A great double album. I bought the LP back sometime around 1970. Hard to believe this song is 56 years old. Also so very sad to say it is as relevant now as it was 56 years ago. Thanks for the reaction
This song was written in 65 during the watts riots in California, it could have been written in the summer of 2020. Frank scored two movies before this album came out. The cult classic The World's Greatest Sinner in 1962 which Frank called the world's worst movie and the western Run Home Slow in 1965, he also wrote a few songs that were recorded by other people including Mr. Clean and Grunion Run which was a minor hit in Mexico. Frank also wrote and recorded three songs for Burt Ward (Robin, Boy Wonder) from the Batman TV show in 66, they were absolute flops because Burt couldn't sing by any stretch of the imagination.
@@timfeeley714-25 You wouldn't think that way if it were your asd being chased by the most cprrupt,criminal outfit in history. Learn your history,The king,Mayor Richard Daley, was the worst of all of them. He sent troops into the convention ctr.(this in his town that is sponsoring the convention) & they kicked the shit out of a bunch of the delegates,you know,people invited there from every state in the union.Don't believe me,look it up & tell me I'm lying. If we ever meet in person I show you the scar on my head I got from the pig who walked up behind as I was leaving Grant Park & clubbed me like the chickenshit he was. 1 night in hospital w/ concussion & 28 stitches in my head. & before you start calling me all kinds of names I had been back a little over a month from my 2'nd 2 year of beautiful,exotic Viet Nam. Had a nice little heroin habit to kick.So just remember,careful what you wish for,you can't trust ANY of those bastards. Hippie Redneck Fort Worth,Texas 🏜⭐🤠
I bought this when it came out, I was 14 years old. Frank changed my life and helped me get through high school. "I'm not Black, but there's a whole lotta times I wish I could say I'm not White". Frank was quite political in his early years, slid into Jazz and then back into just about anything he wanted. Brown Shoes Don't Make It, Who Are The Brain Police and Help, I'm A Rock are classics from this era. You should look up/watch the movie "Medium Cool" which uses Frank on the soundtrack. It also, inadvertently, has live footage of the Police Riot against the protesters outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. The title is a take-off on the saying "The Medium Is The Message", from Marshall Mcluen.
I could never get over the perfect words and passion in sync with the music. I lived maybe 10 miles west off of Manchester Blvd and the riots didn't reach Inglewood. Must have listened to Trouble Every Day hundreds of times since the 60's.
1966, not long before Sargent Pepper. Paul has said that this album had an influence on SP. This is The Mothers' first album, but his earliest known recording is the 1959 "Lost in a Whirlpool" with his high school pal and later collaborator, Don "Capt. Beefhart" Vliet. There is jazz piece, "Never on a Sunday" 1966. There are also some doo wop records that Frank had a hand in during this period. He also made a very avant-guard appearance playing a bicycle on the "Steve Allen Show" in 1963. You can find some of these and others on "The Lost Episodes" collection.
Well, hello. Glad you asked. There are four official releases with music Frank produced before Freak Out and that version of "Trouble" . In order of appearance, there was The Mystery Disc which appeared as a bonus LP record in 1985 on The Old Masters box set and then in the 1990's as a standalone cd with more later 1960's material. Also, making its debut in 1997 on cd The Lost Episodes had several more songs from the early 'Pre-Freak Out' period. Then, in 2004, another set of Pre-Freak Out material was unearthed and disgorged unto the world itself called Joe's Corsage. That set had the demos Frank had prepared to shop around town to get signed prior to the sessions for Freak Out along with some rare live material and, but also important, interview style story-time bits of Frank telling what happened. Latest but not leastest, Joe's Xmasage temporarily assuaged the hungry consumer's need for more Early Mothers giving insight to life in Cucamonga at a risky-dink recording studio just off Route 66 in the early 1960's! Huzzah! And you're welcome. Of course, there is also the 4cd and 2cd versions of The Making of Freak Out - the sessions - released over the winter of 2006-7 which is another story. Might I link you to another snapshot of the times? Try I'm So Happy I Could Cry - Joes' Corsage (2004)
This was the song that got Frank Zappa and the Mothers a record contract. Someone from the record company saw them perform this, thought "white blues band", decided to sign them and left. It was only when they recorded Who Are The Brain Police? They realized it was a very different band!
it's always refreshing when people realize Frank was always at the forefront of progressive ideas as well as musical ones. I have been a fan since '67 and he literally changed my idea of what music could be. I enjoy your channel and keep on exploring Franks's massive discography.
