The Torture Never Stops (song)

"The Torture Never Stops"
Song by Frank Zappa
from the album Zoot Allures
Recorded1976
GenreBlues rock
Length9:45
Songwriter(s)Frank Zappa

"The Torture Never Stops" is a song by Frank Zappa from the 1976 album Zoot Allures. Other versions appear on Zappa in New York, Thing-Fish, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, FZ:OZ, Cheap Thrills, Buffalo, Philly '76, and Hammersmith Odeon.

Zappa played "The Torture Never Stops" in concert from 1975 to 1978, in 1981[1][2] and again in 1988.[3][4]

The song debuted in 1975 as "Why Doesn't Somebody Get Him a Pepsi?" though few of the instrument parts were similar to the album version.[5] Critics have written that while performing the song, Zappa comes off as calm yet passive-aggressive.[6] Michel Delville, in his essay Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism contrasted the tone of "The Torture Never Stops" with Brian Eno's album Ambient 1: Music for Airports.[7]

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  2. ^ Steve Sparx (2010-01-12), Frank Zappa LIVE The Torture Never Stops 1981, retrieved 2016-04-09
  3. ^ "The Torture Never Stops – Frank Zappa | Song Info | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
  4. ^ "Frank Zappa Biography (1940–1993)". www.filmreference.com. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
  5. ^ Captain Beefheart. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857122346.
  6. ^ Lowe, Kelly Fisher (2007-01-01). The Words and Music of Frank Zappa. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803260054.
  7. ^ "Présentation – Centre Interdisciplinaire de Poétique Appliquée" (PDF). Centre Interdisciplinaire de Poétique Appliquée (in French). Retrieved 2016-04-09.