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FRANK ZAPPA
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Relevant as Today?s Headlines
by booboo bear Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
Reviewed on April 5th, 2003
The Fact that Mr. Zappa was able to gain a following in the 60's and 70's putting out such commercially nonviable material says something about the man's talent. He could not and would not be ignored. When this was originally released in 1967 absolutely nothing even remotely similar had been created by anyone. That is unless you count FREAK OUT or some of Varese's, Stravinsky's and Penderecki's works. That is of course ignoring the absurd similarities between Plastic People and Louie Louie (Kingsmen) or the portion of INVOCATION AND RITUAL DANCE OF THE YOUNG PUMPKIN that was taken from Gustov Holst's symphony THE PLANETS (Jupiter I think). This is a bizarre album even for Mr. Zappa in that the influences are so many and so diverse mixed in with an absolutely sardonic wit and humor. If you hate boring music and want to be entertained this is a wonderful piece of musical history blending styles no one else would be able to hold together without nails and duct-tape. ...ignore Big Leg Emma and Why Doncha' Do Me Right. Conceptually they don't belong (were added by recording execs) and are completely out of context.
More "Absolutely Free" reviews:
[2005-01-06] The Best Mothers' (10)
[2003-12-24] Absolutely Indispensible (10)
[2003-11-27] An Underrated Mothers Album (10)
[2003-11-14] Comical and Extremely Cynical (10)
[2003-10-20] Gotta love your mothers (10)
[2003-09-11] good (6)
[2003-07-21] My favorite of the three early Zappa albums (10)
[2003-05-28] Zappa's sophomore outing shows his style (8)
[2003-05-04] We miss you, Frank.... (10)
[2003-04-05] Relevant as Today?s Headlines (10)
[2002-10-17] Absolutely Free-kin Good (10)
[2002-10-12] ONE OF ZAPPA'S BEST......AND WEIRDEST! (10)
[2002-09-29] Classic Zappa weirdness (10)
[2002-02-11] Absolutely Free Don't Make It (6)
[2001-12-09] sublime (10)
[2001-08-23] A Classic Album- Even 35 Years Later (10)
[2001-06-30] Brown Shoes Don't Make It (8)
[2001-03-18] Thirty-seven minutes of non-stop silliness! (10)
[2001-03-09] A classic from 1967 (10)
[2001-02-27] absolutely great (10)
[2001-02-07] The origin of many concert classics (8)
[2000-12-10] 60's and then some (10)
[2000-10-01] The vegetable WILL respond to you (10)
[2000-03-01] CHAPTER 2: A QUANTUM LEAP (10)
[1999-12-23] Exceptional (10)
[1999-12-22] One of the great works of art of the 20th century (10)
[1999-08-13] An amazing piece of work--warts and all (8)
[1999-03-24] The Mothers at their best. (10)
[1999-02-01] Frank was one of a kind. An absolute genius. (10)
[1998-07-27] A Classic!! (10)
[1998-07-25] Zappa begins to find his form in his enjoyable 2nd outing (8)
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