Burnt Weeny Sandwich
by The Mothers Of Invention
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Burnt Weeny Sandwich is ranked 15th best out of 124 albums by Frank Zappa on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Frank Zappa is Hot Rats which is ranked number 235 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,662.
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Burnt Weeny Sandwich track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 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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| ! | 07/04/2026 11:37 |  Tamthebam | 23,188 | 69/100 |
| ! | 01/05/2026 08:09 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,468 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 14:30 | Araldo | 1,472 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2025 07:33 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
| ! | 10/22/2025 22:46 |  EyeKanFly | 8,848 | 65/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.1/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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teague 11/23/2020 01:19 | #261255 | TOP COMMENT
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A decent outing from the early incarnation of The Mothers. Of their classics, this is one of the more easily digestible, making it a little bit less interesting to listen to. It's still chock-full of some great Zappa moments. (Edited)
One of the most horrible album sleeves in all of my collection. The music however makes up for it. A real mix of styles, doo wop, free form jazz, rock with psychedelic tinges, classical interludes and the usual downright bizarre for good measure! 'Little House I Used to Live In' is top!
This is Zappa and the original Mothers' last album (recorded over the same period of Weasels Ripped My Flesh). This masterpiece is a long instrumental ride through the lands of fantasy that does not attempt a definitive system, but finds instead spontaneity and grace of true genius. The centerpiece of the album is the twenty-two minutes of 'Little House I Used to Live In' featuring some stunning violin playing from Don Sugarcane Harris. 'Burnt Weeny' is a tour de force of four great soloists (Harris, Preston, Underwood, Zappa) and the rhythm section (the dual battery and Tripp Black). This album is a stylistic masterpiece and ranks as one of Zappas's greatest achievements.
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