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Friday 13 May 2022

"Classic Rock" - Frank Zappa

 


2022 Charity Shop Purchases #24 - Frank Zappa - The Best of Frank Zappa

The next Best of from the Newton Stewart Sue Ryder haul is The Best of Frank Zappa a CD from 2004 on the Rykodisc label

I knew a guy who had over 40 Zappa albums. He had also worked as a dentist which therefore made him a sadist as well as a masochist.

Was Frank Zappa a genius or a chancer?I'm veering towards the latter . While there are a couple of  good songs on this album there is also a lot of nonsence much of which is pretty misogynistic in nature. Described by Robert Christgau pretty accurately  as sexist adolescent drivel  There could be an argument that it is of its time but I can't think of too many other acts who came away with as many (possibly intentional) offensive songs as him.

For this reason and the fact that most of the music does not impress me much this one will not be a keeper which is a pity as it would have taken the Zs on the shelves into double figures.( 5 Warren Zevon, 3 Zutons and 1 Andrea Zonn if you are interested)

Here are two of the non offensive and better songs

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage

Frank Zappa -Valley Girl

9 comments:

  1. If you'd kept it then you would have one more Zappa album than me, My Z contingent numbers 3 in all.

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  2. Good to see George is no longer hiding his light under a bushel. If it is a competition my entry is 15 - 6 from Zevon and one each from Zaiko Langa Langa, Zdob Si Zdub, Brock Zeman, Karel Zich, The Zipps, The Zombies, Zuider Zee, Natalie Zukerman and Tapper Zukie

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    1. You:be made up some of those names haven't you?

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    2. I do not take kindly to having my integrity impugned, and nor do the other members of Zebedee Zip & The Zig-Zags

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  3. Zevron. Zarelli. Zap Pow. Zoe.

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  4. Head above the parapet - I've got ZZ Top but on vinyl only. You've hit an inadvertent winner here with yr 'Zs on the shelves' theme. Mine are Zephyrs (4), Zeus (1), Warren Zevon (7), Zombies (2), Zutons (1). Tappa Zukie I file under T.

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  5. Anonymous? I'm not ashamed! Head above the parapet - I've got ZZ Top but on vinyl only. You've hit an inadvertent winner here with yr 'Zs on the shelves' theme. Mine are Zephyrs (4), Zeus (1), Warren Zevon (7), Zombies (2), Zutons (1). Tappa Zukie I file under T.

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  6. Zapped By A Million Votes (1 x 7" single); Zed Penguin (as part of a split 12" single); Zipper (3-track EP); Zoey Van Goey (2 x CD albums); Zwan (CD album).

    Via compilations - Zelinger Band; The Zephyrs; Zero 7; Zerra One; The Zips; Zombie Zombie; The Zombies; The Zones; Zookeeper; The Zutons.

    To be fair, I couldn't begin to tell you what two-thirds of them sound like.

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