Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - One Size Fits All
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Free Music Review: Hoy! Hoy! Hoy!
Hit: 5 Stars
This, along with Roxy and Elsewhere and Bongo Fury, is the pinnacle of Zappa's career in my opinion. Every track is memorable. All three recordings are must haves for any Zappa fan.
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life was probably a better ensemble in the musical sense, but the lineup over the years that recorded One Size Fits All and the afore-mentioned recordings just had a magical chemistry. George, Ruth, Napoleon, and Bruce were a big part of that chemistry. However, Zappa disagreed that this was his best lineup ever. I think the only group that ever came close to satisfying his crazed artistic vision was the Ensemble Modern.
Just a note, the reviewer below who claims this was recorded while Zappa recovered from a broken leg has his chronology all wrong. That incident occurred circa 1972 when Flo and Eddie were in the band. The recordings made during the recovery were Waka Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo. Just Another Band From LA (with Flo and Eddie) was also released in this period. Get it right man!
Free Music Review: Zappa at his best
Hit: 5 Stars
After having got a few Zappa albums and being astounded by his relentless inventiveness, I thought Id get this cos to be honest, the 70s albums all look good. I was not disappointed. Inca Roads is perhaps the most inventive and very funky/rocky/mad etc - basically a zappa track. Cant afford no shoes is also great and has a batty solo at the end :) where is seuges into sofa no1. the title describes it well and, along with no2, are very loungy tracks. However, the albums pinnacle, for me, comes with po-jama people. The track kicks serious butt and the faux time changes are very clever. Again, solos!! Florentine Pogen goes along vey well and is a good track. Evelyn is just a joke piece, i think, with just frank and a piano. San Ber'dino and andy are both great tracks as well and are a good way to wind down.This album is a good way to relax (i find) and i really enjoy just listening to it. So do yourself a favour and after you get albums like Hot Rats and Joes Garage, get this in your collection.
Free Music Review: Best of the Zappa i know
Hit: 5 Stars
This is my all time Favorite Frank Zappa LP, ive only actually throuly lissend to 14 full LP's and out of his 60 some.. i dont know exactly what im missing, but this Album is just fanominal. Being an 18 year old boy, this takes me back, to way before i was born. It really does grow on you.
I love the opening song Incan Roads, how its just carried along into some smooth guitar, and its such comical lyrics. Very strange, great guitar.
Can't Afford No Shoes, just halarious lyrics, great sound one of my favorite songs on the is album, right up next to Po-Jama People, which is perfectly separeted by Cant affor no shoes by Sofa No.1 which is a good spacer song.
Favorite song is Andy, i just love the song.. the voice work.. its all just amazing... Wonderful CD... Frank Zappa And the Mothers,.. i love them so...
Other Zappa CD's i really recomend are Apostrophy ('), and The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, great live performace...
Free Music Review: '...60 Miles Down the San'Berdino Freeway...'
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is an astonishing piece of work. The arrangement, pacing, vocals, song selection, everything on this CD is rock music at its finest.
Zappa was a musical genius and it shows in spades on this album. The tragedy is that essentially none of these cuts received any amount of commercial air play. Compared to most songs that get saturation air play every 10 minutes these nine are nothing less than golden nuggets of musical brilliance. Zappa's lyrics are at times funny, silly, intelligent, zany and witty; also his timing is always perfect. He seems to know exactly when the appropriate moment is to interject his legendary guitar play into various sections of these tracks.
I own eight other Zappa CDs with this one easily being one of the best. Of course he has such an eclectic catalogue that it's impossible to single out one particular album as his finest work. One Size Fits All is definitely in the top five.
Free Music Review: Zappa's best album of the 70's
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is the culmination of Zappa's work of the 70's. Its predecessors: "Over-Nite Sensation" and "Apostrophe" were fabulous, but had not matured to the degree of excellence as this album did. Zappa assembled a group of veteran musicians. The refined and consumed madness of its jazz-rock sound makes this album a monumental treasure. "Inca Roads" transports us in Zappa's Jazz oriented mind where the lyrics and the drum-beats share the same tight-rope, then its guitar solo confirmed that once again Zappa was not only a superb musician, but he was also full of surprises and charms. The four songs: "Po-Jama People," "Florentine Pogen," "San Ber'dino," and "Andy" prove how Zappa was such a sarcastic and iconoclastic son-of-a-gun. Johnny "Guitar" Watson's vocal contribution in two songs makes this album even more special. In closing, "One Size Fits All" may also be described as Zappa's signature: "Music is the Best."