![]() ![]() He poked fun at middle-class conformity ( Freak Out!), the Sixties counterculture ( We're Only in it For the Money), Seventies disco ( Sheik Yerbouti), the corporate rock industry ( Tinsel Town Rebellion), and the fundamentalist narcolepsy of the Reagan era ( You Are What You Is). ![]() ![]() By infusing the canon of 20th Century music with his scabrous and outrageous wit (influenced by comedian Lenny Bruce and the irreverent clowning of Spike Jones), Zappa presented musical history through the kaleidoscopic lens of social satire turning that history into a wildly theatrical display of Dadaist farce. ![]()
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