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Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage - Acts I, II, & III (1979) [2CD Reissue 1995]

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Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage - Acts I, II, & III (1979) [2CD Reissue 1995]

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage - Acts I, II, & III (1979) [2CD Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 760 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 271 MB | Covers - 652 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock, Avant-Prog | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rykodisc RCD (10530/31)

Joe's Garage was originally released in 1979 in two separate parts; Act I came first, followed by a two-record set containing Acts II & III. Joe's Garage is generally regarded as one of Zappa's finest post-'60s conceptual works, a sprawling, satirical rock opera about a totalitarian future in which music is outlawed to control the population. The narrative is long, winding, and occasionally loses focus; it was improvised in a weekend, some of it around previously existing songs, but Zappa manages to make most of it hang together. Acts II & III give off much the same feel, as Zappa relies heavily on what he termed "xenochrony" - previously recorded guitar solos transferred onto new, rhythmically different backing tracks to produce random musical coincidences…

Frank Zappa - Studio Tan (1978) [Reissue 1995]

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Frank Zappa - Studio Tan (1978) [Reissue 1995]

Frank Zappa - Studio Tan (1978) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 237 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 92 MB | Covers - 138 MB
Genre: Avant-Prog | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rykodisc (RCD 10526)

Studio Tan is one of four albums culled from the ill-fated 1976 box set Läther and released by Warner Bros. without Frank Zappa having a word to say about the final product (including the horrible artwork). The 21-minute opener, "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary," is the culmination of Zappa's art of storytelling. A complex piece painstakingly assembled in the studio over three years, it allies the comedy rock of the Flo & Eddie era with the jazzy feel of The Grand Wazoo and the twisted prog rock of the 1973-1974 band. Yet, it is greater than the sum of its parts, proposing an unmatched musical narrative that makes "Billy the Mountain" the work of a child and amounts to a stunning synthesis of the man's influences, stylistic range, and studio techniques…

Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures (1976) [Reissue 1995]

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Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures (1976) [Reissue 1995]

Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures (1976) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 260 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 98 MB | Covers - 120 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock, Avant-Prog | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rykodisc (RCD 10523)

This album is something of an anomaly in Frank Zappa's catalog. On all but two of the songs, Frank plays guitar, bass and keyboards. Terry Bozzio plays drums, and other favorites add tracks (Ruth Underwood, Roy Estrada and "Donnie" (van) Vliet, among others) to fill out the music. So among his seventies albums, this is more of a solo album than any.
Zappa proves himself to be a fair keyboardist. Although none of the keyboards stand out as great, they don't detract from the music either. And he tends to stay somewhat low key on the bass as well. The one place his bass stands out is on Friendly Little Finger, where Zappa is soloing on bass and guitar at the same time, with spectacular results.
The two guitar solo pieces are also outstanding. Black Napkins became one of Frank's signature guitar solos, and Zoot Allures is beautiful as well…

Frank Zappa - Sleep Dirt (1979) [Reissue 1995]

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Frank Zappa - Sleep Dirt (1979) [Reissue 1995]

Frank Zappa - Sleep Dirt (1979) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 256 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 91 MB | Covers - 148 MB
Genre: Avant-Prog | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rykodisc (RCD 10527)

The material on this album was originally was intended to be part of a four-record set called Läther, prepared for release in 1977. Then Frank Zappa got into a disagreement with his record company, Warner Bros., and Läther was split up into several different releases as part of a contractual agreement. The results were dumped on the market in 1978 and 1979, while Zappa moved on to his own record label. Sleep Dirt consists of miscellaneous tracks recorded between 1974 and 1976, including "Flambay," "Spider of Destiny," and "Time Is Money," songs that wre apparently part of an unissued Zappa musical/rock opera from 1972 called Hunchentoot. They are sung by soprano Thana Harris.

Frank Zappa - Redneck Eats (2023)

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Frank Zappa - Redneck Eats (2023)

Frank Zappa - Redneck Eats (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:25:48 | 491 / 196 Mb
Genre: Classic Rock

Composer, guitarist, singer, and bandleader Frank Zappa was a singular musical figure during a performing and recording career that lasted from the 1960s to the '90s. His disparate influences included doo wop music and avant-garde classical music; although he led groups that could be called rock & roll bands for much of his career, he used them to create a hybrid style that bordered on jazz and complicated, modern serious music, sometimes inducing orchestras to play along. As if his music were not challenging enough, he overlay it with highly satirical and sometimes abstractly humorous lyrics and song titles that marked him as coming out of a provocative literary tradition that included Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and edgy comedians like Lenny Bruce.

