Top 5 Zappa Albums?

1 Zoot Allures
2 Hot Rats
3 Zappa in New York(ahh, heard it yesterday night, great Eddie Jobson)
4 Grand Wazoo
5 Roxy & Elsewhere or Joe's Garage or Chunga's Revenge.

I need more too, though.

1.  Over-nite Sensation
2.  Hot Rats
3.  Sheik Yerbouti
4.  Zoot Allures
5 . Burnt Weeny Sandwich
but ask again in hour time could be 5 different 

1) One Size Fits All

1. Were only in it for the money

1 - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
2 - Uncle Meat
3 - We're Only In It For The Money
4 - Sheik Yerbouti
5 - One Size Fits All

Edited by Astrodomine - July 15 2008 at 08:36

Hmm...well I haven't heard it all, but its gotta be something like:

Hot Rats
Grand Wazoo
One Size Fits All
Roxy & Elsewhere
Sheik Yerbouti

Based on what I've heard from them, I have very high hopes for Uncle Meat, Zoot Allures, Civilization Phase III, and Joe's Garage. I really need to get listening.

ugh, why does EVERYONE have Hot Rats on their list? if it was top 10, then ok

in this order

1. Make A Jazz Noise Here
2. Lather
3. Roxy & Elsewhere
4. One Size Fits All
5. The Grand Wazoo

honorable mentions go out to Joe's Garage, Uncle Meat, Zappa New York, Hot Rats, Imaginary Diseases, and sooooo many more....

btw does anyone besides me own Lather and none of the off-shoot albums (besides New York cause that's an exception) i find Lather to be sooooo much better than the individual albums of Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, Orchestral Favorites (though it has a couple of tracks that arent on Lather). Lather has this quality to it that i dont get from any other Zappa album. It's also EPIC! 3 Cds will do that. i think Lather is the ultimate Zappa album, yet no one talks about it, aside from the legal dispute that went over it in the 70s. If it was released back then like it was supposed to, it would probably be in the top 10 ON THIS SITE, been talked about just as much as OSFA, Hot Rats, Roxy, O-NS and WOIIFTM are, not to mention the music scene would have blown up if it were released like it was supposed to back then. Cmon guys! Lather is THE Zappa album.


Edited by darkshade - July 19 2008 at 14:27

Very difficult to choose only 5 as there are so many that good!

top ones that I've heard

1. We're Only in it for the Money
2. Freak Out!
3. Over-Nite Sensation
4. Apostrophe
5. Joe's Garage

jammun wrote: darkshade wrote: jammun wrote: I have Lather.  It's another great FZ album.  I wouldn't put it in my top 5 (not today anyway), but it's a great achievement and as you say had it been released as intended would have much more respect.  I believe Warner Bros. deliberately made it appear as bad as possible in hopes of teaching FZ a lesson.  Idiots. i think they thought it wouldnt sell. Cmon, if i was a Frank Zappa fan back in the 70s and I saw his new album was a 4 LP album, i'd freak out and buy it immediately! 4 LP's worth of FZ music!!   I would have bought it too.  In fact, i did buy it (in a roundabout way, one album at a time, though not sequenced nor presented as FZ intended).   I didn't know the Lather story at the time, so I was confused as to why FZ had suddenly become fond of butt-fugly album covers with no notes, no credits, etc., when before he had been absolutely meticulous about the quality of the packaging, listing song credits, etc.  That's why I say WB was trying to put these in as bad a light as possible.  Maybe they were just being cheap.  There was no shortage of bad blood between the two parties.

its a shame too, because the music contained within Lather (or the separate albums) is some of his best ever and doesnt get the attention other albums get (mostly hot rats and his 1972-1975 albums) it also marked a turning point in his career because the music and lyrics afterwards got way more cynical and angry