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Poll Question: What’s your favorite song from this legendary album?
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    Posted: August 26 2005 at 21:30
Just curious, because all of the songs seem eligible to be someone's favorite.  I'm going to say Green Genes.
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Son of Mr. Green Genes.
And above all, is punk
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Willie the Pimp is my favorite track off of it. It's the only Beefheart vocal I actually really like, and the riff and solo are awesome.
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Peaches en Regalia for me, although I'm also kind of partial towards It Must Be a Camel.
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The Gumbo Variations is one of the best jams of all time
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Peaches in regalia
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
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Son Of Mr. Green Genes for me ... although you're right Syntharachnid ... I can see why most songs would be somebody's favourite ...
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Son of Mr. Green genes

Peaches en regalia

The gumbo variations

Willie the pimp

It must be a camel

Little umbrellas


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I love them all but Green Genes has always been pretty special. I love the way Uncle Frank is all over his guitar! The vocals of Captain Beefheart in Willie the Pimp are something pretty special as well.
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The whole album is amazing, but Willie The Pimp is probably the coolest, especially the very beginning. I just imagine a pimp stolling the streets each time. I wonder why?
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Son of Mr. Green Genes definitely!
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I'm going with Peaches (the Dixie Dregs cover in California Screamin' is awesome) 
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Peaches in regalia
I'll see you on the Darkside of the moon...
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1st and 3rd tracks are best, but the whole albums is GREAT!  I voted for the son.

It started to play in my head! I'll have to grab it to the car with me.

31th aug: I listened it yesterady, and it was as good as I remembered! I started listening to it when I got into prog music as 15 years old. It was available at my hometown's library, what a great title to invest the taxpayers money!

"Willie" and "Gumbo" are more basic jamsongs with lots of soloing, but I liked "Umbrela" and "Camel" too, which are more traditional bluesy jazzsongs. There's some quite critical rhytm arragements in the last song!



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Someone vote for little umbrellas!!!!
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Peaches en Regalia - the best Zappa song ever IMO
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I love all of them, but 'It Must Be A Camel' is something of an overlooked gem, when it comes to the Hot Rats album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2005 at 21:06
my favorite zappa albums simply great !!!! ilove all the song but peach has this cripy clear sound. the sound people did a excellent job with this album!!!!
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Originally posted by Trotsky Trotsky wrote:

Son Of Mr. Green Genes for me ... although you're right Syntharachnid ... I can see why most songs would be somebody's favourite ...

Well, all the songs except for Little Umbrellas, apparently...

But I really like that one!  Some great work from Mr. Underwood.
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Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

The whole album is amazing, but Willie The Pimp is probably the coolest, especially the very beginning. I just imagine a pimp stolling the streets each time. I wonder why?

Yeah, the violin riff really does paint a very concrete picture in your head, eh?  Genius! 

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