FREAK OUT! – Mothers Of Invention – Verve V/V6-500502
A powerful rock outing on which the Mothers Of Invention live up to their name by using such instruments as finger cymbals, bobby pins & tweezers, and guitarron in addition to the usual complement of guitars, harmonica, tambourine, bass, and drums. The album is colorfully packaged and contains extensive liner notes. “Hungry Freaks, Daddy,” “Who Are the Brain Police?,” and “Motherly Love” are among the better tracks.

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TROUBLE COMIN’ EVERY DAY (2:28) [Frank Zappa, BMI – Zappa]
WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE (3:22) [Frank Zappa, BMI – Zappa]
MOTHERS OF INVENTION (Verve 10458)
This wild workout by the Mothers of Invention, called “Trouble Comin’ Every Day,” is just far enough to attract lots of attention from buyers and spinners. Group may finally break out with this one. “Who Are The Brain Police” is an eerie cacophony in the psychedelic vein.

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MOTHERS OF INVENTION (Verve 10513)
• WHY DON’T YOU DO ME RIGHT (2:38) [Frank Zappa, BMI – Zappa]
The Mothers of Invention could score quickly with this funky, hard-driving knee-slapper. Don’t let it out of your sight.
(B+) BIG LEG EMMA (2:32) [Frank Zappa, BMI – Zappa]
Freaky finger-snapper with an amusing lyric.

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ABSOLUTELY FREE – Mothers Of Invention – Verve V 5013/V 6-5013
The Mothers of Invention invent a series of psychedelic shafts which they aim at what they consider to be the hypocrisies and ugliriesses of America. The sounds come fast and furiously in such outings as “Call Any Vegetable,” “Status Back Baby,” “Son Of Suzy Creamcheese,” and “America Drinks & Goes Home.” The album is likely to spread the message of the Mothers of Invention far and wide.

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SONICS (Uni 55039) Any Way The Wind Blows (2:50) [Frank Zappa, BMI-Zappa]
The Sonics could fly high with this inventive, mid-tempo woes item. Nice effort by the group. No flip info available.

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MOTHERS OF INVENTION (Verve 10570) Lonely Little Girl (2:44) [Frank Zappa, BMI-Zappa]
Interesting rock ballad about a girl whose parents don’t understand her. Song speeds up as the lyrics explain that “there will come a time when everybody who is lonely will be free to sing and dance and love.” Could click.
Flip: “Mother People” (2:30) [Frank Zappa, BMI-Zappa]

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WE’RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY – Mothers of Invention – Verve V/V6 5045X
Mothers of Invention leader Frank Zappa created this album. The double-fold jacket is a “Sergeant Pepper” jacket turned inside out, and the LP itself is a reply to the Beatles’ renowned album. The songs, like some of the songs on “Sergeant Pepper,” look ruefully on various aspects of modern life (“phony hippies,” the “American Way,” “American Womanhood”), and the last track, a horror-invoking electronic instrumental, ends, like “Sergeant Pepper,” with a long, doom-filled piano chord.

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LUMPY GRAVY – Frank Zappa – Verve V/V6 8741
Frank Zappa, leader of the underground rock group, the Mothers of Invention, conducts Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orch. & Chorus and, according to the jacket, “maybe even some of the Mothers of Invention,” in his own composition, “Lumpy Gravy.” The work is in two modern symphonic parts, one on each side of the LP. “Is this Phase 2 of ‘We’re Only In It For The Money’?” (the Mothers’ last album). Zappa asks on the back of the jacket. Who knows?

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CRUISING WITH RUBEN & THE JETS – Mothers Of Invention – Verve V6 5055-X
"Is this the Mothers of Invention recording under a different name in a last ditch attempt to get their cruddy music on the radio?" the monstrous cartoon figure of Mothers of Invention leader, Frank Zappa, asks on the front of this album. Adopting the style of a 1950's teenage Italian Bronx pop group, the Mothers in effect are saying that trite, juvenile music, full of implied lust, can get airplay easily, but their own music, more original, mature and explicit, is banned by all but the underground stations. Interesting.

