A Frank Zappa send up of the phoniness of the 60's "peace movement" and Time Warner hippies.

Constructed using blindingly sped up guitars and drums to replicate the hardcore speed freaks and other trippers, the song is designed to show how vapid the flower/peace movement really was.

The song was structured similar to Hendrix's "Hey Joe" who Frank admired and jammed with (Hendrix is featured on the cover of the album You're only in it for the Money in which Flower Punk is recorded). The call and response "hey punk..." is answered just like Hey Joe, a Billy Taylor song.

This is one of few Zappa songs not to have cover versions on the internet due to the fact this was mostly a studio/audio creation exemplifying Zappa's use of technology, not quite music concrete but a great example of Dada.

presentation or sales pitch, from yiddish slang, implying phoniness or slickness, lack of substance with focus on style.

A simplistic ideology that focuses on grievance and often implies there is an easy solution but often lacks concrete proposals.

The Grove is a fake-European upscale shopping mall in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles]' west side, near West Hollywood (and not too far from Beverly Hills). It was built to look like a central historic district of an old Mediterranean city like Nice, but it is only five years old. It is a perfect example of "fake history" - building something new that looks like it's old while actual older parts of L.A. are left to decay. It was built next door to the Farmer's Market, a collection of shops that was one of the last landmarks of old Hollywood left. While the Farmer's Market still keeps some of its old vibe with a mixture of tourists and aging locals, the stores in the Grove are the same overpriced "designer chains" that one can find in any mall in America, and the whole place is so fake looking it's sick. The Grove has incredibly worsened traffic on the west side of L.A. particularly all the shortcuts that one could once take to get from the west side to Hollywood are all fucked up now because of the massive traffic of people going to The Grove. I for one wish that it was never built.

something you think is real, when actually it isnt

A person who behaves with exaggerated phoniness in social situations. Can be a noun, adj. or verb.

an extreme case of phoniness usually exhibited by celebrities who preach on about fashionable topics such as poverty or environment and yet do nothing personally to support the cause which they claim to be in favor of.