THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION: WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY

coming out in 1968 this is an amazing record! i had to listen to it twice to appreciate it and by the third listen i was in love with it. this record has some of the earliest progressive rock grooves with the 7/4 passages in the songs "flower punk" and "whats the ugliest...". this preceeded king crimson by a year, and yes and genesis by years. i wonder if they were influenced.... this record has many progressive touches with the songs continuing without breaks, songs morphing into other songs, constant changes of beat, sound effects and reprises of bits of songs thrown in the middle of other songs. for 1968 this is groundbreaking stuff and it makes you laugh as well. i am giving four stars because even though this is a masterpiece it is more of a pop/prog masterpiece. not quite a masterpiece of prog.