I would recommend that you run out and purchase this album but for the majority of you it would be a waste of time and money. Frank Zappa is one of the finest modern composers working today, but you don't understand and you don't care. (read more)

There is nothing like Zappa-rock; it is a category unto itself. The evolution of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention through the years since Freak Out parallels the evolution of rock music in general. Back in the good old days the Mothers played songs almost entirely written by dedicated '50's rhythm and blues fan Zappa, which sounded superficially like anything else of that era. (read more)