Find Her Finer

"Find Her Finer" is a 1976 single by Frank Zappa from the album Zoot Allures. The song was recorded with Zappa's lips extremely close to the microphone, creating an intimate sound.^[1] Roy Estrada provided falsetto vocals to create a comic effect to the song. It was intended to be the lead single for Zoot Allures, but failed to chart, unlike its other single "Disco Boy".^[2] A live and sped up jazz version can also be found on the album The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life. It was played in concert in 1976 and 1988.^[3]

Meaning

According to the song, Zappa feels the best way to win a girl over is to show that you are less intelligent than her.^[3] His reasoning for this is that women do not care for smart men, but instead a romantic. This parallels the stereotypical belief that men prefer unintelligent women.^[1]

Track list

7" A."Find Her Finer" - 3:18
B."Zoot Allures" - 4:18^[4]

Line up

Frank Zappa –guitar, synthesizer, bass, keyboards, lead vocals
Terry Bozzio – drums, backing vocals
Andre Lewis – backing vocals
Roy Estrada – backing vocals
Ruben Ladron de Guevara – backing vocals
Captain Beefheart – harmonica (credited as "Donnie Vliet")

References

1 2 The Words and Music of Frank Zappa - Kelly Fisher Lowe - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2012-10-05.
↑ Frank Zappa: the negative dialectics of poodle play - Ben Watson - Google Boeken. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2012-10-05.
1 2 François Couture. "Find Her Finer - Frank Zappa : Listen, Appearances, Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-10-05.
↑ "Find Her Finer/Zoot Allures". Zappafrenzy.com. Retrieved 2012-10-05.

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention

Singles	"How Could I Be Such a Fool?" "Trouble Comin' Every Day" "Who Are the Brain Police?" "Big Leg Emma" "Son of Suzy Creamcheese" "Lonely Little Girl" "Motherly Love" "Deseri" "Anyway the Wind Blows" "WPLJ" "My Guitar" "Peaches en Regalia" "Tell Me You Love Me" "Tears Began to Fall" "Magic Fingers" "What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning" "Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus" "I'm the Slime" "Cosmik Debris" "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" "Du Bist Mein Sofa" "Find Her Finer" "Disco Boy" "Dancin' Fool" "Bobby Brown" "Joe's Garage" "Stick It Out" "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" "Love of My Life" "Harder Than Your Husband" "You Are What You Is" "Goblin Girl" "Valley Girl" "The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou" "Cocaine Decisions" "Baby Take Your Teeth Out" "In France" "The Girl in the Magnesium Dress" "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" "Zomby Woof" "Stairway to Heaven"

Other compositions	"Absolutely Free" "Advance Romance" "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" "America Drinks & Goes Home" "Are You Hung Up?" "Billy the Mountain" "The Black Page" "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" "Camarillo Brillo" "Cheepnis" "Duodenum" "Father O'Blivion "Help, I'm a Rock" "I Have Been in You" "Inca Roads" "Jewish Princess" "Let's Make the Water Turn Black" "A Little Green Rosetta" "Memories of El Monte" "Montana" "Muffin Man" "Nanook Rubs It" "Plastic People" "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" "Rollo" "Sleep Dirt" "St.Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast" "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" "A Token of My Extreme" "The Torture Never Stops" "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" "Willie the Pimp" "Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station"

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