Freak Out! (studio album) by The Mothers Of Invention
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 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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90/100  | 06/20/2022 05:53 | leniad | | 93/100 |
85/100 | 06/05/2022 23:05 | theredkrayola | | 70/100 |
75/100 | 05/29/2022 18:09 | zomg101 | | 70/100 |
80/100 | 05/24/2022 20:25 |  AAL2014 | | 78/100 |
90/100 | 05/15/2022 23:24 |  Cardboardfolder | | 86/100 |
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I really like Trouble Every Day, but that's all positive I have to say about that album, apart from this track it sounds like a parody of 60s pop music and sonically is often very unpleasant in a negative way (Who Are The Brain Police?, Help I'm A Rock)
Could see where he was taking it and couldn't wait for him to get there; but y'know, first he had to assemble and convince a band. And one thing this isn't BTW, is druggie.
IanFrance 07/15/2021 22:15
Ostensibly a psychedelic rock record, Freak Out! wears its influences proudly – yes, the loved-up (drugged-up) pop/rock of the 60s but also doo-wop and straightforward rock ‘n’ roll. The experimentation works up until the last track which strays into parody a little too far.
Rating: Good
Best track: Hungry Freaks, Daddy
Zappa's best ideas are here already. 1966. As far as I'm concerned, he could've released just this album and Uncle Meat and packed things up after that. Okay, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Weasels Ripped My Flesh and Hot Rats were good bonuses.
jwammo12 04/10/2021 00:51
Hilarious, influential, and bonkers. Trouble Every Day is a legitimately great protest song.
methinks Frank is mocking us. us being beach boys, stones. pertinent to today.
VictorVale 12/11/2020 17:42
Loucura boa é isso!!
2nd-Impressions 09/26/2020 04:38
This album certainly has an aquired taste. Aside from the tracks 'Who Are the Brain Police?' and 'Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder', much of the tracks come off as needlessly silly. That very well may have been Zappa's intention here, but nonetheless, it's hard to put this album up on the same pedestal as some of its contemporaries.
Boltzmann 04/01/2020 17:52
At a second thought, having listened a bit more bands from around that time more thoroughly, like The Byrds, Cream and Grateful Dead, these guys don't really do anything very strange for its time. Just to a further and more annoying extent... and with awful vocals. I should've listened to my gut earlier; when they start to sound better, they sound like your average garage band from the '60s, and then ruin everything by rhythmless intermezzos with annoyingly sarcastic voices. Not vocals, voices... their putting up voices. It sometimes honestly feels more like theatre I'm listening.
Droophus 03/26/2020 18:49
Gotta give Zappa and the Mothers credit for taking music “there”. Somebody has to push art to its boundaries, but very few have the rare combination of genius and chutzpah to do it.
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