It's not surprising this song(and the Allman Brothers' Whipping Post) became staples of Zappa concerts until the end. This song nails so much of his basic criticisms of his government and the media it tried to control vis a vis race and riots that he never really had to bother again. George Duke pushed him into the bitter sweet and defiant Uncle Remus in the 70's which you must listen to. Unsurprisingly all Zappa bands were musicians of all colours and genders. Hell, there were even women now and then. God bless America and Frank Zappa, (in German, that's the language he uses for the heavy stuff) cause why not. Still got this on original vinyl which is older than me.
Frank just nails it whether is contemporary issues humor satire religion. ..he takes no prisoners. Hey the 60 s guitar riffs were ass kicking. The Stones had an incredible early twangy sound. The Telecaster Keith Richards favored had that sharp twang to it. Here Frank captures that unique sound The shows in the 60 s favor that style as well I think of how cool was the guitar on the Munsters. Don't know who performed that gem but Paul Revere and the Raiders Hernens Hermits The Byrd's . The Animals many many more bands had that twang . Don't knock the 60 s it all took off from there
Petri K. Will take you on a chaotic ride with his requests on Zappa.He'll totally jump past Zappa's finest era,with a few songs,but never the best songs,and then jump forward 8 yrs later,only to go back 13 years! Get ready for the Peter K. Kaotic request experience. Our unfortunate Sifa from sight after dark,after listening to overwhelming chaotic zappa period and Era jumping zappa requests, by Peter. K, she got so confused she thought Ainsley Dunbar was the drummer on Purple lagoon. Good work Peter confusing the sh* t out of her!
No, but maybe "Kinesiska muren" by Evert Taube, 1960 (in Swedish). About China, 200 B.C.; book burning and building the wall: m.ruclips.net/video/LxUEpH44y3A/видео.html
And before that, several "talking blues" recordings of Woody Guthrie, a prime influence of Dylan's. It's the flow of the transition and tradition that so many 'kids' don't understand, and think that everyone was crap who came10 minutes before the appearance of their "Musical God de jour". @@chalcedonv6997
Not the best version in my opinion Roxy and elsewhere is for me . Nice to hear on the radio a young indie band called ‘ she drew the gun ‘ covered it , keeping franks music alive 😎
Not that long ago? How many criminal presidents have there been since 1966? And, as someone else has noted, it is as relevant now as it was when "Freak Out" was first released.
@@Frunobulax74 it has more lyric details, but I always knew exactly what the song was about even hearing the Roxy version. Musiically, groove wise, solo, etc, everything else on the Roxy version is better, including the melodic phrasing of the main melody. Imo...
@@Frunobulax74 Absolutes are absurd. Just not true. Plus its opinion so, its a meaningless statement. In fact some artists think good songs are written, and great songs are rewritten. Neither an absolute and both true at times.
@@Frunobulax74 i stated mine was opinion also. oh, but I get it, only you get to respond? I just pointed how your absolutist comment on every original version is better is ridiculous. I doubt even you believe that. You probably songs that were covered better than original versions and may not know it.
Because I like too much your comments, I suggest that you must have to lisen, for your first oportunity in the knowledge of the Zappa universe music, another 3 extraordinary compositions of Frank: first, Jazz from hell; second, Black napkins; and at last but not least, Pink napkins. Thank's a lot and hello from Mexico city.
