Top Five Zappa Albums
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Topic: Top Five Zappa Albums
Posted By: Argo2112
Subject: Top Five Zappa Albums
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 08:24
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Frank Zappa hand an incredibly prolific career with so many great albums. Here's my list:
What are your top five Zappa albums? |
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Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 08:36
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Today, my top 5 will look like this: 1. Burnt Weeny Sandwich 2. Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 3. Hot Rats 4. Over-Nite Sensation 5. Freak Out!
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 09:03
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Almost impossible. 1. One Size Fits All 2. The Grand Wazoo 3. Over-Nite Sensation 4. Roxy & Elsewhere 5. The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 09:31
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Grand Wazoo Waka/Jawaka Hot Rats Sleep Dirt One Size Fits All (no order, BTW)
------------- 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: Ronstein
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 09:43
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1. Over-Nite Sensation (my proper introduction to FZ) 2. The Best Band you Never Heard in your Life 3. Thing-Fish 4. We're Only In It For The Money 5. Apostrophe
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 10:47
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Hot Rats Waka Jawaka Grand Wazoo Apostrophe Overnite Sensation ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 11:11
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1. Uncle Meat 2. Weasels Ripped My Flesh 3. We're Only In It For The Money 4. Roxy & Elsewhere 5. Lumpy Gravy
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Posted By: yogev
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 11:16
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1. Changa's Revenge 2. The Grand Wazoo 3. Apostrophe 4. Over-Nite Sensation 5. Sleep Dirt
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Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 11:20
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1 - Hot Rats 2 - One Size Fits All
3 - Waka Jawaka 4 - Grand Wazoo 5 - Overnite Sensation |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 12:18
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My five Zappa albums are: 1. Hot Rats 2. Changa's Revenge 3. Weasels Ripped My Flesh 4. Freak Out! 5. Joe' s Garage ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 14:00
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Hot Rats One Size Overnight Grand Wazoo Apostrophe ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 14:23
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No. Too hard. I suppose they'd all be live albums (or partly live with the overdubs). Even more if you include ZFT releases. Ok maybe I'll try. Only releases while he was alive, no You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore comps. 5. Tinseltown Rebellion 4. The Best Band You've Never Heard in Your Life 3. Live in NY (including Deluxe if you include ZFT) 2. Make a Jazz Noise Here 1. Roxy (tied with ZFT releases like Roxy by Proxy and the full Roxy Performances box set)
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 15:18
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1. 200 Motels 2. Lumpy Gravy 3. We’re Only in it for the Money 4. Absolutely Free 5. Uncle Meat 6. Civilization Phaze 3 ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Tancos
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 15:27
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1. Weasels Ripped My Flesh 2. We're Only in It for the Money 3. Freak Out 4. Absolutely Free 5. Hot Rats
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 15:28
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Grand Wazoo Hot Rats Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Over-Nite Sensation Uncle Meat
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Posted By: Crane
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 18:23
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I don’t know if I can really make a top 5... feels like choosing a favourite child! Before I overthink it, here are what come to mind. Them Or Us Hot Rats Zoot Allures One Size Fits All Apostrophe (‘) I want to include more! ------------- “Art is the recognition of the universal presence of God.” —Ernest Hello |
Posted By: Crane
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 18:25
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BTW, ‘Them Or Us’ is an overlooked gem in his oeuvre! ------------- “Art is the recognition of the universal presence of God.” —Ernest Hello |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 19 2021 at 18:26
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man that is hard.. Hot Rats Apostrophe Joe's Garage Freak Out Absolutely Free ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: March 20 2021 at 00:49
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Hot rats The Grand Wazoo Absolutely Free Freak Out We're only in it for the money ------------- Levitating downwards, atomic feedback scream. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 20 2021 at 00:51
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One Size Fits All The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life The Grand Wazoo Uncle Meat Weasels Ripped My Flesh ------------- 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: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: March 20 2021 at 01:29
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1. One Size Fits All 2. The Grand Wazoo 3. Waka/Jawaka 4. Hot Rats 5. Joe's Garage ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: March 20 2021 at 11:32
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Won't include live albums - that should be a separate category: Grand Wazoo Waka/Jawaka Uncle Meat One Size Fits All Sleep Dirt Apostrophe, Hot Rats, Overnight Sensation, Chunga's and You Are What You Is would slide right into any of those positions on any given day of the week. I guess you'd call it my Top 5 on the morning of March, 20, 2021. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 20 2021 at 11:39
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Hot Rats Apostrophe Overnite Sensation We're Only In It For The Money Freak Out ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: March 20 2021 at 16:11
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One Size Fits All Apostrophe Over-Nite Sensation Studio Tan 200 Motels
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 20 2021 at 22:30
Hi, I have too many of his albums to think that one is better than the other. I happen to be one of the few that thinks that "200 Motels" is a fantastic thing, and the live presentation of it at UCLA showed how great it was many years later before Gail passed away. As much as I like ONS and AP ... I really think that they were albums done almost exclusively for the HOT ... VERY HOT ... FM Radio of the days, specially in Southern California ... and all of a sudden, when KMET and KLOS could play some of those things, it meant ... FZ is big and now accepted, and sadly, this leaves behind the great legacy that he had already built ... which for me is far better than these two albums almost setup for radio, and sometimes I like to think of them as not exactly representative of FZ's catalogue ... it's just that more rock songs, are more appreciated for the rock music fans, than some silly words about toothpaste and Donovan, which many rock folks think is really stupid and do not get the satirical side of it, and how well thought out it was in the first place. All in all ... I can't say I have a favorite album since I have around 20 different titles by FZ starting from the early days ... and choosing one over the other ... is heck on my thinking ... too many battles! So for me ... all or nothing! Specially when I don't go around asking which of Beethoven's 9 Symphonies is my favorite ... I can't even decide on those! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Argo2112 wrote:Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 20 2021 at 22:51
The premise of the thread is quite simple. You pick a few of your favorites, and you move on. You don't drunkenly rabbit on for several paragraphs about nonsense that has nothing to do with the thread. In this instance, take your own advice: "all or nothing". And I would suggest that "nothing" from you would be appreciated. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: deafmoon
Date Posted: March 21 2021 at 06:45
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One Size Fits All, Apostrophe, Over-Nite Sensation, Joes Garage, You Are What You Is ------------- Deafmoon |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: March 21 2021 at 07:26
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1 We're Only in It for the Money 2 Freak Out 3 Sheik Yerbouti 4 Absolutely Free 5 Lumpy Gravy
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Posted By: thief
Date Posted: March 23 2021 at 09:26
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Off the top of my head and cheating a bit 5. One Size Fits All 4. Over-Nite Sensation 3. Hot Rats 2. Joe's Garage 1. Waka/Jawaka Shut Up and Wazoo just missed the cut today ------------- TOP20 Songs https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=124211" rel="nofollow - Genesis https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=125999" rel="nofollow - Rush |