Willie The Pimp (track)
by Frank Zappa
Willie The Pimp appears on the following album(s) by Frank Zappa:
- Hot Rats (track #2) (this album) (1969)
- You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (track #4) (1991)
- The Hot Rats Sessions (track #42) (2019)
- The Mothers 1971 (track #22) (2022)
- The Mothers 1971 (track #55) (2022)
- The Mothers 1971 (track #82) (2022)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 12/11/2025 17:56 | Exist-en-ciel | 51,651 | 71/100 |
| ! | 11/20/2025 12:14 | plasmicmist | 7,423 | 90/100 |
| ! | 06/08/2025 02:06 | CokeBabies | 2,071 | 84/100 |
| ! | 04/23/2025 15:15 | byuzak | 32,678 | 78/100 |
| ! | 04/16/2025 00:41 |  Antonio-Pedro | 10,656 | 93/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.8/100, a mean average of 87.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 89.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.6.
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Top song by all accounts.
Marvelous guitar solo and overall orchestral background.
Spot on Beefheart's vocals.
.... And it was in the late 1960s!
For me this is the first time that Zappa really shows that he is the greatest and most creative guitar player of all time. Also this song reminds me of Rage against the Machine (hot riff and Beefheart is rapping over it) only 30 years before. Yeah, Zappa was sooo way ahead of his time...
Jasonconfused 12/20/2012 00:42 | #58323
Love the dirty sounding riff and Captain Beefheart's sleezy vocals!
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