Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch (1982)
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Released in May 1982, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch marks Frank Zappa's entrance into the 1980s. From this point on, his rock records would focus on single, simple rock songs (the previous year's You Are What You Is had them organized in interconnecting suites) with occasionally more complex instrumental numbers. The recipe would be extended to The Man From Utopia (1983) and Them or Us (1984). Side one features three studio songs that would never be performed on stage.

By 1981, Zappa had become a master at manipulating vocal tracks, a technique featured in each of them, but most successfully in "Valley Girl," where daughter Moon Unit (aged 14 at the time) pastiches rich girls from the San Fernando Valley. Released as a single, it became a novelty hit, climbing into the Top 40 in the U.S., a rare (and not necessarily sought-after) experience for Zappa. Side two presents three live tracks, two of which are difficult rock instrumentals. "Drowning Witch" may be one of his hardest pieces to perform. This album clearly lacks ambition and tends to get lost among the man's humongous discography, but it should not be overlooked. It contains a few good songs ("No Not Now" is quite entertaining), strong guitar work from Zappa and Steve Vai, and it is not defaced by the cold 1980s sound of subsequent albums.

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Tracklist:
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01 - No Not Now
02 - Valley Girl
03 - I Come From Nowhere
04 - Drowning Witch
05 - Envelopes
06 - Teen-age Prostitute

*1995 Rykodisc / The Zappa Family Trust | RCD 10537


Personnel:
Arthur Barrow - bass
Roy Estrada - bass,vocal
Bob Harris - keyboards,vocal
Ed Mann - percussion
Tommy Mars - keyboards,vocal
Bobby Martin - keyboards,sax,vocal
Patrick O'Hearn - bass
Lisa Popeil - vocal
Scott Thunes - bass,vocal
Steve Vai - guitar
Chad Wackerman - drums,vocal
Ray White - guitar,vocal
Ike Willis - guitar,vocal
Frank Zappa -guitar, vocal
Moon Unit Zappa - vocal 


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