One Size Fits All (studio album) by Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention

One Size Fits All by Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention
Year: 1975
Overall rank: 1,562nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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81/100 (from 266 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1975 (23rd)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (307th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,562nd)
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-One Size Fits AllThe Mothers 1971

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Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 266 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 80.6/100, a mean average of 80.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.

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85/100
From 04/03/2022 23:09
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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From 06/20/2019 14:59
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Best Zappa album i listen to so far
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From 10/29/2018 22:12
The Mother's best
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From 10/27/2017 06:58
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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QUITE IM SLEEPING IN HELL
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From 09/16/2016 02:45
It is the best Zappa album in my opinon
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80/100
From 06/26/2016 19:36
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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From 06/15/2016 02:33
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
this album is too rarely listened by plastic people
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From 07/26/2015 18:56
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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