Frank Zappa

thoughts?

i feel he's quite overrated, and was a bit of a prick...but enjoy a couple of his albums occasionally

 

Definately a great musician / guitarist / artist and only his stuff from 1969 - 82 is any good

 

Some of my favorite music and some of my least favorite music

Some of the most interesting and amusing takes, some of the most obscenely stupid takes

I love:
The Grand Wazoo
Waka/Jawaka
Hot Rats
Roxy & Elsewhere
Uncle Meat
Lumpy Gravy
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
YCDTOSA, Vol II
YCDTOSA, Vol I (only the first disc, disc 2 is shite)
Road Tapes (Helsinki)
Imaginary Diseases

I'm sometimes amused by:
Fillmore East, June 1971
Bongo Fury
Apostrophe
Joe's Garage
You Are What You Is
We're Only In It For The Money
Over-Nite Sensation
a few tracks here and there on other records

I pretty much hate:
Sheik Yerbouti
Baby Snakes
Zoot Allures (the title track is beautiful though)
95% of the new music he put out from 1982 until he died

 

Brilliant musician, not a huge fan though. I liked the first half of Apostrophe.

 

Overnite Sensation (Zappa´s first, real ´normal´ album)

Roxy & Elsewhere (insanely complex and amazing to pull off live)

Bongo Fury (probably like this because it was my first Zappa album)

Studio Tan (for the cover and ´The Adventures of Greggery Peccary´)

Joe´s Garage Act I
Joe´s Garage Acts II & III (ultimate late 70s Zappa)

Shut Up ´N Play Yer Guitar (bought this as a triple-album boxset - and its just guitar solos!)

You Are What You Is (last great album he did - probably his ´The Beatles´)

Ship Arriving Too Late To Save a Drowning Witch (because it´s got Moon Unit Zappa on it)

 

i like his non-guitar solo stuff best...which albums are those? someone on here said he overused guitar solos, which i agree with
i prefer Sheik Yourbouti to any of that stuff

i was in a car recently and put on 'Montana' , and it was some shitty version with a random never ending guitar solo...i had to apologise to everyone else in the car

 

cfagg187 - do you play drums in any capacity?

 

Do you prefer Beefheart to Zappa, Magus?

 

I'm horrendous

 

Beefheart is fuckin shit compared to Frank Zappa.

And that's not a criticism on Beefheart: he's just not on the same plane whatsoever.

 

So, you can't play 'The Black Page #1', then?

 

Actually, no, Im being unfair to Beefheart - he's not shit, he's just too 'inaccessible'.

I really like:
Clear Spot
Bluejeans & Moonbeams
Shiny Beast

 

I play more "Jimmy Carl Black" level

Limb independence is not in my DNA

 

Sheik Yerbouti is good stuff

 

That album for me, just about reaches the point where he started to go too 'sexual parody/innnuendo'.


Good album though - lots of weird jams and freaky guitar solos

 

Find his stuff grating on the whole. Since the comparisons been made already: Beefheart comes off as legitimately off the wall, Zappa just comes off sarcastic.

 

Don't care for that record at all

 

i guess some stuff is alright but the lyrics are often really shit and ruin it