Your Top Ten Zappa Albums
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Your Top Ten Zappa Albums
...only next to JC in his posthumous output. Where do I start?
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All of them. 
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All but Thing Fish. Though it has a good attache case masturbation scene and Brown Moses.
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Not keen on Ruben and the Jets. Some of Shut up and Play your Guitar is tedious, but the rest are mostly genius. I haz them all!
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I'm missing 200 Motels and my Thing Fish is a copy. I have 4-5 of the posthumous Gail releases.
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Re: Your Top Ten Zappa Albums
I think my credentials as a Zappatista agave been dented by the fact I don't have any of his posthumous releases. I like the lot but I have soft spots for Uncle Meat, Roxy & Elsewhere, Bongo Fury, Zappa in New York, Baby Snakes, Jazz from Hell, SUAPTG I, and Joe's Garage, but then there are tracks spread across the all the others, so it's not that easy to single out albums. I had a live in Finland on cassette that was epic, but an evil tape deck did that nasty chewy up thing to it and, alas, it was lost.
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There were several live volumes, but 1 and 2, the Finland one, were the best. 2 is about Roxy era but smaller band.
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The one I lost had Arthur Barrow on bass.Tero wrote:There were several live volumes, but 1 and 2, the Finland one, were the best. 2 is about Roxy era but smaller band.
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1) Apostrophe and 2) Zappa in New York. Because of Titties and Beer and Illinois Enema Bandit.
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New Uncle Meat...deluxe..is out
old uncle meat is disc one of the 24 dollar box...hifi dudes say improved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If56BNU ... abj29iqVUY
old uncle meat is disc one of the 24 dollar box...hifi dudes say improved
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I like Uncle Meat, but of the earlier output I prefer the 1971 releases Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, and Chunga's Revenge. Of his middle period I have a fond regard for Zoot Allures, Sheik Yerbouti, and the Joe's Garage albums. Roxy, of course. I adore the 'Shut Up' collection, but the one's I go back to again and again is the 'You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore' boxset. Great stuff.
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Well it has some cuts essential for conceptual continuity, like Mr Green Genes.
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Deluxe Uncle Meat is good. My 2 disc set was of good sound but movie dialog kind of ruined it. Here, disc 1 original album is perfect.
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Apart from Ruben and the Jets every Zappa album is perfect.
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Yeah that was wimpy. I did not buy in high school. Cover was tempting but I was 50c short the week I held it in hand in the store. I had a used scratched copy mid 70s.
In fact I made a cassette of all his 50s parodies from the other akbums. Let me take you to the beach was the last song on the cassette.
In fact I made a cassette of all his 50s parodies from the other akbums. Let me take you to the beach was the last song on the cassette.
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