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Frank Zappa is an underground. Since he first came to public attention with the Mothers of Invention, Zappa has been the most admired, if least understood, of current crop of musicians. His musical talents, his offbeat (and sometimes in person) stage manner, and his business acumen have contributed to an ever-changing pied piper image.

Mixing satire with progressive musicianship, Zappa has been humorously putting down commercialism (i.e. a recent Mother's album called "We're Only In It For the Money") while racking up sales of over 200,000 units for each of the group's three albums. Their fourth and current Verve/Forecast set, Reuben & the Jets, a satirical but authentic look at 1958 rock & roll groups, is their biggest set to date.

Zappa's newly-formed Bizarre Productions has recently signed distribution deal with Reprise (see story on Pg. 10), with the Mothers themselves set to debut on the label this month.

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UNCLE MEAT – Mothers Of Invention – Bizarre 2024
The Mothers Of Invention's first LP for their own Reprise-distributed Bizarre label is a two-disk set featuring music from their unreleased (because it's unfinished) movie, "Uncle Meat." The music is in the old Mothers rambling tradition (mainly since it was recorded in late '67 and early '68). The first three sides feature a variety of never-on-disk originals, accompanied by Zappa's comments, while side four features 6 versions of "King Kong," another Zappa theme. Immediate reaction expected.

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HOT RATS – Frank Zappa – Bizarre RS 6356
Frank Zappa, without his famous Mothers Of Invention, comes across with a set that is primarily instrumental. A departure from the rock funk put-on style of his earlier efforts, the new Zappa sound leans very heavily on jazz sounds and may create for Zappa a new market. Heavy rhythms bounce throughout and the level of musicianship is high. Should attract attention.

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BURNT WEENY SANDWICH – Mothers Of Invention – Bizarre RS 6370
Satires on 1950’s teen songs, like those on the Mothers’ “Ruben and The Jets” album, open and close this set. The rest of the LP contains instrumental music of various kinds. “Igor’s Boogie” is in a modern classical vein; “Overture To A Holiday In Berlin” seems to be laughing at the kind of music that might be heard in a travelogue; “Little House I Used To Live In” is a 21:52 instrumental whose form and style are so free that the listener will have to categorize the piece for himself. The Mothers still count for chart action. Stock this one.

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FILLMORE EAST, JUNE 1971 – The Mothers – Reprise-Bizarre MS 2042
A totally live LP from the ever-changing, ever-constant Mothers – the only true rock answer to P. D. Q. Bach. Their fans are a devoted lot who take whatever Zappa and his band at the time happen to be serving up. This time, there's a comedy song, "Do You Like My New Car?" and a rather faithful rehash of the Turtles' classic "Happy Together." Album art can only be described as minimal scrawl, but the goings-on within maximize both the Zappa and Fillmore myths and as such, could prove their most saleable LP to date.

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FRANK ZAPPA'S 200 MOTELS – The Mothers Of Invention/Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – United Artists UA S-9956
A departure from most soundtracks in ways too numerous to go into here; but then again, when Zappa joins forces with Theodore Bikel and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, you weren't really expecting "Love Story" now, were you? Two-record set would make Frank's favorite composer, Edgard Varese, happy. 'Cept he's dead. Small matter, though. Definitely will make its effect felt on charts and minds, universe-wide. For a more detailed description, see your friendly neighborhood thesaurus under "eclectic."

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JUST ANOTHER BAND FROM L.A. – The Mothers – Bizarre/Reprise 2075
This live Mothers set was recorded last summer at U.C.L.A. The bulk of it is new material, including a twenty five minute mini-opera entitled "Billy The Mountain" which comprises one side. The accent on this piece as well as on most of the others seems to be on comedy rather than instrumentation. In a more familiar vein, "Call Any Vegetable" is included. Frank Zappa and his cohorts have a dedicated following which should soon catapult this offering onto the best seller chart.

