Uncle Meat (studio album) by The Mothers Of Invention

Uncle Meat by The Mothers Of Invention
Year: 1969
Overall rank: 1,462nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 241 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1969 (44th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (154th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,462nd)
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The Mothers Of Invention bestography

Uncle Meat is ranked 3rd best out of 9 albums by The Mothers Of Invention on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Mothers Of Invention is Freak Out! which is ranked number 480 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,761.

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 241 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.

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55/100
From 12/31/2023 11:18
Not keen on the cover art or the spoken jibberish. It isn't one of his better albums IMO. Very disjointed.
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85/100
From 09/20/2022 14:03
frank Z is like Frank Krappa und ein very intelligent musician and artist. Splendid
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95/100
From 05/03/2021 01:37
Taken as an isolated work (not as a part of a larger project) this may be, to me, Zappa's strongest display of his abilities as a musical artist. Many of the tracks are autonomously great but it's the succession and assemblage of these ideas and compositions that I find really exhilarating. Zappa's talent as an orchestral composer is usually overstated while his genius for editing and producing (in evidence in his early albums and in Trout Mask Replica) is not mentioned enough. That's why I'm not that big of a fan of King Kong (too long and stable a jazz-fusion for my taste) but love the preceding rollicking cascade of ideas (and instruments) and the implicit and explicit interplay of richly arranged polyrhythmic melodic pieces with the more erudite modernist dissonant pieces, bits of spoken word, bits of live performances, traditional doo-wop melodies, solo performances, etc.
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Rating:  
90/100
From 11/28/2020 13:25
I have a vinyl version of this which doesn't have the 1/2 hour long movie interlude. The second best Zappa album behind Hot Rats imo
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From 10/26/2020 19:56
Besides the random movie excerpt shit, this is one of the top 5 Mothers albums.
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From 09/17/2017 23:58
While it isn't my favorite Mothers release, I do think it is the perfect culmination of all the ideas present in the early part of Zappa's career. It has the pop flavor of Freak Out as well as the heavy jazz influence of Hot Rats.
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70/100
From 03/11/2016 22:29
Weird, but great if taken as a whole work of art, including cover art and track titles.
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90/100
From 10/29/2012 18:04
"I'm so hot from this hamburger"
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85/100
From 10/18/2012 12:41
Hairymarx: That's just a bonus track added later on, so technically it does rank as another Zappa masterpiece for you ;D
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From 10/17/2012 22:54
This would rank as another Zappa masterpiece if not for the overlong and rambling film-clip interlude. Why, oh why?
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