" Please, I'm a Rock " is a song written by American experimental musician Frank Zappa and Kim Fowley. It was recorded by Zappa along with the rock band the Mothers of Invention, and the first full-length version appeared on the group's debut album Freak Out! , which was released on Verve Records on June 27, 1966. ( see 1966 in music). The "Help, I'm a Rock" section called "Third Movement: It Can not Happen Here" is also shown as the B-side of the DJ-only "How Can I Become Ridiculous?" single. With nearly nine minutes' running time, "Help, I'm a Rock" remains one of the longest and experimental parts of Mothers of Invention in their catalog.
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The Mother of Invention enters TTG Studios to record "Help, I'm a Rock" - among other songs for Freak Out! - after record producer Tom Wilson signed the group to MGM Records under the false notion that they are a traditional blues ensemble. As proof of its absurdity, Zappa explains, "Please, I Stone" was made spontaneously as "just something that was spewed up... what happened was what was in the air that night." For this unusual background sound composition, the band includes screams, duck calls, alien beeps and chats, tribal chants, and erotic moans that simulate female orgasm. In liner notes to Freak Out! , Zappa wrote a tongue-in-cheek statement: "'Please, I Rock' is dedicated to Elvis Presley.Note the attractive formal structure and the fabulous four barber shop harmony towards the end". He concludes his comments on the song by jokingly commenting on "the obvious lack of commercial potential." Ho hum ".
Initially, "Help, I'm a Rock" consists of three suites: "Okay to Tap Dance", "In Memoriam Edgar Varese" and "It Can not Happen Here". In the first emphasis Freak Out! , the song is credited as "Help, I'm a Rock". However, when the re-release and compilation albums are available, the third suite, "It Can not Happen Here", has been generally listed as a separate song. In concert, the compositions are usually mixed with other band songs, most often "Hungry Freaks Daddy". One of the music critics noted "Long-term, psychedelic exercise has a lot of commercial appeal, with Zappa bands playing it throughout the master's career.Please, I'm a Rock 'to be one of many phrases attached to Zappa for his career.".
In 1967, the psychedelic rock group West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band covered the song on their second album Part One . Richie Unterberger describes this apparition as a concept that "throws them into strange meadows", in a style "convincingly imitated in the original '1906' group, a sound that is appropriate for a sour journey of disappointment with constantly spoken remarks, 'I do not' feel good '".
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