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Poll Question: What's your favorite album on this list?
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5 [10.87%]
4 [8.70%]
3 [6.52%]
12 [26.09%]
1 [2.17%]
6 [13.04%]
4 [8.70%]
9 [19.57%]
2 [4.35%]
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Question for the Zappa freaks:  If I love Freak Out.....is it pretty much a slam dunk to get Reuben?   I've read a bit, is it close to the style of Freak Out?
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Question for the Zappa freaks:  If I love Freak Out.....is it pretty much a slam dunk to get Reuben?   I've read a bit, is it close to the style of Freak Out?
 
Nothing at all like Freak Out.  Many of the songs are the same ones (Anyway the Wind Blows, How Could I Be Such a Fool, You Didn't Try To Call Me, etc.) but they are all done in a '50's doo-wop style. 
 
Under no circumstances get the 'official' Ruben CD!  FZ rerecorded all the bass/drum tracks and ruined it.  You can't imagine how bad it is, really, but let's just say it destroyed the album.  Someone 'round here mentioned the original mix is available from the FZ site (I think the album's called Greasy Love Songs or some such).  That's the version you'd want to get.  I have not heard it so do not know how it compares to the LP.  But again no relation to Freak Out, although the LP is a pretty good album in its own right, provided you enjoy doo-wop, which Ray Collins does quite well (that's where he started before Zappa got hold of him).
 
This is the one:
 
 
Okay, another edit.  I just ordered the damned thing.  I'll let you know how it is in terms of being true to the original.


Edited by jammun - July 28 2010 at 22:01
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Originally posted by jammun jammun wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Question for the Zappa freaks:  If I love Freak Out.....is it pretty much a slam dunk to get Reuben?   I've read a bit, is it close to the style of Freak Out?
 
Nothing at all like Freak Out.  Many of the songs are the same ones (Anyway the Wind Blows, How Could I Be Such a Fool, You Didn't Try To Call Me, etc.) but they are all done in a '50's doo-wop style. 
 
Under no circumstances get the 'official' Ruben CD!  FZ rerecorded all the bass/drum tracks and ruined it.  You can't imagine how bad it is, really, but let's just say it destroyed the album.  Someone 'round here mentioned the original mix is available from the FZ site (I think the album's called Greasy Love Songs or some such).  That's the version you'd want to get.  I have not heard it so do not know how it compares to the LP.  But again no relation to Freak Out, although the LP is a pretty good album in its own right, provided you enjoy doo-wop, which Ray Collins does quite well (that's where he started before Zappa got hold of him).
 
This is the one:
 
 
Okay, another edit.  I just ordered the damned thing.  I'll let you know how it is in terms of being true to the original.


I haven't heard the 80's Ruben or the Vinyl, but Greasy Love Songs has fantastic sound quality!

I voted for Uncle Meat, by the way...though I love We're Only In It For The Money almost as much.


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We're Only in it For the Money gets the vote because it was the one that turned me on to the man.  I got into Weasels right around the same time.  I don't listen to the 60s stuff as much these days, definitely preferring a lot of the early 70s output, but I still find it all quite grand.  

Has anybody here heard the special edition of Money and Lumpy that the Zappa estate put out last year?
The damage that we do is just so powerfully strong we call it love

The damage that we do just goes on and on and on but not long enough.

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From this list its Weasels Ripped my Flesh, followed by Chunga, followed by Absolutely Free, followed by Freak Out.  But they're all great albums!
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Originally posted by unclemeat69 unclemeat69 wrote:

That one is obvious of course: Uncle Meat (without all the dialogue and that crap italian song)
 
 
Those are bonus tracks though. They are pretty bad...
 
Anyway, like always, I went with my favorite Zappa album... Uncle Meat
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PA doesn't have this cover for the album. This is the actual cover, and it's f**king brilliant. Instead, PA has the much-less amazing gatefold sleeve cover.
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My copy of Greasy Love Songs (aka original Ruben) should arrive tomorrow.  I can't wait to hear it, if it has even half the greasy ambience of the original LP. 
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