From dwilliams20Chaos and confusion in the current state of the world. We've one the war oh no we're still fighting, ballon boobs, praising Allah on Easter, gas crisis. What else it's to much and it's worth letting you fried brain go off the deep end with frank zappa screaming help I'm a rock. His first record the second double album ever, (at least in the USA). From writing for advertising to now this. Taking the soul giants guitarist and beginning the mother's of invention. Tom Wilson of Verve record signs them after hearing only one song at a gig and green lights the first album. As well as anything else they wanted because tom was on acid. Bring in freaks, and the wrecking crew frank wanted ( Picillos, flutes, base flutes, oboes, an English horn, bassons, contra-bassons, clarinet, saxaphones, trumpets, French horns, trombone, tubas, a contrabass-tuba, harps, electric pianos, pianos, electric harps, clavicords, Hammond organs, 20 violins 8 villas, 6 chellos, string basses, timpianis, chimes, songs, bass drums snare drums, lions roar, woodblocks, xylophones, marimba, 12 and 6 string guitars, 2 separate drummers and drum sets and backups singers with tambourines.) That’s how he spent around a quarter of a million. MGM Vere's parent company pulls the rest of the mother's studio time leaving side four unfinished or the final song missing overdubbing. The whole satirical album is a trip to listen to be careful not to be doing anything with high thinking capacity when listening. Get lost in the chaos take your mind off the world and figure out the question on the albums backside. Suzy creamchease what's got into you?
- Hungry Freaks, Daddy opens the album swinging — does Zappa's satire feel liberating or does its smugness create distance between the music and its targets?No answers yet
- Trouble Every Day is far more earnest than the surrounding tracks — does its directness make it the album's emotional core or does it feel out of place?No answers yet
- The second disc abandons conventional song structure almost entirely — is that a bold artistic leap or does it overstay its welcome?No answers yet
- Zappa positions the Mothers as outsiders rallying other outsiders — how convincing is that freak solidarity when the music is this controlled and calculated?No answers yet
- Who Are the Brain Police? still sounds genuinely unsettling decades later — what production or compositional choice do you think makes it hold up?No answers yet
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