Get ready for the Peter KAOTIC ride thru Franks universe, jumping a decade ahead, then back, then stopping somewhere around roxy, then back to hot rats, to waka jawaka, back to George duke, then jump to tinsel town rebellion,only to further avoid the mid 75- early 78 masterpiece of musicians and music. Let's remind Slop that this is Terry Bozzio, not Aynsley Dumb bar. I see you guys weren't too fast to correct Sifa, hoping she thought the masterful drumming on purple lagoon was Dunbar on drums, that she incorrectly thought, no thanks to you three genius's avoiding the facts to feed your ego's, and not correct her that purple lagoon was the masterful performance of Bozzio,
You are listening to all these songs in a vacuum, without any research or idea of what they are about or the times that they came from. Freak Out is a seminal album, nothing remotely like it ever had been released by a big record company ( or a small one for that matter ). This song is about The so-called Watts Riots, a major event in American history. There is a great documentary about the horrible treatment the LAPD had given to the black population of Los Angeles for decades and spent the last 30 minutes looking for it, but can't find it. Shit. Go research it, it's too involved to list all the details here, but they had had enough and an incident of police brutality sparked 6 days of civil unrest that resulted in 41 deaths, that's what this song is about. Frank gave up part of his royalties in order for the release to be a 2-record set, it would be considered the first rock double album, but Dylan's Blonde on Blonde was released shortly before. It definitely is the first alternative rock album. It actually had more sales than are officially noted, but the record company shipped a lot of units out the back door to steal the royalties. Freak out became an anthem for outcasts, gaining Frank many lifetime fans. It was an inspiration to many, including The Beatles. It seems like you like Franks music, go read his book and some of the others about him. It will take some time to learn what he is all about, and admittedly not everything in his catalog is a gem, but the whole thing paints a picture. Get to know Freak Out, it's great. Then spend some time with Absolutely Free - Brown Shoes Don't Make it is a song that combines blues and 12-tone serial atonality, it's one of a kind. Go through his whole catalog slowly, I know you are a musician, it's a great education. 30 years ago before the internet, I became interested in his music because he was re-releasing it all on CD. I was fascinated, so I went to the library and searched the periodicals index for articles by or about him and learned a great deal. I acquired the first 65 albums or so, read the books and fanzines etc. He had a mind like no other, taught himself to compose the most avant-garde classical music from reading books and studying the scores of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Webern, Bartok etc. At the time of his death he was very respected in the small circles that populate this kind of compositional style and had made new strides in polyrhythmic experimentation that few if any had done before. Because of his immersion in this kind of style, it would come out of him naturally when playing a guitar solo, just look at the transcriptions that Steve Vai did of his solos in the Frank Zappa Guitar Book, they are insane. He was a true genius, unparallelled. Go listen to The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque a number of times in a row. It's so sublime. Then, go get Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch, to hear the inspiration. Again, amazing. This Town is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich series ( like 5 songs on the CD ), from 200 Motels is an underrated masterpiece of his, a total fusion of high and low culture. This is one of the albums from the Flo and Eddie years, you will know that once you are a Zappa Master. Another great one from this period is Just Another Band From LA. I was going to ramble for another 1,000 words, but nobody's listening. Trust me though, if you like all the jumping around you have done with his work, you need to slow down and learn it all. It will help you as a musician, and as a fan of music. And just to summarize briefly - The 1974 band of his ruled, One Size Fits All is the best album ever, The Black Page #2 is cathartic and should be sent out to aliens on future space probes, Sinister Footwear is fantastic, check out the version on Make a Jazz Noise Here, The Yellow Shark is the culmination of his life's obsession with cutting-edge "serious music", or maybe Civilization Phase 3 is, which, once you understand what that is all about, will give you more of an understanding of the song "Evelyn, a Modified Dog" on One Size Fits All means - "Pedal-depressed pan-chromatic resonance" is holding down all the pedals of a piano while people speak into it to resonate the strings and you record it over the years as part of you Lumpy Gravy trilogy. Arf !
A great double album. I bought the LP back sometime around 1970.
Hard to believe this song is 56 years old. Also so very sad to say it is as relevant now as it was 56 years ago.
Thanks for the reaction
See also "The revolution will not be televised"
This song was written in 65 during the watts riots in California, it could have been written in the summer of 2020. Frank scored two movies before this album came out. The cult classic The World's Greatest Sinner in 1962 which Frank called the world's worst movie and the western Run Home Slow in 1965, he also wrote a few songs that were recorded by other people including Mr. Clean and Grunion Run which was a minor hit in Mexico. Frank also wrote and recorded three songs for Burt Ward (Robin, Boy Wonder) from the Batman TV show in 66, they were absolute flops because Burt couldn't sing by any stretch of the imagination.
My favorite Zappa masterpiece.
Truer words were never spoken: "...a fire in the street ain't like a fire in the heart..."
This song radicalized me. Got teargassed in Chicago at Dem. Convention riots at Grant Park. Heady days!
Wish we had those cops now!
@@timfeeley714-25 You wouldn't think that way if it were your asd being chased by the most cprrupt,criminal outfit in history. Learn your history,The king,Mayor Richard Daley, was the worst of all of them. He sent troops into the convention ctr.(this in his town that is sponsoring the convention) & they kicked the shit out of a bunch of the delegates,you know,people invited there from every state in the union.Don't believe me,look it up & tell me I'm lying. If we ever meet in person I show you the scar on my head I got from the pig who walked up behind as I was leaving Grant Park & clubbed me like the chickenshit he was. 1 night in hospital w/ concussion & 28 stitches in my head. & before you start calling me all kinds of names I had been back a little over a month from my 2'nd 2 year of beautiful,exotic Viet Nam. Had a nice little heroin habit to kick.So just remember,careful what you wish for,you can't trust ANY of those bastards.
