Lumpy Gravy
by Frank Zappa And The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Lumpy Gravy by Frank Zappa And The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Year: 1968
Overall rank: 9,523rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 99 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1968 (127th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (688th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,523rd)

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Frank Zappa And The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus bestography

Lumpy Gravy is ranked 23rd best out of 124 albums by Frank Zappa on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Frank Zappa is Hot Rats which is ranked number 234 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,760.

Frank Zappa And The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus album bestography « Higher ranked (9,193rd)
Chunga's Revenge
This album (9,523rd)
Lumpy Gravy
Lower ranked (10,839th) »
The Yellow Shark

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Lumpy Gravy rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 9,523rd | 1960s rank: 688th | 1968 rank: 127th
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2026 AAL2014Top 79 Music Albums of 196813/794
2026 Norman BatesTop 100 Music Albums of 196888/1001
2026 LeonardTop 88 Music Albums of 196830/883
2026 spigelwiiTop 6 Music Albums of 19683/63
2026 FischmanTop 100 Music Albums of 196871/1002
2026 AAL2014Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s47/10011
2026 spigelwiiTop 30 Music Albums of the 1960s23/305
2025mostlymorFrank Zappa Chronological Order4/60 -
2025TroutMaskGregTop 100 Music Albums of the 1960s43/10012
2024 AAL2014Frank Zappa: So Far..10/29 -
2024 FischmanFrank Zappa Albums Ranked27/82 -
2024 ArthurknightTop 100 Music Albums of 196888/1001
2024TroutMaskGregTop 32 Music Albums of 196813/323
2023TroutMaskGregGreat Googly-Moogly - My Zappa Rankings20/44 -
2023 MW19704UTop 65 Music Albums of 196819/654
2023platusTop 56 Music Albums of 196755/56 -
2023 AAL2014Top Greatest Albums: #201-30095/100 -
2023thekrauterTop 94 Music Albums of the 1960s94/940
2023 DommeDamianScaruffi Best Albums of 196858/62 -
2023glynspsaTop 100 Music Albums of the 1960s90/1002
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 52
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 128
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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 99 votes)
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75/100
 
04/18/2026 22:18 davidleewrong  Ratings distribution  2,35781/100
 
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01/24/2026 18:04 Bluedog  Ratings distribution  16573/100
 
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01/14/2026 04:50 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  11,38970/100
 
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07/30/2025 23:28 thepardunk  Ratings distribution  2,58669/100
 
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03/24/2025 13:33 spigelwii  Ratings distribution  64185/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.8/100, a mean average of 71.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.3.

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20/100
From 12/25/2023 07:05 | #300652
I do like quite a lot of his work but not this, in fact I dislike everything about it, the stupid title, the awful sleeve art and poorly executed 'music'. 20 for the getting out of bed to go to the studio...
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70/100
From 02/20/2023 14:39 | #294250
HIghly McGuffin and experimental, a lunatic genius at work
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50/100
From 09/14/2020 16:52 | #258226
Silly little thing. Entertaining for a listen or two because of the humor. Some interesting musical sections.
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40/100
From 07/27/2020 22:57 | #256317
Pretty big fan of Zappa, but... what is this? The spoken passages are just nonsense and the music in between isn't really worth sitting through the rest of it. Apparently this was one of Zappa's favorites of his own discography. I can't begin to understand why. The classical-ish stuff and the jazz fusion-y stuff is fine, but really. There's not really a reason to listen to this when you could listen to literally anything else by Zappa. I'm pretty disappointed with this one, I never thought I'd ever find an album by him that I don't like.
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25/100
From 07/08/2016 23:50 | #170918
I love Zappa, but this is horrendous. A complete waste of time, space and plastic. Almost unlistenable.
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