Thank you for your video. I enjoyed it immensely. I first heard Joe's Garage when I was 10 years old and I'm still listening 44 years later. I guess it's safe to say he changed my life as well. Take care and keep listening. In this world where stupidity is celebrated, sometimes Zappa is the only thing that gets me through!
I started loving Frank in 69. I have shelves of stuff and keep adding but to me this sequence is unbeatable. Uncle Meat- Hot Rats- Burnt Weeny Sandwich-Weasels ripped my Flesh- Chunga's Revenge ( or add Mothermania to cover the previous gems). This gives you almost everything that makes Frank and the Mothers great. Doo wop, RnB, blues, jazz, stunning guitar, psyche, prog, hard rock, silliness, avant garde, great songs, breathtaking musicianship, mad snippets, classical, sweet melodies, humour, vulgarity, blues violin..... And so much more. I suppose its about what was playing when you came in. And then came Fillmore East and 200 Motels and he stopped being a God for me. But still a great man.
I'm sorry his Flo&Eddie period affected you that way, but I can understand. 200 Motels is a very interesting thing... I was a kid when I first bought it and it was so "difficult". My vinyl was the French pressing which was awful - a truly muddy, compressed sound. I really didn't like it. Hearing it on CD decades later was amazing - suddenly it was clear, and bright and I had older ears and brain to truly appreciate it. It still isn't quite in my top 20, because it's so sprawling and complex and I've not had as much time with it as most of his other early work. But there's some magic in there. Not just the fingers.
@saturninebear Well it's not simply Flo and Eddie. I love Chunga's and thats a Flo and Eddie album and enjoyed seeing them live twice. No it's definitely a "quality" thing. Like I felt about Self Portrait or Unconditionally Guaranteed; Genius, Genius, Genius etc......Omg what is this sh....? But thanks for replying and I'll have a crack at Fillmore/200 Motels on digital stream.
For me my fave Zappa LPs are all from the period starting with Waka/Jawaka (1972) through to Bongo Fury (1975), so 7 LPs in total. That was his best period by a long chalk IMO. It wasn't just that George Duke features on all of them (although definitely helps!).. or that his band line-up circa Roxy was probably his best.. it's just that the compositions are so damned amazing. 🙂
I must say I have about 40 Zappa albums amongst a whole plethora of classic rock stuff and I find I have to be in, shall we say, a "Zappa mood" when I play his music but having said that there is one bombastic track from "Them or Us" (you will probably guess the track now that I've mentioned the album), "Yo Hozna" blows my mind every time I play it, I love everything about that track, the bass line, the strange drum pattern and Steve Vai's incredible guitar. I'm going now, gonna go and put on Them or Us.
For 15 years I've been saying that Novak is the greatest male player of all time. I'm not sure I like him as a person very much, but as a player - a true god of the sport.
I just subbed your channel..I am a big Zappa fan too…a lot of my favourites didn’t make your top ten..Unlike you, my least fav Zappa is the Flo and Eddy period..glad you included Helsinki..I miss him so much as well..great video..Glen
I only showed 20 albums, but there are probably a further 10 that are still 5/5. Lumpy Gravy, Bongo Fury, Freak Out, apostrophe, Broadway The Hard Way and on and on.... It took me decades to "love" the Flo&Eddie period. Initially I just saw it as Puerile. Now I see it as puerile and yet I can also appreciate its vaudevillian nature. I still don't adore Billy The Mountain (or indeed Greggary Peckary). But really I love most of Frank's work, except perhaps his Synclavier late works (and I've not grown to love Civilization Phase III, at all).
I have almost every album that you showed. I stopped buying when he passed away. I also have a reverence for FZ but he hated the Republicans and while he had his reasons which he never elaborated, I decided that he also had his flaws. The first FZ album I became familiar with was Hot Rats and I know the difference between the original and the remastered version. Live at the Fillmore is entertaining if only for Flo and Eddy and the rest is unremarkable. I mean. how many versions of Peaches en Regalia do you need? Joe's Garage is wonderful in it's sound quality and I admired Frank for hammering away at record companies and the assholes who run them for six whole sides. I love You are What You Is. The vocals all through out are amazing. Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch was a vehicle for his daughter and FZ just threw in five more tracks with weird vocals. Us and Them is a good album. In France is an awesome song that nobody knows. Overnight Sensation . Apostrophe. Zoot Allures. Sofa. Live in NY features Titties n Beer, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Bamboozled by Love. Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt and Orchestral Favorites were albums that FZ released to fulfill a contract obligation. I've always liked Gregory Peccary. Redunzl is found on one of those I believe. I'm not getting up to look. Broadway the Hard Way sounds great and is fun to listen to. Shut up and play yer guitar, Shut up and play yer guitar some more, Son of Shut up and play yer guitar... geez, how many are there? You skipped over Chunga's Revenge. I have a framed and mounted repro of the album cover on my living room wall. It's actually a poster advertising a Frank Zappa concert at Cal State in Fullerton with Alice Cooper. $2.50 advance. $3.00 at the door. I miss him as well.
