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''We're Only in It for the Money'' is the third studio album by the Mothers of Invention. Released on March 4, 1968 on Verve Records, it was subsequently remixed and re-recorded by Frank Zappa and reissued independently by Rykodisc Records in 1986. As with the band's previous two albums, ''We're Only in It for the Money'' is a concept album, and satirizes left and right-wing politics, particularly the hippie subculture, as well as the Beatles' album ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band''. It was conceived as part of a project called ''No Commercial Potential'', which produced three other albums: ''Lumpy Gravy'', ''Cruising with Ruben & the Jets'' and ''Uncle Meat''. ''We're Only in It for the Money'' encompasses rock, orchestral and experimental music, with its orchestral segments deriving from the recording sessions for ''Lumpy Gravy'', which was previously issued as a solo instrumental album by Capitol Records and was subsequently reedited by Zappa and released by Verve; the reedited ''Lumpy Gravy'' was produced simultaneously with ''We're Only in It for the Money'' and is the first part of a conceptual continuity, continued with the reedited ''Lumpy Gravy'' and concluded with Zappa's final album, ''Civilization Phaze III'' (1994). This is Official Release #4. == Background == While filming ''Uncle Meat'', Frank Zappa recorded in New York City for a project called ''No Commercial Potential'', which ended up producing four albums: ''We're Only in It for the Money'', a revised version of Zappa's solo album ''Lumpy Gravy'', ''Cruising with Ruben & the Jets'' and ''Uncle Meat'', which served as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, which was not completed until 1987. Zappa stated, "It's all one album. All the material in the albums is organically related and if I had all the master tapes and I could take a razor blade and cut them apart and put it together again in a different order it still would make one piece of music you can listen to. Then I could take that razor blade and cut it apart and reassemble it a different way, and it still would make sense. I could do this twenty ways. The material is definitely related."〔 As the recording sessions continued, The Beatles released their acclaimed album ''Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band''. In response to the album's release, Zappa decided to change the album's concept to parody the Beatles album, because he felt that the Beatles were insincere and "only in it for the money". The Beatles were targeted as a symbol of Zappa's objections to the corporatization of youth culture, and the album served as a criticism of them and psychedelic rock as a whole.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「We're Only in It for the Money」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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