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5 May 4th, 2008 

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Crazy, humourous, artistic

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The artwork has been printed poorly .

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Absolutely Free, is Frank Zappa's second release with the Mothers of Invention and it certainly shows what is to come and really portrays Frank's adaptability and penchant for weirdness, mortalised with insane vocals.

The album is constructed in a clever way, so that each song blows the previous one away with a different and crazy style yet still as an album still works as one big powerful block still. A mixture of psychedelic rock, jazz from satan's armpit and opera.. this really is a superb album that confronts conformity, sexual repression and pop music with humour.

We can get carried away with the craziness of it all without giving time to praise the musicians who never put a foot wrong in this bombardment of tunes. Throughout the album, there is a mention of fruit and veg.

Call any Vegetable is my personal fave but Brown Shoes Don't Make it is a musical and lyrical masterpiece, detailing Old City hall Fred and his fondness for bedding a 13 year old girl who:

And he loves it, he loves it
It curls up his toes
She wipes his fat neck
And it lights up his nose
But he cannot be fooled
Old City Hall Fred
She's nasty, she's nasty
She digs it in bed
That's right

It may well be Old City Hall Fred's daughter as he says he would:

Smother my daughter in chocolate syrup
And strap her on again, oh baby

and also "make her do a nasty on the White House lawn"

This is then topped off with the final track "American Drinks and Goes Home" including bar noise and patter.

This album has an incredible range of music on and is most definitely worth a listen. You might not get it but you won't regret it. 

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Comments about this review »

TheIncredibleCheeseSandwich 05.07.2008 22:27

Frank eh, mad guy but some brilliant songs

Bens__mummy 05.05.2008 10:57

Good review,

Borg 04.05.2008 21:59

Re rated.

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