FZ album(s) in which song has appeared

• Sheik Yerbouti (1979), as I'm So Cute, performed in London, UK, January or February 1978 (with overdubs)
  • same version on Baby Snakes (The Movie) (1979) as part of I'm So Cute/"Entertainment All The Way"
  • same version on AAAFNRAA—Baby Snakes—The Compleat Soundtrack (2012) as part of I'm So Cute/"Entertainment All The Way"
• Tinsel Town Rebellion (1981), quoted in Dance Contest, performed in New York, NY, October 27, 1978
• Buffalo (2007) as I'm So Cute, performed in Buffalo, NY, October 25, 1980
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6 (1992) as I'm So Cute, performed in Santa Monica, CA, December 11, 1980
• Halloween 81 (2020), quoted in Tryin' To Grow A Chin, performed in New York, NY, October 31, 1981, late show

Tour(s) on which song is known to have been performed (main source: FZShows, v. 7.1)

• October-November 1976 (North America)—known performances: 1
• January-February 1978 (Europe)—known performances: 1; known quotations: 1
• May-July 1980 (Europe)—known performances: 1 (soundcheck)
• October-December 1980 (North America)—known performances: 25

Comments

Foggy G, "The Songs That Were Played," We're Only In It For The Touring

1976 Oct-Nov: A beast of an altogether different nature. Sounds like "Frank Zappa plays the music of The Rolling Stones". The tune starts off with a typical Charlie Watts 4/4 drum beat, with Frank and Ray setting up the tune with some distorted chords. Bozzio sings the same lyrics, but in an entirely different style (sounds like a Stones song, I tell you). The lines "Everybody, see his hair..." essentially serve as the chorus, with Bianca singing along beautifully in the back. We return to the "verses", Bozzio yells "Die, you ugly fuckers", and then we get a short but intense Jobson violin solo. The immediate post-solo vocals sound as if Bozzio is just improvising, before he leads us into the "Ugly is bad..." rant. After this, the song then gets really weird. In what could be called "Music that sounds like Hell", Jobson and Bozzio create a very slow, intense atmosphere, at which point Frank repeats the "Ugly is bad" mantra, and starts chanting "Hot burning fire". This part is hauntingly eerie, and manages to recreate what the soundtrack of Hell would probably sound like. Finally, this quickly dissolves into a Mystery Word section reminiscent of "White Person" from YCDTOSA Volume VI. On the whole, a very interesting and possible superior "I'm So Cute" experience.

1980 Oct-Dec: Essentially performed as o YCDTOSA Volume VI, with Harris doing a more than adequate job of filling Terry Ted's shoes.

The lyrics

1976 version

Charles Ulrich, August 25, 2003

The one circulating performance of I'm So Cute in fall 1976 featured a very different arrangement, with some different lyrics. In case you want to add them to your site, here they are, to the best of my ability to decipher them:

Conceptual Continuity

More Terry Ted adventures:

• Punky's Whips
• Tryin' To Grow A Chin