Hippie Redneck
Fort Worth,Texas 🏜⭐🤠
With shit zappa trolls, its like with mushrooms, keep them in the dark and feed them shit, hahahaha 🤣 🤣 🤣
Zappa looked like a bum at the end 🤣 🤣 🤣
I bought this when it came out, I was 14 years old. Frank changed my life and helped me get through high school. "I'm not Black, but there's a whole lotta times I wish I could say I'm not White". Frank was quite political in his early years, slid into Jazz and then back into just about anything he wanted. Brown Shoes Don't Make It, Who Are The Brain Police and Help, I'm A Rock are classics from this era. You should look up/watch the movie "Medium Cool" which uses Frank on the soundtrack. It also, inadvertently, has live footage of the Police Riot against the protesters outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. The title is a take-off on the saying "The Medium Is The Message", from Marshall Mcluen.
I could never get over the perfect words and passion in sync with the music. I lived maybe 10 miles west off of Manchester Blvd and the riots didn't reach Inglewood. Must have listened to Trouble Every Day hundreds of times since the 60's.
If anyone mentions "Don't eat the Yellow Snow", it's probably not the 2 min song they have in mind, it's the 11 min suite.
1966, not long before Sargent Pepper. Paul has said that this album had an influence on SP. This is The Mothers' first album, but his earliest known recording is the 1959 "Lost in a Whirlpool" with his high school pal and later collaborator, Don "Capt. Beefhart" Vliet. There is jazz piece, "Never on a Sunday" 1966. There are also some doo wop records that Frank had a hand in during this period. He also made a very avant-guard appearance playing a bicycle on the "Steve Allen Show" in 1963. You can find some of these and others on "The Lost Episodes" collection.
Well, hello. Glad you asked. There are four official releases with music Frank produced before Freak Out and that version of "Trouble" . In order of appearance, there was The Mystery Disc which appeared as a bonus LP record in 1985 on The Old Masters box set and then in the 1990's as a standalone cd with more later 1960's material. Also, making its debut in 1997 on cd The Lost Episodes had several more songs from the early 'Pre-Freak Out' period. Then, in 2004, another set of Pre-Freak Out material was unearthed and disgorged unto the world itself called Joe's Corsage. That set had the demos Frank had prepared to shop around town to get signed prior to the sessions for Freak Out along with some rare live material and, but also important, interview style story-time bits of Frank telling what happened. Latest but not leastest, Joe's Xmasage temporarily assuaged the hungry consumer's need for more Early Mothers giving insight to life in Cucamonga at a risky-dink recording studio just off Route 66 in the early 1960's! Huzzah! And you're welcome. Of course, there is also the 4cd and 2cd versions of The Making of Freak Out - the sessions - released over the winter of 2006-7 which is another story. Might I link you to another snapshot of the times? Try I'm So Happy I Could Cry - Joes' Corsage (2004)
This was the song that got Frank Zappa and the Mothers a record contract. Someone from the record company saw them perform this, thought "white blues band", decided to sign them and left.
It was only when they recorded Who Are The Brain Police? They realized it was a very different band!
"Where are you going with those drums at one in the morning..." - or words to that effect 😁
@Andy Murphy - It was producer Tom Wilson who heard them play this song at the Whisky a Go Go and signed them. He was the producer on Freak Out!
With shit zappa trolls, its like with mushrooms, keep them in the dark and feed them shit, hahahaha 🤣 🤣 🤣
Zappa knew what was gonna happen in 2020...
some people thought this was The Rolling Stones, when it came out
it's always refreshing when people realize Frank was always at the forefront of progressive ideas as well as musical ones. I have been a fan since '67 and he literally changed my idea of what music could be. I enjoy your channel and keep on exploring Franks's massive discography.
Gotta understand this came out of LA riots in 1965.
It's not surprising this song(and the Allman Brothers' Whipping Post) became staples of Zappa concerts until the end. This song nails so much of his basic criticisms of his government and the media it tried to control vis a vis race and riots that he never really had to bother again. George Duke pushed him into the bitter sweet and defiant Uncle Remus in the 70's which you must listen to. Unsurprisingly all Zappa bands were musicians of all colours and genders. Hell, there were even women now and then. God bless America and Frank Zappa, (in German, that's the language he uses for the heavy stuff) cause why not. Still got this on original vinyl which is older than me.
