This is one of the greatest rock anthems of all time. Zappa wrote out the parts for each and every instrument you're listening to. Think about that for a minute. The man's a genius.
Frank Zappa was a musical genius! His versatility was phenomenal--jazz, funk, fusion, rock, orchestral--he could play it all!!! You will be amazed at some of his guitar work. It was second to none! He was very much against censorship and some of his albums showed that very much. Thanks for sharing this and I look forward to the next!
Zappa is often just that, way too much for the modern, watered down brain of the current listener. But Zappa wasn't just about complexity. He could get as simple as a country song or change it up to a mock punk rock opera. There was very little Zappa didn't do with rhythm, time, timbre, attack, instrumentation, genre and song. He is a very deep rabbit hole, but one well worth the exposure. But get ready to expand your mind and flex your cerebral landscape. MMMMMMMM-mama!
HOORAY!!! ZAPPA!!! LOVE HIM!!! Thanks, ya'll, for reacting to him!! THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ZAPPA, nor another Mothers Of Invention!! SO, SO GOOD!!!
Frank released 60 albums while he was alive and his family has released 60 more since he passed. Consider the fact that he wrote every note for every musician and insisted that they played it as written. Brilliant man.
Frank didn't write everything out. For the simpler tunes, he just hummed to them what it should sound like and got them to rehearse it. For the really tricky parts, he did write out every part and wanted it down pat, although some of it was impossible to get exactly right every time. Drowning Witch is a great example. That tricky part was edited from 15 different concerts because none of the live performances was played 100%, but you can understand why. In live performances, when a player took a solo, that was all them.
Frank was one of a kind. As has been suggested, Inca Roads is a good next stop on your Zappa trip. If you're looking for something equally innovative, 10 years later a British band called Cardiac Arrest fronted by a crazy genius by the name of Tim Smith was in its infancy, by the early 80s, the band had been renamed Cardiacs and music was never going to be the same again. They have been described as prog-punk, but that's like calling a club sandwich bread and butter as there's so much more going on in their music, with elements of chamber, choral, ska and psychedelia all rolled into one insanely wonderful sound. Check out As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea from around 1980 and Fiery Gun Hand from 1995 for starters.
I was walking upstairs today and started singing “she lived in Mojave in a Winnebago” and had to listen to San’Berdino”. Then my yacht rock guys are spinning Zappa! RESPECT!!!!
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS THE BEST Zappa Lives!
I remember loving this in the 70s when I was a teen. Someone had the album in my group of friends and played it a lot. It was weird and discordant but I loved it.
Great reaction, guys! From here you can go to more simple songs (Bobby Brown, Dancing Fool , Montana, Muffin Man) or to much more complex compositions (Black Page, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue, It must be a Camel) and so on... The choice is yours!🙂
You two should listen to the next song on this album, Willie the Pimp, and you will quickly learn how diverse his music is, even on the same album. This was not his second album, it was his second SOLO album, it is actually his 8th album.
You guys want to checkout Gumbo Variations from Hot Rats too. It is a virtuoso solo fest with Ian Underwood on Sax (through a wah-wah) pedal, Sugarcane Harris on electric violin, and finally Frank Zappa’s idiosyncratic guitar. Awesome.
Zappa and his band were staying at a modest hotel in some city, across the street was a more expensive and classy hotel. Zappa walked into the lobby and there, in the lobby was a bowl of peaches on display. That's where he got the name of this song "Peaches En Regalia"
This is written in the classical music format sonata allegro. He also has the drums as a leading instrument. In the sheet music it stands on top instead of as usual at the bottom.
Most ppl agree that "Inca Roads" is what you play for ppl as an introduction to Frank's music and you always want a live version. BUT I advise you, WHEN you play the 1974 version from "A Token of His Extreme" (and you must) when the clay animation parts are in the video DO NOT LET THAT REFOCUS YOUR ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE MUSIC.
This guy gets it. The first time you watch the video you should close your eyes when you see claymation and wait till you hear vocals again to open them. Bruce Bickford's stuff is amazing but you can go back and watch it again for the stunning visuals after the first listen. The solo is just too gorgeous to be distracted and miss the first time through.
