favorite Zappa album
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Topic: favorite Zappa album
Posted By: greenback
Subject: favorite Zappa album
Date Posted: September 27 2004 at 20:48
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Posted By: Bryan
Date Posted: September 27 2004 at 23:29
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Hot Rats for me. Allowing multiple votes in this poll was suicide for the entire thread, by the way. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 00:08
 As per my review, You Are What You Is -- hilarious, gloriously politically incorrect, cynical, astute, musically adept and varied, great lyrics, singers, musicians. Frank had lots of great stuff, but "YAWYI" is the one I play most often. ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 01:45
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You Are What You Is !!! Peter said it all ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
It was also Franks own fav. album.Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 03:03
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Its a close call between 'Hot Rats' and 'The Grand Wazoo' for me. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 03:28
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I'm torn between "We're Only In It For The Money" and "Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch". Steve Vai can do no wrong! Since I chose "other", I'll have both |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 04:11
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Here's my top 3 selection: -Burnt weeny sandwich -The grand wazoo -Waka jawaka |
Posted By: Pixel Pirate
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 04:28
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Didn't Frank himself hate "Hot Rats"?. I seem to remember reading that. ------------- Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. |
Posted By: zappa123
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 09:46
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This question is a nightmare for me.Zappa's best album is: Overnite sensation one size fits all grand wazoo hot rats just another band from l.a. chunga's revenge..... Very long title,yes I know. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 12:13
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Several Zappa albums are favorites - Hot Rats, Zoot Allures, Waka Jawaka (aka HR2), We're Only In It For The Money, One Size Fits All - but Shiek Yerbouti wins by a very short head, because it help me shake off a seriously broken heart in 1981.
And then many others albums, contain tracks which are specific favorites: Crew Slut (Joes Garage Part 1 - for its most excellent modern blues harp playing) Whipping Floss (Helsinki Concert - enjoyable bit of audience participation and then ad libbing) Illinois Enema Bandit (New York) - rudeness done "in the best possible taste". Title track from Apostrophe - (for Jack Bruce on thundering 6 string bass) - btw I read Bruce is on another Zappa recording (possibly a live one) but credited with a false name - is this true and if so which album?. |
Posted By: dafva
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 14:59
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Absolutely Free for f**k sake! ------------- You canīt say no to the beauty and the beast!! /David Bowie 1977 |
Posted By: AngelRat
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 16:19
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I thought Sheik Yerbouti was released in 1979. Whatever. 'Broken Hearts Are For Assholes' remains a classic. My fav will be 'One Size Fits All'. Although it's nearly impossible to just pick one fav.
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Dick Heath wrote:Posted By: Eddy
Date Posted: September 28 2004 at 21:39
i liked freak out, his first album, but who cares, noone ever listens to me anyway hehhe
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Posted By: Lunarscape
Date Posted: September 29 2004 at 00:29
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Zoot Allures - The Torture Never Stops...... _________ Lunar ------------- Music Is The Soul Bird That Flies In The Immense Heart Of The Listener . . . |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: September 29 2004 at 02:06
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Dat what de deal we dealing in. ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 29 2004 at 09:58
You're right - slip of a key and me not paying attention - I'll change it immediately to 1981 |
Posted By: AngelRat
Date Posted: September 29 2004 at 16:20
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I'm such a nitpicker! Some dude I know is a HUGE Zappa-freak, and any misquote I make, intentionally or not, is reason for him to beat me up. Zappa fans can be so fanatic.
