Thou Shalt Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother
Well, I'll give you the best example of why such a panel is a pure fiction
And a pure fantasy
You ever heard of the Grammys?
Do you know anything about NARAS?
Have you ever heard of the NARAS credo?
That's that little— I saw one one time
The one that I saw was written by Stan Freberg
Okay? We were the entertainment at the Grammys in 1967 or '68 in New York
I saw this piece of paper and it said in part that
These selections are made on artistic merit alone and have nothing to do
With unit sales, right? Sure
NARAS does not listen to 25000 individual four minute songs every year
In order to pick somebody who gets a Grammy
It's obviously fake, okay?
Now, how do they expect that somebody is going to, in good conscience
Listen to that volume of music
Now, you can't listen just once (yeah), you have to listen carefully to
Make sure you haven't missed anything
You know, it's gonna take more than four minutes a song to do this
To listen to the entire output of the United States record business per year (yeah)
This is a joke, who's gonna pay for this?
Obviously the PMRC answer would be
There are plenty of volunteers in Lynchburg, Virginia
They'll sit there and listen to it all day and all night
In fact, they've already got the little Xs made up, they're ready to pump 'em out
Because, as you know, the major industry in Lynchburg right now is not the
Moral majority, it's the Fleet Enema Corporation, and you need to have
Some other kind of business there to boost the local GNP
That's true! That's the biggest employer in Lynchburg (rawr)
Well, I think that there's a reason why the Fleet Enema Company
Located its factory right next to Falwell's church (rawr)
Or maybe it's vice versa, maybe there's a reason why Jerry located
His church right next to the Fleet Enema Corporation
Maybe there's a fund raising balance between them
Maybe they have something that those
They each have something that the other needs for their work
And a pure fantasy
You ever heard of the Grammys?
Do you know anything about NARAS?
Have you ever heard of the NARAS credo?
That's that little— I saw one one time
The one that I saw was written by Stan Freberg
Okay? We were the entertainment at the Grammys in 1967 or '68 in New York
I saw this piece of paper and it said in part that
These selections are made on artistic merit alone and have nothing to do
With unit sales, right? Sure
NARAS does not listen to 25000 individual four minute songs every year
In order to pick somebody who gets a Grammy
It's obviously fake, okay?
Now, how do they expect that somebody is going to, in good conscience
Listen to that volume of music
Now, you can't listen just once (yeah), you have to listen carefully to
Make sure you haven't missed anything
You know, it's gonna take more than four minutes a song to do this
To listen to the entire output of the United States record business per year (yeah)
This is a joke, who's gonna pay for this?
Obviously the PMRC answer would be
There are plenty of volunteers in Lynchburg, Virginia
They'll sit there and listen to it all day and all night
In fact, they've already got the little Xs made up, they're ready to pump 'em out
Because, as you know, the major industry in Lynchburg right now is not the
Moral majority, it's the Fleet Enema Corporation, and you need to have
Some other kind of business there to boost the local GNP
That's true! That's the biggest employer in Lynchburg (rawr)
Well, I think that there's a reason why the Fleet Enema Company
Located its factory right next to Falwell's church (rawr)
Or maybe it's vice versa, maybe there's a reason why Jerry located
His church right next to the Fleet Enema Corporation
Maybe there's a fund raising balance between them
Maybe they have something that those
They each have something that the other needs for their work
Credits
Writer(s): Frank Zappa
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Other Album Tracks
- Congress Shall Make No Law
- Perhaps In Maryland
- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me
- Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thee Any Graven Image - Any Likeness Of Anything In Heaven Above, Nor In The Earth Beneath, Nor In The Water Under The Earth
- Thou Shalt Not Take The Name Of The Lord Thy God In Vain
- Thou Shalt Keep Holy The Sabbath Day
- Thou Shalt Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother
- Thou Shalt Not Kill
- Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
- Thou Shalt Not Steal
Altri album
- Apostrophe (') - 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe
- Penguin In Bondage (Live)
- Approximate-Bale (Live) / Uncle Remus (Piano And Vocal Mix 2024)
- Uncle Remus (Piano And Vocal Mix 2024)
- Live At The Whisky A Go Go 1968
- Dirty Love (With Quad Guitar) / Face Down ("I'm The Slime" Demo) / Fifty-Fifty (Basic Tracks, Take 7)
- Live In Australia 1973
- Fifty-Fifty (Basic Tracks, Take 7)
- Halloween In The Big Apple
- Funky Nothingness
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