Lumpy Gravy
by Frank Zappa And The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
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Frank Zappa And The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus bestography
Lumpy Gravy is ranked 22nd best out of 124 albums by Frank Zappa on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Frank Zappa is Hot Rats which is ranked number 238 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,608.
(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).
Lumpy Gravy rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 88 Music Albums of 1968 | 15/88 | 4 |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 32 Music Albums of 1968 | 12/32 | 3 |
| 2026 | AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 50/100 | 10 |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1968 | 71/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 43/100 | 12 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1968 | 89/100 | 1 |
| 2026 |  spigelwii | Top 30 Music Albums of the 1960s | 23/30 | 5 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1968 | 57/61 | - |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 87 Music Albums of 1968 | 30/87 | 3 |
| 2026 | AAL2014 | Frank Zappa: So Far.. | 10/32 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 52 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 127 | |||
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Lumpy Gravy ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/18/2026 22:18 | davidleewrong | 2,357 | 81/100 |
| ! | 01/24/2026 18:04 | Bluedog | 165 | 73/100 |
| ! | 01/14/2026 04:50 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,670 | 70/100 |
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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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Forum mentions
Jboy56 02/20/2023 14:22 in What album are you listening to right now?
teague 07/27/2020 22:32 in What album are you listening to right now?Lumpy Gravy comments
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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... (Edited)
Jboy56 02/20/2023 14:39 | #294250 | TOP COMMENT
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HIghly McGuffin and experimental, a lunatic genius at work
mdbaxter 09/14/2020 16:52 | #258226 | TOP COMMENT
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Silly little thing. Entertaining for a listen or two because of the humor. Some interesting musical sections. (Edited)
teague 07/27/2020 22:57 | #256317 | TOP COMMENT
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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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