SHEIK YERBOUTI

Ok, now when I was 15 I heard this. Before I heard this album in my life, I was mostly an unhappy person. I had not liked any band at any sufficient amount to listen to their albums at all. Lets just say my music taste was mainly restricted to nothing because of all the crappy music I heard before this.

Then... this... I was intrigued by the front cover (Zappa's mustache is da' coolest). I bought it and put it in my cd player and the first track "I Have Been In You" was so cool. I thought to myself "Wow this is entertaining". Then the next tracks to follow, "Flakes", "Broken Hearts Are for Assholes", "I'm So Cute", and "Jones Crusher" are all funny, musically terrific, and in short entertaiing. I was quickly realizing the importance of quality music in a human's lifestyle. Then.... "Rat Tomago" I got chills. I never got that from music before. The way Zappa plays guitar is unique, one reason is hes self-taught. Plus his style of composition in music is completely unique. Anyways, so far the music is professional, Bozzio's drums are magical, and hes crazy.. playing drums and singing at the same time in im so cute and broken hearts. Zappa has obvious Larynx damage from the 72' accident, but even more now because of the accumulation of his cigarette smoking of the mass, which gives a neat esscence to his lyrics, which I enjoy because it adds in a to his style in a good strange way.

The next tracks, "Wait a Minute" before tomago, and "What Ever Happened To All The Fun In The World" break up the tracks at 30 seconds each. Both neat clips that make sense if you listen to Zappa's music for years consistently like I have.

"Bobby Brown Goes Down" is funny as hell, presenting some of Zappa's best of his "Dumb Humor" that pleased his "Zappa in New York" type audiences. "Rubber Shirt" a frankenstein song of Patrick O'Hearn's Bass and Bozzio's drums in a overdubbage masterpiece, the song starts and ends and slips into the next perfectly. Then "The Sheik Yerbouti Tango" an impressive guitar solo song like Rat Tomago. Clearly shows Zappa's mastering of guitar feedback at the end of the 70's.

"Baby Snakes"and "Trying to Grow a Chin" are clever pieces, and both highly entertaining in all ways possible. Then "City of Tiny Lights", brilliant singing compliments of Adrian Belew, excellent familiar rough voice of Frank's, and his kick ass guitar solo and keyboard arrangements in the song. Highly entertaining in all ways as well.

We now are reaching the end of the epic with "Jewish Princess", a hilarious lyrical masterpiece, and of course created laughs and controversy among all.

Then after jewish princess we got "Wild Love" with the masterful sounds that create chills. And when I listened to this album the first time I am right now already blown away, but then after wild love there is the epic. "Yo Mama" sort of has a magical sound, not like things you will hear anywhere else in your lifetime. It a sound that in it's self states the end of the 70's Phase of Zappa.

His guitar playing and the keyboards create a magical aurora along with his now straining lyrics and guitar that clearly shows the sign of a man passing his prime and falling into a fate of early death, and after this album you clearly hear a esscence missing in all of his songs. Its nothing bad mind you, everything Zappa does is brilliant, but there is a feeling of life to his 70's work that is sadly not there in the 80's because he was literally killing himself with overloads of coffee and cigarettes and 15 hour workdays. This led to his early demise.

But all in all this is a fantastic album for new Zappa listeners, and it is musically amazing, you dont find albums like this one every day.