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Eat That Question

"The people there think substance is a bore "And if your New Wave group looks good...

"The people there think substance is a bore "And if your New Wave group looks good "They'll hurry on back for more "Of leather groups and plastic groups "And groups that look real queer "The Tinseltown aficionados
Come to see and not to hear." - That's pretty explicit, isn't it?
- Yeah

Full Transcript

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"The people there think substance is a bore
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"And if your New Wave group looks good
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"They'll hurry on back for more
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"Of leather groups and plastic groups
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"And groups that look real queer
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"The Tinseltown aficionados Come to see and not to hear."
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- That's pretty explicit, isn't it? - Yeah.
Duration
20 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
00:56:21
Uploaded
Nov 02, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, music
Production
Les Films du Poisson,UFA Fiction,SWR,ARTE

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Movie Summary

An in-depth look at the life and work of avant-garde musician, Frank Zappa.
That the lyrics have the intellectual consistency of toothpaste? - Eat That Question 00:05
That the lyrics have the intellectual consistency of toothpa...
...from something that I prepared for Newsweek magazine, - Eat That Question 00:06
...from something that I prepared for Newsweek magazine,
{\an8}I wrote this little article for the section in there that's called "My Turn," - Eat That Question 00:14
{\an8}I wrote this little article for the section in there t...
Everything that we choose to do, we always settle for something that's cheesy, - Eat That Question 00:20
Everything that we choose to do, we always settle for someth...
And we're not concerned enough about the quality of our lives. - Eat That Question 00:05
And we're not concerned enough about the quality of our...
I sense though that there is a deep, permanent, irreversible cynicism in you. - Eat That Question 00:08
I sense though that there is a deep, permanent, irreversible...
I used to play all kinds of stuff - Eat That Question 00:49
I used to play all kinds of stuff
I write the songs That make the young girls cry - Eat That Question 00:07
I write the songs That make the young girls cry
Did you know that in Tinseltown - Eat That Question 00:19
Did you know that in Tinseltown
And plastic groups - Eat That Question 00:06
And plastic groups
And groups that look real queer - Eat That Question 00:12
And groups that look real queer
Moo, moo-moo, moo, moo - Eat That Question 00:35
Moo, moo-moo, moo, moo
This country's been around for a couple hundred years, - Eat That Question 00:05
This country's been around for a couple hundred years,
And they don't... We don't even realize that other countries have thousands of years - Eat That Question 00:09
And they don't... We don't even realize that other...
And when we deal on an international level, you know, - Eat That Question 00:15
And when we deal on an international level, you know,
You know, every other country has their own art, - Eat That Question 00:16
You know, every other country has their own art,
We have Levi's, we have designer jeans, we have hamburgers, we have Coca-Cola, - Eat That Question 00:12
We have Levi's, we have designer jeans, we have hamburg...
And then we go out there and we say, - Eat That Question 00:14
And then we go out there and we say,
And I think that a country that doesn't do something - Eat That Question 00:28
And I think that a country that doesn't do something
Tomorrow night, the London Symphony Orchestra - Eat That Question 00:07
Tomorrow night, the London Symphony Orchestra