Chunga's Revenge
by Frank Zappa

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Chunga's Revenge by Frank Zappa
Year: 1970
Release date: 1970-10-23
Overall rank: 10,032nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 92 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1970 (144th)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (1,413th)
Award Best albums of all time (10,032nd)

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Frank Zappa bestography

Chunga's Revenge is ranked 23rd best out of 125 albums by Frank Zappa on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Frank Zappa is Hot Rats which is ranked number 241 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,533.

Frank Zappa album bestography « Higher ranked (9,677th)
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Chunga's Revenge Lower ranked (10,936th) »
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Chunga's Revenge rankings

Chunga's Revenge rankings summary
Overall rank: 10,032nd | 1970s rank: 1,413th | 1970 rank: 144th  Overall chart history
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74/100 (from 92 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.


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From BestEverAlbums 08/05/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5395): By areminder
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55/100
From 03/07/2014 07:43 | #105583 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I'm surprised this album is rated so low. It's no Hot Rats, but it's not THAT much worse. In fact, quite a few of these songs are taken from the Hot Rats sessions, including the best among them - 'Twenty Small Cigars.' 'Tell Me You Love Me' is also very good - just mindless entertainment. 'Transylvania Boogie' opens impressive, but it devolves into a typical blues jam by the end - the title track is a more effective display of Zappa's improvisational skills. His trademark goofiness rears its garish head in several tracks, most of which are amusing enough, but at four minutes 'Road Ladies' asks a lot from the listener's patience.
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90/100
From 10/26/2018 07:56 | #223324 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I can't really understand why this album is sitting down in 29th position at the time of writing this. It is certainly one of Zappa's more 'normal' works. Some sublime jazz in 'Twenty Small Cigars', 'The Nancy and Mary Music' moves into more of a free form jazzz workout with some great fills around the incredibly large and ever growing drum kit! 'Tell Me You Love Me' has an almost 'rock' riff opening and injected with some great rockin rhythm and guitar work. 'Chungas Revenge' mixes subtle jazz with explosions of rock overlaid with quite typical Zappa guitar noodling. I would say this is probably the most accessible album for someone new to Zappa.
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70/100
From 03/22/2023 10:59 | #295289 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
My mind split with this album, mixed-bag format albums are always difficult to evaluate. I dug hard into some of the songs like Chunga's Revenge. Transsilvania Boogie, Twenty Small Cigars (too short), and Road Ladies.
This album is easily approached, but I think that the inconsistency caused this album to so low ranked in BEA-
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95/100
From 08/09/2018 04:01 | #219437 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Dude this album rocks! Definitely should be rated higher! It's actually my favorite Frank Zappa album. I even have the t-shirt haha.
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