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: September 30 2004 at 10:31
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Sheik Yerbouti without a doubt. If only for 'Yo mama' which contains my favourite guitar solo of all time. Ship Arriving... is a cool album too and is a bit of a hidden gem. ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 23 2005 at 18:24
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I'll go with overnite sensation. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Philrod
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 00:45
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Hot Rats! I love every songs on it, especially Willy the Pimp! What a solo! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Philrod/?chartstyle=Geldropdown-small"> 
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Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 01:30
| I like my music accessible and Overnite Sensations and Apostrophe are a toss up, voted ONS |
Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 10:11
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 24 2005 at 10:42
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from the list above Hot Rats but RichardW is right Grand Wazoo is even better. ------------- 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 |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: June 10 2005 at 16:37
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Where's the live albums, I love Broadway The Hard Way. From his studio albums, I'd choose Joe's Garage Acts I-III, for the perfect mix between humour, consistency and musical weirdness. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aotm-2025-1/vote" rel="nofollow - 2025 Monthly Release Poll Listened to: 
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: June 10 2005 at 20:44
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No Waka/Jawaka or Grand Wazoo? BAH!! |
Posted By: dalt99
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 00:01
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Trouserpress:
------------- Best of 2006 that I've heard: PFM-Stati Di Immaginazione Zenit-Surrender (Best "unknown" album) Oaksenham - Conquest of Pacific 2007: Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon La Torre Del Alchimista - Neo |
Posted By: Hammill
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 01:08
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HOT RATS
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: June 11 2005 at 15:40
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http://drunkmenworkhere.org/214"> Click for fun... |
Posted By: Nipsey88
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 02:34
Oh man, I can't pick just one, the other really really super silly good
albums would feel all jealous and stuff. But the one that is probably
my most go-to disc is Roxy & Elsewhere. Its funny, it jams, and
Tipper Gore hates it.
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 21:48
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 21 2006 at 21:54
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.....don't eat the Yellow Snow..... ..... Jack Bruce and that vicious Gibson EB-3..... ahhhh an easy choice for me. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: transend
Date Posted: January 22 2006 at 00:32
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From that list 'Live in New york' But my fave is 'You can't do that on stage Vol 1' |
Posted By: kebjourman
Date Posted: January 26 2006 at 20:20
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deffinatley FREAK OUT or WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY
i like OVERNITE SENSATION alot too |
Posted By: RoyalJelly
Date Posted: January 27 2006 at 11:06
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Not in the list..."One Size Fits All" is the album that won me
over completely, an album of pure perfection, and "Uncle Meat" as the early laboratory where Frank perfected all of his later studio and composition chops. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: January 27 2006 at 11:10
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Hot Rats.That album is simply perfect. -------------  |
Posted By: tortellino
Date Posted: January 27 2006 at 11:22
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I'd be awright with "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life" or one out of the "You Can't Do On Stage" series.
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Posted By: rumos
Date Posted: January 27 2006 at 11:31
My favorites are Shiek Yerbouti , Studi Tan, Orchestral Favorites and One Size Fits All ( Inca Roads is a trully master piece). And remenber Dick Heat, broken hearts is for assholes!!!
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Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: January 27 2006 at 11:33
Outof that list...Hot Rats  ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: January 27 2006 at 11:47
Ditto here. One Size Fits All. From this list, I'd have to go with Hot Rats. ------------- Pure Brilliance: 
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Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: January 27 2006 at 12:06
Is that avatar of yours part of a painting by the Salvador Dali artist? Hot Rats. ------------- http://www.soundclick.com/rosescar/ - My music! "THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Publius84
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 13:59
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Hot Rats ------------- I know what I like and I like what I know... Prog is in my heart, in my mind, in my soul... |
Posted By: arnold stirrup
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 15:16
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From the list I'd go with Hot Rats. But my "Holy Trinity" consists of Hot Rats, Uncle Meat, and One Size Fits All. Could be any one of these three at any given moment. To make a top 5, add Burnt Weeny Sandwich and The Grand Wazoo. And to round out a top ten, add Waka Jawaka, Roxy And Elsewhere, Zappa In New York, Shut Up And Play Your Guitar, and Them Or Us. Velvetclown, I seem to recall FZ stating on more than one occasion that his favorite album was Lumpy Gravy. Pixel Pirate, I don't ever recall reading or hearing that FZ hated Hot Rats. |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 16:27
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My top 3 Zappas: Zappa In New York ------------- 
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: January 28 2006 at 22:36
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A bit hard to choose, but Hot Rats it is. -------------  
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