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darkshade 
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Posted: July 22 2008 at 20:43 |
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this one should be fun. You know the deal
1. RDNZL
2. Inca Roads
3. Blessed Relief
4. Punky's Whips
5. Sofa No. 1
and everyone gets an honorable mention so mine is
6. The Black Page pt. 2
i was going to put Peaches En Regalia, but that would've been too obvious. plus others will probably mention it anyway
Edited by darkshade - July 22 2008 at 20:44
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Posted: July 22 2008 at 22:47 |
Sorry, I think about it and I can't come up with just five. Every album -- let me repeat that for emphasis -- EVERY album, has at least one song that is The Best Song Frank Zappa ever recorded. I'm skipping some here, for brevity's sake:
Any Way the Wind Blows
Duke of Prunes
Let's Make the Water Turn Black
Mr. Green Genes
Peaches en Regalia (yeah had to mention it)
Holiday in Berlin
Oh No/Orange Country Lumber Truck
Sharleena (great song!)
Mud Shark
Blessed Relief
Montana
Father O'Blivion
Inca Roads
Disco Boy
Bobby Brown Goes Down
Watermelon in Easter Hay
Easy Meat
Doreen/Goblin Girl
In France
Mammy Nuns Anthem
Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
City of Tiny Lights
Re-gyptian Strut
Covers, ya want covers?
Stairway to Heaven. Who else has had the cojones to cover that?
Sorry that's way more than 5. No way I can trim it down since I could come up with an alternate list of equally great songs that would be twice that long. The fact that FZ cranked out stuff of this quality for over a quarter century is proof of the man's genius.
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darkshade
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Posted: July 23 2008 at 01:45 |
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yea idk what i was thinking with this thread
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Posted: July 23 2008 at 04:28 |
They're all on One Size Fits All:
Inca Roads
Can't Afford No Shoes
Po-Jama People
San Ber'dino
Andy
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Posted: July 23 2008 at 08:16 |
Strictly off the top of my head (ask me again another day and get a totally different answer): Lemme Take You To The Beach I'm The Slime Flakes Peaches en Regalia Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel honorable mention: Harder Than Your Husband 
Edited by Slartibartfast - July 23 2008 at 08:17
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted: July 23 2008 at 12:15 |
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Brown Shoes Don't Make It - Absolutely Free
King Kong (all parts) - Uncle Meat
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Willie The Pimp - Hot Rats
Dinah Moe Humm - Over-Nite Sensation
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Posted: July 24 2008 at 02:40 |
Peaches
and Wilie the Pimp -
Help I am a Rock
'who are the brain police' deserves a mention and some off 'Yellow Shark.....'
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Posted: July 24 2008 at 11:27 |
Inca Roads Brown Shoes Don't Make It Holiday in Berlin Let's Make The Water Turn Black Watermelon In A Easter Hay This top 5 changes daily 
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Posted: July 25 2008 at 03:09 |
The Orange County Lumber Truck
Son of Mr. Green Genes
Cosmik Debris
Inca Roads
Montana
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Posted: July 25 2008 at 07:28 |
1. Watermelon in Easter Hay 2. Peaches en Regalia 3. Inca Roads 4. Willie the Pimp 5. Packard Goose Note to self: Don't ever make such a hard decision again for a thread on PA.
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Posted: July 28 2008 at 12:15 |
Inca Roads
Adventures of Greggary Peccary
The Grand Wazoo
Drowning Witch
Keep It Greasey
I assure you that this is only the beginning.. 
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 20:48 |
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Damn hard it is.......
.....no particular order.-
Watermelon in Easter Hay
The Grand Wazoo
Peaches in Regalia
Blessed Relief
Filthy Habits
Special mention to "Let's Make the Water Turn Black".
Whoa I can see Inca Roads everywhere..... lol
Peace.
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Posted: July 29 2008 at 22:33 |
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Wow, tough one.
I think the quintessential ones that represent him at his best for me would have to be:
Inca Roads
Peaches En Regalia
Eat That Question
Pojama People
and...either Echidna's Arf (of you), I'm the Slime, or Montana.
Subject to change, of course.
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darkshade
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Posted: August 03 2008 at 19:47 |
 sircosick wrote:
Whoa I can see Inca Roads everywhere..... lol
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that's cause IMO and many others', that's his greatest composition. It was also the first Zappa song i heard so that's why i listed it too.
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Posted: August 04 2008 at 19:10 |
Crap on a stick. This is almost harder than that top 500 song list. I'll try and omit the obvious ones.
No order:
G-Spot Tornado (Yellow Shark Version)
Call Any Vegetable
Eat That Question
Didja Get Any Onya?
City Of Tiny Lights
HM: Wind Up Working In A Gas Station
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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jammun
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Posted: August 04 2008 at 21:36 |
darkshade wrote:
sircosick wrote:
Whoa I can see Inca Roads everywhere..... lol
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that's cause IMO and many others', that's his greatest composition. It was also the first Zappa song i heard so that's why i listed it too.
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Ya, Inca Roads pretty much contains all that is great about an FZ recording: lyrics that begin by gently poking fun at Eric Van Daniken and then devolve into near nonsense (Chester's thing...on Ruth!); great keyboard work by George Duke; great marimba work by Ruth Underwood; great work by the band in total in dealing with the constantly shifting musical landscape; and of course a fine FZ guitar solo. Plus it is generally accessible to a newcomer to FZ's music. After all these years still one of my favorites.
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darkshade
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Posted: August 05 2008 at 21:50 |
jammun wrote:
darkshade wrote:
sircosick wrote:
Whoa I can see Inca Roads everywhere..... lol
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that's cause IMO and many others', that's his greatest composition. It was also the first Zappa song i heard so that's why i listed it too.
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Ya, Inca Roads pretty much contains all that is great about an FZ recording: lyrics that begin by gently poking fun at Eric Van Daniken and then devolve into near nonsense (Chester's thing...on Ruth!); great keyboard work by George Duke; great marimba work by Ruth Underwood; great work by the band in total in dealing with the constantly shifting musical landscape; and of course a fine FZ guitar solo. Plus it is generally accessible to a newcomer to FZ's music. After all these years still one of my favorites. |
the only songs argued as his best besides that would be Peaches En Regalia and maybe RDNZL...
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Posted: September 03 2008 at 10:26 |
This is going to be a toughie :
Be-Bop Tango of the Old Jazzmen's Church
The Purple Lagoon
Nanook Rubs it / St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast
Inca Roads
Blessed Relief
Frogs with Dirty Little Lips
Watermelon in Easter Hay
Zoot Allures
The Adventures of Greggary Peccary
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Posted: September 03 2008 at 10:35 |
jammun wrote:
Stairway to Heaven. Who else has had the cojones to cover that?
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Rolf Harris, unfortunately !
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"...the thing IS, to put a motor in yourself..."
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darkshade
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Posted: September 03 2008 at 23:04 |
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one of recent favorites has been the trilogy of songs from the new release "One Shot Deal"
it's tracks 2-4, dont know the titles offhand, but this is some of the best Zappa music I have ever heard!
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