Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
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Free Music Review: My Favorite Zappa Album
Hit: 5 Stars
The best cut on this CD is "The Torture Never Stops" and it seems to hold some reality for Frank Zappa. Definitely, this is a comment on life in general, at least from Zappa's point of view. Incredible lyrics.Free Music Review: Zoot Allures
Hit: 5 Stars
Even if your not that into Zappa, you'll like this record. His best (IMO). A must have for any Zappa fan. Zappa at his best.Free Music Review: Awesome!
Hit: 5 Stars
Frank Zappa is one of the greatest guitar players of all time and space! "Black Napkins" IS superb!Free Music Review: turning point album
Hit: 4 Stars
This is one of frank's critical albums in terms of direction. Frank was focussing more on guitar after the glorious 74 band, so he gets all the attention here. It is not one of his top albums, but it has too many great moments to be dismissed (and it is often dismissed) as a 'poor' album. It is a good album. The highlight of this album is undoubtedly Frank's amazing guitar playing. 'Black napkins' is one of his very best solos. Terry Bozzio contributes a lot with his drumming. The track was a live recording. 'Zoot Allures' is as soothing as napkins is intense. On both solos Frank shows his great feedback skill. Another solo is called 'Friendly Little Finger'. It took me years to appreciate this one but i love it now. It is a strange one. It uses a technique called 'xenechrony' which was used on sheik yerbouti and extensively used on Joe's Garage, two great 1979 albums. The bass and drums are playing in one time signature and the solo, taken from a completely different song, in another time signature. Experimental but i like it! So these three guitar pieces are the real meat of the album, along with that great song, 'the torture never stops'. It's a big long song about a torture chamber with midgets and an 'evil prince'. The evil prince appears in 1984's Thing Fish album, as does this song. In fact zappa must really have loved this song, it appears on about 5 or 6 of his albums! (check out ycdtosa vol4 for original version sung by captain beefheart). Anyway, there is some more zappa guitar on this song as well. And some truly horrible female screaming/moaning! It all adds up to one of Frank's greatest songs. So we have 4 great tracks already. What about the rest? 'wind up workin' in a gas station ' is a great little tune , terry bozzio shines here too. ms pinky is an amusing little song,good guitar playing, but it isn't amazing. Find her finer is just ok. Wonderful Wino-ugh. The lyrics are funny but this is one of the few zappa cuts i don't like. He should have stuck a live version on, this version is a bit sterile. For a rippin' version, check out lost episodes, ricky lancelotti sings it brilliantly! Disco boy is a good but not great song (dancin fool is way better). I prefer other versions of disco boy that appear on the ycdtosa series. Overall it is a good album though. The great tracks make up for the disappointing ones.Thank youFree Music Review: Must have at least for three titles
Hit: 4 Stars
Three songs contained here entered the Frank Zappa alltime favourites hall of fame. "Black napkins", "Zoot allures" and "The torture never stops". These three tunes are gems. Apart form these tunes, the album is really a basic rock kind of album not so special. A tribute to heavy metal? I don't know, I love heavy metal of the period and I don't find this album close to the true metal spirit. It's something different, it is Zappa in a basic form. It is alot less dramatic than metal and more grotesque and ironic. That's it. I think this is even not one of the best works in Zappa's discography because to me he expressed his potentials the most when he played the director's role with large ensembles (think Wazoo, Waka, Jazz noise here, In NY etc). Some songs here (disco boy or wind up .. for example) are even irritating. But the three that I talked about are absolutly stellar Zappa's music examples, so they alone justify the price ticket. If you are a newcomer in the Zappa's Universe go for Wazoo, Waka, Hot rats, or better than anything else probably, the exceptional big apple live concert, "Zappa in NY".