Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Top 10s and lists
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Top 10 Zappa Songs
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedTop 10 Zappa Songs
 Post Reply Post Reply
Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
justin4950834-2 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: November 08 2013
Location: Cobb
Status: Offline
Points: 329 		Direct Link To This Post Topic: Top 10 Zappa Songs
    Posted: April 10 2015 at 13:48
I know its hard, but list your top 10 Zappa songs the best you can.
Theres a lot of his albums I don't have, so I know I'm leaving a bunch of his good ones out.

Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
Nanook Rubs It
Cosmik Debris
Uncle Remis
Willie The Pimp
Sofa No.2
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
Inca Roads
Montana
Trouble Every Day
Back to Top
zravkapt View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 12 2010
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 6446 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2015 at 14:26
This is more difficult than doing the albums...

Village Of The Sun suite from Roxy
Andy
Peaches En Regalia
The Orange County Lumber Truck
Big Swifty
Regyptian Strut
Teenage Wind
Brown Shoes Don't Make It
RDNZL
Who Needs The Peace Corps?
Magma America Great Make Again
Back to Top
ebil0505 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 08 2012
Location: Indiana
Status: Offline
Points: 230 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2015 at 17:58
Based on what I have from him it would be something like this:

(in no particular order)

Evelyn a Modified Dog
Florentine Pogen
Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
Eat That Question
Peaches en Regalia
Apostrophe'
Cosmik Debris
Stick It Out
Joe's Garage
I'm the Slime
"I like to think oysters transcend national barriers." - Roger Waters
Back to Top
sublime220 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 21 2015
Location: Willow Farm
Status: Offline
Points: 1563 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2015 at 18:05
Always liked The Mothers a lot more than the solo so it may not be the best starter place.

1. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
2. Trouble Every Day
3. Help, I'm a Rock! Suite
4. Plastic People
5. Brown Shoes Don't Make It
6. Concentration Moon
7. The King Kong Suite
8. The Gumbo Variations
9. The Little House I Used To Live In
10. Inca Roads
There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
Back to Top
dwill123 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 19 2006
Status: Offline
Points: 4455 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2015 at 18:31
Brown Shoes Don't Make It
Peaches en Regalia
Willie The Pimp
The Little House I Used to Live In
Camarillo Brillo
Billy The Mountain
Cosmik Debris
Apostrophe'
Black Napkins
Sex
Back to Top
Friday13th View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: April 30 2013
Status: Offline
Points: 284 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2015 at 18:31
1. Peaches en Regalia
2. King Kong 
3. Inca Roads
4. Dog Breath
5. Brown Shoes
6. Willie the Pimp
7. Eat that Question
8. Call Any Vegetable
9. Montana
10. Gumbo Variations
Back to Top
The Sloth View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: October 05 2013
Status: Offline
Points: 115 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2015 at 18:47
1. Inca Roads
2. Peaches En Regalia
3. The Black Page #1
4. Packard Goose
5. I'm the Slime
6. The Torture Never Stops
7. Uncle Remus
8. Sofa
9. Revised Music for Guitar and Low Budget Orchestra 
10. Blessed Relief
Back to Top
Horizons View Drop Down
Collaborator
Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: January 20 2011
Location: Somewhere Else
Status: Offline
Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 10 2015 at 21:51
Zappa has 10 good songs :O?

Embarrassed
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
Back to Top
Metalmarsh89 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 15 2013
Location: Oregon, USA
Status: Offline
Points: 2673 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2015 at 10:11
I've only got 7 of his albums, but 4 of them I easily like more than the other three, so this list comes from those four albums. Hot Rats, Waka/Jawaka, and Apostrophe are 5 star albums, and Joe's Garage has a few great tracks, especially near the end.


1) Waka/Jawaka
2) Son of Mr. Green Genes
3) Willie the Pimp
4) The Gumbo Variations
5) Packard Goose
6) Watermelon in Easter Hay
7) Peaches En Regalia
8) Don't Eat the Yellow Snow - the whole suite
9) Apostrophe
10) Big Swifty

I've also got Tinseltown Rebellion (good album), You Are What You Is (meh), and One Size Fits All (not very familiar with).
Want to play mafia? Visit here.
Back to Top
The Sloth View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: October 05 2013
Status: Offline
Points: 115 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2015 at 12:10
OSFA and You Are What You Is are great albums. There are a couple YAWYI songs that almost made my top 10, Dumb All Over and Heavenly Bank Account. A couple of the suites on that album are classic Zappa, with some of his most confident, biting cynicism. Throw on Beauty Knows No Pain, and tell me that isn't awesome. 
Back to Top
zachfive View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: November 13 2005
Location: Kitsap WA
Status: Offline
Points: 770 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2015 at 01:04
The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution
Oh No
Sofa No #1
Black Page #2
Flakes
For Calvin (and his next two hitch-hockers)
A Token of My Extreme
G-Spot Tornado
Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk
Brown Shoes Don't Make It
Back to Top
agw801 View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: July 22 2015
Location: Wisconsin
Status: Offline
Points: 16 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2015 at 19:21
Peaches in Regalia
Blessed Relief
Five-Five-Five
Eat That Question
The Gumbo Variations
Camarillo Brillo
The Grand Wazoo
Son of Mr. Green Genes
Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
Back to Top
TornadoTongue View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: June 20 2015
Location: UK
Status: Offline
Points: 34 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 23 2015 at 17:26
Too many but Inca Roads would be high.
Back to Top
The.Crimson.King View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: March 29 2013
Location: WA
Status: Offline
Points: 4591 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 23 2015 at 18:35
Bobby Brown Goes Down
Absolutely Free
The Grand Wazoo (not the 1972 band, but the Captain Beefheart narrated version on "The Lost Episodes")
Welcome to the United States
Strictly Genteel
Teenage Prostitute
Do You Like My New Car?/Happy Together
Dog Breath in the Year of the Plague
The Dangerous Kitchen
Status Back Baby
Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.223 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.