Frank Zappa - Over-Nite Sensation
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Free Music Notes for Over-Nite Sensation
Free Music Review: An intro to Zappa
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the perfect way to introduce yourself to multiple talents of Frank Zappa. Guitarist, Composer, Songwriter and Satirist.
The track listing is:
Camarillo Brillo
I'm The Slime
Dirty Love
Fifty-Fifty
Zomby Woof
Dinah-Moe-Humm
Montana
The lyrics are frequently very near the knuckle (especially on Dinah-Moe-Humm), but they are also very funny and pertinent to today's society. Take 'I'm the Slime' as an example:
"I'm the tool of the Government, an industry tool, for I am destined to rule, and regulate you, I may be vile and pernicious but you can't look away, I make you think I'm delicious, with the stuff that I say, I'm the best you can get have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out from your TV set"
Bare in mind this written over 30 years ago, and you can see that Zappa was on the ball. Of course it's true he lived in the US where the awfulness of TV was way ahead of us! Whilst the songs may be near the mark, this is one of Zappa's more catchy albums.
With Ian Underwood, George Duke and Jean-Luc Ponty in the band the standard of musicianship is also very high. Listen to Fifty Fifty and Camarillo Brillo as examples. Zappa will not be to everybody's taste but this is as a good a way to start as I know.
If you're still not sure, try the cheap compilations Cheap Thrills and Son of Cheap Thrills.
Free Music Review: classic
Hit: 5 Stars
If people accused Zappa of selling out with the Flo and Eddie band, this only magnified with Overnite Sensation.
With the salatious lyrics and reletively solid strong strucutes--a far cry from the dada of the origional MOI-Zappa was using a streemlined approach.
But the guitar work on "Dirty Love," and, particulaly "Montana," show Zappa's six string approach was getting more dense, symphonic and compressed. Those 1960s leaps in playing he made on 1969s Hot Rats were here given more layers and applifacation.
And if you want to call Overnite Sensation "commercial" (strictly or not,) you would have to give P-funk, the Ohio Players, Donald Byrd, Cannonball Adderly, 100s of jazz funk artists of the same period the same harsh sentence. This is not Uncle Meat, with its musical micro-abstractions, but Zappa never said it was.
With George Duke and Ruth Underwood and Napolian Brock, Zappa here had one of the best jazz funk outfits of the 1970s. This holds up as amazingly adept music. He made it work. Listen to Overnite Sensation today and it sounds fresh and vibrent. And great to play loud.
Free Music Review: Another great Zappa album
Hit: 5 Stars
I really love this album. Most of its songs are very funny and have great instrumentation. Seriously songs like Fifty-Fifty and Montana have such amazing solos its hard to believe they were written in the 70's. But what I really believe is showed off on this album is Zappas is more focused on funny lyrics more than political issues, mocking certain groups and such. I think the lyrics to Camarillo Brillo and Montana are especially funny. I think every track on the album is very good, with the exception of Dihna-moe-humm which I think he could have been a little more subtle about, and songs like Montana are close to perfection. I don't care about solos very much anymore, I still like solos but they aren't a necessity, but my favorite moment on theis record would be the very long solo on the song Montana, it is one of the best solos I've ever heard and I think it is very ahead of its time. You never really know what to expect from Zappa because his styles change so much from album to album, but this album the style changes on just about every song. Some people would see this as scattershot but I see it as a true sign of his creative genious. This album has elements of country, blues, funk, jazz, and rock so there is something on this album for everyone (Except for prudes)Free Music Review: SCHOOLS SHOULD ISSUE THIS TO THIRTEEN YEAR OLDS...
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard this album when I was around thirteen, and instantly became hooked on asking girls how to make their Dinah-Mo Hum. Some may pan this album for being too commercial, but to make a statement like that would only prove in the long run, that you must not get it. Zappa fills in the blanks with some of his most immature lyrics, but thats only to round out the over all concept, which plays fun on the pop culture that its selling itself to.
He writes tunes that sound like what was popular at the time... CARAMILLO BRILLO has sort of a seventies california folk rock feel to it. I'M THE SLIME has a disco vibe happening.
Zappa stays true to Zappa but isn't so weird that a large percent of the poulation don't connect. In a way he opens the doors to many peoples weirder sides. Take a skewed look around. It makes this a good album for thirteen year olds who like to play with peoples nerves here and there. Freak some people out, you know? Also, theres mostly straight ahead tunes here that are easy to understand without much thought. They are a little bit filthy though so you might not want to let your moms catch you listening to it. If she catches you and gets mad, just ask her where her Dinah Mo is coming from? This is stuff you need to know.
Free Music Review: for the listening pleasure of us lesser mortals!
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm not the normal Frank Zappa fan. The Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation CD (two albums on one CD!) was the first FZ albumn that I listened to. It simply blew me off my feet. Memorable tunes, blazing guitar work (the livewire lead in dirty love and the highly tasty fretwork in montana), hilarious lyrics (the bawdy dinah mo hum), backing vocals done to perfection by tina turner, elements of jazz - in my opinion, as a rock album(s), it has few peers.
But as I said I'm not the normal Zappa fan. After hearing these two albums, I've thirsted to listen their like from Zappa - but always been disappointed - a few of his other albums that I bought - We're only in it for the money, Hot Rats, Shiek Yerbouti - I've not listened to them again after the initial playing. Some have told me that these actually are the quintessential Zappa albums and not Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation which are just Zappa's experimentations with Pop - maybe - but for me these two will always remain among the best albums I've heard.
ps : i'm revisiting this review after five years! found another couple of zappa gems : roxy and elsewhere and one size fits all. if you liked overnite sensation, you're likely to love the above two as well as apostrophe.