Top 5 Zappa Albums?
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Topic: Top 5 Zappa Albums?
Posted By: ProgBagel
Subject: Top 5 Zappa Albums?
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 20:44
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Haven't heard all of them, isn't that commonplace though?
1. The Grand Wazoo 2. Hot Rats 3. We're Only in it for the Money 4. Sheik Yerbouti 5. Freak Out! Need....more. |
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 20:50
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1 Zoot Allures
2 Hot Rats 3 Zappa in New York(ahh, heard it yesterday night, great Eddie Jobson) 4 Grand Wazoo 5 Roxy & Elsewhere or Joe's Garage or Chunga's Revenge. I need more too, though. |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 20:59
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I only have 40 or 50 of FZ's albums. Top 5 is hard to do. Do I choose one from each era? Do I ignore the early albums, many of which are easily five star, so that I can include some of the later albums? Well here's a try, though it will change depending which way the wind blows:
1. One Size Fits All (probably FZ's finest album, ever)
2. We're Only In It For the Money
3. Burnt Weenie Sandwich
4. Sheik Yerbouti
5. The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life
Honorable mention goes to about another dozen albums, which didn't make the top 5 due to quality control issues in the UMRK.
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Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: June 17 2008 at 21:03
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1. Over-nite Sensation 2. Hot Rats 3. Sheik Yerbouti 4. Zoot Allures 5 . Burnt Weeny Sandwich but ask again in hour time could be 5 different ------------- 
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 04:23
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Dang, who has had time to listen to all of Zappa?
From the ones I've heard.....
1. Apostrophe
2. Hot Rats
3. Joe's Garage
4. Sheik Yerbouti
5. One Size Fits All
Honorable mention to Waka-Jawaka.
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Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: June 18 2008 at 04:33
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1) One Size Fits All
2) Roxy and Elsewhere (and therefore "You Cant' Do That On Stage Any More Vol. 2")
3) Apostrophe
4) Civilization Phase III
5) You Are What You Is
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 02:34
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1, Hot Rats 2, Fillmore East 1971 3. Waka/Jawaka 4. Man From Utopia 5. Yellow Shark |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: June 19 2008 at 18:13
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1. Were only in it for the money
2. Freak out!
3. Hot Rats
4. Apostrophe
5. Strictly Commercial The best of Frank Zappa
I allso got Sheik Yerbouti which i dont like very much planing to buy some more soon tough. ------------- 
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: July 14 2008 at 11:08
I have almost 50 Zappa albums.   Here's my personal top 5 (or roughly): 1. Hot Rats 2. Joe's Garage 3. One Size Fits All 4. We're Only In It for the Money 5. Over-nite Sensation So many good choices!!  ------------- 
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Posted By: Astrodomine
Date Posted: July 15 2008 at 08:36
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1 - Weasels Ripped My Flesh 2 - Uncle Meat 3 - We're Only In It For The Money 4 - Sheik Yerbouti 5 - One Size Fits All |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: July 16 2008 at 14:42
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Very hard to choose but there's no thought required for my favourite which is...........
1. One Size Fits All
then it gets harder.....perhaps......
2. Over-nite Sensation
3. Joe's Garage
4. Apostrophe
5. Zoot Allures
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Posted By: Speesh
Date Posted: July 18 2008 at 22:01
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Hmm...well I haven't heard it all, but its gotta be something like: Hot Rats Grand Wazoo One Size Fits All Roxy & Elsewhere Sheik Yerbouti Based on what I've heard from them, I have very high hopes for Uncle Meat, Zoot Allures, Civilization Phase III, and Joe's Garage. I really need to get listening. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: July 19 2008 at 13:16
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1. One Size Fits All
2. The Grand Wazoo
3. Roxy & Elsewhere
4. Studio Tan
5. Uncle Meat
Something like this!
 ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 19 2008 at 14:20
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ugh, why does EVERYONE have Hot Rats on their list? if it was top 10, then ok in this order 1. Make A Jazz Noise Here 2. Lather 3. Roxy & Elsewhere 4. One Size Fits All 5. The Grand Wazoo honorable mentions go out to Joe's Garage, Uncle Meat, Zappa New York, Hot Rats, Imaginary Diseases, and sooooo many more.... btw does anyone besides me own Lather and none of the off-shoot albums (besides New York cause that's an exception) i find Lather to be sooooo much better than the individual albums of Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt, Orchestral Favorites (though it has a couple of tracks that arent on Lather). Lather has this quality to it that i dont get from any other Zappa album. It's also EPIC! 3 Cds will do that. i think Lather is the ultimate Zappa album, yet no one talks about it, aside from the legal dispute that went over it in the 70s. If it was released back then like it was supposed to, it would probably be in the top 10 ON THIS SITE, been talked about just as much as OSFA, Hot Rats, Roxy, O-NS and WOIIFTM are, not to mention the music scene would have blown up if it were released like it was supposed to back then. Cmon guys! Lather is THE Zappa album. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: July 20 2008 at 20:31
| I have Lather. It's another great FZ album. I wouldn't put it in my top 5 (not today anyway), but it's a great achievement and as you say had it been released as intended would have much more respect. I believe Warner Bros. deliberately made it appear as bad as possible in hopes of teaching FZ a lesson. Idiots. |
Posted By: febus
Date Posted: July 20 2008 at 22:48
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Very difficult to choose only 5 as there are so many that good!
For today,
1-THE GRAND WAZO0
 2-YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE (Helsinki concert) Vol2
3-SHEIK YERBOUTI
4-ONE SIZE FITS ALL
5-HOT RATS
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 20 2008 at 23:41
i think they thought it wouldnt sell. Cmon, if i was a Frank Zappa fan back in the 70s and I saw his new album was a 4 LP album, i'd freak out and buy it immediately! 4 LP's worth of FZ music!! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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jammun wrote:Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: July 20 2008 at 23:48
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top ones that I've heard
1. We're Only in it for the Money 2. Freak Out! 3. Over-Nite Sensation 4. Apostrophe 5. Joe's Garage -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: July 21 2008 at 20:04
I would have bought it too. In fact, i did buy it (in a roundabout way, one album at a time, though not sequenced nor presented as FZ intended).
I didn't know the Lather story at the time, so I was confused as to why FZ had suddenly become fond of butt-fugly album covers with no notes, no credits, etc., when before he had been absolutely meticulous about the quality of the packaging, listing song credits, etc. That's why I say WB was trying to put these in as bad a light as possible. Maybe they were just being cheap. There was no shortage of bad blood between the two parties.
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 22 2008 at 20:39
its a shame too, because the music contained within Lather (or the separate albums) is some of his best ever and doesnt get the attention other albums get (mostly hot rats and his 1972-1975 albums) it also marked a turning point in his career because the music and lyrics afterwards got way more cynical and angry ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: July 22 2008 at 23:07
Yeah, I don't understand the position that Hot Rats holds amongst FZ listeners. Yes it is a good album (and also has what is probably his finest song, of course Peaches). But listen to the ten or whatever albums that came before and the albums that came after and Hot Rats is completely overwhelmed by the others. Maybe it's that it was the first album where he really let loose on the guitar.
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Posted By: RoidRageOnStage
Date Posted: October 28 2008 at 13:24
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1. Burnt Weeny Sandwich 2. The Grand Wazoo 3. Uncle Meat 4. Hot Rats 5. Studio Tan |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: October 28 2008 at 13:35
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The Grand Wazoo Uncle Meat Apostrophe Overnite Sensation *insert album here* In no particular order |