Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - One Size Fits All
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Free Music Review: The best
Hit: 5 Stars
About once a year I take this album out for another round of listening, and am consistently staggered by just how good it is. The catchy melodies made it accessible early on, while the complexity makes it even more rewarding after the (at least) 100th listen. The Po-jama People guitar solo mimics an annoying person yammering away in your ear. The spacy ambience and George Duke's semi-falsetto vocals lend a vibe to Inca Roads just like its title. The phrase "pondered the significance of short person behavior in pedal-depressed pan-chromatic resonance, and other highly ambient domains" is used to express puzzlement at how short people can press the pedals on a panio. Elegantly structured pieces like Sofa, with many variations on the theme and perfect-sounding counterpoints, are there as well. It is simply, IMHO, the greatest single rock or rock-related album ever produced. I'll never tire of listening to it.Free Music Review: Drop everything and buy this album NOW!
Hit: 5 Stars
Probably my favourite (or one of several favourite) FZ albums. If you like his humour, his musical vision, his whole warped outlook on life, then this album is for you. It is loud, raucous, multi-layered, and extremely accomplished, and features the most technically brilliant musicians he every played with. The entire album plays like a party in your mind where the whole neighbourhood's invited. There's just no words to explain the way you feel after hearing some of the harmonies on songs like "Inca Roads" or "Florentine Pogen", or the highly charged head-banging rock and roll of "San Ber'dino". The vocals on this record are unparalled, and the whole package is full of band in-jokes which are fun to listen to anyway. All in all, this is an energetic masterpiece which commands your attention throughout. If you wanna hear Zappa at his best, whip this one on.Free Music Review: One Size Fits All
Hit: 5 Stars
Well it's far from his best...but it's sure as hell his most coheisive release ever. One Size Fits All best sums up Frank Zappa's 1970's feel and sound with one solid swoop. Combining some of his greatest, most crative and eccentric arrangements with some of the greatest instrumentation he had ever played with, along side some of the most ridiculous lyrics he ever wrote. This works most of the time on tracks like the fabulous 'San Ber'dino' and not so well on others like the downright boring 'Florentine Pogen.'
Something must be said for songs like the Xylophone infected 'Inca Roads' and the killer 'Po-Jama People' with it's over the top guitar solo that makes even the strongest of Zappas work blush. And with the German sang closer 'Sofa No. 2' it may not be Zappa and the Mothers of Inventions best work but it is easily one of the most entertaining and commercially exceptable.
Free Music Review: His best "studio" album, IMHO
Hit: 5 Stars
I agree with the prior reviews - this is his best, and that fact was driven home to me with authority when I saw "Zappa does Zappa" last year. I was so glad that Dweezil pulled as much as he did from this album. The lineup is one of (if not the) best that Frank ever had, and the tunes reflect the Zappa musical genius at its finest. (Although if I may disagree with others here, my favorite guitar solo is the "Baby Snakes" version of Punky's Whips, or maybe it's the Zombie Woof solo off "Cheap Thrills", but I digress.) Every tune is solid, if not indispensible, and the chops on every band member shine through. How more people don't absolutely love this stuff blows my mind...(oh that's right, American Idol is what passes for music in this ever increasingly ignorant America we live in.) Well written, well arranged, well played, and well worth your musical money.Free Music Review: His best album by his best band
Hit: 5 Stars
Every child, when they reach teeny bopper age, should be forced to sit in a chair and listen to this album. TWICE. They should then be admonished in a way such as this: "Look you teeny-boppin, Britney-lovin', N-Sync'n', clueless New Kid on the Musical Block: THIS is how you make an album."Inca Roads? One of Zappa's finest recordings. Period. "Shoes" (the hit single that never was), the two "Sofas," "Evelyn," where do I stop?
"San Ber'dino:" A rollickin', crunchin', drivin' song that put every so-called "hard-rock" band of the mid-70s (especially Bachman-Turner Overdrive) to complete shame.
He is Zappa; hear him roar. He never did it better than here.
After they've been converted, give 'em a florentine pogen and send them on their way. Maybe they'll be attacked by Chester's gorilla...