Over-Nite Sensation
by The Mothers
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Over-Nite Sensation is ranked 7th best out of 123 albums by Frank Zappa on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Frank Zappa is Hot Rats which is ranked number 243 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,063.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Over-Nite Sensation track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 5 days ago | Adhura | 1,621 | 77/100 | |
| 03/30/2026 01:32 | thedudeabides | 169 | 83/100 | |
| 03/28/2026 14:11 | Imaybeparanoid | 7,391 | 71/100 | |
| 01/24/2026 18:03 | Bluedog | 165 | 73/100 | |
| 12/31/2025 16:03 | Exist-en-ciel | 9,585 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.2/100, a mean average of 78.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.2.
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Jboy56 05/14/2023 17:03 | #296952
Zappa is one of the great masters of composition and instrument, namely his guitar!
The instrumentation on this album is phenomenal with Zappa and the Mothers really showing off their prowess. The best example of this is the guitar which has so many amazing solos on this record and it completely dominates the album. This is then backed by some brilliant drum work and neat bass lines to create quite an accessible record by Zappa's standards. Every song is unique and provide something new to the album making this record never really get dull as you don't know what is coming next. Two of my favourite tracks are I'm The Slime and Zomby Woof just because they get lodged in my head after every listen. Usually when artists make accessible records they lose the edge and nuances that made them different in the first place but not Zappa as they are all still present and you can get your fix of crazy Zappa moments. Overall, another brilliant display adding to an already stacked discography by one of the true geniuses of the music industry.
Seems like a good starting point for Zappa. Really exceptional instrumentation, especially with the guitar and bass, and a healthy dose of the weird stuff that he was known for, but not so much that it's overbearing for a first-time listener. Great album.
VictorVale 10/04/2019 21:19 | #243388
Um dos sons mais palatáveis de Zappa e, nem por isso, menos brilhante!
Fischman 12/16/2018 02:13 | #227216
This was the first Zappa I heard, and quite frankly, I didn't know what to make of it at the time. But after a short time, I really took to it, and it became my gateway to his more popular and more obscure works.
Discover music and rock, sometimes it's a way different. If rock wasn't discovered, music was still existed. If music was broken, that's why rocks came it up. This Apostrophe' broke music, that's why Over-nite Sensation came it in.
junodog4 10/05/2012 20:06 | #51793
You know you all like the idea of moving to Montana to grow a crop of dental floss...
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