HOT RATS

I haven't heard very mach Zappa albums yet so i can't do so much comparing to his other productions. Still, i think Hot Rats is a very fine piece of ass.. i mean music. The evergreen opener Peaches En Regalia is very catchy and melodic tune, with some excellent keyboard work from Mr Underwood. A true Zappa-classic indeed. Willie The Pimp has a short bit of Beefheart's grumblig and then it's basically just Frank an his guitar, Shut up and play yer guitar, and he surely does. The solo is just mindblowing stuff.

Son Of Mr Green Genes, also a heavily melodic and keyboard dominared instrumental, like Peaches, and it's the second longest song on the album. Very beatiful melodies and great guitar and percussion work. Very cool.

Little Umbrellas continues the same line, and it's pretty good and cathy also but still, a little bit of certain something is missing.

Gumbo Variations, great bass, great jams all the way. Zappa is truly a compose in a true meaning of the wordr, as they would say Wagner is a composer or Stravinsky etc..

It must be a camel, one of the legendary song titles from Zappa. Like Little Umbrellas, a "short", melodic jazzy piece. Not the highlights of the record but still is an excellent closer to the album.

I'll give it 5/5, allthough it actually might be 4½, oh well...