Zappa & The Mothers - Weasels Ripped My Flesh - 1970
A fascinating collection of mostly instrumental live and studio material recorded by the original Mothers of Invention, complete with horn section, from 1967-1969, Weasels Ripped My Flesh segues unpredictably between arty experimentation and traditional song structures. Highlights of the former category include the classical avant-garde elements of "Didja Get Any Onya," which blends odd rhythmic accents and time signatures with dissonance and wordless vocal noises; these pop up again in "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask" and "Toads of the Short Forest." The latter and "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" also show Frank Zappa's willingness to embrace the avant-garde jazz of the period. Yet, interspersed are straightforward tunes like a cover of Little Richard's "Directly From My Heart to You," with great violin from Don "Sugarcane" Harris; the stinging Zappa-sung rocker "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama," and "Oh No," a familiar Broadway-esque Zappa melody (it turned up on Lumpy Gravy) fitted with lyrics and sung by Ray Collins. Thus, Weasels can make for difficult, incoherent listening, especially at first. But there is a certain logic behind the band's accomplished genre-bending and Zappa's gleefully abrupt veering between musical extremes; without pretension, Zappa blurs the normally sharp line between intellectual concept music and the visceral immediacy of rock and R&B. Zappa's anything-goes approach and the distance between his extremes are what make Weasels Ripped My Flesh ultimately invigorating; they also even make the closing title track -- a minute and a half of squalling feedback, followed by applause -- perfectly logical in the album's context.
MP3 @192
Tracks:
01. Didja Get Any Onya? [6:51]
02. Directly From My Heart To You (R.W. Penniman) [5:17]
03. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask [3:48]
04. Toads of the Short Forest [4:48]
05. Get a Little [2:31]
06. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue [6:52]
07. Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula [2:12]
08. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama [3:30]
09. Oh No [1:45]
10. The Orange County Lumber Truck [3:21]
11. Weasels Ripped My Flesh [2:05]
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We're Only In It For The Money - 1968
From the beginning, Frank Zappa cultivated a role as voice of the freaks -- imaginative outsiders who didn't fit comfortably into any group. We're Only in It for the Money is the ultimate expression of that sensibility, a satirical masterpiece that simultaneously skewered the hippies and the straights as prisoners of the same narrow-minded, superficial phoniness. Zappa's barbs were vicious and perceptive, and not just humorously so: his seemingly paranoid vision of authoritarian violence against the counterculture was borne out two years later by the Kent State killings. Like Freak Out, We're Only in It for the Money essentially devotes its first half to satire, and its second half to presenting alternatives. Despite some specific references, the first-half suite is still wickedly funny, since its targets remain immediately recognizable. The second half shows where his sympathies lie, with character sketches of Zappa's real-life freak acquaintances, a carefree utopia in "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance," and the strident, unironic protest "Mother People." Regardless of how dark the subject matter, there's a pervasively surreal, whimsical flavor to the music, sort of like Sgt. Pepper as a creepy nightmare. Some of the instruments and most of the vocals have been manipulated to produce odd textures and cartoonish voices; most songs are abbreviated, segue into others through edited snippets of music and dialogue, or are broken into fragments by more snippets, consistently interrupting the album's continuity. Compositionally, though, the music reveals itself as exceptionally strong, and Zappa's politics and satirical instinct have rarely been so focused and relevant, making We're Only in It for the Money quite probably his greatest achievement.
MP3 @192
Tracks:
01. Are You Hang Up [1:29]
02. Who Needs The Peace Corps [2:35]
03. Concentration Moon [2:17]
04. Mom & Dad [2:20]
05. Telephone Conversation [0:45]
06. Bow Tie Daddy [0:33]
07. Harry, You're A Beast [1:21]
08. What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body (Part One) [1:03]
09. Absolutely Free [3:28]
10. Flower Punk [3:04]
11. Hot Poop [0:26]
12. Nasal Retentive Calliope Music [2:02]
13. Let's Make The Water Turn Black [1:45]
14. The Idiot's Bastard Son [2:43]
15. Lonely Little Girl [1:44]
16. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance [1:35]
17. What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body (Part Two) [0:57]
18. Mother People [2:31]
19. The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny [6:22]
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Burnt Weeny Sandwich - 1970
Burnt Weeny Sandwich is the first of two albums by the Mothers of Invention that Frank Zappa released in 1970, after he had disbanded the original lineup. While Weasels Ripped My Flesh focuses on complex material and improvised stage madness, this collection of studio and live recordings summarizes the leader's various interests and influences at the time. It opens and closes on '50s pop covers, "WPLJ" and "Valarie." "Aybe Sea" is a Zappafied sea shanty, while "Igor's Boogie" is named after composer Igor Stravinsky, the closest thing to a hero Zappa ever worshipped. But the best material is represented by "Holiday in Berlin," a theme that would become central to the music of 200 Motels, and "The Little House I Used to Live In," including a virtuoso piano solo by Ian Underwood. Presented as an extended set of theme and variations, the latter does not reach the same heights as "King Kong." In many places, and with the two aforementioned exceptions in mind, Burnt Weeny Sandwich sounds like a set of outtakes from Uncle Meat, which already summarized to an extent the adventures of the early Mothers. It lacks some direction, but those allergic to the group's grunts and free-form playing will prefer it to the wacky Weasels Ripped My Flesh.
MP3 @192
Tracks:
1. Wplj [2:52]
2. Igor's Boogie, Phase One [0:36]
3. Overture To A Holiday In Berlin [1:27]
4. Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich [4:32]
5. Igor's Boogie, Phase Two [0:34]
6. Holiday In Berlin, Full-Blown [6:24]
7. Aybe Sea [2:45]
8. The Little House I Used To Live In [18:43]
9. Valarie [3:12]
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