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Rating: 
- Period (.)
Some of Frank's best work ever. Very deep introspection of his subject matter, superb music composition, and of course the muse of the satire that makes Frank so intriguing to listen to!
Rating:
- Frank Zappa - His Comercial Peak
Zappa had his first real commercial success with his previous album "Overnight Sensation" and "Apostrophe" would follow up with more novelty songs, especially "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" which would actually garner him a significant amount of radio airplay. This is another album that gets mixed reviews from the Zappa faithful. Some loath it and yet it was Zappa's highest charting studio album and from a sales standpoint was probably the high water mark of his career. I like most of the tracks here especially the instrumental stuff which features Zappa at his best on guitar. I don't claim to be an expert on Zappa so I don't know how this compares to a lot of his material, but suffice to say it is a strong release and would probably be a good place to start if you were just looking into what Zappa was all about.
Rating: - Another perfect gem from the man himself!!
Geez where do you start? I was already a longtime Zappa fan when this came around. Frank took another twisted turn and I took it with him. For the purists this may be a little too funny and a little too popular, but I think that was as much FZ as the deep love of do wop, Edgar Varese and other bizarre musical forms. Yeah, I know it is very approachable and some hate it for that but there it is. You should get the heavier FZ stuff as well, but this is always fun treat sort of like desert at the end of a great meal.
The reviewer "childhood distorted..." did make me realize that all of Zappa's music is like a Zen koan, shocking the mind into awareness. FZ I am sure would find that last sentence very funny. Great album!!!!
As an aside, I came out of the hippie era--peace, love, everyone is at heart a good person, etc. The always cynical FZ turned out to be right with his line from Stink Foot, "you aint got no friends and all the others they hate ya". I think he meant it as humorous but I have come to believe he just knew something we didn't.
Rating: - Must Have FZ
If you're a Zappaphile you already have this. If not, you need it. This is probably the finest collection of musicians FZ ever assembled. And coupled with Over-nite SensationFrank Zappa: Apostrophe / Over-Nite Sensation it represents some of his best work. The Gold discs offer incredible sound reproduction.
Rating: - Good fun, though not for the whole family
Frank's first gold, and if you ask me it deserved that distinction. The first side is a mock concept album about an Eskimo and his adventures concerning huskies with overactive bladders; fur trappers bludgeoning baby seals with snowshoes; St. Alphonzo; and gay priests having sex with leprechauns. Needless to say, it's not one of Frank's more mature efforts, but some of it can be funny (the infamous doo-wap send-up "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow"; "Nanook Rubs It"), and even when humor fails him ("Father O'Blivion"), the band is so solid, and the melodies are so catchy, you won't notice or care. That, and it's amusing to play "spot-the-references-to-previous-Zappa-albums!". The second side is considerably more artistic, featuring a heavy fusion instrumental (title track) with an exquisite guitar part and amazing heavy drums by Jim Gordon (Jack Bruce also plays bass, though he's buried beneath Frank and Tony), what may just be his best song ever: "Cosmik Debris", which combines sharp, hilarious, anti-"mysticism" lyrics; an excellent R&B melody (with surprising tempo shifts in the chorus), characteristically wonderful guitars, and a couple nods to Over-Nite Sensation; and the funny mock-blues "Stink-Foot", with searing guitars. Weak points? A couple. Homophobia comes back to haunt Frank on "Father O'Blivion" (but again that's a well-written song from a melodic standpoint), and as far as I'm concerned the rocker "Uncle Remus" and the fusion experiment "Excentrifugal Forz" have nothing going for either of them. At least they're both short. This isn't as socially relevant as Freak Out! or virtuoso like Hot Rats. To its credit, though, the humor is amusing 80% of the time, the songwriting is strong 95%, and the band is really solid. Zappa fans should not go without it.
- Period (.)Some of Frank's best work ever. Very deep introspection of his subject matter, superb music composition, and of course the muse of the satire that makes Frank so intriguing to listen to!
Rating:
- Frank Zappa - His Comercial PeakZappa had his first real commercial success with his previous album "Overnight Sensation" and "Apostrophe" would follow up with more novelty songs, especially "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" which would actually garner him a significant amount of radio airplay. This is another album that gets mixed reviews from the Zappa faithful. Some loath it and yet it was Zappa's highest charting studio album and from a sales standpoint was probably the high water mark of his career. I like most of the tracks here especially the instrumental stuff which features Zappa at his best on guitar. I don't claim to be an expert on Zappa so I don't know how this compares to a lot of his material, but suffice to say it is a strong release and would probably be a good place to start if you were just looking into what Zappa was all about.
Rating:
- Another perfect gem from the man himself!!Geez where do you start? I was already a longtime Zappa fan when this came around. Frank took another twisted turn and I took it with him. For the purists this may be a little too funny and a little too popular, but I think that was as much FZ as the deep love of do wop, Edgar Varese and other bizarre musical forms. Yeah, I know it is very approachable and some hate it for that but there it is. You should get the heavier FZ stuff as well, but this is always fun treat sort of like desert at the end of a great meal.
The reviewer "childhood distorted..." did make me realize that all of Zappa's music is like a Zen koan, shocking the mind into awareness. FZ I am sure would find that last sentence very funny. Great album!!!!
As an aside, I came out of the hippie era--peace, love, everyone is at heart a good person, etc. The always cynical FZ turned out to be right with his line from Stink Foot, "you aint got no friends and all the others they hate ya". I think he meant it as humorous but I have come to believe he just knew something we didn't.
Rating:
- Must Have FZIf you're a Zappaphile you already have this. If not, you need it. This is probably the finest collection of musicians FZ ever assembled. And coupled with Over-nite SensationFrank Zappa: Apostrophe / Over-Nite Sensation it represents some of his best work. The Gold discs offer incredible sound reproduction.
Rating:
- Good fun, though not for the whole familyFrank's first gold, and if you ask me it deserved that distinction. The first side is a mock concept album about an Eskimo and his adventures concerning huskies with overactive bladders; fur trappers bludgeoning baby seals with snowshoes; St. Alphonzo; and gay priests having sex with leprechauns. Needless to say, it's not one of Frank's more mature efforts, but some of it can be funny (the infamous doo-wap send-up "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow"; "Nanook Rubs It"), and even when humor fails him ("Father O'Blivion"), the band is so solid, and the melodies are so catchy, you won't notice or care. That, and it's amusing to play "spot-the-references-to-previous-Zappa-albums!". The second side is considerably more artistic, featuring a heavy fusion instrumental (title track) with an exquisite guitar part and amazing heavy drums by Jim Gordon (Jack Bruce also plays bass, though he's buried beneath Frank and Tony), what may just be his best song ever: "Cosmik Debris", which combines sharp, hilarious, anti-"mysticism" lyrics; an excellent R&B melody (with surprising tempo shifts in the chorus), characteristically wonderful guitars, and a couple nods to Over-Nite Sensation; and the funny mock-blues "Stink-Foot", with searing guitars. Weak points? A couple. Homophobia comes back to haunt Frank on "Father O'Blivion" (but again that's a well-written song from a melodic standpoint), and as far as I'm concerned the rocker "Uncle Remus" and the fusion experiment "Excentrifugal Forz" have nothing going for either of them. At least they're both short. This isn't as socially relevant as Freak Out! or virtuoso like Hot Rats. To its credit, though, the humor is amusing 80% of the time, the songwriting is strong 95%, and the band is really solid. Zappa fans should not go without it.