The reason why it sounds so video gamey is because this is one of the first jazz fusion albums. Down the line more jazz fusion bands like weather report and return to forever was inspired by This and Miles Davis. Bands like Weather Report really took off in Japan.. Thats when Japanese Jazz Fusion came around with bands like CASIOPEA and they were huge in Japan. Japanese Jazz Fusion was very playful and therefore Alot of Japanese entertainment had CASIOPEA or Ryuichi Sakamoto esc music most notably Nintendo.
Greatest composer of the 20 century and a hell of a guitar player. Everything from doowop to Jazz to classical. It probably won't take long for to find stuff of his you don't like. He played serious music but didn't and incorporated wild lyrics (sometimes crude and offensive, sometimes incredibly predictive of where we are now culturally). He hated conformity, didn't allow drug use in his bands, skewered religion and hippy culture. Quite an individual. By the mid 70's he had amazing musicians in his bands. He meticulously wrote all the music but nearly all his guitar solos were improvised.
I'm laughing when I read Zappa heads writing "greatest composer of the XXth century". So Zappa is greater than : Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Ustvolskaya, Stravinsky, Nono, Berio, Stockhausen and Boulez. Al right buddy
Great reaction. Welcome to the greatest of them all boys. Zappa was miles ahead of everyone, even to this day. Note quite the best track to start with but you gotta jump in somewhere.
Don't know if this was the result of his natural genius, the mercury exposure, or both, but this was immensely interesting and super enjoyable. I agree with Ryan; I didn't want it to end! It was like a World's Fair of music. I've only heard one or two Frank Zappa songs, but this one has really aroused my curiosity to hear more. Great choice, and it was nice to see both of you as overwhelmed (in a good way) as me, lol.
He used the sonata allegro format and very creatively so. I've seen a classically trained musician analyzing this. It takes a very sharp clear brain to write this. It's very a complicated piece. The musician in question took an hour and said she was only scratching the surface or words to that effect.
@@ErwinBlonk Thank you for the fill-in, Erwin. Even to my untrained ear, it was apparent that this is the work of an amazing musical mind. (I was just joking about the mercury exposure.)
As a complete and total Zappa fanatic since 1966 and with encyclopedic knowledge of his entire catalog I would be happy to make recommendations for you guys to make your life easier with his music but you will find that each song is completely different unless he's covering one that he already wrote
It's a mix of progressive rock and progressive jazz. There's also a British rock band called Gentle Giant, very creative and progressive, check them out.
Zappa was a musical genius who chain-smoked Winstons and openly detested his fans, but he was respected in the music industry and sold a lot of records. He was politically active, most notably testifying to Congress against music labeling laws. His biggest chart hit was "Valley Girl", which featured his daughter Moon Unit Zappa.
When it came out, New York Times rated it the best jazz fusion album. Frank has rock, big band, symphony, jazz, and more. The total albums from before death and the releases after his death it is now up to 123 albums, however many of those albums are multiple CD counted as one album. Many are 3 -5 CDs.
Enjoyed you're reactions to Frank Zappa's "Peaches en Regalia". His genre. Is Avant Garde rock to a great degree. A further step in Zappaland is required and I'll recommend Inca Roads, live version preferably. It's a trip.
Zappa did so many different styles of music...but other tracks that I think are similar to this are "It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal" (1972), "Eat That Question" (1972), and "Flakes" (1979). I recommend the original album versions of these. Then from a live album in 1991 "Make a Jazz Noise Here" there are "Oh No", "The Black Page (New Age Version)" and "Dupree's Paradise" that I think are also similar to Peaches. I say "similar", but they contain plenty of variety and could be argued to not be similar to Peaches.
Seriously, some great choices on Joe's Garage. "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up", "Wet T-shirt Night" or the title track are all great. Probably the most normal sounding songs Zappa ever did, though the amazing musicianship is still on display. Oh and the lyrics are oddly hilarious.
Zappa was the only artist to have an album marked with explicit lyrics when it was completely instrumental. That’s how little he was understood by mainstream media. He is my god, my hero. A true American original genius. Great reaction. I’ve been listening to this song for 40 years and I never tire of it.
BABY SNAKES!!! LOL...sorry, got excited, there is a vid called Baby Snakes by Zappa, man ya gotta find it, is such a trip and even has some live footage...claymation out the wazoo, is awesome,,,,lol Great react, keep on!
