</caption><tbody><tr><th class="tracklist-number-header" scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="width:100%">Title</th><th class="tracklist-length-header" scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th id="track1" scope="row">1.</th><td>"<a href="/wiki/Plastic_People" title="Plastic People">Plastic People</a>"</td><td class="tracklist-length">3:40</td></tr><tr><th id="track2" scope="row">2.</th><td>"The Duke of Prunes"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:12</td></tr><tr><th id="track3" scope="row">3.</th><td>"Amnesia Vivace"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:01</td></tr><tr><th id="track4" scope="row">4.</th><td>"The Duke Regains His Chops"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:45</td></tr><tr><th id="track5" scope="row">5.</th><td>"Call Any Vegetable"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:19</td></tr><tr><th id="track6" scope="row">6.</th><td>"Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin" (instrumental)</td><td class="tracklist-length">6:57</td></tr><tr><th id="track7" scope="row">7.</th><td>"Soft-Sell Conclusion"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:40</td></tr><tr class="tracklist-total-length"><th colspan="2" scope="row"><span>Total length:</span></th><td>20:28</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236635009" /><div class="track-listing"><table class="tracklist"><caption>Side two: "The M.O.I. American Pageant" (#2 in a Series of Underground Oratorios)</caption><tbody><tr><th class="tracklist-number-header" scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="width:100%">Title</th><th class="tracklist-length-header" scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th id="track1" scope="row">1.</th><td>"America Drinks"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:52</td></tr><tr><th id="track2" scope="row">2.</th><td>"Status Back Baby"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:52</td></tr><tr><th id="track3" scope="row">3.</th><td>"Uncle Bernie's Farm"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:09</td></tr><tr><th id="track4" scope="row">4.</th><td>"Son of Suzy Creamcheese"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:33</td></tr><tr><th id="track5" scope="row">5.</th><td>"<a href="/wiki/Brown_Shoes_Don%27t_Make_It" title="Brown Shoes Don't Make It">Brown Shoes Don't Make It</a>"</td><td class="tracklist-length">7:26</td></tr><tr><th id="track6" scope="row">6.</th><td>"<a href="/wiki/America_Drinks_%26_Goes_Home" title="America Drinks & Goes Home">America Drinks & Goes Home</a>"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:43</td></tr><tr class="tracklist-total-length"><th colspan="2" scope="row"><span>Total length:</span></th><td>19:23</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236635009" /><div class="track-listing"><table class="tracklist"><caption>2017 Reissue Bonus Record</caption><tbody><tr><th class="tracklist-number-header" scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="width:100%">Title</th><th class="tracklist-length-header" scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th id="track1" scope="row">1.</th><td>"Absolutely Free Radio Ad #1"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:01</td></tr><tr><th id="track2" scope="row">2.</th><td>"Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:39</td></tr><tr><th id="track3" scope="row">3.</th><td>"Big Leg Emma"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:32</td></tr><tr><th id="track4" scope="row">4.</th><td>"Absolutely Free Radio Ad #2"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:01</td></tr><tr><th id="track5" scope="row">5.</th><td>"Glutton for Punishment..."</td><td class="tracklist-length">0:24</td></tr><tr><th id="track6" scope="row">6.</th><td>"America Drinks (1969 Re-Mix)"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:55</td></tr><tr><th id="track7" scope="row">7.</th><td>"Brown Shoes Don't Make It (1969 Re-Mix)"</td><td class="tracklist-length">7:27</td></tr><tr><th id="track8" scope="row">8.</th><td>"America Drinks & Go Home (1969 Re-Mix)"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:42</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236635009" /><div class="track-listing"><table class="tracklist"><caption>CD Reissue</caption><tbody><tr><th class="tracklist-number-header" scope="col"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr></th><th scope="col" style="width:100%">Title</th><th class="tracklist-length-header" scope="col">Length</th></tr><tr><th id="track1" scope="row">1.</th><td>"Plastic People"</td><td class="tracklist-length">3:42</td></tr><tr><th id="track2" scope="row">2.</th><td>"The Duke of Prunes"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:13</td></tr><tr><th id="track3" scope="row">3.</th><td>"Amnesia Vivace"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:01</td></tr><tr><th id="track4" scope="row">4.</th><td>"The Duke Regains His Chops"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:52</td></tr><tr><th id="track5" scope="row">5.</th><td>"Call Any Vegetable"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:15</td></tr><tr><th id="track6" scope="row">6.</th><td>"Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin"</td><td class="tracklist-length">7:00</td></tr><tr><th id="track7" scope="row">7.