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WAKA/JAWAKA-HOT RATS – Frank Zappa – Bizarre Reprise 2094
"Sometimes I feel like a Motherless child," Frank Zappa might well have sung on this excursion sans his usual traveling mates. Instead he has chosen to concentrate on a freewheeling improvisational semi-jazz type set which has much to offer. Side one which consists of a seventeen minute thing called "Big Swifty," is a fascinating example of Zappa's instrumental technique while side two contains a couple of vocal numbers more in keeping with the Mothers' standard madcap fare. Should scurry onto the album chart before long.

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OVER-NITE SENSATION – The Mothers – Discreet/Warner Brothers-MS 2149
It's been a long time since we've heard from the Mothers, but a visit from Frank Zappa is one that's not forgotten anyway. This one promises to stick for even longer than that. In their usual rock abstraction, the group delightfully prances through seven tracks of absolutely unorthodox music. The titles of these tracks (as usual) are just as entertaining as the recordings and these include "Camarillo Brillo," "I'm The Slime," "Zomby Woof," "Dinah Moe Humm" and "Dirty Love" to mention a few. Again, the cover art is sheer magnificence and another great introduction to another outrageously fine Mothers collection.

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APOSTROPHE(’) – Frank Zappa – Discreet DS 2175
Once again the fertile, zany mind of Frank Zappa has come up with an inscrutable collection of tunes that are guaranteed to have you listening several times to figure out the clever lyrics. High-lighted by such gems as "Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow,” "Nanook Rubs It,” “Stink-Foot,” and “Excentrifugal Forz,” the package is a further excursion into the mysterious and totally unpredictable sense of Zappa humor. But the lyrics are augmented by brilliant and equally imaginative arrangements and orchestration, a key to all the artist’s work. We like “Father O’Blivion.”

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Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention have been through quite an odyssey in their career which has seen the zany and prolific genius and his cohorts consistently delight avant garde music fans everywhere with no less than 20 wild and wonderful records. Currently represented on th CASH BOX charts with his DisCreet LP, "A'POS!TRO'PHE," Zappa and friends have never ceased to come up with refreshing new material.

One of the most sought after concert acts in pop music both here and abroad, Frank and the Mothers have proven that their inventiveness on record is a direct carry-over from their recording talent and capability. With his new LP proving to be his best seller, Zappa's tenth anniversary is indeed a happy and profitable one.

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ROXY & ELSEWHERE – Frank Zappa/Mothers – Producer: Zappa – DiscReet/WB 2DS 2202
Most of the songs on this new Zappa/Mothers LP was recorded in Dec., '73 at Hollywood's Roxy Theatre and another large portion from road tapes, but any way you slice the cake, it comes up "definitively Zappa." The album has a way of growing on you (or in you if you're crazy enough to swallow it) and the typical craziness that has made Frank and the Mothers so popular today is here in abundance. Particularly fine cuts include "Penguin In Bondage," "Be-Bop Tango" and "Pygmy Twylyte."

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ONE SIZE FITS ALL – Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention – DiscReet DS 2216 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List: 6.98
Frank Zappa's latest excursion into the world of the musical surreal has a large amount of consistency going for it. “One Size Fits All” is a constant bombardment of sound that defies the listener to guess what's coming up next. Top cuts on this progressive tour de force are “Evelyn, A Modified Dog,” “Po Jama People" and a genuine slice of heavymetal raunch on "Can’t Afford
No Shoes." “One Size Fits All" is a compendium of musical experiences that lets just a little bit more of Zappa's head out into the light of day.

