SHEIK YERBOUTI

I don't know why is this album considered a studio album if most of the songs on it were recorded alive; another thing that I don't know is why this album remains to be the most sold album in the whole Zappa's discography and don't get me wrong, I don't think this is a bad record, but I don't believe it's his best work either.

This album includes some excellent songs but, unfortunately, it is a little too much longer for my taste: some of the songs are just filler and the magic of this record loses itself among a bunch of not-so-great short tracks. On the instrumental jamming department, we have tracks as "Yo mama", "Rat tomago" and "The sheik yerbouti tango", on the songs with lyrics department, we have "Broken hearts are for assholes", "City of tiny lites", and "Dancin' fool", those are my favorite tracks on the album while most of the rest of them are nothing but filler tracks to my ears.

"Flakes" is very entertained: Adrian Belew's interpretation of Bob Dylan is hilarious and "Jewish princess" is very funny too; "booby Brown goes down" is much more than I can tolerate, it is hard for me to not skip it but in fact is a good song too if you have enough stomach for what the lyrics say.

SONG RATING: I have been in you, 4 Flakes, 4 Broken hearts are for assholes, 4 I'm so cute, 4 Jones crusher, 3 Whatever happened to all the fun in the world, 3 Rat tomago, 4 Wait a minute, 3 Bobby Brown goes down, 3 Rubber shirt, 4 The sheik yerbouti tango, 4 Baby snakes, 3 Tryin' to grow a chin, 4 City of tiny lites, 4 Dancin' fool, 4 Jewish princess, 4 Wild love, 4 Yo mama, 4

AVERAGE: 3.72

PERCENTAGE: 74.44

ALBUM RATING: 3 stars

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