Help, I'm a Rock

The suite has three movements: Okay to Tap Dance, In Memoriam, Edgard Varèse, and It Can't Happen Here. It was recorded in the early hours of 12 March 1966. Zappa said it was just a thing that spewed out. It starts with a steady drum beat and guitar riff, adds instruments gradually, and the words begin as the repeated phrase of the title before turning into overlapping chatter, screams, duck calls and chants. Jimmy Carl Black said the droning, repetitive quality was partly inspired by raga music.

Zappa's liner notes dedicate it to Elvis Presley, note its interesting formal structure and stunning four-part harmony toward the end, and remark on its obvious lack of commercial potential. Tom Wilson recalled that Zappa had the whole session written out on a roll of brown wrapping paper and checked everything off, and Kim Fowley has said he sang on it. The third part was also the B-side of a DJ-only single, and the 1995 and 2012 CD reissues list the third part as its own track. In concert the piece was typically mixed with Hungry Freaks, Daddy. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band recorded it in 1967 on their second album, Part One.