Editing We're Only in It for the Money (section)

== Background ==
While filming ''[[Uncle Meat (film)|Uncle Meat]]'', [[Frank Zappa]] recorded in New York City for a project called ''No Commercial Potential'', which ended up producing four albums: ''We're Only in It for the Money''; a revised version of Zappa's solo album ''[[Lumpy Gravy]]''; ''[[Cruising with Ruben & the Jets]]''; and ''[[Uncle Meat]]'', which served as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, which finally saw a release in 1987, albeit in incomplete form.<ref name=Miles>{{cite book|author=Barry Miles|title=Frank Zappa: The Biography|year=2004|publisher=Grove Press|location=New York|isbn=0-8021-4215-X|pages=[https://archive.org/details/zappa0000mile/page/160 160], 326|url=https://archive.org/details/zappa0000mile |url-access=registration|edition=23. print.|author-link=Barry Miles}}</ref>

Zappa stated, "It's all one album. All the material in the albums is organically related and if I had all the master tapes and I could take a razor blade and cut them apart and put it together again in a different order it still would make one piece of music you can listen to. Then I could take that razor blade and cut it apart and reassemble it a different way, and it still would make sense. I could do this twenty ways. The material is definitely related."<ref name=Miles/>

As the recording sessions continued, [[the Beatles]] released their acclaimed album ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''. In response to the album's release, Zappa decided to change the album's concept to parody the Beatles album, because he felt that the Beatles were insincere and "only in it for the money".<ref name=Fricke>{{cite AV media notes |title=Lumpy Money |others=Frank Zappa |year=2008|author=David Fricke|author-link=David Fricke|publisher=Zappa Records }}</ref> The Beatles were targeted as a symbol of Zappa's objections to the corporatization of youth culture, and the album served as a criticism of them and [[psychedelic rock]] as a whole.<ref name=Fricke/>