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| Frank Zappa – Who Needs The Peace Corps? Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Hard to believe nobody here has pointed out the obvious: The song is about 1967's Summer of Love, particularly with regards to San Francisco. In the summer of 1967, hippies traveled to San Francisco as well as other cities to participate in communal living, music, free love, drugs, and other countercultural activities. This kind of crystallized the hippie movement. Anyway, Zappa had a jaundiced eye toward "flower power" and especially what he regarded as phony hippies who were just latching on to the latest trend. Zappa also thought drug use was stupid. Hard to believe such a creative freak disdained drugs and hippies, huh? Actually reminds me of the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, who is very creative and freaky and also doesn't use drugs. |
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