Try 'Willy the pimp', with Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) singing. It's a whole different vibe, a riff song, but it like totally rocks, as us cool kids say. You gonna dig that sh*t.
There are about 120 LPs released of his material. His family have a literal Vault full of unreleased studio and live material that has been released after he died.
60+ albums (some double, some triple, some boxed sets) in his lifetime. At this point the family trust released another 60+, then there are dozens more depending on how you feel about "imports"
Zappa are one of the most important composer of '900 century....he's a "genius", but he also wrote a lot of unlistenable music,......for next piece: 1) "muffin man" from "Bongo fury" album: satyric lyric with final epic/rock.... 2) " Sexual harassment in workplace" , hot/ soul/latin solo blues guitar from "Guitar" album 3) "dont eat a yellow snow" in animation/cartoon version on youtube with a penguin drawing with guitar : a rich and indefinibile instrumental/vocal satyric 🎉poutpourri , remarkable 4) " dinah moe hum", from "overnite sensation" album: very trasgressive text, nice rythm, date 5) " watermelon in easter hay" long strumental solo of cristalline beauty/sound......................PS: DONT play the live ones, but the original records
Listen to "Inca Roads" Overnight Sensation album. A space invaders story. Blow your mind and your shorts. It's sophisticated, complex, grown-up music. A break from MAINSTREAM.
Inca Roads is one of FZs most mind boggling, coolest and far out pieces of music he ever wrote. Conceptually the album got little fanfare but had a lot more to say than Apostrophe’. That’s why personally I love the name OSFA. There really is something for everyone in it. Not to mention one of his absolute best ever guitar solos. If you add them up, in a 100 year stand, Inca Roads may easily be one of the top five guitar solos ever written/performed in that 100 year period. Ok my work is done for the day. Thanks FZ for entertaining those of us who understand.
@@absolutelypositively I don't think the original Inca Roads studio solo is the best ever. I think Return of the son...." which is totally insane, Zappa inspiration at his best, is the best Inca Roads guitar solo. I think Zappa reached his peak as a guitar player after 1979.
A fantastic piece, but possibly a little hard-core for an introduction to this amazing musician? Check out the 'Yellow snow suite ' from the 'Apostrophe 'Lp for something a little bit more accessible and Funky!!..
The best way to listen to Zappa is ,not to try to figure out what is happening or where it's going or what it sounds like...just listen and experience the music. It is what it is. You need to watch A live performance.
This was his eighth album. The orchestral pieces on this one are a departure from his earlier work (check out his first album Freak-out). These a serious compositions and he saw himself as a serious composer. But his stuff is all over the place, eclectic and always amazing.
Yeah, nevermind the five Mofhers of Invention albums that were released before this album, the songs of which he wrote (a few he co-wrote) and he produced three of those albums.
It's the 2nd album under the name Frank Zappa, the first being Lumpy Gravy, but the 7th overall album. And being that the first Mothers album was released in 1966 and this in 1969, that's pretty impressive!
It reminded me of a walkthrough with obstacles, all the time changing chords and rhythms, note Frank didn't say a word, overall not bad, I liked the constant change of chords, the tempo of the drums. The next video, keep it on your dusty shelf guys, the song "Inca Roads" (video) ua-cam.com/video/wqp71DOJ3aY/v-deo.html
@@shoker8696 The audioversion is the same except for the guitarsolo (from Helsinki -74) but the ”audio” guitarsolo is really something. The ”live”guitar solo is really good also but for the first couple of listening I found the animation to distracting to really apreciate it. So what’s your thoughts?
@@jonasolsson2256 That's exactly what I mean, if you want to really appreciate the music, to understand all the instruments in the song, you need to listen to the audio version!
Oh and now you must do Mr. Bungle of which is sort of another branch on the Zappa tree. Check out the tracks like "Carnival" or "Girls Of Porn" as a start.
FINISH THE WHOLE ALBUM, one of his Best...! FINISH THE WHOLE ALBUM, one of his Best...! FINISH THE WHOLE ALBUM, one of his Best...! Willy the Pimp is NEXT
Zappa ....you really do not know what is coming next in the song....never....He was once told he was not commercially viable...true if he was trying to write songs for the radio which he did not even try to do.....and in not trying he sold millions of albums...
