The Central Scrutinizer monologue at the end of " Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up ", which concludes the story's first act, was indexed as its own track on the CD reissue, under the title " Scrutinizer Postlude ".
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The Central Scrutinizer monologue at the end of " Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up ", which concludes the story's first act, was indexed as its own track on the CD reissue, under the title " Scrutinizer Postlude ".
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To further confuse the scrutinizers you can also agree with your correspondent that the capital letters intermingled in the message have the function of nulls and must be disregarded, or you may resort to similar conventions, which are not worth recalling . ""
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The opening narration by Zappa as the Central Scrutinizer, describing his job at the facility, is nearly identical to the opening preamble to the 1975 song " Muffin Man " from " Bongo Fury " . " A Little Green Rosetta " is the only song on " Joe's Garage " where Zappa's entire studio band sings along to the chorus.
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A shorter edit of the single version has been released on You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol . 5 . " The Central Scrutinizer, " the spoken-word track that opens Act I of " Joe's Garage, " began as an updated version of " My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama . " The two songs'chord progressions are identical.
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Zappa self-deprecatingly described the album as a " stupid little story about how the government is going to do away with music . " The story is told by a character identified as the " Central Scrutinizer " narrating the story of Joe, an average adolescent male who forms a garage rock band, has unsatisfying relationships with women, gives all of his money to a government assisted and insincere religion, explores sexual activities with appliances, and is imprisoned.
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The Central Scrutinizer continues to express the hypothesis that " girls, music, disease, heartbreak [ . . . ] all go together . " Halfway through the album's libretto, Zappa expressed the belief, that governments believe, that people are inherently criminals, and continue to invent laws, which gives states the legal grounds to arrest people, leading to the fictional criminalization of music, which occurs towards the end of the album's storyline.
