Frank Zappa - Thing Fish

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Free Music Review: Understand what you are listening to.
Hit: 5 Stars

I love the CD. The multi theme'd product may be hard for some people to understand or follow, and some of it is stabbing in the direction of dada... but one should remember that FZ himself admired the concept of dada (look in his autobiography for evidence) and considered it a viable artform... so, the fact that some of the material might not make total sense, or that there are mulithemes going everywhere at once should not be that much of a detraction ... consider Joe's Garage as a warm up for this release...

The music is quite good. Some of the reviews I have read, must be talking about something else. There is some fantastic music, 'white man burden' and 'Wistful Wit A Fist-Full' are some of the songs that are written in broadway musical style.. not guitar oriented rock style like other FZ releases. And, considering the dada tendency, there are updates, and story lines which one could read in the CD release, plus songs like 'Mammy Theme' and 'Galoot update' bring you along as a whole, to reduce the massive theme into bite size nuggets.

The piece is not good if you only listen to one track. There is hardly a single to be found... just as 'Another Brick In The Wall' may have been a very good single for Pink Floyd 'THE WALL' recording, by itself it didn't tell you the whole story of the wall, just that particular part of the story. But, as far as radio play, it is odd that FZ did have a radio friendly song he did have one with 'white man burden'. A great song, by any FZ era of release, this song holds big time cues for excellence in broadway style and vocal arrangement. (FZ was NEVER recognized for his arrangement of vocals, he was just excellent at his placement of voice)

This is a great release. Top ten in the caibur of FZ releases. I think anyone can find as MUCH AS THEY WISH in this release. All they have to do is look.

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