Actually, Frank very much wanted a top ten single or album, which meant more $ to feed his family, invest in new equipment,,and keep the experiment going. In 1969 on his/ Mothers of Invention 50s parody ‘Cruising with Ruben and the Jets,’ there is a talk bubble that says ‘is this the mothers of invention disguising themselves in a last ditch attempt to get their cruddy music on the radio? I was always glad Frank could laugh at himself, especially in those lean years between 1964-70. The beauty of it is he was making music so much further ahead of his contemporaries. Their paychecks may have been smaller, but everybody got paid weekly, whether they were working or not. Frank did it his way. My hats off to the man! And true, between releasing material and constant touring, the millions eventually showed up. 🎸
Zappa is just too much for you guys. You can't handle it, yet. You don't know what you are getting yourselves into. Step back now you still can, because otherwise it grabs you, haunts you in your dreams. You can no longer not hear it;)
Hi here, it,s fun to wach two compleely lost persons, the one on the left is absolutely clueless, the other guy has a slightly advanced approach to it, but what the fuck. The intriguing instrument is the Organus Maximus played by Ian Underwood, husband of the world famous Ruth Underwood, prominently featured on Roxy And Elsewhere and The Dub Room Special. This is the beginners version, fot a deeper dive turn to the Hot Rats Sessions with 30 minutes versions of either track. Hi from Berlin, Germany
This is one of the greatest rock anthems of all time. Zappa wrote out
the parts for each and every instrument you're listening to. Think about
that for a minute. The man's a genius.
Frank Zappa was a musical genius! His versatility was phenomenal--jazz, funk, fusion, rock, orchestral--he could play it all!!! You will be amazed at some of his guitar work. It was second to none! He was very much against censorship and some of his albums showed that very much. Thanks for sharing this and I look forward to the next!
Zappa is often just that, way too much for the modern, watered down brain of the current listener. But Zappa wasn't just about complexity. He could get as simple as a country song or change it up to a mock punk rock opera. There was very little Zappa didn't do with rhythm, time, timbre, attack, instrumentation, genre and song. He is a very deep rabbit hole, but one well worth the exposure. But get ready to expand your mind and flex your cerebral landscape. MMMMMMMM-mama!
HOORAY!!! ZAPPA!!! LOVE HIM!!! Thanks, ya'll, for reacting to him!! THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ZAPPA, nor another Mothers Of Invention!! SO, SO GOOD!!!
Frank released 60 albums while he was alive and his family has released 60 more since he passed. Consider the fact that he wrote every note for every musician and insisted that they played it as written. Brilliant man.
Frank didn't write everything out. For the simpler tunes, he just hummed to them what it should sound like and got them to rehearse it. For the really tricky parts, he did write out every part and wanted it down pat, although some of it was impossible to get exactly right every time. Drowning Witch is a great example.
That tricky part was edited from 15 different concerts because none of the live performances was played 100%, but you can understand why.
In live performances, when a player took a solo, that was all them.
"Jazz Is Not Dead, It Just Smells Funny" - Frank Zappa
Frank was one of a kind. As has been suggested, Inca Roads is a good next stop on your Zappa trip. If you're looking for something equally innovative, 10 years later a British band called Cardiac Arrest fronted by a crazy genius by the name of Tim Smith was in its infancy, by the early 80s, the band had been renamed Cardiacs and music was never going to be the same again. They have been described as prog-punk, but that's like calling a club sandwich bread and butter as there's so much more going on in their music, with elements of chamber, choral, ska and psychedelia all rolled into one insanely wonderful sound. Check out As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea from around 1980 and Fiery Gun Hand from 1995 for starters.
I was walking upstairs today and started singing “she lived in Mojave in a Winnebago” and had to listen to San’Berdino”. Then my yacht rock guys are spinning Zappa! RESPECT!!!!
It's one of my favourite albums. Him and his band rocked! ❤
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
MUSIC IS THE BEST
Zappa Lives!
This my favorite Zappa song. I have a bunch of his albums and saw him in concert around 1972.
song or piece of music?
I remember loving this in the 70s when I was a teen. Someone had the album in my group of friends and played it a lot.
It was weird and discordant but I loved it.
