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. This album clearly lacks ambition and tends to get lost among the man's humongous discography, but it should not be overlooked. "Drowning Witch" may be one of his hardest pieces to perform. See more ideas about frank zappa, zappa, drowning. Side two presents three live tracks, two of which are difficult rock instrumentals. Explore Erin Cassavaugh's board 'Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch', followed by 151 people on Pinterest. Explore similar designs from over 750,000 independent artists. 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. Frank Zappa Redo - A Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch Essential T-Shirt. 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. Side one features three studio songs that would never be performed on stage. The recipe would be extended to The Man From Utopia (1983) and Them or Us (1984).
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. Released in May 1982, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch marks Frank Zappa's entrance into the 1980s.
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