Love You Son from your Mom💗
That's nice,ma'am. I really miss those little dailies I used to get from my beautiful mom. You're a GOOD mother.
Kiheka
Osage Nation
Pawhuska,Oklahoma
With shit zappa trolls, its like with mushrooms, keep them in the dark and feed them shit, hahahaha 🤣 🤣 🤣
Zappa was an arrogant asshole, he looked like a bum at the end 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
He was garbage
Classic Song, Bob Dylan influenced...
Frank just nails it whether is contemporary issues humor satire religion. ..he takes no prisoners. Hey the 60 s guitar riffs were ass kicking. The Stones had an incredible early twangy sound. The Telecaster Keith Richards favored had that sharp twang to it. Here Frank captures that unique sound The shows in the 60 s favor that style as well I think of how cool was the guitar on the Munsters. Don't know who performed that gem but Paul Revere and the Raiders Hernens Hermits The Byrd's . The Animals many many more bands had that twang . Don't knock the 60 s it all took off from there
Written after witnessing the Wats riots downtown
Watts isn't downtown, its kinda like south-central.
I'd love to hear Tom MacDonald's take on this song.
La mejor version es cantada por Captain Beekheart !!!!!
Meet the new boss, same as old boss.
Petri K. Will take you on a chaotic ride with his requests on Zappa.He'll totally jump past Zappa's finest era,with a few songs,but never the best songs,and then jump forward 8 yrs later,only to go back 13 years! Get ready for the Peter K. Kaotic request experience. Our unfortunate Sifa from sight after dark,after listening to overwhelming chaotic zappa period and Era jumping zappa requests, by Peter. K, she got so confused she thought Ainsley Dunbar was the drummer on Purple lagoon. Good work Peter confusing the sh* t out of her!
With shit zappa trolls, its like with mushrooms, keep them in the dark and feed them shit, hahahaha 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Zappa was an arrogant asshole
I prefer the Roxy version.
First rap record?
Yeah, together with subterranean homesick blues , both way ahead of their time
No, but maybe "Kinesiska muren" by Evert Taube, 1960 (in Swedish). About China, 200 B.C.; book burning and building the wall: m.ruclips.net/video/LxUEpH44y3A/видео.html
@@chalcedonv6997 No shit
With shit zappa trolls, its like with mushrooms, keep them in the dark and feed them shit, hahahaha 🤣 🤣 🤣
And before that, several "talking blues" recordings of Woody Guthrie, a prime influence of Dylan's. It's the flow of the transition and tradition that so many 'kids' don't understand, and think that everyone was crap who came10 minutes before the appearance of their "Musical God de jour". @@chalcedonv6997
Not the best version in my opinion Roxy and elsewhere is for me . Nice to hear on the radio a young indie band called ‘ she drew the gun ‘ covered it , keeping franks music alive 😎
Not that long ago? How many criminal presidents have there been since 1966?
And, as someone else has noted, it is as relevant now as it was when "Freak Out" was first released.
Don't know why people ask for this version. I suggest listening to the version from the live Roxy and Elsewhere album.
this is the only version with all the lyrics, and I wanted him to see how serious FZ could be when he wanted to.
@@Frunobulax74 same subject matter, just less lyrics on Roxy, but I like the groove and everything else better on Roxy.
@@Frunobulax74 it has more lyric details, but I always knew exactly what the song was about even hearing the Roxy version.
Musiically, groove wise, solo, etc, everything else on the Roxy version is better, including the melodic phrasing of the main melody. Imo...
@@Frunobulax74 Absolutes are absurd. Just not true. Plus its opinion so, its a meaningless statement.
In fact some artists think good songs are written, and great songs are rewritten.
Neither an absolute and both true at times.
@@Frunobulax74 i stated mine was opinion also. oh, but I get it, only you get to respond?
I just pointed how your absolutist comment on every original version is better is ridiculous. I doubt even you believe that. You probably songs that were covered better than original versions and may not know it.
FZ father rap!!!!!!
Because I like too much your comments, I suggest that you must have to lisen, for your first oportunity in the knowledge of the Zappa universe music, another 3 extraordinary compositions of Frank: first, Jazz from hell; second, Black napkins; and at last but not least, Pink napkins. Thank's a lot and hello from Mexico city.
