Cruising With Ruben & The Jets - Frank Zappa

Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa

always known who Frank Zappa was, but it was not until recently did i understand how funny this guy is. His musical talent has no bounds, and even with the simple instrumental behind the soundtrack of "Bobby Brown" his incredible lyrics makes his songs legendary. This album was released in 1979 and is proably one of ...

Sheik Yerbouti - Frank Zappa

Sheikh Yerbouti was released in 1979 and tends to be of a more recognisable structure, so its little wonder that it became the home of one of Zappa s best known tracks "Bobby Brown", the humorous and rude ditties don t end there though and this album is filled with varied, funny and catchy tracks some of which may offend. Overall, the album has a mix of disco tracks and rocky tracks with numerous hard rock guitar riffs coming in on certain songs. Tracks like "I Have Been in You" and "Dancin Fool" have a distinguishable disco sound with vocals rather deep almost sounding like Barry White at times. This new found depth in vocals when ...

Lumpy Gravy - Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa & The Mothers 3rd album was to be a brave change in direction and seems to show that Frank would choose to follow his own agenda of playing orchestral pieces and mish mashes of cuttings entwined together through instrumental pieces influenced by Edgard Varese. Zappa claimed that this was one of his favourite pieces of work and it s one that Zappaphiles love too. I can see the attraction but see it as more of a novelty piece in my music collection for its uniqueness rather than something I d sit down and listen to on a regular basis. Split into two long tracks "Part 1 and Part 2", it is not something you ll be able to skip into your favourite ...