Audio

 Germany

Audio is the Hi-Fi, Home Cinema, High End and music magazine. Monthly magazine launched in 1977. Since October 2023 issue, Audio was merged with another Hi-Fi monthly Stereoplay and both will continue together under the name Audio/Stereoplay.

1979 November

No. 11

Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage Act I
By Lionel Peters, p 78


Automatic translation: When public broadcasters refuse to broadcast certain works, this has always been a welcome opportunity for their writing colleagues to lash out at music editors for their lack of humor and patronizing attitude. With this latest Zappa outpouring, no one will care that German radio stations are only broadcasting one of the eight songs: "Joe's Garage," the title track about the golden sixties. The rest of the taboo-smasher's album, which is nobody knows how many, is simply too silly and irrelevant ("Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?") and too monotonously tedious ("Wet T-Shirt Nite"), because in the long run, Zappa's own subconscious anxieties aren't enough to fill an evening. Especially since the musical parody paths this vulgar lyricism traverses are well-trodden. And anyway: If Emma and Alice catch him, the "male chauvinist pig" Zappa will be in trouble anyway, because he writes such misogynistic songs!

1984 August

No. 8

Frank Zappa: Warum der Bürgerschreck am Ende ist
By Alain Dister, 4 pp
Frank Zappas Platten: Der schräge Otto der Rockmusik

By Axel H. Lockau, 2 pp


 

 

1988 May

No. 5

Der Grosse Zappano
By Claus Böhm, pp 148-150


Exclusive interview with Zappa about 1988 European Tour. Read full text in German.

2020 August

No. 8

Remaster-CD des Monats: The Mothers 1970
By Winfried Dulisch, p 116


2021 April

No. 4

Zappa (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
By Willi Andresen, p 156


2022 July

No. 7

Remaster des Monats: Zappa/Erie
By Lothar Brandt, p 116


2023 December

No. 12

Frank Zappa & The Mothers: Over-Nite Sensation 50th Anniversary
By Lothar Brandt, p 91