Quaudiophiliac [DVD Audio] - Frank Zappa

Advantages: A wonderfully weird album
Disadvantages: Perhaps a bit to weird for some?

...The Mothers first album it never had commercial potential, it even says that in the sleeve notes, though I love it and think it's ground breaking. The sleeve notes are interesting to read too telling a lot about the band. To like this album you'd have to love Frank Zappa and psychadelic rock, if you're not into the genre it will bore you stupid and "freak you out", with it's weird audio montages and drum tracks, which is probably the point. Many of the songs on it a parodies of the sappy love songs of the time like "anyway the wind blows", and you "Didn't try to call me". But there are classic psychadelic weird songs too like "Who are the Brain police?" and "Help I'm a Rock!" that crack me up every time, I also like the song "are you hung up". Zappa's musical genius is still revealing itself at this point and I think he was being... Read review

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Advantages: One of the most subversive albums of all time
Disadvantages: Original artwork is concealed within the booklet

...In It For The Money (WOIIFTM) is very much the soundtrack to this disintegration, and in many ways, was the herald for the death of the decade. Despite being recorded between August and October 1967 and released the following January, WOIIFTM places me into a particular year ('68) better than any other record. WOIIFTM was initially conceived as Our Man In Nirvana, a collaboration between the Mothers of Invention and Lenny Bruce featuring their music and his comedy routines. Bruce had died in 1966 from a suspected morphine overdose and was a cultural hero to the 'Underground' scenes of New York and Los Angeles. Work was just beginning in the preparation of the album when Frank Zappa first heard a little record called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Zappa liked the record enough, but the levels to which the album was quickly embraced by the hippy... Read review

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...'If we can't be free, we can at least be cheap', said Frank Zappa. When you pick up a CD and the price label says £3.99, you expect it to be by some nobobdy who had one No.37 hit ten years ago. When it says Zappa on it you may as well buy it there and then. When you then look and see titles like 'Joe's Garage', 'The Torture Never Stops' and 'You are what you is' you must think that some 16 year old assistant has put the wrong sticker on it and it should be £13.99. However, the price is right and whether you buy it as a starter to get into Zappa, or as a quick addition to your bulging FZ collection, it will be the best few pounds you spend. From the Lennon voice on 'I could be a star now' to 'My guitar wants to kill your mama' it is pure quality of some of the more accessible Zappa. Used as a foil to something like The Yellow Shark... Read review

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