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Thread started 08/29/11 5:19pm

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Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free



...Plastic People & Status Back Baby



Music for adventurous listeners

tA

peace Tribal Records

"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all."
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Reply #1 posted 08/30/11 4:45am

smoothcriminal
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One of my favourite albums from Zappa. cool

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Reply #2 posted 08/30/11 5:30am

starbuck

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love it, was one of the first Zappa records I bought. Now I have the stereo and mono lp and the cd, still hoping for an anniversary edition!! Love it!!

"Time is a train, makes the future the past"
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Reply #3 posted 08/30/11 8:03pm

theAudience

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I was given a pre-release copy directly from drummer Billy Mundi after a Mother's of Invention rehearsal.
Unfortunatly, over the years, i'm not sure if i've still got it. Should probably check.


Great ending to that album...



...Brown Shoes Don't Make It & America Drinks and Goes Home



Music for adventurous listeners

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Reply #4 posted 08/30/11 8:05pm

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All his work with the mothers was first rate cool

We're Only In It For The Money is my tops

Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener

All music is shit music and no music is real- gunsnhalen

Datdonkeydick- Asherfierce

Gary Hunts Album Isn't That Good- Soulalive
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Reply #5 posted 09/08/11 10:38am

Graycap23

Wow......I'm actually shocked that people like this.

I tried 2 listen with an open mind.

I could not even get thru the whole song.

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Reply #6 posted 09/08/11 12:09pm

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Graycap23 said:

Wow......I'm actually shocked that people like this.

I tried 2 listen with an open mind.

I could not even get thru the whole song.

Not putting it in the context of the time (60s) and what else was going on in Rock music, I can understand that it could be hard to digest by today's standards.

This was very revolutionary for a Rock group of that day and was meant to be extremely satirical yet still musical in a very eccentric way.
Also, what may seem like random tom-foolery, every note/sound/noise was written.


From the same Frank Zappa musical mind...



...Black Napkins & The Black Page


Music for adventurous listeners

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