200 Motels: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD]
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Free Music Notes for 200 Motels: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD]
Free Music Review: Simply the best!
Hit: 5 Stars
I probably own around 3000 recordings that cover jazz, rock , avant garde and some 20th century music plus some good old blues too. Of all of these 200 Motels is one of those records that 'curls up my toes' for sure every time i play it. Not so good sound , but man, what and incredible blend rof ock n roll , avant garde elements, classical music and comedy! No one could pull this off except for the man himself. For lovers of the adventureous , Henry Cow, Varese and Chuck Berry.Free Music Review: classic soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
great mix of rock comedy and zappa orchestral stuff. flo and eddie get to sing some dirty lyrics and frank has a great guitar solo in magic fingers. Jimmy carl black does a great song about rednecks..then some mad,mental,daffy,insane,amazing orchestra stuff..eg dance of the rock and roll journalists,redneck eats,nuns cardboard box tune. Strictly genteel is a treasure sung by theodore bikel. There are millions of great moments thank youFree Music Review: Is this for you?
Hit: 5 Stars
Do you like Zappa, Varese, Boluez, Lenny Bruce, etc.? If so, don't miss it. This is probably the best mix of rock and contemporary classical music you're ever likely to hear. Surrealist to say the least. Don't buy this as a Zappa sampler. Get "Live in New York" for that. This is hard stuff. The 1971 bad at its best, and Zappa the composer hitting a high.Free Music Review: The best slam at VU ever
Hit: 5 Stars
Lonesome Cowboy Burt is easily the best slam on the Velvet Underground ever. No band deserved it more. Or, wait...maybe it was the other way around.Free Music Review: It grows on you
Hit: 4 Stars
The title of the review sums it all up. It does grow on you. 200 motels, as a film, is, in many ways, a dud. But if you have a taste for the bizarre, it is really, really great. Very hard to describe. You have to see it. But the music alone is another story. Incredible orchestrations, some strange dialogue, and some heavy-duty rock from the Mothers, circa early 1971. Original band members Jim Black, Euclid "Motorhead" Sherwood, and Don Preston appear, but not as musicians, but instead, as eccentric characters in the storyline. New bassist Jeff Simmons had quit the band and movie less than a week before shooting, a very dirty move, I would say, so the idea was to hire an actor to do Simmons' lines and pretend to play bass in the band sequences, to have the bass parts overdubbed later. But Martin Lickert, who worked for Ringo Starr, and by chance, played bass, was on hand, and saved the day.
The lyrics and dialogue are, typical of the time, very bawdy, some say funny, others say juvenile and dumb, and both camps are right. But, it is about touring, and as the theme of the film and soundtrack says, "Touring can make you crazy." So the sprawling, surrealistic nature of this project is, I would say, appropriate. There is often sex on the road, and the claustrophobic conditions often endured by touring musicians do take a toll. It is all a release.
To its detriment, the sound quality is poor, even for a remastered CD. That's what cost it a star in this review. And the original vinyl release sounds wretched. So, it is an improvement, warts and all. And, with the muffled sound, the odd vocal harmonies by Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, particularly on "Lonesome Cowboy Burt," sound at times like Jim Hensen's Muppets. That's the first thing I though of upon hearing it. But, the musicianship is, as with any Zappa/Mothers release, par excellence.
Very much an acquired taste, but also very entertaining.