Guitar (live album) by Frank Zappa

Guitar by Frank Zappa
(Live album)
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 25,660th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 26 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (333rd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (3,347th)
Award Best albums of all time (25,660th)
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Frank Zappa bestography

Guitar is ranked 32nd best out of 115 albums by Frank Zappa on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Frank Zappa is Hot Rats which is ranked number 223 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,538.

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74/100 (from 26 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 17% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.2/100, a mean average of 74.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.3.

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From 02/18/2018 09:05
I am really surprised that this one is so far down in the FZ rankings. If you like FZ guitar moments then this is definitely a must buy. There are whole variety of styles from speed metal type lead soloing to jazz fusion noodling.To listen to the whole album back to back can be a bit OTT as it is a double and after a while the noodling can wear a bit thin, even if you are a fellow guitarist.
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