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FRANK ZAPPA
OVERNITE SENSATION |
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The Frank Zappa album for those who only want one album
by Lawrance M. Bernabo "Reviews...the Final Frontier" The Zenith City: Duluth, MN United States
Reviewed on June 15th, 2002
Some of you might be asking why I have this album and the easiest way of explaining it is to quote the chorus of the first track, "Camarillo Brillo": She had a snake for a pet
And an amulet
And she was breeding a dwarf
But she wasn't done yet
She had gray-green skin
A doll with a pin
I told her she was awright
But I couldn't come in
(actually, I was very busy then). The lyrics are what hooked me, but I also like the way George Duke pounds the ivories during that song. Along with "I'm the Slime" and "Dirty Love" I think that the first three tracks on "Overnite Sensation" distill the Zappa essence as well as any comparable set you can find in his entire oeuvre. Perhaps the best proof of this would the anecdotal evidence that this is the album people who only own one Frank Zappa album happen to own. This would make sense since "Overnite Sensation" is probably more rock-oriented than most of Zappa's albums. For songs about in a similar vein, only about an Eskimo, check out "Apostrophe," which was produced in the same time with pretty much the same musicians.
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