</th><td>"Soft-Sell Conclusion"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:40</td></tr><tr><th id="track8" scope="row">8.</th><td>"Big Leg Emma"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:31</td></tr><tr><th id="track9" scope="row">9.</th><td>"Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:37</td></tr><tr><th id="track10" scope="row">10.</th><td>"America Drinks"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:53</td></tr><tr><th id="track11" scope="row">11.</th><td>"Status Back Baby"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:54</td></tr><tr><th id="track12" scope="row">12.</th><td>"Uncle Bernie's Farm"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:10</td></tr><tr><th id="track13" scope="row">13.</th><td>"Son of Suzy Creamcheese"</td><td class="tracklist-length">1:34</td></tr><tr><th id="track14" scope="row">14.</th><td>"Brown Shoes Don't Make It"</td><td class="tracklist-length">7:30</td></tr><tr><th id="track15" scope="row">15.</th><td>"America Drinks & Goes Home"</td><td class="tracklist-length">2:45</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personnel">Personnel</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Absolutely_Free&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Personnel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>The Mothers of Invention</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa" title="Frank Zappa">Frank Zappa</a> – <a href="/wiki/Guitar" title="Guitar">guitar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conducting" title="Conducting">conductor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Singing" title="Singing">vocals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carl_Black" title="Jimmy Carl Black">Jimmy Carl Black</a> – <a href="/wiki/Drum_kit" title="Drum kit">drums</a>, vocals</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Collins_(rock_musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ray Collins (rock musician)">Ray Collins</a> – vocals, <a href="/wiki/Tambourine" title="Tambourine">tambourine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harmonica" title="Harmonica">harmonica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Estrada" title="Roy Estrada">Roy Estrada</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bass_guitar" title="Bass guitar">bass</a>, vocals</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Mundi" title="Billy Mundi">Billy Mundi</a> – drums, <a href="/wiki/Percussion_instrument" title="Percussion instrument">percussion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Preston" title="Don Preston">Don Preston</a> – <a href="/wiki/Keyboard_instrument" title="Keyboard instrument">keyboards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Fielder" title="Jim Fielder">Jim Fielder</a> (Uncredited) – guitar, <a href="/wiki/Piano" title="Piano">piano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bunk_Gardner" title="Bunk Gardner">Bunk Gardner</a> – <a href="/wiki/Woodwinds" class="mw-redirect" title="Woodwinds">woodwinds</a></li></ul> <p><b>Additional musicians</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Cello" title="Cello">cello</a> on "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Ellis" title="Don Ellis">Don Ellis</a> – <a href="/wiki/Trumpet" title="Trumpet">trumpet</a> on "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Rotella" class="mw-redirect" title="John Rotella">John Rotella</a> – <a href="/wiki/Contrabass_clarinet" title="Contrabass clarinet">contrabass clarinet</a> on "Brown Shoes Don't Make It"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herb_Cohen" title="Herb Cohen">Herb Cohen</a> – cash register machine sounds on "America Drinks & Goes Home"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Gilliam" title="Terry Gilliam">Terry Gilliam</a>, girlfriend and others – voices in "America Drinks & Goes Home"</li></ul> <dl><dt>Note</dt></dl> <p><i>(<a href="/wiki/Jim_Sherwood" title="Jim Sherwood">Jim Sherwood</a> was credited as a member of The Mothers on the album's original release, but he actually joined the band during the recording of <a href="/wiki/We%27re_Only_in_It_for_the_Money" title="We're Only in It for the Money">We're Only in It for the Money</a>, and he isn't featured on this album.)</i> </p> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <p><b>Production</b> </p> <ul><li>Frank Zappa – producer, arranger, layout design, cover art, collage, liner notes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Wilson_(producer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Wilson (producer)">Tom Wilson</a> – producer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Val_Valentin" title="Val Valentin">Val Valentin</a> – director of engineering</li> <li>Ami Hadani – engineer</li> <li>David Greene – remixing</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Sax" title="Doug Sax">Doug Sax</a> – mastering</li> <li>Ferenc Dobronyi – cover design</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cal_Schenkel" title="Cal Schenkel">Cal Schenkel</a> – cover design</li> <li>Alice Ochs – cover photo, artwork</li> <li>Jerry Deiter – photography</li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Stage_Anymore,_Vol._5" title="You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5">You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Stage_Anymore,_Vol._6" title="You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6">You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Playground_Psychotics" title="Playground