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970) [Reissue 1995]

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Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970) [Reissue 1995]

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 274 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 101 MB | Covers - 73 MB
Genre: Avant-Prog | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rykodisc (RCD 10510)

A fascinating collection of mostly instrumental live and studio material recorded by the original Mothers of Invention, complete with horn section, from 1967-1969, Weasels Ripped My Flesh segues unpredictably between arty experimentation and traditional song structures. Highlights of the former category include the classical avant-garde elements of "Didja Get Any Onya," which blends odd rhythmic accents and time signatures with dissonance and wordless vocal noises; these pop up again in "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask" and "Toads of the Short Forest." The latter and "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" also show Frank Zappa's willingness to embrace the avant-garde jazz of the period. Yet, interspersed are straightforward tunes like a cover of Little Richard's "Directly From My Heart to You," with great violin from Don "Sugarcane" Harris…

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money (1968) [Reissue 1995]

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Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money (1968) [Reissue 1995]

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money (1968) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 235 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 92 MB | Covers - 346 MB
Genre: Avant-Prog | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rykodisc (RCD 10503)

From the beginning, Frank Zappa cultivated a role as voice of the freaks - imaginative outsiders who didn't fit comfortably into any group. We're Only in It for the Money is the ultimate expression of that sensibility, a satirical masterpiece that simultaneously skewered the hippies and the straights as prisoners of the same narrow-minded, superficial phoniness. Zappa's barbs were vicious and perceptive, and not just humorously so: his seemingly paranoid vision of authoritarian violence against the counterculture was borne out two years later by the Kent State killings. Like Freak Out, We're Only in It for the Money essentially devotes its first half to satire, and its second half to presenting alternatives…

Napoleon Murphy Brock & Ensemble musikFabrik - Bad Doberan & Elsewhere: The Music Of Frank Zappa (2024)

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Napoleon Murphy Brock & Ensemble musikFabrik - Bad Doberan & Elsewhere: The Music Of Frank Zappa (2024)

Napoleon Murphy Brock & Ensemble musikFabrik - Bad Doberan & Elsewhere: The Music Of Frank Zappa (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 394 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 Mb | 00:57:55
Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock | Label: Yatak Records

Grammy award winner, multi-instrumentalist and lead singer of the former Frank Zappa band Napoleon Murphy Brock and the Ensemble Musikfabrik are releasing an impressive concert recording of the Zappanale 2019 with "Bad Doberan & Elsewhere".

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Absolutely Free (1967) [Reissue 1995]

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Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Absolutely Free (1967) [Reissue 1995]

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Absolutely Free (1967) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 266 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 103 MB | Covers - 141 MB
Genre: Avant-Prog | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rykodisc (RCD 10502)

Frank Zappa's liner notes for Freak Out! name-checked an enormous breadth of musical and intellectual influences, and he seemingly attempts to cover them all on the second Mothers of Invention album, Absolutely Free. Leaping from style to style without warning, the album has a freewheeling, almost schizophrenic quality, encompassing everything from complex mutations of "Louie, Louie" to jazz improvisations and quotes from Stravinsky's Petrushka. It's made possible not only by expanded instrumentation, but also Zappa's experiments with tape manipulation and abrupt editing, culminating in an orchestrated mini-rock opera ("Brown Shoes Don't Make It") whose musical style shifts every few lines, often in accordance with the lyrical content…

Frank Zappa - Waka/Wazoo (2022) (Blu-ray Audio)

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Frank Zappa - Waka/Wazoo (2022) (Blu-ray Audio)

Frank Zappa - Waka/Wazoo (2022) (Blu-ray Audio)
Blu-ray BDMV | Video: Video : MPEG -4 AVC Video / 15001 kbps / 1080p / 24 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English / Dolby TrueHD/Atmos Audio / 7.1 / 48 kHz / 6229 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 384 kbps / DN -19dB) | Audio: English / Dolby TrueHD Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3979 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 384 kbps / DN -19dB) | Audio: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit | 37:11 + 00:36:13 | Jazz-Rock | 19.9 GB | Label: Frank Zappa Catalog / UMG

A Blu-ray Audio disc features both albums with Dolby Atmos & 5.1 mixes + 96/24 hi-res stereo masters.