Great reaction, guys! From here you can go to more simple songs (Bobby Brown, Dancing Fool , Montana, Muffin Man) or to much more complex compositions (Black Page, Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue, It must be a Camel) and so on... The choice is yours!🙂
Eric Dolphy's Memorial BBQ would probably hurt their brains at this early stage of development lol
roxy and elsewhere is my favorite album ever. echidnas arf is the coolest song. one size fits all all is close second
That whole side is probably my favorite side of vinyl and I probably own 3,000 LPs. Genius doesn't describe it.
Hey Cincinatti! Welcome to the rabbit hole! Have fun going deeper, it will CHANGE your life.
"I dont know whats going on but I like it!" Thats is Zappa in a nutshell.
This album was one of the first Jazz/Rock fusion albums - along with one of Miles Davis' albums (Bitches Brew I think)
You two should listen to the next song on this album, Willie the Pimp, and you will quickly learn how diverse his music is, even on the same album. This was not his second album, it was his second SOLO album, it is actually his 8th album.
You guys want to checkout Gumbo Variations from Hot Rats too. It is a virtuoso solo fest with Ian Underwood on Sax (through a wah-wah) pedal, Sugarcane Harris on electric violin, and finally Frank Zappa’s idiosyncratic guitar. Awesome.
Zappa and his band were staying at a modest hotel in some city, across the street was a more expensive and classy hotel. Zappa walked into the lobby and there, in the lobby was a bowl of peaches on display. That's where he got the name of this song "Peaches En Regalia"
This is written in the classical music format sonata allegro. He also has the drums as a leading instrument. In the sheet music it stands on top instead of as usual at the bottom.
The song is from 1969, but it sounds like something new and modern.
Great reaction fellas! There is so much great content with his music. He was a overall genius in many ways, and a fighter of the 1st amendment.
Most ppl agree that "Inca Roads" is what you play for ppl as an introduction to Frank's music and you always want a live version. BUT I advise you, WHEN you play the 1974 version from "A Token of His Extreme" (and you must) when the clay animation parts are in the video DO NOT LET THAT REFOCUS YOUR ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE MUSIC.
This guy gets it. The first time you watch the video you should close your eyes when you see claymation and wait till you hear vocals again to open them. Bruce Bickford's stuff is amazing but you can go back and watch it again for the stunning visuals after the first listen. The solo is just too gorgeous to be distracted and miss the first time through.
You’re right Nick. Not everyone gets Zappa! Back then and even now!🤘🔥
Oops! One Size Fits All, album .... Inca Roads! Expand your horizons, even though your 45 years behind. Love you guys.
The reason why it sounds so video gamey is because this is one of the first jazz fusion albums. Down the line more jazz fusion bands like weather report and return to forever was inspired by This and Miles Davis. Bands like Weather Report really took off in Japan.. Thats when Japanese Jazz Fusion came around with bands like CASIOPEA and they were huge in Japan. Japanese Jazz Fusion was very playful and therefore Alot of Japanese entertainment had CASIOPEA or Ryuichi Sakamoto esc music most notably Nintendo.
Because he had so many types of songs it's easier to just choose funny ones versus excellent instrumentals versus outstanding guitar solos
When you read that this is his second album, keep in mind he had already released nine albums with the Mothers of Invention.
Believe it or not this one of Frank’s more conventional pieces. Another great song Aybe Sea.
This album came out on the same day as In The Court of the Crimson King. Here in the UK this is Frank's most popular album.
Witty funny great music
And half of them were double albums!
"I write and play music for myself, my sole intended audience" - Frank Zappa
Greatest composer of the 20 century and a hell of a guitar player. Everything from doowop to Jazz to classical. It probably won't take long for to find stuff of his you don't like. He played serious music but didn't and incorporated wild lyrics (sometimes crude and offensive, sometimes incredibly predictive of where we are now culturally). He hated conformity, didn't allow drug use in his bands, skewered religion and hippy culture. Quite an individual. By the mid 70's he had amazing musicians in his bands. He meticulously wrote all the music but nearly all his guitar solos were improvised.
I'm laughing when I read Zappa heads writing "greatest composer of the XXth century". So Zappa is greater than : Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Ustvolskaya, Stravinsky, Nono, Berio, Stockhausen and Boulez. Al right buddy
@@Alix777. But you have to agree that he was an interresting and unique composer, or…?
@@jonasolsson2256 of course
@@Alix777. Boulez conducted an orchestra of Zappa's works. He liked him. The others you mentioned influenced him greatly.