Psychotics">Playground Psychotics</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ahead_of_Their_Time" title="Ahead of Their Time">Ahead of Their Time</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Yellow_Shark" title="The Yellow Shark">The Yellow Shark</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Posthumous<br />official releases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks vcard navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Civilization_Phaze_III" title="Civilization Phaze III">Civilization Phaze III</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Episodes" title="The Lost Episodes">The Lost Episodes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A4ther" title="Läther">Läther</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Frank_Zappa_Plays_the_Music_of_Frank_Zappa:_A_Memorial_Tribute" title="Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute">Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Have_I_Offended_Someone%3F" title="Have I Offended Someone?">Have I Offended Someone?</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mystery_Disc" title="Mystery Disc">Mystery Disc</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Everything_Is_Healing_Nicely" title="Everything Is Healing Nicely">Everything Is Healing Nicely</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/FZ:OZ" title="FZ:OZ">FZ:OZ</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Halloween_(Frank_Zappa_album)" title="Halloween (Frank Zappa album)">Halloween</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Joe%27s_Corsage" title="Joe's Corsage">Joe's Corsage</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quaudiophiliac" title="Quaudiophiliac">QuAUDIOPHILIAc</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Joe%27s_Domage" title="Joe's Domage">Joe's Domage</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Joe%27s_Xmasage" title="Joe's Xmasage">Joe's XMASage</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Imaginary_Diseases" title="Imaginary Diseases">Imaginary Diseases</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Trance-Fusion" title="Trance-Fusion">Trance-Fusion</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_MOFO_Project/Object" title="The MOFO Project/Object">The MOFO Project/Object</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_MOFO_Project/Object#2-CD_version" title="The MOFO Project/Object">The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_(Frank_Zappa_album)" title="Buffalo (Frank Zappa album)">Buffalo</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dub_Room_Special_(soundtrack)" title="The Dub Room Special (soundtrack)">The Dub Room Special!</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wazoo_(album)" title="Wazoo (album)">Wazoo</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/One_Shot_Deal" title="One Shot Deal">One Shot Deal</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Joe%27s_Menage" title="Joe's Menage">Joe's Menage</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lumpy_Money_Project/Object" title="The Lumpy Money Project/Object">The Lumpy Money Project/Object</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Philly_%2776" title="Philly '76">Philly '76</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Greasy_Love_Songs" title="Greasy Love Songs">Greasy Love Songs</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Congress_Shall_Make_No_Law..." title="Congress Shall Make No Law...">"Congress Shall Make No Law..."</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hammersmith_Odeon_(album)" title="Hammersmith Odeon (album)">Hammersmith Odeon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Feeding_the_Monkies_at_Ma_Maison" title="Feeding the Monkies at Ma Maison">Feeding the Monkies at Ma Maison</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Hall_(Frank_Zappa_album)" title="Carnegie Hall (Frank Zappa album)">Carnegie Hall</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Understanding_America" title="Understanding America">Understanding America</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Road_Tapes,_Venue_1" title="Road Tapes, Venue 1">Road Tapes, Venue #1</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Finer_Moments" title="Finer Moments">Finer Moments</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Baby_Snakes_(soundtrack)#AAAFNRAA:_Baby_Snakes_–_The_Compleat_Soundtrack" title="Baby Snakes (soundtrack)">AAAFNRAA: Baby Snakes – The Compleat Soundtrack</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Road_Tapes,_Venue_2" title="Road Tapes, Venue 2">Road Tapes, Venue #2</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Token_of_His_Extreme" title="A Token of His Extreme">A Token of His Extreme Soundtrack</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Joe%27s_Camouflage" title="Joe's Camouflage">Joe's Camouflage</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roxy_by_Proxy" title="Roxy by Proxy">Roxy by Proxy</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dance_Me_This" title="Dance Me This">Dance Me This</a></i></li> <li><i>200 Motels: The Suites</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Roxy_the_Soundtrack" title="Roxy the Soundtrack">Roxy the Soundtrack</a></i></li> <li><i><a 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