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BONGO FURY – Zappa/Beefheart/Mothers – Warner Bros. DS 2234 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List: 6.98
Listening to "Bongo Fury," one gets the feeling that Frank Zappa is doing something every pretender to the legitimate musical crown wishes he had the guts to do. Zappa and the Mothers, aided by the antics of Captain Beefheart, indulge in a series of surrealistic exorcisms that drag kicking and screaming the erratic that lurks in every serious composition. As is always the case with a Zappa effort, lyrics and music share the pedestal of this Mother's creative mind. "Bongo Fury” is the positive results of losing control

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GOOD SINGIN’, GOOD PLAYIN’ – Grand Funk Railroad – MCA-2216 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List: 6,98
Another new direction for Grand Funk – this time with musical innovator Frank Zappa at the controls. This LP is not unlike earlier Grand Funk efforts in its level of power and intensity, but the production efforts of Zappa are truly notable of mention – the overall sound of the LP is real clean. The actual content doesn’t really reflect Zappa’s influence (excepting “Big Buns”), rather it’s in the vein that Grand Funk has dominated since the group’s inception – good-time boogie-rock with an emphasis on the
boogie.

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ZAPPA IN NEW YORK – Frank Zappa – Warner Bros. 2D 2290 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List: 11.98
More than a year ago Frank Zappa and company, which includes the Brecker Brothers and Don Pardo this time out, swept into the Big Apple for seven sellout appearances, the highlights of which have been recorded for posterity on this 2-LP set. Among the most outrageous cuts – remember this is Zappa – are the Satanic dialogue in “Titties & Beer” and “The Illinois Enema Bandit,” based on the bandit's true adventures.

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STUDIO TAN – Frank Zappa – DiscReet DSK 2291 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List: 7.98
"Studio Tan" is a Zappa album with a definite Zappaesque feeling to it. Side one features "Greggery Peccary," a continuation of Zappa's musical journey through another portion of white collar America. Side two contains three compositions: one about going to the beach, and the remaining two featuring a man and his faithful control board at play. For AOR not afraid of (clean) humor backed by a multi-tracked Munchkin jazz ensemble on whites.

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SHEIK YERBOUTI – Frank Zappa – Zappa SRZ 2-1501 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List: 13.98
After a lingering legal tussle with former company Warner Bros., Frank has finally come out with the genuine article. A double-album's worth of Zappa's wry and often caustic wit combined with innovative jazz-rock arrangements, this record has an accessibility he has rarely displayed since the popular "Apostrophe." Many of the basic tracks were recorded live in London and New York and overdubbed in the studio, giving them an agressive edge. For AOR formats.

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ORCHESTRAL FAVORITES – Frank Zappa – Discreet DSK 2294 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List: 7.98
As his final commitment to Warner Bros., Frank Zappa has issued a collection of fully orchestrated, non-vocal, chaotic odes to his musical past; sort of what George Martin did with Beatle songs. One track, "Duke Of Prunes," for instance, seems to be a musical epitaph for that venerable Zappa-created character who's now just so much history. The Duke and his magic go-cart will be missed but he just didn't develop into a dancin' fool. A release primarily geared for consumption by Zappa fans.

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JOE'S GARAGE, ACT I – Frank Zappa – Zappa Records SRZ-1-1603 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List 8.98
The unpredictable Mr. Zappa has finally gotten his wish, and now has his own label. The first fruit from Zappa Records is one of the best LPs that this mother of invention has put out in a long time. Frank is at his most bizarre musically and lyrically and the first LP of this three-album concept piece has a continual Looney Tune feel to it. Zappa has one of the largest musical vocabularies of any modern day musician and he exercises it freely on "Wet T-Shirt Nite," "Catholic Girls" and "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee."

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FRANK ZAPPA (Zappa Z-31) Joe's Garage (4:06) (Munchkin Music - ASCAP) (F. Zappa)
The edited title cut from act one of Zappa's humorously off-beat trilogy, dealing with the misfortunes of your typical garage band, is the usual melange of references to assorted musical forms that the eccentric performer is known for. AOR will love it.

