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Topic: Top 5 Frank Zappa songs!
Posted By: darkshade
Subject: Top 5 Frank Zappa songs!
Date Posted: July 22 2008 at 20:43
this one should be fun. You know the deal

1. RDNZL
2. Inca Roads
3. Blessed Relief
4. Punky's Whips
5. Sofa No. 1

and everyone gets an honorable mention so mine is

6. The Black Page pt. 2

i was going to put Peaches En Regalia, but that would've been too obvious. plus others will probably mention it anyway


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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: July 22 2008 at 22:47
Sorry, I think about it and I can't come up with just five.  Every album -- let me repeat that for emphasis -- EVERY album, has at least one song that is The Best Song Frank Zappa ever recorded.  I'm skipping some here, for brevity's sake:
 
Any Way the Wind Blows
Duke of Prunes
Let's Make the Water Turn Black
Mr. Green Genes
Peaches en Regalia (yeah had to mention it)
Holiday in Berlin
Oh No/Orange Country Lumber Truck
Sharleena (great song!)
Mud Shark
Blessed Relief
Montana
Father O'Blivion
Inca Roads
Disco Boy
Bobby Brown Goes Down
Watermelon in Easter Hay
Easy Meat
Doreen/Goblin Girl
In France
Mammy Nuns Anthem
Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
City of Tiny Lights
Re-gyptian Strut
 
Covers, ya want covers?
 
Stairway to Heaven.  Who else has had the cojones to cover that?
 
Sorry that's way more than 5.  No way I can trim it down since I could come up with an alternate list of equally great songs that would be twice that long.  The fact that FZ cranked out stuff of this quality for over a quarter century is proof of the man's genius. 


Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 01:45
yea idk what i was thinking with this thread



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Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 04:28
They're all on One Size Fits All:
 
Inca Roads
Can't Afford No Shoes
Po-Jama People
San Ber'dino
Andy


Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 08:16
Strictly off the top of my head (ask me again another day and get a totally different answer):
Lemme Take You To The Beach
I'm The Slime
Flakes
Peaches en Regalia
Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel

honorable mention:
Harder Than Your Husband LOL


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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 12:15
Brown Shoes Don't Make It - Absolutely Free

King Kong (all parts) - Uncle Meat

My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama - Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Willie The Pimp - Hot Rats

Dinah Moe Humm - Over-Nite Sensation



Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: July 24 2008 at 02:40
Peaches
 and Wilie the Pimp -
Help I am a Rock
 
'who are the brain police' deserves a mention and some off 'Yellow Shark.....'


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Posted By: Astrodomine
Date Posted: July 24 2008 at 11:27
Inca Roads
Brown Shoes Don't Make It
Holiday in Berlin
Let's Make The Water Turn Black
Watermelon In A Easter Hay

This top 5 changes daily Wink


Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: July 25 2008 at 03:09
The Orange County Lumber Truck
Son of Mr. Green Genes
Cosmik Debris
Inca Roads
Montana
 


Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: July 25 2008 at 07:28
1. Watermelon in Easter Hay
2. Peaches en Regalia
3. Inca Roads
4. Willie the Pimp
5. Packard Goose



Note to self: Don't ever make such a hard decision again for a thread on PA. LOL


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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: July 28 2008 at 12:15
Inca Roads
Adventures of Greggary Peccary
The Grand Wazoo
Drowning Witch
Keep It Greasey
 
I assure you that this is only the beginning.. LOL
 
 


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Posted By: sircosick
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 20:48
Damn hard it is.......
.....no particular order.-

Watermelon in Easter Hay
The Grand Wazoo
Peaches in Regalia
Blessed Relief
Filthy Habits

Special mention to "Let's Make the Water Turn Black".
Whoa I can see Inca Roads everywhere..... lol


Peace.


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Posted By: Speesh
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 22:33
Wow, tough one.

I think the quintessential ones that represent him at his best for me would have to be:

Inca Roads
Peaches En Regalia
Eat That Question
Pojama People
and...either Echidna's Arf (of you), I'm the Slime, or Montana.

Subject to change, of course.


Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: August 03 2008 at 19:47
Originally posted by sircosick sircosick wrote:

Whoa I can see Inca Roads everywhere..... lol





that's cause IMO and many others', that's his greatest composition. It was also the first Zappa song i heard so that's why i listed it too.


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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 19:10
Crap on a stick. This is almost harder than that top 500 song list. I'll try and omit the obvious ones.
 
No order:
 
G-Spot Tornado (Yellow Shark Version)
Call Any Vegetable
Eat That Question
Didja Get Any Onya?
City Of Tiny Lights
 
HM: Wind Up Working In A Gas Station


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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: August 04 2008 at 21:36
Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:

Originally posted by sircosick sircosick wrote:

Whoa I can see Inca Roads everywhere..... lol





that's cause IMO and many others', that's his greatest composition. It was also the first Zappa song i heard so that's why i listed it too.
 
Ya, Inca Roads pretty much contains all that is great about an FZ recording:  lyrics that begin by gently poking fun at Eric Van Daniken and then devolve into near nonsense (Chester's thing...on Ruth!); great keyboard work by George Duke; great marimba work by Ruth Underwood; great work by the band in total in dealing with the constantly shifting musical landscape; and of course a fine FZ guitar solo.  Plus it is generally accessible to a newcomer to FZ's music.  After all these years still one of my favorites. 


Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: August 05 2008 at 21:50
Originally posted by jammun jammun wrote:

Originally posted by darkshade darkshade wrote:

Originally posted by sircosick sircosick wrote:

Whoa I can see Inca Roads everywhere..... lol





that's cause IMO and many others', that's his greatest composition. It was also the first Zappa song i heard so that's why i listed it too.
 
Ya, Inca Roads pretty much contains all that is great about an FZ recording:  lyrics that begin by gently poking fun at Eric Van Daniken and then devolve into near nonsense (Chester's thing...on Ruth!); great keyboard work by George Duke; great marimba work by Ruth Underwood; great work by the band in total in dealing with the constantly shifting musical landscape; and of course a fine FZ guitar solo.  Plus it is generally accessible to a newcomer to FZ's music.  After all these years still one of my favorites. 


the only songs argued as his best besides that would be Peaches En Regalia and maybe RDNZL...


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Posted By: Rabid
Date Posted: September 03 2008 at 10:26
This is going to be a toughie :
 
Be-Bop Tango of the Old Jazzmen's Church
The Purple Lagoon
Nanook Rubs it / St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast
Inca Roads
Blessed Relief
Frogs with Dirty Little Lips
Watermelon in Easter Hay
Zoot Allures
The Adventures of Greggary Peccary
 
Clap


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Posted By: Rabid
Date Posted: September 03 2008 at 10:35
Originally posted by jammun jammun wrote:

 
Stairway to Heaven.  Who else has had the cojones to cover that?
 
 
 
 
Rolf Harris, unfortunately !
 
Thumbs%20Down
 


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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: September 03 2008 at 23:04
one of recent favorites has been the trilogy of songs from the new release "One Shot Deal"

it's tracks 2-4, dont know the titles offhand, but this is some of the best Zappa music I have ever heard!


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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: September 05 2008 at 01:26
Sinister Footwear
Echidna's arf(of you)
Wild Love
Keep it Greasy
The Jazz Discharge Party Hats
and of course.....Inca Roads, which by all indications has won this contest.


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Posted By: mrgd
Date Posted: September 16 2008 at 20:03
Black Napkins, The Torture Never Stops, and, as already mentioned Montana and I am the Slime to mention but a few.

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Posted By: DubSacZach
Date Posted: November 01 2008 at 08:43
1.The Black Page 1+2
2.Approximate
3.St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast + Father O'Blivion
4.Inca Roads
5.Peaches En Regalia
Honorable Mention-King Kong
 
What an amazing musician, composer, and guitarist


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"he told me later that the stuff at the bottom was like punching an eclair"
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Posted By: DubSacZach
Date Posted: November 01 2008 at 08:45
sh*t wait a minute jazz discharge party hats is my number one and everything is moved up

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