The title track with vocals from his childhood friend Captain Beefheart is a great groove.
Frank Zappa - guitar, octave bass, percussion, arranger, producer
Ian Underwood - piano, organus maximus, flute, all clarinets, all saxes
Shuggie Otis - bass
Ron Selico - drums
Lowell George - rhythm guitar
Great reaction. Welcome to the greatest of them all boys. Zappa was miles ahead of everyone, even to this day. Note quite the best track to start with but you gotta jump in somewhere.
Don't know if this was the result of his natural genius, the mercury exposure, or both, but this was immensely interesting and super enjoyable. I agree with Ryan; I didn't want it to end! It was like a World's Fair of music. I've only heard one or two Frank Zappa songs, but this one has really aroused my curiosity to hear more. Great choice, and it was nice to see both of you as overwhelmed (in a good way) as me, lol.
I recommend the songs Apostrophe and Cozmik Debris.
@@captainskinnybutt Thanks, kindly. When I'm navigating uncharted waters, (60 albums worth, lol!), I always appreciate some guidance.
He used the sonata allegro format and very creatively so. I've seen a classically trained musician analyzing this. It takes a very sharp clear brain to write this. It's very a complicated piece. The musician in question took an hour and said she was only scratching the surface or words to that effect.
@@ErwinBlonk Thank you for the fill-in, Erwin. Even to my untrained ear, it was apparent that this is the work of an amazing musical mind. (I was just joking about the mercury exposure.)
As a complete and total Zappa fanatic since 1966 and with encyclopedic knowledge of his entire catalog I would be happy to make recommendations for you guys to make your life easier with his music but you will find that each song is completely different unless he's covering one that he already wrote
Great reaction! More zappa please.
This is like super complex circus music.. like the Pickle Brothers band
Pickle Family Circus I meant
Somewhere I have this on a mini cd.Came with an adapter so you could play it on regular cd player.Kinda like the ol 45s
FZ = extraordinary musical world...
It's a mix of progressive rock and progressive jazz. There's also a British rock band called Gentle Giant, very creative and progressive, check them out.
Zappa was a musical genius who chain-smoked Winstons and openly detested his fans, but he was respected in the music industry and sold a lot of records. He was politically active, most notably testifying to Congress against music labeling laws. His biggest chart hit was "Valley Girl", which featured his daughter Moon Unit Zappa.
When it came out, New York Times rated it the best jazz fusion album. Frank has rock, big band, symphony, jazz, and more. The total albums from before death and the releases after his death it is now up to 123 albums, however many of those albums are multiple CD counted as one album. Many are 3 -5 CDs.
Enjoyed you're reactions to Frank Zappa's "Peaches en Regalia". His genre. Is Avant Garde rock to a great degree. A further step in Zappaland
is required and I'll recommend Inca Roads, live version preferably. It's a trip.
Zappa did so many different styles of music...but other tracks that I think are similar to this are "It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal" (1972), "Eat That Question" (1972), and "Flakes" (1979). I recommend the original album versions of these. Then from a live album in 1991 "Make a Jazz Noise Here" there are "Oh No", "The Black Page (New Age Version)" and "Dupree's Paradise" that I think are also similar to Peaches. I say "similar", but they contain plenty of variety and could be argued to not be similar to Peaches.
Seriously, some great choices on Joe's Garage. "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up", "Wet T-shirt Night" or the title track are all great. Probably the most normal sounding songs Zappa ever did, though the amazing musicianship is still on display. Oh and the lyrics are oddly hilarious.
Zappa was the only artist to have an album marked with explicit lyrics when it was completely instrumental. That’s how little he was understood by mainstream media. He is my god, my hero. A true American original genius. Great reaction. I’ve been listening to this song for 40 years and I never tire of it.
Music about and for the Plastic People who never understood it. Q.E.D.
Yes, Zappa is a buffet and you never know what you'll get next.
@@Royalle_with_Cheese and he did not lie. JFH is in my top 5 FZ.
@@Royalle_with_Cheese Cheese royale?
@@Royalle_with_Cheese are you opening more accounts because yt is ending your account?
BABY SNAKES!!! LOL...sorry, got excited, there is a vid called Baby Snakes by Zappa, man ya gotta find it, is such a trip and even has some live footage...claymation out the wazoo, is awesome,,,,lol Great react, keep on!