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JOE'S GARAGE, ACTS II & III – Frank Zappa – Zappa SRZ-2-1502 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List: 13.98
The "Joe's Garage" trilogy is now complete. Chief protagonist Joe, along with the Greek chorus presence of the "Central Scrutinizer," continues his Flying Dutchman journey through modern civilization's more ephemeral commodities: love and sex. Hence the omnipresent cautionary sticker on the shrink wrap. In truth, this is the culmination of over a decade's worth of studio time spent by Zappa in the pursuit of an environment to play his guitar in ... which he does unlike anyone else has before or ever will.

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FRANK ZAPPA (Zappa ZRP-21) I Don’t Wanna Get Drafted (3:10) (Publisher not listed) (F. Zappa)
Zappa has parted ways with Phonogram/Mercury and ventured out on the independent route with his first single, a witty little retort to any possibility of reinstating the draft. As usual, Mr. Z's humor here is filled with the type of innuendo that adolescents love and the melody is crackerjack. AOR programmers will love it . . . it’s a way of life.

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TINSELTOWN REBELLION – Frank Zappa – Barking Pumpkin PW2 37336 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List: 13.98
Fearless Frank never falls to amuse. Impress and cool the critics with a few musical gems on each album. The debut effort for the recently christened Barking Pumpkin label is no exception. Most of the jazz rock fusion on "Tinseltown Rebellion” features hot guitar and those looney tune horn and xylophone breaks that everyone has come to know and love. With his usual rapier wit, Frank zaps ladies undergarments, the L.A. music scene and love in general here.

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YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS – Frank Zappa – Barking Pumpkin PW2 37537 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List: None
Ever since Frank Zappa formed an L.A.-based musical aggregation called The Mothers Of Invention he's sounded like he's been recording in Munchkin land. It always sounds like he's turned the cast of a Fellini film loose in the studio. He never fails to delight and amuse and prove he is one hell of a guitar player. His axe work, a reunion with the original Mothers and a novelty tune, "Goblin Girl," make this wonderous record worth the price of admission alone.

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SHIP ARRIVING TOO LATE TO SAVE A DROWNING WITCH – Frank Zappa – Barking Pumpkin FW 38066 – Producer:
Frank Zappa – List: 8.98
In what may be Zappa’s most accessible album since "Sheik Yer Booti,” the man from Cucamonga, Calif, offers a lesson in procrastination (“No Not Now"), a brief tale of an adolescent strumpet (“Teen Age Prostitute”), as well as a weird instrumental number (“Envelopes”). Top cut, however, is “Valley Girls,” a hilarious tune dedicated to the young women of L.A.’s San Fernando Valley and narrated by Zappa’s daughter, Moon. Already a staple on some progressive rock outlets, the song is making Zappa’s 14-year-old offspring a celebrity in her own right.

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When Frank Zappa first started in the music business making the rounds at various record companies, label executives rejected his work, claiming it held absolutely "no commercial potential." What they failed to see was the unique nature of the singer/composer/guitarist's talent, and today, after earning numerous accolades as an innovative creator of classic craziness, bionic funk and other genres of spatial zonery, Zappa (aided by daughter Moon Unit) is reaching a wider audience through the "Valley Girl" single from his latest LP, "Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch."

Over the years Mr. Z. has composed dozens of off-the-wall songs, such as "Muffin Man," "Son Of Suzy Creamcheese," Cosmik Debris," "Illinois Enema Bandit" and "Penguin in Bondage," but none of them ever seemed to have the mass appeal of "Valley Girl," which details teenage lifestyles in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley region and in the weeks since its release, has been placed on hot rotation on several traditionally conservative radio stations.

