Joe's Garage (song)

"Joe's Garage"
Single by Frank Zappa
from the album Joe's Garage Act I
Released	1979
Genre	Rock[1]
Length	6:10 (album version) 4:08 (single version)
Label	CBS Records
Songwriter(s)	Frank Zappa
Producer(s)	Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa singles chronology
"Bobby Brown (Goes Down)" (1979) "Joe's Garage" (1979) "Stick It Out" (1979)
Official audio
"Joe's Garage" on YouTube

"Joe's Garage" is a single on Frank Zappa's 1979 album Joe's Garage Act I. After the introductory track, "The Central Scrutinizer", this song begins the story of Joe's Garage. Although it only charted in Norway and Sweden (where it was a top 20 hit in both countries), it was one of Zappa's songs which had the most airplay on American FM radio, at the time still album-centered. The song was played in concert from 1980 to 1988 along with the song "Why Does it Hurt When I Pee?" in all tours of Zappa's after the single's release. The single version of the song lacks many of the special effects that the album version contains. The single version of "Joe's Garage" was put onto Zappa's best-of Strictly Commercial.^[1]