One Size Fits All
by Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention

One Size Fits All by Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention
Year: 1975
Release date: 1975-06-25
Overall rank: 1,624th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 284 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1975 (23rd)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (305th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,624th)

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Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention bestography

One Size Fits All is ranked 6th best out of 124 albums by Frank Zappa on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Frank Zappa is Hot Rats which is ranked number 232 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,790.

Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention album bestography « Higher ranked (1,514th)
Uncle Meat
This album (1,624th)
One Size Fits All
Lower ranked (1,870th) »
Absolutely Free

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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One Size Fits All rankings

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Overall rank: 1,624th | 1970s rank: 305th | 1975 rank: 23rd

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80/100 (from 284 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.4/100, a mean average of 79.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.

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85/100
From 04/03/2022 23:09 | #283787 | TOP COMMENT
This is a far more digestible Frank Zappa release with a lot of the songs sounding closer to the music at the time than the classic and abstract sound he usually performs. That makes this the perfect album in my opinion to start listening to Zappa as you still get the nuances but they are a lot more subtle. The music still works brilliantly with the instrumentation being layered and diverse just like always. I think the drums and keyboards are fantastic on here but what steals the show is the guitar for me. It drives every song it is present on forward and has some phenomenal solos as well. As a whole the album is so consistent with there not really being a weak track on here at all. Furthermore, there is so much to dive into on here with there being something new I discover with each listen. Plus Inca Roads is just a musical marvel. Overall, this is an under rated album that is one of Zappa's more accessible releases but it still maintains that high level of musicianship and general genius of his previous releases.
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95/100
From 06/20/2019 14:59 | #237931
100/100

Best Zappa album i listen to so far
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90/100
From 10/29/2018 22:12 | #223551
The Mother's best
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75/100
From 10/27/2017 06:58 | #200139 | TOP COMMENT
As stated in many reviews this is one of the more accessible Zappa albums. Inca Roads is a masterpiece in its own right with some superb guitar work. As with a lot of Zappa works, I hear something different with every listen.
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From 11/19/2016 08:43 | #178702
QUITE IM SLEEPING IN HELL
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From 09/16/2016 02:45 | #175079
It is the best Zappa album in my opinon
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80/100
From 06/26/2016 19:36 | #169932 | TOP COMMENT
One of the more professional, if that's the right term, of the Mother's albums. It actually sounds as if it was worked on rather than just made up as they went along. An underrated Zappa record.
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85/100
From 06/15/2016 02:33 | #168741
Great album! Feels like an acid trip. A good one :)

There's no place for average in here.

Florentine Pogen is an hallucinated masterpiece.
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From 02/06/2016 05:11 | #158817
this album is too rarely listened by plastic people
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From 07/26/2015 18:56 | #146470 | TOP COMMENT
To say this album is ahead of it's time would be an understatement. It's a real shame how underrated this album is. The musical talent that is on display is almost second to none. Elements of jazz, funk, prog, rock all stitch together this great album. This is definitely one of my favourite albums and as a fan of modern music in particular, that is quite a statement. But everything is just so nicely done, the production, the playing of instruments (particularly guitar), the vocals, the time signatures, the experimentation; all of it fits together perfectly to create this delightful release. A huge hidden gem of the 70s, in my opinion.
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