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    Posted: August 12 2023 at 11:28
Pick your top ten favorite Zappa/Mothers albums and then list your favorite song from each album. Live albums are okay.

One Size Fits All - Inca Roads
The Grand Wazoo - The Grand Wazoo
Roxy & Elsewhere - Pygmy Twilight
Over-Nite Sensation - Zomby Woof
Joe's Garage - Wet T-Shirt Night
Bongo Fury - Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy
The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life - Heavy Duty Judy
Sheik Yerbouti - City of Tiny Lights
Zoot Allures - Black Napkins
Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention - Alien Orifice
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Stressed Cheese Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2023 at 14:15
See, this is an artist where it actually makes sense to do 10 albums.

Anyway,

1. One Size Fits All - Inca Roads
2. Studio Tan - The Adventures of Greggery Peccary
3. Orchestral Favorites - Pedro's Dowry
4. You Are What You Is - Beauty Knows No Pain
5. Joe's Garage Acts II & III - He Used To Cut The Grass (yes it's better than Watermelon)
6. Zappa In New York - I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth/Läther
7. Waka/Jawaka - Big Swifty
8. Roxy & Elsewhere - Echidna's Arf (Of You)
9. Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch - Drowning Witch
10. Apostrophe (') - Yellow Snow Suite

I guess, I mean, it changes from week to week honestly. Kinda interesting how neither of us so far have a 60's Zappa album in there.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Awesoreno Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 12 2023 at 23:47
^I like the compositions on the 60s albums, but not the production or pitched up horns so much. It certainly has grown on me though. Overall, I prefer later takes with different line-ups of the older material.
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I prefer Mothers-era + instrumental jazzrock-Zappa. Not so much the (mostly) unfunny jokes-Zappa. Although he probably wouldn't approve of my preferences, I like him the best when he created something (achingly) beautiful.   

1 Waka/Jawaka - Big Swifty
2 The Grand Wazoo - Blessed Relief*
3 Hot Rats - Peaches En Regalia
4 Burnt Weeny Sandwich - The Little House I Used to Live In
5 We're Only In It For The Money - Absolutely Free
6 Absolutely Free - Invocation and Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin
7 One Size Fits All - Inca Roads
8 Uncle Meat - Mr. Green Genes
9 Apostrophe (') - Cosmik Debris
10 Freak Out! - Who Are The Brain Police

*but it didn't feel right leaving out Eat That Question


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 13 2023 at 07:10
Willie the Pimp (HR)
Big Swifty (Jaka)
The Grand Wazoo
Inca Roads(OSFA)
Greggery Peccary (ST)
 Filthy Habits (SD)


Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (WRMF)
Little House I Used to Live In  (BWS)
King Kong (UM)
Chunga's Revenge  (CR)
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Limited to FZ /FZ & MoI < 1993 (original stuff)

Hot rats : Peaches en regalia
Burnt Weeny sandwich : Little house I used to live in
Chunga's revenge : Chunga's revenge
The grand Wazoo : Same
Over nite sensation : Montana
Apostrophe : Same
Roxy and Elsewhere : Be bop range
One size fits all : Inca roads
Zoot Allures : Black napkins (live)
Zappa in NY : The Illinois enema bandit





Edited by mellotronwave - August 13 2023 at 10:26
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1. Uncle Meat: The Dog Breath Variations
2. We're Only In It For The Money: Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
3. Weasels Ripped My Flesh: The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
4. Lumpy Gravy (it's all just one song to me...)
5. Roxy & Elsewhere: Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?
6. Studio Tan: The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary
7. Jazz From Hell: G-Spot Tornado
8. Civilization Phaze III: Put A Motor In Yourself
9. Burnt Weeny Sandwich: The Little House I Used To Live In
10. One Size Fits All: Inca Roads


Edited by Mirakaze - August 13 2023 at 11:46
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote BrufordFreak Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 14 2023 at 07:06
I don't know (much less like) ten Frank Zappa albums. Don't even think I could come up with ten songs:

1. "The Torture Never Stops"
2. "Lumpy Gravy"
3. "Blessed Relief"
4. "Black Napkins"
5. "Peaches in Regalia"
6. "Inca Roads"
7. "Montana"
8. "Joe's Garage"

Nope.

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