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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 09/25/2014 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1401): Freak Out!
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Today's album of the day
Freak Out! by The Mothers of Invention (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1966.
Country: 
Overall rank: 436
Average rating: 81/100 (from 279 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
2. I Ain't Got No Heart
3. Who Are The Brain Police?
4. Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
5. Motherly Love
6. How Could I Be Such A Fool
7. Wowie Zowie
8. You Didn't Try To Call Me
9. Any Way The Wind Blows
10. I'm Not Satisfied
11. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
12. Trouble Every Day
13. Help I'm A Rock
14. The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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RockyRaccoon
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Mercury
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RepoMan
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- Posted: 09/26/2014 00:13
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One of the first underground & truly subversive albums of rock. Catchy yet experimental. Funny yet biting. The perfect, fitting closure to the innocence of rock n' roll with psychedelic & acid rock right around the corner.
But, I totally get where Mercury's coming from, and grew pretty tired of his schtick in the 70s (Apostrophe comes to mind). The music's just too good on this platter though. Freak out!
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sp4cetiger
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- Posted: 09/26/2014 00:23
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Zappa the musician is brilliant. Zappa the social commentator is an obnoxious dick. My experience with his albums depends on my mood and how much I can ignore the latter.
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RepoMan
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- Posted: 09/26/2014 00:25
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| sp4cetiger wrote: | | Zappa the social commentator is an obnoxious dick. |
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satiemaniac
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- Posted: 09/26/2014 00:26
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the only bearable Zappa is Mothers-era Zappa (plus one or two like Hot Rats) but as i've mentioned elsewhere he was big for me for a time. then again, so were George Carlin and Ayn Rand so uhhh take that as you will. luckily his artistry is a notch above the latter's. 
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Applerill
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- Posted: 09/26/2014 01:34
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I know it's easy to lump Zappa in with the "teenage libertarian" canon like Bill Hicks, but I'm convinced that the way he merged high and low culture with this album was unprecedented anyway. Before Frank Zappa, people believed that you either were a stuffy classical elitist or an artlessly sentimental teenybopper; Freak Out was one of the first albums to combine modern classical with cutting-edge Doo-wop and blues rock. The comedy aspect is just another plus, but just like South Park, I think it can be fun too once you loosen up a bit.
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rayword45
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- Posted: 09/26/2014 03:13
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Throw tracks 1, 2, 10 and 11 on an EP and you have one of the first Punk recordings out there.
Other than that, there are some good cuts here but it's a bit too long. Not a bad debut but far from the best of Zappa.
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satiemaniac
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- Posted: 09/26/2014 06:14
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| Applerill wrote: | | I know it's easy to lump Zappa in with the "teenage libertarian" canon like Bill Hicks, but I'm convinced that the way he merged high and low culture with this album was unprecedented anyway. Before Frank Zappa, people believed that you either were a stuffy classical elitist or an artlessly sentimental teenybopper; Freak Out was one of the first albums to combine modern classical with cutting-edge Doo-wop and blues rock. The comedy aspect is just another plus, but just like South Park, I think it can be fun too once you loosen up a bit. |
i don't know if i quite buy that it was unprecedented, but Zappa surely had a lot more spunk than most rock musicians of his day
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