SHIP ARRIVING TOO LATE TO SAVE A DROWNING WITCH

This is actually a very cool album. Drums and bass are on their best all over the record and the weird backing vocals are almost omnipresent. Just the song "Valley girl" is a whole masterpiece itself: ZAPPA wanted to record something with his little teenage daughter Moon and it immediately became ZAPPA's most popular song ever and a whole hit on the radio stations.

I just can't stop loving the powerful drums and basses albums on this record, this line-up of the ZAPPA band was tremendous, the "I come from nowhere" song includes one of the greatest guitar solos I've ever heard (I don't know if it was ZAPPA or Steve VAI but it is absolutely mind-blowing) while "Drowning witch" contains excellent percussions that remind the days when Ruth UNDERWOOD was part of the group (this just being a part of such a complete and changing song). The last two songs of the album are very short but not at all less interesting: "Envelopes" is a great instrumental piece while "Teenage prostitute" is a very obscure and Hard Rocky song that features a great female singer named Lisa POPEIL.

Probably this was the best album ZAPPA ever made in the eighties.

SONG RATING: No, not now, 4 Valley girl, 5 I come from nowhere, 5 Drowning witch, 5 Envelopes, 4 Teenage prostitute, 4

AVERAGE: 4.5

PERCENTAGE: 90

ALBUM RATING: 5 stars

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