Get ready for the Peter KAOTIC ride thru Franks universe, jumping a decade ahead, then back, then stopping somewhere around roxy, then back to hot rats, to waka jawaka, back to George duke, then jump to tinsel town rebellion,only to further avoid the mid 75- early 78 masterpiece of musicians and music.
Let's remind Slop that this is Terry Bozzio, not Aynsley Dumb bar.
I see you guys weren't too fast to correct Sifa, hoping she thought the masterful drumming on purple lagoon was Dunbar on drums, that she incorrectly thought, no thanks to you three genius's avoiding the facts to feed your ego's, and not correct her that purple lagoon was the masterful performance of Bozzio,
Ugly boring clown zappa
With shit zappa trolls, its like with mushrooms, keep them in the dark and feed them shit, hahahaha 🤣
There`s a better version on roxy & elswhere from 1973 , but this is the original......
You are listening to all these songs in a vacuum, without any research or idea of what they are about or the times that they came from. Freak Out is a seminal album, nothing remotely like it ever had been released by a big record company ( or a small one for that matter ). This song is about The so-called Watts Riots, a major event in American history. There is a great documentary about the horrible treatment the LAPD had given to the black population of Los Angeles for decades and spent the last 30 minutes looking for it, but can't find it. Shit. Go research it, it's too involved to list all the details here, but they had had enough and an incident of police brutality sparked 6 days of civil unrest that resulted in 41 deaths, that's what this song is about. Frank gave up part of his royalties in order for the release to be a 2-record set, it would be considered the first rock double album, but Dylan's Blonde on Blonde was released shortly before. It definitely is the first alternative rock album. It actually had more sales than are officially noted, but the record company shipped a lot of units out the back door to steal the royalties. Freak out became an anthem for outcasts, gaining Frank many lifetime fans. It was an inspiration to many, including The Beatles. It seems like you like Franks music, go read his book and some of the others about him. It will take some time to learn what he is all about, and admittedly not everything in his catalog is a gem, but the whole thing paints a picture. Get to know Freak Out, it's great. Then spend some time with Absolutely Free - Brown Shoes Don't Make it is a song that combines blues and 12-tone serial atonality, it's one of a kind. Go through his whole catalog slowly, I know you are a musician, it's a great education. 30 years ago before the internet, I became interested in his music because he was re-releasing it all on CD. I was fascinated, so I went to the library and searched the periodicals index for articles by or about him and learned a great deal. I acquired the first 65 albums or so, read the books and fanzines etc. He had a mind like no other, taught himself to compose the most avant-garde classical music from reading books and studying the scores of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Webern, Bartok etc. At the time of his death he was very respected in the small circles that populate this kind of compositional style and had made new strides in polyrhythmic experimentation that few if any had done before. Because of his immersion in this kind of style, it would come out of him naturally when playing a guitar solo, just look at the transcriptions that Steve Vai did of his solos in the Frank Zappa Guitar Book, they are insane. He was a true genius, unparallelled. Go listen to The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque a number of times in a row. It's so sublime. Then, go get Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch, to hear the inspiration. Again, amazing. This Town is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich series ( like 5 songs on the CD ), from 200 Motels is an underrated masterpiece of his, a total fusion of high and low culture. This is one of the albums from the Flo and Eddie years, you will know that once you are a Zappa Master. Another great one from this period is Just Another Band From LA. I was going to ramble for another 1,000 words, but nobody's listening. Trust me though, if you like all the jumping around you have done with his work, you need to slow down and learn it all. It will help you as a musician, and as a fan of music. And just to summarize briefly - The 1974 band of his ruled, One Size Fits All is the best album ever, The Black Page #2 is cathartic and should be sent out to aliens on future space probes, Sinister Footwear is fantastic, check out the version on Make a Jazz Noise Here, The Yellow Shark is the culmination of his life's obsession with cutting-edge "serious music", or maybe Civilization Phase 3 is, which, once you understand what that is all about, will give you more of an understanding of the song "Evelyn, a Modified Dog" on One Size Fits All means - "Pedal-depressed pan-chromatic resonance" is holding down all the pedals of a piano while people speak into it to resonate the strings and you record it over the years as part of you Lumpy Gravy trilogy. Arf !
Live version is better I think
better than any dylan song
all you can ever be is a lousy janitor unless your uncle owns the store.
watch the rats run across the floor and make up songs about bein poor.
Fool yourself zappa trolls