Lumpy Gravy
by Frank Zappa And The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Frank Zappa And The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus bestography
Lumpy Gravy is ranked 23rd best out of 123 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 6,901.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Lumpy Gravy track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 72 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Lumpy Gravy ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/24/2026 18:04 | Bluedog | 165 | 73/100 |
| ! | 01/14/2026 04:50 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,411 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2025 23:28 | thepardunk | 2,553 | 69/100 |
| ! | 03/24/2025 13:33 |  spigelwii | 593 | 85/100 |
| ! | 02/15/2025 13:10 | FrancK | 500 | 83/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.7/100, a mean average of 71.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.4.
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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...
Jboy56 02/20/2023 14:39 | #294250
HIghly McGuffin and experimental, a lunatic genius at work
mdbaxter 09/14/2020 16:52 | #258226
Silly little thing. Entertaining for a listen or two because of the humor. Some interesting musical sections.
teague 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.
I love Zappa, but this is horrendous. A complete waste of time, space and plastic. Almost unlistenable.
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