In order of preference, please. I still am pretty unschooled in Zappa - lots of albums I've never heard. I probably can't even come up with a top five. For example, I've heard Joe's Garage lots of times but am pretty sure it's no longer a top five for me. Your lists will help me decide what to listen to next.
Hardly a fan by Zappa nut measures, i enjoy
Hot Rats
Waka/Jawaka
The Grand Wazoo
Apostrophe
We're Only In It For The Money
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Uncle Meat
Roxy and Elsewhere
Apostrophe
Overnite Sensation
New York
I wouldn't consider myself a huge fan, but definitely enjoy a fair amount of Frank's work. I was never a big fan when Frank's humor manifested itself too overtly, so I really don't care for albums like Thing Fish, for example.
But here is how I'd sum up my top 5:
1. One Size Fits All
2. The Grand Wazoo
3. Sleep Dirt
4. Waka Jawaka
5. Uncle Meat
WANTED: Sig-worthy quote.
Läther
Joe's Garage
Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar
Roxy and Elsewhere
Make a Jazz Noise Here
Uncle Meat
Absolutely Free
Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar
The Yellow Shark
Civilization Phaze III
*Not a Zappa album, i know, but Ensemble Ambrosius-The Zappa Album.Frank's tunes played by a Finnish ensemble on Baroque era instruments.If you're a Zappa fan, check out this cd.
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"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Great list Sir WalterOriginally Posted by walt
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Uncle Meat
Hot Rats
Absolutely Free
Followed by many of his 70s titles.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Grand Wazoo
Hot Rats
Uncle Meat
We're Only In It......
Waka Jawaka
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
We're Only In It For The Money
Broadway The Hard Way
Lather
Just Another Band From LA
Apostrophe
That was difficult & very much of the moment, although We're Only In It For The Money would be on every configuration of mine.
Sleeping at home is killing the hotel business!
Wtf, no Freakout? So here it goes
We're only in it for the Money
Freak out
Hot Rats
Uncle Meat
Grand Wazoo
Hot Rats
Grand Wazoo
Roxy and Elsewhere
One Size fits all
Orchestral Favorites
But then I would have to ommit all the other favorites
One Size Fits All
Uncle Meat
Sleep Dirt
We're Only In It For The Money
Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
The one I'm currently listening to
The next one I'll be listening to
The last three I listened to
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Hot Rats
Waka/Jawaka
Guitar
The Grand Wazoo
One Size Fits All
Make a Jazz Noise Here
Roxy and Elsewhere
One Size Fits All
Hot Rats
Waka Jawaka
Bingo! Swirch 2 & 3 and you've got my list!
Early 70s Zappa's are the best!
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Over-Nite Sensation
Apostrophe
Hot Rats
Zoot Allures
One Size Fits All
Hot Rats
Waka Jawaka
Grand Wazoo
Uncle Meat
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Would maybe swap two or three to include Roxy and Elsewhere, Sleep Dirt and Bongo Fury on another day
the first four are no-brainers: (chronological order)
Hot Rats
Waka/Jawaka
The Grand Wazoo
Sleep Dirt
fighting for fitfth
Weasels, Chunga, One Size, Weeny
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Curiously enough, "Weasel's Chunga One-Sized Weeny" sounds like it could be Zappa title...
WANTED: Sig-worthy quote.
Uncle Meat
Burn Weeny Sandwich
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
We're Only In It For The Money
Absolutely Free
Yes. Predictable.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Roxy and Elsewhere
Zoot Allures
We’re Only In It For The Money
Bongo Fury
Sheikh Yerbouti
BTW, I'm certain I've asked this question before! But people seem to enjoy it.
I loaded the following onto my iPhone today:
Apostrophe
Just Another Band from LA
One Size Fits All
Sheik Yerbouti
Waka/Jawaka
BTW, I've heard all of these before once or twice except Just Another Band From LA. And Apostrophe and Sheik I heard a number of times in college and once or twice since but don't remember too well.
Hard to say.
His music is such a mixed bag, and that was on purpose - some of his best instrumentals would be followed by joke songs that (if you're older than 13) were funny once, if that. And his refusal to make value judgements about his own music meant that almost every album had that quality. With that....
Uncle Meat
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Roxy and Elsewhere
..........and three from among.........
Make a Jazz Noise Here
Studio Tan
One Size Fits All
Wazoo
Roxy by Proxy
Those last two are posthumous live releases, so whether they count as "canonical" Zappa records is open to question. But for sheer energy Roxy by Proxy is hard to beat, and its raw, warts-and-all imperfections only add to its delights. And while Wazoo may not be terribly well recorded, it documents some fairly rare material played live by a road-tightened band, whose huge sound might have been close to what Frank heard in his head.
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