by Barry Knobel Melbourne, Australia Reviewed on December 22nd, 1999
This is not only one of the best Zappa albums, not only one of the best albums in the history of recorded sound, it is one of the great works of art of the 20th century in any genre. Zappa's lyrics are consistently brilliant and insightful, and have not aged at all, which is amazing. His musical experiments, such as mixing Stravinsky into the middle of a song about high school popularity, the classical music in "Brown Shoes", and the dazzling depiction of the emptiness of bar life in "America Drinks", are great successes and are far beyond what the Beatles were doing at the same time to much greater popular acclaim. This album belongs in the home of every thinking person in the world. Zappa could be inconsistent, especially after 1980, but here is one album which is a huge success from start to finish.
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