Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy
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Artist: Frank ZappaBrand: ZAPPA,FRANK
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1995-04-18
Music Label: Zappa Records
Soundtracks:
- Lumpy Gravy, Pt. 1: The Way I See It, Barry/Duodenum/Oh No/Bit of ...
- Lumpy Gravy, Pt. 2: Very Distraughtening/White Ugliness/Amen/Just ...
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Free Music Review: Essential Early Zappa
Hit: 5 Stars
Frank Zappa was gifted with a long and stylistically varied career that few before or since have been able to equal. Like any other artist/composer his style changed over time. By the time "Lumpy Gravy" was recorded in 1968 for the Verve Records label he had already released two great albums of biting social satire set against quirky musical compositions with highly unusual instrumentation and arrangements (Freak Out! and "Absolutely Free", both credited to "The Mothers Of Invention"). One need only compare these albums to what the Beatles, the Rolling Stones were doing at the time to see just how brave Verve was to release them at all.
With "Lumpy Gravy" and it's companion piece "We're Only In It For The Money" (released at the same time, and to me, two halves of a single work), Zappa reached his zenith at poking his finger into the eyes of the musical and political/social establishments respectively. With "Gravy" Zappa seems to be trying to open the ears of his audience to something different than the dance-along-to three-minute love songs that they were hearing on the radio while "Money" takes sharp lyrical aim at the vapid `Peace and Love' generation and their parent's empty lives, with an accuracy and humor that no one else in the pop music world seemed capable of and that Zappa himself was never again able to equal.
"Lumpy Gravy" is essential listening for anyone who wishes to get a complete picture of what the genius of Frank Zappa was all about. If such a thing exists, it is a surrealist musical painting; a mixture of musical styles (from surf-like rock to jazz to Varese-esque pieces) interspersed with humorous spoken word dialogs about subjects like what its like to live in a drum, dark water, hot rods, jobs or agressive pigs and ponies, interupted by electronically produced sounds, or "normal" voices and instruments either sped up or slowed down. It is challenging listening if your experience with Zappa's work runs more toward his "Watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow" period, or one of his self-indulgent "Shut Up and Play Your Guitar" albums.
My guess is that you will either love or hate this album, but I can't imagine anyone being ambivelent toward it.
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Release Date: 18-APR-1995
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