Andy

Frank Zappa was many things simultaneously — satirist, composer, guitar virtuoso, and devoted antagonist of both the music industry and the counterculture. We're Only in It for the Money (1968) is arguably his sharpest work: a note-by-note parody of Sgt. Pepper's that mocked both Beatles psychedelia and the hippies who worshipped it.

Andy is one of the album's more direct moments — a portrait of suburban conformity delivered with the contempt Zappa reserved for people who refused to think for themselves. The arrangement is typically maximal: studio effects, tempo changes, voices that comment on themselves. Nothing sits still.

Zappa released over sixty albums before his death in 1993. We're Only in It for the Money remains one of his most accessible entry points — accessible being a relative term when the subject is Frank Zappa.