Who IS Frank Zappa - Progressive Rock Music Forum

We're Only In It For the Money - it's a difficult album to get into but it is the most rewarding listen once you do

Time always wins.

He's Moon Unit and Dweezil's daddy...

Zappa is great nuff said , If i were you i would take hot rats , in general its a great album!

Over-Nite Sensation and Apostrophe' is the best one two punch ever. Start there.

Perfect blend of humour and awesome music. He has other albums that are either funnier or more technical, but none that have that same balance. Also, Apostrophe' contains Uncle Remus AKA the best song Zappa ever did.

Roterstern wrote:

Zappa is so great that continues to release yearly new albums even after his death! (and that's already more than 15 years!).

Amazingly prolific musician.

Music from beyond the grave. Shocked

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Zappa is so great that continues to release yearly new albums even after his death! (and that's already more than 15 years!).

Amazingly prolific musician.

"Die Freude am schauen und begreifen ist die Schönste Gabe der Natur", A.E.

Slartibartfast wrote:

If you want a really good sampling of songs from his career, the live album Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life is a good place to go.

a little bit too much covers I think, Love the version of Stairway to Heaven, well it is a very good live album so you can't go wrong there.

I liked Strictly Commerial, a collection of singles and the more popular tunes.

Basically I would go for some of the Live albums (Roxy and Elsewhere is pretty good).

for studio albums it would be all of them, I liked Where Only In It For The Money, Freak Out, Hot Rats , Apostrophe, Joe's Garage, Waka Jawaka, no really I mean all of them.

edit: below post has some nice recomendations

Edited by tuxon - October 23 2010 at 02:53

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The Quiet One wrote:

SaltyJon wrote:

Zappa's a very eclectic artist (I've always thought he would fit better in Eclectic than RIO/Avant, but that's another discussion). If you want to hear the off-the-wall type stuff, check out an album like Weasels Ripped My Flesh!.

Now that's a RIO album.

Indeed. I have a feeling that if we did have album-by-album tagging, most of his more well known albums would be elsewhere. That one belongs with us ZARTies, though. Hug

Burnt Weeny Sandwich

"History of Rock Written by the Losers."

The Quiet One wrote:

Mushroom Sword wrote:

Before I've already listened to Bobby Brown and I am the Slime. The latter is pretty amazing, Bobby Brown is... different... And O.k. WiIll do to everyone who posted above.

...except saltyjon (
s first post).

Those two are some of his poppiest songs, which doesn't mean they're bad, but hardly shows what Frank was able to deliver.

If you're going to listen through youtube or somewhere else, make sure to check these compositions:

Peaches en Regalia

Eat that Question

Fifty/Fifty

Echidna's Arf (for you)

Inca Roads

Little House I Used to Live In

Black Napkins

Zoot Allures

Ok. Thank you. The solo from slime seems pretty awesome. But from reading his bio. And having "Avant-Garde" as a genre, I know that's not what I should be expecting. I really am open to hearing some really... off-the-wall sounds from him. I'm that kinda guy that's racist towards mainstream anything. (except Starship Trooper). Now enough about me. More about Mr. Smoke-on-the-water-reference.