Album Lounge: We're Only In It For The Money
We're Only In It For The Money
Released: 2005 19 tracksPosts about > We're Only In It For The Money
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RodneyPWelch
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From Frank Zappa’s 1968 masterpiece We’re Only In It for the Money comes this inimitable ditty about a pair of morons who enjoy lighting farts, among other things, and somehow winding up finding their talents put to good use in the military.
Sometimes radio edits of songs are for time - as Billy Joel said, in The Entertainer: ...it was a beautiful song, but it ran too long;
You wanna have a hit, you gotta make it fit,
So they cut it down to three-oh-five... Other times, they're for content. Paul Simon - of all people - once found hiself in that situation, when some radio stations objected to the line When I think of all the crap I learnt in high school..., and so there was a "safe" version that picked up ... MORE






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