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Frank Zappa

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I don't know much about Zappa but I came across a Japanese limited edition versions of the "overnight sensation" and "we're only in it for the money" CDs and picked them up to give it a try. While the "overnight sensation" was entertaining with good music and I got a laugh out of it, the other one was not, too much weirdness and not enough music. I'd like to get some more CD by Zappa. Which ones are the "must haves" that have more music and less weirdness if you know what I mean?
 
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"Hot Rats" Great jazz/pop instrumentals with one silly and great song featuring Capt. Beefheart....and "Apostrophe", which gives you plenty of great music and lots of laffs to boot!
 
If you enjoyed Over nite Sensation I would also recommend Apostrophe. Joes Garage is good. 200 Motels, The Grand Wazoo, Uncle Meat. His list of albums is extensive and varied in content. There is a lot of, how to describe it, progressive, ecclectic, eccentric, not sure there is a single word to categorize his music. Frank Zappa was quite a composer. Rare today is the artist that actually writes most if not all of the music for all the instruments. He had a cynical view of society in general and a sarcastic way of calling it like he saw it. He grows on you after awhile if you let him.:smoke:
 
He grows on you after awhile if you let him
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Yeah, I warmed up to the overnight sensation right away! Besides the "very different" lyrics which took me by surprise and had me and my wife laughing, even my teenage son must have overheard me listening and was chuckling upstairs (Dinah-Mo-Humm):yikes: The Japanese Mini-LP CD version is fantastic, warm recording that begs to be cranked up, drums rolling across the room, huge soundstage, very enjoyable guitar playing. Very nice.
 
Apostrophe, Joe's Garage, Sheik Yerbouti.

Then listen to the London Sympony Orchestra, Zappa Volume 1. Conducted by Kent Nagano.

If you don't like any of this, then move on. :thmbsp:
 
Excuse me, sorry for the outburst. :D One of my good memories from High School is THAT particular Zappa tune... and a lot of laughter. :music:
 
Saw Zappa in about 69 in NJ. He started of with some really weird stuff and then stopped .... and said ... NJ Sucks!

And then they started "There's no way to delay that trouble coming every day" :banana:

Suzie, Suzie Cream Cheese, Where are you?
 
A few others to find are We're Only in It for The Money, Weasels Ripped my Flesh, Live at The Fillmore, Just another Band from L.A., Rubin and THe Jets, and The worst Of the Mothers of Invention. Some of this are recorded as THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
 
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Excuse me, sorry for the outburst. :D One of my good memories from High School is THAT particular Zappa tune... and a lot of laughter. :music:
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Was there a girl named Chrissy involved?
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Go for "Freak Out," "We're Only In It for the Money," & "Playground Pyschotics," among other great titles.
 
One size fits all is good. I like most his albums. They make you laugh and all the talent there are pro's.
 
PHC1 said:
Yeah, I warmed up to the overnight sensation right away! Besides the "very different" lyrics which took me by surprise and had me and my wife laughing, even my teenage son must have overheard me listening and was chuckling upstairs (Dinah-Mo-Humm):yikes: The Japanese Mini-LP CD version is fantastic, warm recording that begs to be cranked up, drums rolling across the room, huge soundstage, very enjoyable guitar playing. Very nice.
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He grows on you after awhile if you let him



here here my foreman turned me onto him at work feeding a CNC machine

I got hooked :)



Brian.......:smoke:
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I sort of inadvertantly turned my son (now 19) into a big FZ fan. Frank was a brilliant musician and composer (and a very good guitarist, too) who was a big champion of freedom of speech. He was also on a personal crusade against stupidity and vapidness (vapidity?), so he could be a little hard to take sometimes. He was an absolutely fascinating man.

I introduced my son to FZ via the Rykodisc sampler called "Strictly Commercial". This is a relatively painless, PG-rated way to get a taste of Zappa, and I'd recommend it to the curious. The worst thing I can say about it is that it has a far too short single version of "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow". Otherwise, it's a hoot.

Zappa's commercial breakthrough (yeah, right) album "Apostrophe' " is also good for the casual fan.
 
Thanks guys! I ordered some more Zappa CDs that you recommended and they are on the way! :thmbsp:
 
Try Uncle Meat, Burnt Weeny Sandwhich and the Grand Wazoo for some different sounding stuff.

One of my favorite music parts of all times is the last half or so of Punkys Whips, off Baby Snakes, after the silliness is over, they really rock!

Zappa is/was an expert at musical ridendo dicere verum.
 
We're Only In It For The Money

I admit I was moved to chime in by PHC1's review of said CD. I guess its a matter of you-had-to-be-there...

I *was* there in 1968 (at the ripe age of 16) when Flower Power was going to change the world, etc., etc. ad nauseum. Then I heard "Money" and knew I had found my man, Francis Vincent Zappa.

While the album's music may be strange to modern ears, it is a wonderful satire of all the slavish group-think that the Boomer generation was indulging in at the time. Didja notice how the album art is "Sgt. Peppers" turned on its head and inside out? Oh, how I loved it!

And then there's the song "Plastic People" from Absolutely Free that actually spawned a Czech band and political movement (http://kontakt.erstebankgroup.net/report/stories/print+issue1+06+wir+waren+jung+und+faul/en)

I think one needs to include politics when one speaks of Zappa.

My $.02,

Steve A.
 
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