Luyện nghe bài hát Introduction

Zappa
Joes

Desperate nerds in high offices all over the have been known
to enact the disgusting pieces of legislation in order to win
votes (or, in places they don't get to vote, to control
unwanted forms of behavior).

Environmental laws not passed to protect our air and
water... they were passed to get votes. Seasonal anti-smut
are not conducted to rid our of moral rot... they are
conducted to an aura of saintliness to the office-seekers who
demand them. If a few key phrases are into any speech (as the
expert advisors explain to these various heads of state) votes
roll in, bucks roll in, and, most importantly, power will be
maintained by the groovy guy (or gal) who gets the most
coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in
will do okay too.

All governments perpetuate through the daily commission
of acts a rational person might find to be stupid or dangerous
(or both). Naturally, our is no exception... for instance,
if the President (any one of them) went on TV and sat with the
flag in the (or maybe a rustic scene on a little
backdrop, plus the flag) and stared sincerely into the and
told everybody that all energy and all inflationary
problems had been traced to and could be solved by the of
MUSIC, chances are that most people believe him and think that
the illegalization of this form of noise pollution would
be a small price to pay for the to buy gas like the good ol'
days. No way? Never Records are made out of oil. All those
big rock shows go from town to in fuel gobbling 45 foot
trucks... and when they get there, they use up amounts of
electrical with their lights, their amplifiers, their PA
systems... their smoke machines. And all those synthesizers... at
all the they got in 'em... and the guitar picks... you name
it...

JOE'S GARAGE is a stupid story how the government is going to
try to do away with music (a prime cause of mass behavior).
It's sort of like a really kind of high school play... the way
it have been done 20 years ago, with all the sets made out of
cardboard boxes and poster paint. It's also those lectures that
local narks used to (where they show you a display of all the
different ways you can get wasted, with the leading to the
weed to the needle, etc., etc.).

If the plot of the seems just a little bit preposterous, and
if the idea of The Central Scrutinizer enforcing that haven't
been passed yet makes you giggle, just be glad you don't in one
of the cheerful little countries where, at this moment, music
is severely restricted... or, as it is in Iran, totally
illegal.