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What’s in a record company name? Plenty, if the label happens to be called Barking Pumpkin. No one would blanch at such well-known entertainment industry trademarks as CBS’ “eye,” Warner Bros, shield or RCA’s Nipper. But what of a company with a logo depicting a barking jack o’lantern and a startled cat, responding with a “holy shit” in Chinese, no less? Somehow, though, it all begins to make sense when you learn that Barking Pumpkin is a label consisting of an artist roster of one: Frank Zappa. (read more)

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THE MAN FROM UTOPIA – Frank Zappa – Barking Pumpkin/CBS FW 38403 – List: None
A wavy diatribe against the evils of cocaine, a spacey tone-poem about sex and several jazzy instrumental interludes are the high points of Zappa's latest LP, which features both live and studio cuts. A stream-of-consciousness-type rap on “The Jazz Discharge Party Hats” concerning groupies is pretty amusing, but overall, the instrumental pieces work best here, thanks to axeman Steve Vai's "impossible guitar parts" and Zappa's off-the-wall arrangements. Cartoonish cover design, which depicts FZ looking like a heavymetal Conan mangling a Fender stratocaster with his fist, is an instant eyecatcher.

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ZAPPA Vol. I – London Symphony Orchestra with Kent Nagano conducting – Barking Pumpkin/CBS FW 38820 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List: None – Digital
Barking Pumpkin is hardly a label you’d expect the London Symphony Orchestra to record for. But the ever-iconoclastic Frank Zappa has the famed classical aggregation working out on some of his favorite symphonically inclined works, including "Pedro’s Dowry” and “Mo ’N Herb’s Vacation." As you would expect, the music is impressionistic, full of the in-mind zaniness that has made Zappa a rock legend. Conducted by Kent Nagano, The London Symphony is challenged to bring an element of classicism to this rangy, often ambient work. But the high-tech pressing should intrigue Zappa fans and aficionados of the classics alike. Don’t look for this at AOR.

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With all due respect to Stan Gortikov and the RIAA, I would like a few moments of your time to express my personal feelings regarding the unfortunate decision to bend over for the PMRC on the issue of album ‘identification.’ (read more)

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FRANK ZAPPA – Jazz From Hell – Barking Pumpkin ST-74205 – Producer: Frank Zappa – List: 8.98 – Bar Coded
Zappa exercises his much-respected “serious” musical side here. Titles like “Jazz From Hell” and “G-Spot Tornado,” notwithstanding, his considerable talent as a musician and composer of serious music is in full evidence here. Frenetic and complex, the album is contemporary and very adventurous.

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"I have to finance my own product," Zappa explains. "I then go to Capitol and pay them to press it and ship it. Nobody can tell me what to put on records, or take off. They have nothing to do with the promotion and advertising; in fact there is hardly any advertising at all." (read more)

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FRANK ZAPPA – Broadway The Hard Way – Barking Pumpkin (Dl-74218) – Producer: Frank Zappa
Zappa attacks both the right ("Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk," a dig at Tammy Bakker) and the left ("Rhymin' Man," a dig at Jesse Jackson) on this typically smart-aleck effort. As usual his music sounds great, but the ideas are as stoopid as the people that he scorns.

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FRANK ZAPPA: You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (Rykodisc RCD 10087)
Like its predecessors. You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol.4 is a two-CD retrospective set focusing on live recordings by the eccentric yet brilliant Frank Zappa. Among the 34 goodies heard in the set, which spans 1969 to 1988, are "The Torture Never Stops" (1976), a tongue-in-cheek description of sado-masochism in a "dungeon of despair"; the outrageous "Willie The Pimp" (1984); "Disco Boy" (1982); the quasi-soul piece "Little Rubber Girl" (1979); "Let's Move To Cleveland" (1984), which features jazz tenor great Archie Shepp; "Truck Driver Divorce" (1984) and "My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama."

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ZAPPA: The Yellow Shark (Barking Pumpkin 71600)
Frank Zappa's collaboration with the wildly inventive Ensemble Modern gives us The Yellow Shark, a collection of live recordings taken from three performances in Frankfurt, Berlin and Vienna in September, 1992. Material is comprised of new Zappa compositions ("Get Whitey," "Welcome To The United States'') and reworked takes on old music ("Be-Bop Tango," "Uncle Meat")  all strained, under the ever-present watchful eye of Zappa, through the unique musical tunnel of the Ensemble. From reports, one of the most satisfying projects of Frank's long and mystifying career.

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