Frank Zappa music is like a movie for your ears.
Try 'Willy the pimp', with Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) singing. It's a whole different vibe, a riff song, but it like totally rocks, as us cool kids say. You gonna dig that sh*t.
This is the Zappa Experience
That whole album screams cool.
I'm not a fan of Zappa, but I love it, wait, then maybe I am a fan? Anyway, listen to the album "Joe's Garage", it is so funny and great music too.
There are about 120 LPs released of his material. His family have a literal Vault full of unreleased studio and live material that has been released after he died.
GTOs. Girls Together Outrageously.
Hot Rats is not the second album, it's very popular but far from it's best
60+ albums (some double, some triple, some boxed sets) in his lifetime. At this point the family trust released another 60+, then there are dozens more depending on how you feel about "imports"
If you had fun with Peaches En Regalia, take a listen to Holiday In Berlin and the "Full Blown" version from his album Burnt Weeny Sandwich.
"Joe's Garage"....the album version. It's weird, but also catchy.
Zappa are one of the most important composer of '900 century....he's a "genius", but he also wrote a lot of unlistenable music,......for next piece: 1) "muffin man" from "Bongo fury" album: satyric lyric with final epic/rock.... 2) " Sexual harassment in workplace" , hot/ soul/latin solo blues guitar from "Guitar" album 3) "dont eat a yellow snow" in animation/cartoon version on youtube with a penguin drawing with guitar : a rich and indefinibile instrumental/vocal satyric 🎉poutpourri , remarkable 4) " dinah moe hum", from "overnite sensation" album: very trasgressive text, nice rythm, date 5) " watermelon in easter hay" long strumental solo of cristalline beauty/sound......................PS: DONT play the live ones, but the original records
two requests, one, shirtless Nick Coleman and TWO, Santana Aquamarine!
Movin' to Montana......
LOVE ZAPPA......he left us too soon
Listen to "Inca Roads" Overnight Sensation album. A space invaders story. Blow your mind and your shorts. It's sophisticated, complex, grown-up music. A break from MAINSTREAM.
Inca Roads is on One Size Fits All, not Overnight, a very minor album, overrated like all 70s Zappa material
Inca Roads is one of FZs most mind boggling, coolest and far out pieces of music he ever wrote. Conceptually the album got little fanfare but had a lot more to say than Apostrophe’. That’s why personally I love the name OSFA. There really is something for everyone in it. Not to mention one of his absolute best ever guitar solos. If you add them up, in a 100 year stand, Inca Roads may easily be one of the top five guitar solos ever written/performed in that 100 year period. Ok my work is done for the day. Thanks FZ for entertaining those of us who understand.
@@absolutelypositively I don't think the original Inca Roads studio solo is the best ever. I think Return of the son...." which is totally insane, Zappa inspiration at his best, is the best Inca Roads guitar solo. I think Zappa reached his peak as a guitar player after 1979.
A fantastic piece, but possibly a little hard-core for an introduction to this amazing musician?
Check out the 'Yellow snow suite ' from the 'Apostrophe 'Lp for something a little bit more accessible and Funky!!..
The best way to listen to Zappa is ,not to try to figure out what is happening or where it's going or what it sounds like...just listen and experience the music. It is what it is. You need to watch A live performance.
(ANDY) is a great song on the ONE SIZE FITS ALL Album is perhaps tame enough for a diverse experience.
Just heard Frank Zappa "Enchidna's Arf (For You) Experimentation Power Factory. Brother's please, jump on it.
This was his eighth album. The orchestral pieces on this one are a departure from his earlier work (check out his first album Freak-out). These a serious compositions and he saw himself as a serious composer. But his stuff is all over the place, eclectic and always amazing.
Dynamo hum. Turn it up.
Mars Volta also provides this type of sound
Maybe the intention but the sound?
Show me whimsy in TMV.
This only FZ's second album.
Yeah, nevermind the five Mofhers of Invention albums that were released before this album, the songs of which he wrote (a few he co-wrote) and he produced three of those albums.
GTO= Girls Together Outrageously!
Max Webster covered this in their early years. You guys should check them out again!
This is FZ's second album. Tighten your seat belts and press on. Be sure to re-tighten them when you make your way up to Inca Roads.