Zappa was a libertarian leaning conservative and he hated specifically the religious rightwing that hsd taken over the Republican Party. So, he did elaborate on his reasons for never voting Republican. There's a video of him on crossfire where he called the religious rightwing theocratic f4scists. It's gotten much worse and much more out in the open since then.
In my opinion, there is no Top Whatever with Frank Zappa. His music is all one piece, and should be regarded as such. Some albums are better than others, some worse, but it makes for a varied, beautiful whole of the best music ever spawned.
You made this video for me as well. I love Frank Zappa and his music. And I really like watching people make videos about stuff they find interesting, rather than stuff they believe I as a viewer would like to see.
Wow, surprised to see Make A Jazz Noise Here so high up. That is, indeed, a great album..... but not better than Roxy, i.m o. I like One Size Fits All too but, to my ears, it seems to utilize a lot of muscial themes or riffs that were used on earlier albums from that period. I just listened to it yesterday and kept thinking some of it was a bit rehashed from Apostrophé and, to a lesser extent, Overnight Sensation. I happen to love those particular sections so I'm not sure if that makes their reuse a positive or a negative. 🤷♂️
Thank you for your video. I enjoyed it immensely. I first heard Joe's Garage when I was 10 years old and I'm still listening 44 years later. I guess it's safe to say he changed my life as well. Take care and keep listening. In this world where stupidity is celebrated, sometimes Zappa is the only thing that gets me through!
I started loving Frank in 69. I have shelves of stuff and keep adding but to me this sequence is unbeatable. Uncle Meat- Hot Rats- Burnt Weeny Sandwich-Weasels ripped my Flesh- Chunga's Revenge ( or add Mothermania to cover the previous gems). This gives you almost everything that makes Frank and the Mothers great. Doo wop, RnB, blues, jazz, stunning guitar, psyche, prog, hard rock, silliness, avant garde, great songs, breathtaking musicianship, mad snippets, classical, sweet melodies, humour, vulgarity, blues violin..... And so much more. I suppose its about what was playing when you came in.
And then came Fillmore East and 200 Motels and he stopped being a God for me. But still a great man.
I'm sorry his Flo&Eddie period affected you that way, but I can understand. 200 Motels is a very interesting thing... I was a kid when I first bought it and it was so "difficult". My vinyl was the French pressing which was awful - a truly muddy, compressed sound. I really didn't like it. Hearing it on CD decades later was amazing - suddenly it was clear, and bright and I had older ears and brain to truly appreciate it. It still isn't quite in my top 20, because it's so sprawling and complex and I've not had as much time with it as most of his other early work. But there's some magic in there. Not just the fingers.
@saturninebear Well it's not simply Flo and Eddie. I love Chunga's and thats a Flo and Eddie album and enjoyed seeing them live twice. No it's definitely a "quality" thing. Like I felt about Self Portrait or Unconditionally Guaranteed; Genius, Genius, Genius etc......Omg what is this sh....?
But thanks for replying and I'll have a crack at Fillmore/200 Motels on digital stream.
For me my fave Zappa LPs are all from the period starting with Waka/Jawaka (1972) through to Bongo Fury (1975), so 7 LPs in total. That was his best period by a long chalk IMO.
It wasn't just that George Duke features on all of them (although definitely helps!).. or that his band line-up circa Roxy was probably his best.. it's just that the compositions are so damned amazing. 🙂
I must say I have about 40 Zappa albums amongst a whole plethora of classic rock stuff and I find I have to be in, shall we say, a "Zappa mood" when I play his music but having said that there is one bombastic track from "Them or Us" (you will probably guess the track now that I've mentioned the album), "Yo Hozna" blows my mind every time I play it, I love everything about that track, the bass line, the strange drum pattern and Steve Vai's incredible guitar. I'm going now, gonna go and put on Them or Us.
