'66 - '70 Zappa Albums (except Hot Rats)
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Topic: '66 - '70 Zappa Albums (except Hot Rats)
Posted By: Anthony H.
Subject: '66 - '70 Zappa Albums (except Hot Rats)
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 13:27
| What's your favorite Zappa/Mothers album released from 1966 though 1970? I omitted Hot Rats, because that would get all the votes. |
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 13:31
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This is the Mothers of Invention that I really don't like, however I can't deny the excellency of stuff from Uncle Meat, Weasels Ripped my Flesh and Burnt Weeny Sandwich.
My vote goes for the "Sandwich" because of the masterpiece, "Little House I Used to Live In".
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Posted By: CinemaZebra
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 13:31
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Freak Out, even if Hot Rats was here.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 13:40
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I'm in it for We're Only In It For the Money. Oh look the poll is now 100100100. 
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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[33.33%]Posted By: tarkus1980
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 13:44
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BURNT WEENY SANDWICH BURNT WEENY SANDWICH BURNT WEENY SANDWICH ------------- "History of Rock Written by the Losers." |
Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 14:39
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That one is obvious of course: Uncle Meat (without all the dialogue and that crap italian song) ------------- Follow your bliss |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 14:50
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Weasels Ripped My Flesh. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 14:54
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I voted Absolutely Free.......two reasons
1. It had no vote yet
2. Only way I would listen to any Zappa is if it were "Absolutely Free"
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Posted By: Anthony H.
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 15:05
Both of those tracks weren't on the original pressing of the album. So I don't even count them as part of it. |
unclemeat69 wrote:Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 15:12
Next time you're in a record store and you see one grab it and run out the door. By the way, with regards to Burnt Weenie Sandwich, I consider it more of a burnt bread weenie sandwich.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 15:37
------------- Follow your bliss |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 15:42
I might get Chungas Revenge and the Weasles Ripped My Face and then turned it into Lumpy Gravy right before Uncle Meats eyes, as he ate his Burnt Weenie Sandwhich one hour before his Crusing with Ruben & The Jets...so then he Freaks Out! And since We're Only In It for the Money...we take all the albums for Absolutely Free....
What the krapp!!!! not sure where that all came from
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 15:56
I'll call 911!!
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Posted By: Anthony H.
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 16:48
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 17:09
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 17:19
Yup. Me too. |
Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 19:17
| Aaaahhhhhh Freak Out! |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 19:25
Le Chic, Le Freak
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 20:00
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The only one I'm not that familiar with is Weasels
But in this list Chunga's Revenge is where the music wins over the humour.... and that's definitely what gets me. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 21:12
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Another vote for WOIIFTM. It's hard to choose just one. Even the dreaded Flo&Eddie contaminated Chunga's has Sharleena to recommend it. Which is of course the problem. Freakin' all of these albums have timeless music in their grooves (yes, it was grooves at the time). These albums are the soundtrack of my youth (well from about 13-17 years old). Even in my senescense, I can probably recite the lyrics, hum the melodies, make the noises for all of these albums.
Suzy Creamcheese, the Duke of Prunes, Ronny & Kenny and their numies and green fire, Cheap Thrills, sharkskin suits on the dog waste, Electric Aunt Jemima, Cruising for Burgers, the Pep Boys, brodie knobs and spinners, fuzzy dice, white port and lemon juice, I think you're probably out to lunch. Good lord, somebody help me! What a f**king great little world FZ created during these years!
The band maybe was not the best. But Ray Collins was a fine vocalist, Roy Estrada a very good bass player. Don Preston and Ruth Underwood uber competent. Just sit down and try to play their parts on the Uncle Meat Theme. Ian Underwood, well ya'll know that story.
Incredible era for Zappa, and he was just getting started.
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 21:15
| Question for the Zappa freaks: If I love Freak Out.....is it pretty much a slam dunk to get Reuben? I've read a bit, is it close to the style of Freak Out? |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: July 28 2010 at 21:29
Nothing at all like Freak Out. Many of the songs are the same ones (Anyway the Wind Blows, How Could I Be Such a Fool, You Didn't Try To Call Me, etc.) but they are all done in a '50's doo-wop style.
Under no circumstances get the 'official' Ruben CD! FZ rerecorded all the bass/drum tracks and ruined it. You can't imagine how bad it is, really, but let's just say it destroyed the album. Someone 'round here mentioned the original mix is available from the FZ site (I think the album's called Greasy Love Songs or some such). That's the version you'd want to get. I have not heard it so do not know how it compares to the LP. But again no relation to Freak Out, although the LP is a pretty good album in its own right, provided you enjoy doo-wop, which Ray Collins does quite well (that's where he started before Zappa got hold of him).
This is the one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasy_Love_Songs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasy_Love_Songs
Okay, another edit. I just ordered the damned thing. I'll let you know how it is in terms of being true to the original. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Zombywoof
Date Posted: July 29 2010 at 00:33
I haven't heard the 80's Ruben or the Vinyl, but Greasy Love Songs has fantastic sound quality! I voted for Uncle Meat, by the way...though I love We're Only In It For The Money almost as much. ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
Posted By: questionsneverknown
Date Posted: July 29 2010 at 11:31
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We're Only in it For the Money gets the vote because it was the one that turned me on to the man. I got into Weasels right around the same time. I don't listen to the 60s stuff as much these days, definitely preferring a lot of the early 70s output, but I still find it all quite grand. Has anybody here heard the special edition of Money and Lumpy that the Zappa estate put out last year? ------------- The damage that we do is just so powerfully strong we call it love The damage that we do just goes on and on and on but not long enough. --Robyn Hitchcock |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: July 29 2010 at 13:20
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From this list its Weasels Ripped my Flesh, followed by Chunga, followed by Absolutely Free, followed by Freak Out. But they're all great albums! ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: Mr Greeen Genes
Date Posted: July 29 2010 at 14:48
Those are bonus tracks though. They are pretty bad...
Anyway, like always, I went with my favorite Zappa album... Uncle Meat
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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: July 29 2010 at 16:28
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Posted By: Anthony H.
Date Posted: July 29 2010 at 17:09
PA doesn't have this cover for the album. This is the actual cover, and it's f**king brilliant. Instead, PA has the much-less amazing gatefold sleeve cover. |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 20:27
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My copy of Greasy Love Songs (aka original Ruben) should arrive tomorrow. I can't wait to hear it, if it has even half the greasy ambience of the original LP. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 20:29
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I'm Only In It For The Money
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