It's the 2nd album under the name Frank Zappa, the first being Lumpy Gravy, but the 7th overall album. And being that the first Mothers album was released in 1966 and this in 1969, that's pretty impressive!
More Zappa please! If you think that was out there, wait until you hear some of the lyrics he came up with...lol...
"Inca Roads" from One Size Fits All or "Zomby Woof" from Over-Nite Sensation would be enjoyable for y'all
There's a great version of this on Tinseltown Rebellion.
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It reminded me of a walkthrough with obstacles, all the time changing chords and rhythms, note Frank didn't say a word, overall not bad, I liked the constant change of chords, the tempo of the drums. The next video, keep it on your dusty shelf guys, the song "Inca Roads" (video) ua-cam.com/video/wqp71DOJ3aY/v-deo.html
The audio version is better
@@shoker8696 The audioversion is the same except for the guitarsolo (from Helsinki -74) but the ”audio” guitarsolo is really something. The ”live”guitar solo is really good also but for the first couple of listening I found the animation to distracting to really apreciate it. So what’s your thoughts?
@@jonasolsson2256 That's exactly what I mean, if you want to really appreciate the music, to understand all the instruments in the song, you need to listen to the audio version!
Ok, I take back my last comment. Challenge! Released in 1973, check out Frank Zappa, "Dinah Moe Humm"...
Comedy Rock? Perhaps try the Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band!
Had to scan the comments to see if anyone suggested a specific one, but see they haven't. I won't go there...
1967-1992, 25 years of golden era, the best period in the music industry, there will never be another like it.
Oh and now you must do Mr. Bungle of which is sort of another branch on the Zappa tree. Check out the tracks like "Carnival" or "Girls Of Porn" as a start.
Check out Captain Beefheart “Trout Mask Replica”
Watch out where the Huskies go don't you eat that yellow snow.
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Lol
Zappa before he was a rock star: ua-cam.com/video/QF0PYQ8IOL4/v-deo.html
Gotta listen to dental floss tycoon.
It’s called Montana.
FINISH THE WHOLE ALBUM, one of his Best...!
FINISH THE WHOLE ALBUM, one of his Best...!
FINISH THE WHOLE ALBUM, one of his Best...!
Willy the Pimp is NEXT
Yeah you can go through the whole album and get a whole sweep of different sounds.
Not a Zappa fan. But I have watched the video ( a few times) of him playing the bicycle on the Steve Allen Show.
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Zappa ....you really do not know what is coming next in the song....never....He was once told he was not commercially viable...true if he was trying to write songs for the radio which he did not even try to do.....and in not trying he sold millions of albums...
Actually, Frank very much wanted a top ten single or album, which meant more $ to feed his family, invest in new equipment,,and keep the experiment going. In 1969 on his/ Mothers of Invention 50s parody ‘Cruising with Ruben and the Jets,’ there is a talk bubble that says ‘is this the mothers of invention disguising themselves in a last ditch attempt to get their cruddy music on the radio?
I was always glad Frank could laugh at himself, especially in those lean years between 1964-70. The beauty of it is he was making music so much further ahead of his contemporaries. Their paychecks may have been smaller, but everybody got paid weekly, whether they were working or not. Frank did it his way. My hats off to the man! And true, between releasing material and constant touring, the millions eventually showed up. 🎸
just move along to Inca Roads.....
Finally some decent music...
How about:
Frank Zappa - Disco Boy
Frank Zappa - Valley Girl
Frank Zappa - Dancin' Fool
Valley Girl is the best Zappa song in a way.
take the Zappa Road, you'll enjoy it🎸🎸🎸🎸🚬🚬🚬☕☕☕
Zappa is just too much for you guys. You can't handle it, yet. You don't know what you are getting yourselves into. Step back now you still can, because otherwise it grabs you, haunts you in your dreams. You can no longer not hear it;)
Hi here,
it,s fun to wach two compleely lost persons, the one on the left is absolutely clueless, the other guy has a slightly advanced approach to it, but what the fuck. The intriguing instrument is the Organus Maximus played by Ian Underwood, husband of the world famous Ruth Underwood, prominently featured on Roxy And Elsewhere and The Dub Room Special.
This is the beginners version, fot a deeper dive turn to the Hot Rats Sessions with 30 minutes versions of either track.
Hi from Berlin, Germany