| Product Summary | | Label: Ryko | | UPC: 00014431050220 | | Release Date: 5/2/1995 | | Buy.com Sku: 60015610 | | Item#: MCXK97 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 23257 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Plastic People ~ The Mothers Of Invention |  | | 2. Duke Of Prunes, The ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 3. Amnesia Vivace ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 4. Duke Regains His Chops, The ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 5. Call Any Vegetable ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 6. Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 7. Soft-Sell Conclusion ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 8. Big Leg Emma ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 9. Why Don'tcha Do Me Right? ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 10. America Drinks ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 11. Status Back Baby ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 12. Uncle Bernie's Farm ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 13. Son Of Suzy Creamcheese ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 14. Brown Shoes Don't Make It ~ The Mothers Of Invention | | | 15. America Drinks & Goes Home ~ The Mothers Of Invention | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Full performer name: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention. | | Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention: Frank Zappa (guitar, vocals); Ray Collins (vocals); Bunk Gardner (saxophone); Don Preston (keyboards, vocals); Roy Estrada (bass, vocals); Jimmy Carl Black, Billy Mundi (drums, percussion, vocals). | | This package contains the complete libretto (clean American version), plus two additional tracks not included on the original release. | | Before becoming obsessed with sex, politics and the Synclavier, Frank Zappa was a performer of great whimsy, who here, on his second album, was singing about such topics as fruits and vegetables while also displaying a developing critical attitude toward American social mores. Dense with musical references from "Louie Louie" to Holst's "The Planets," ABSOLUTELY FREE is a testament to the young Zappa's awesome musical breadth. These Mothers of Invention lack the precision of Zappa's later combos, but give a firm R&B grounding to his experimentation. ABSOLUTELY FREE includes the classic "Brown Shoes Don't Make It," a biting parody of suburban American values, along with forgotten masterpieces like "Call Any Vegetable," a tune pointing out the ease with which we can become in tune with our little green buddies. |
Producer: Tom Wilson |
| | Artist Overview | | Rock's closest thing to a true renaissance man, Frank Zappa was a brilliant guitarist, a superb composer, a matchless bandleader, and an incomparable social satirist. He started out in the '60s as the leader of the zany avant-rock pioneers the Mothers. His subsequent solo work encompassed everything from jazz-rock to orchestral pieces, always delivered with Zappa's trademark humor. He succumbed to cancer in 1993, but the mind-bogglingly prolific workaholic left behind a staggering body of work. Genius is an overused word in pop, but it applies to the late Zappa in spades. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/02/1995 | | Original Release Date : 1967 | | Catalog ID : 10502 | | Label : Ryko Distribution | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 43m : 44s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : AAD | | UPC : 00014431050220 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Q (8/95, pp.150-151)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "A pair of side-long 'underground oratorios' crystallising Zappa's life themes--the corruptions of materialism, the vacuity of modern culture, the value of vegetables--and his technique, montaging ham-fisted mock opera with puerile bubblegum and a jazz-rock that writhes with exhilaration..."Down Beat - 3 Stars - Good Option - Recommended |
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