200 Motels: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD]
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Composer: Frank ZappaEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1997-10-14
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Semi-Fraudulent/Direct-From-Hollywood Overture
- Mystery Roach
- Dance of the Rock & Roll Interviewers
- This Town Is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Prologue)
- Tuna Fish Promenade
- Dance of the Just Plain Folks
- This Town Is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Reprise)
- Sealed Tuna Bolero
- Lonesome Cowboy Burt
- Touring Can Make You Crazy
- Would You Like a Snack?
- Redneck Eats
- Centerville
- She Painted up Her Face - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Janet's Big Dance Number
- Half a Dozen Provacative Squats
- Mysterioso
- Shove It Right In
- Lucy's Seduction of a Bored Violinist & Postlude
- I'm Stealing the Towels
- Dental Hygiene Dilemma
- Does This Kind of Life Look Interesting to You?
- Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
- Penis Dimension
- What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning
- Nun Suit Painted on Some Old Boxes
- Magic Fingers
- Motorhead's Midnight Ranch
- Dew on the Newts We Got
- Lad Searches the Night for His Newts
- Girl Wants to Fix Him Some Broth
- Girl's Dream
- Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Corduroy Ponce
- Strictly Genteel (The Finale)
- Coming Soon! [200 Motels Promotional Radio Spots][*][Take] - Frank Zappa
- Wide Screen Erupts [200 Motels Promotional Radio Spots][*][Take] - Frank Zappa
- Coming Soon! [200 Motels Promotional Radio Spots][*][Take] - Frank Zappa
- Frank Zappa's 200 Motels [200 Motels Promotional Radio Spots][*][Take] - Frank Zappa
- Magic Fingers [Single Edit][*]
Free Music Notes for 200 Motels: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD]
Free Music Review: This album will permanently change the way you view the world
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard this album as a 15-year old when a high school bud loaned it to me. "It blew my mind" as we said back in the day. It is a hilarious combination of straight ahead rock, orchestral pieces, pseudo-operatic interludes on topics of intense teen interest, mixed in with titillating tales of life on the road for a rock band with a big hit single in the charts. Flo and Eddie from the Turtles have leading roles in vocals on this album, it turns out they are hilariously funny when simply turned loose, and they really shine here. Animated sequences are mixed in with filmed performances, to get a taste, youtube Dental Hygiene Dilemma, in which bass player Jeff is tempted by Satan to quit the comedy band (in fact Jeff did leave!). If you can believe that comic aspects of life can be appropriately mixed with music to great effect, you really should have this album.
200 Motels: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD] Poster
Searching for this missing piece of the Frank Zappa catalog helped Rykodisc secure the rights to the United Artists and post-1985 MGM film libraries. But 200 Motels also serves as a good introduction to the late rock icon/avant-garde composer's absurd view of his world; i.e., the pop music business.Essentially a filmed dadaist opera (the bulk of the music is performed live as the video cameras rolled, 200 Motels incorporates sporadic patches of Mothers of Inventions rock into the atonal, largely European, musical framework that Zappa was clearly more interested in. He shrewdly used contemporary pop merely as a marketing shill for the complex, often difficult, music that drove him. (For a taste of the film's uniquely skewed artistic sense, Ryko has included the original 200 Motels theatrical trailer as part of this set's enhanced-CD bonus material).
As always, the Zappa of 200 Motels sometimes confuses the profound with the obscene, but with every passing year, he seems more likely to take his place alongside the great American modernist Charles Ives, another composer whose work was every bit as commercially troubled and artistically misunderstood. --Jerry McCulley
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