Interesting! For me: Zappa, King Crimson, and Novak Djokovic! :)
For 15 years I've been saying that Novak is the greatest male player of all time. I'm not sure I like him as a person very much, but as a player - a true god of the sport.
@@saturninebear As a person, Novak is great too! Just too much propaganda (and hate) from Roger and Rafa fans.
I just subbed your channel..I am a big Zappa fan too…a lot of my favourites didn’t make your top ten..Unlike you, my least fav Zappa is the Flo and Eddy period..glad you included Helsinki..I miss him so much as well..great video..Glen
I only showed 20 albums, but there are probably a further 10 that are still 5/5. Lumpy Gravy, Bongo Fury, Freak Out, apostrophe, Broadway The Hard Way and on and on.... It took me decades to "love" the Flo&Eddie period. Initially I just saw it as Puerile. Now I see it as puerile and yet I can also appreciate its vaudevillian nature. I still don't adore Billy The Mountain (or indeed Greggary Peckary). But really I love most of Frank's work, except perhaps his Synclavier late works (and I've not grown to love Civilization Phase III, at all).
I have almost every album that you showed. I stopped buying when he passed away. I also have a reverence for FZ but he hated the Republicans and while he had his reasons
which he never elaborated, I decided that he also had his flaws. The first FZ album I became familiar with was Hot Rats and I know the difference between the original and the
remastered version. Live at the Fillmore is entertaining if only for Flo and Eddy and the rest is unremarkable. I mean. how many versions of Peaches en Regalia do you need?
Joe's Garage is wonderful in it's sound quality and I admired Frank for hammering away at record companies and the assholes who run them for six whole sides.
I love You are What You Is. The vocals all through out are amazing. Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch was a vehicle for his daughter and FZ just threw in five
more tracks with weird vocals. Us and Them is a good album. In France is an awesome song that nobody knows. Overnight Sensation . Apostrophe. Zoot Allures. Sofa.
Live in NY features Titties n Beer, The Illinois Enema Bandit, Bamboozled by Love.
Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt and Orchestral Favorites were albums that FZ released to fulfill a contract obligation. I've always liked Gregory Peccary. Redunzl is found on one of those
I believe. I'm not getting up to look. Broadway the Hard Way sounds great and is fun to listen to.
Shut up and play yer guitar, Shut up and play yer guitar some more, Son of Shut up and play yer guitar... geez, how many are there?
You skipped over Chunga's Revenge. I have a framed and mounted repro of the album cover on my living room wall. It's actually a poster advertising a Frank Zappa concert
at Cal State in Fullerton with Alice Cooper. $2.50 advance. $3.00 at the door.
I miss him as well.
Zappa was a libertarian leaning conservative and he hated specifically the religious rightwing that hsd taken over the Republican Party.
So, he did elaborate on his reasons for never voting Republican.
There's a video of him on crossfire where he called the religious rightwing theocratic f4scists.
It's gotten much worse and much more out in the open since then.
You say theocratic fascism is more out in the open. Would you give me an example?@@hansvandermeulen5515
In my opinion, there is no Top Whatever with Frank Zappa. His music is all one piece, and should be regarded as such. Some albums are better than others, some worse, but it makes for a varied, beautiful whole of the best music ever spawned.
You made this video for me as well. I love Frank Zappa and his music. And I really like watching people make videos about stuff they find interesting, rather than stuff they believe I as a viewer would like to see.
Wow, surprised to see Make A Jazz Noise Here so high up. That is, indeed, a great album..... but not better than Roxy, i.m o.
I like One Size Fits All too but, to my ears, it seems to utilize a lot of muscial themes or riffs that were used on earlier albums from that period. I just listened to it yesterday and kept thinking some of it was a bit rehashed from Apostrophé and, to a lesser extent, Overnight Sensation. I happen to love those particular sections so I'm not sure if that makes their reuse a positive or a negative. 🤷♂️
In 7th place? it's got Doorine on it but you didnt say what album it is?
sorry, it's called "You Are What You Is". It does say it across the bottom of the cover, but the words are quite small.
‘So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?' Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
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