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') (1974) [Reissue 1995]

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Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') (1974) [Reissue 1995]

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') (1974) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 205 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 75 MB | Covers - 126 MB
Genre: Avant-Prog, Jazz Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rykodisc (RCD 10519)

The musically similar follow-up to the commercial breakthrough of Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe (') became Frank Zappa's second gold and only Top Ten album with the help of the "doggy wee-wee" jokes of "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow," Zappa's first chart single (a longer, edited version that used portions of other songs on the LP). The first half of the album is full of nonsensical shaggy-dog story songs that segue into one another without seeming to finish themselves first; their dirty jokes are generally more subtle and veiled than the more notorious cuts on Over-Nite Sensation. The second half contains the instrumental title cut, featuring Jack Bruce on bass; "Uncle Remus," an update of Zappa's critique of racial discord on "Trouble Every Day"; and a return to the album's earlier silliness in "Stink-Foot"…

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - One Size Fits All (1975) [Reissue 1995]

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Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - One Size Fits All (1975) [Reissue 1995]

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - One Size Fits All (1975) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 282 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 101 MB | Covers - 492 MB
Genre: Avant-Prog, Jazz Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rykodisc (RCD 10521)

Released soon after the live Roxy & Elsewhere, One Size Fits All contained more of the material premiered during the 1973-1974 tour, but this time largely re-recorded in the studio. The band remains the same: George Duke, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Chester Thompson, Tom Fowler, and Ruth Underwood. Johnny "Guitar" Watson overdubbed some vocals and Captain Beefheart (credited as Bloodshot Rollin' Red) played some harmonica ("when present," state the liner notes). The previous album focused on complex music suites. This one is more song-oriented, alternating goofy rock songs with more challenging numbers in an attempt to find a juste milieu between Over-Nite Sensation and Roxy & Elsewhere. "Inca Roads," "Florentine Pogen," "Andy," and "Sofa" all became classic tracks and live favorites…

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) [Reissue 1995]

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Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) [Reissue 1995]

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 261 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 97 MB | Covers - 177 MB
Genre: Progressive/Jazz Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rykodisc (RCD 10509)

Burnt Weeny Sandwich is the first of two albums by the Mothers of Invention that Frank Zappa released in 1970, after he had disbanded the original lineup. While Weasels Ripped My Flesh focuses on complex material and improvised stage madness, this collection of studio and live recordings summarizes the leader's various interests and influences at the time. It opens and closes on '50s pop covers, "WPLJ" and "Valarie." "Aybe Sea" is a Zappafied sea shanty, while "Igor's Boogie" is named after composer Igor Stravinsky, the closest thing to a hero Zappa ever worshipped. But the best material is represented by "Holiday in Berlin," a theme that would become central to the music of 200 Motels, and "The Little House I Used to Live In," including a virtuoso piano solo by Ian Underwood…

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1969) [Reissue 1995]

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Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1969) [Reissue 1995]

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (1969) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 332 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 111 MB | Covers - 136 MB
Genre: Progressive/Jazz Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rykodisc (RCD 10508)

Aside from the experimental side project Lumpy Gravy, Hot Rats was the first album Frank Zappa recorded as a solo artist sans the Mothers, though he continued to employ previous musical collaborators, most notably multi-instrumentalist Ian Underwood. Other than another side project - the doo wop tribute Cruising With Ruben and the Jets - Hot Rats was also the first time Zappa focused his efforts in one general area, namely jazz-rock. The result is a classic of the genre. Hot Rats' genius lies in the way it fuses the compositional sophistication of jazz with rock's down-and-dirty attitude - there's a real looseness and grit to the three lengthy jams, and a surprising, wry elegance to the three shorter, tightly arranged numbers (particularly the sumptuous "Peaches en Regalia")…

Frank Zappa & The Mothers - The Grand Wazoo (1972) [Reissue 1995]

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Frank Zappa & The Mothers - The Grand Wazoo (1972) [Reissue 1995]

Frank Zappa & The Mothers - The Grand Wazoo (1972) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 248 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 87 MB | Covers - 409 MB
Genre: Avant-Prog, Jazz Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Rykodisc (RCD 10517)

Like its immediate predecessor, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo was a largely instrumental jazz rock album recorded during Frank Zappa's convalescence from injuries sustained after being pushed off a concert stage. While Zappa contributes some guitar solos and occasional vocals, the focus is more on his skills as a composer and arranger. Most of the five selections supposedly form a musical representation of a story told in the liner notes about two warring musical factions, but the bottom line is that, overall, the compositions here are more memorably melodic and consistently engaging than Waka/Jawaka. The instrumentation is somewhat unique in the Zappa catalog as well, with the band more of a chamber jazz orchestra than a compact rock unit; over 20 musicians and vocalists contribute to the record…