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i can't believe jazz from hell is making people's top ten lists

i mean, i own it, but that's because it was in the dollar bin.

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His T-shirts rolled His watch is gold
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01. One Size Fits All
02. Läther
03. Burnt Weeny Sandwich
04. Let's Make A Jazz Noise Here
05. The Yellow Shark
06. Hot Rats
07. We're Only In It For THe Money
08. Weasels Ripped My Flesh
09. You Are What You Is
10. Freak Out!


11. The Lost Episodes


unbelievable quality

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in terms of influence and over all sediment.



make a jazz noise here
Hot Rats
thing fish
live in ny
joes garage
We're Only in It for Money
tinzel town rebellion
broadway the hardway
freak out
them or us



i left out yellow shark simply because it is such a strong statement that obviously suggests a great new direction.

1. Absolutely Free
2. We're Only In It For The Money
3. Freak Out!
4. Roxy & Elsewhere
5. Crusin' With Ruben And The Jets [Vinyl]
6. Lumpy Gravy
7. Sheik Yerbouti
8. Chunga's Revenge
9. Weasels Ripped My Flesh
10. Burnt Weeny Sandwich

"Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch" and "Apostrophe(')" would be runners up.

But my favorite song is Oh No (The Lumpy Gravy Version).

Civilization Phaze lll
Studio Tan
Zappa In New York
Freak Out!
Uncle Meat
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Chunga's Revenge
Broadway The Hardway
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
You Are What You Is

1. Apostrophe
2. Roxy & Elsewhere
3. Hot Rats
4. Zappa in NY
5. One Size Fits All
6. Zoot Allures
7. Imaginary Diseases
8. Shiek Yerbouti
9. Over-Nite Sensation
10. Lather

1. The Grand Wazoo
2. One Size Fits All
3. Uncle Meat
4. Waka/Jawaka
5. Burnt Weeny Sandwich
6. Sheik Yerbouti
7. Wazoo
8. Freak Out
9. Roxy & Elsewhere
10. Lather

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ok i changed mine!

1. Apostrophe (Always #1)
2. Roxy & Elsewhere (a close 1st)
3. Philly '76
4. Hammersmith Odeon
5. Trance Fusion
6. The Dub Room Special
7. YCDTOSA vol 2
8. Lumpy Gravy
9. One Size Fits All
10. Over-Nite Sensation

as for today:
hot rats
uncle meat
lather
joes garage
you are what you is
WOIIFTM
YCDTOSA vol. 2
SUAPYG (complete)
Make a jazz noise here
Does humor belong in music (yes thats right!!, zappas most underrated live album.)

I went with studio only :
Joe's Garage (1,2 & 3)
Sheik Yerbuoti
Burnt Weenie Sandwich
Absolutely Freee
One Size Fits All
Apostrophe
Hot Rats
Grand Wazoo
Waka/JaWaka
Overnight Sensation


Live is a different story

Joe's Garage (especially acts 2&3)
Ship arriving too late...
You Are What You Is
We're only in it for the money
Crush all boxes
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Roxy And Elsewhere
Civilization Phase III
Philly '76
Overnite Sensation

With a heavy emphasis on the instrumental side of Frank;

1. Hot Rats
2. Absolutely Free
3. Roxy and Elsewhere
4. Waka/Jawaka
5. Shut up 'n Play yer Guitar
6. Weasels Ripped My Flesh
7. FZ:OZ
8. Guitar
9. Chunga's Revenge
10. Grand Wazoo

Hot Rats
The Grand Wazoo
lather
You are what you is
uncle meat
make a jazz noise here
YCDTOSA vol. 2
Sheik Yerbouti
WOIIFTM
joes garage

True. This album does not get nearly the amount of praise it should get.

My top 10 list would change, at least in part, weekly.

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Well, my top 10 changes alot but.....



11. Hot Rats (Not quite[i][/i] as good as some people say, but still a Brilliant..)

10. Them or Us (underated, A fab double album, possably his best 80's album)

9. Uncle Meat (Very strange, I love some of the instrumentals..)

8. Roxy & eleswhere (By FAR his best live album, not a bad track on any of the four sides)

7. Joe's Garage Act 1 (Act one is AMAZING but acts 2 & 3? not so good....lol)

6. Absolutly Free (Brown Shoes dont make it is Great, as are all the songs about vegitables )

5. Chunga's Revenge (Some incredable tracks on here..)

4. Over-nite Sensation (Every track on this album is worthy of being on a best of..especially Camarilo Brillo!)

3. Freak out! (A truly revolutionary debut album, also one of the first ever double albums...)

2. Burnt Weeny Sandwhich (Just incredible, The full of strange instramentals and odd little bits, First Zappa album I ever Had too!)

1. We're Only in it For the Money (An Amazing look at the late 60's hippy scene, the album changes from funny to creepy in a flash )

Well, I knew I wouldnt be able to get it down to 10! And Weasle Ripped my flesh, Sheik yerbouti (I think that how you spell it..?)
Zoot Alures, Tinsel Town Rebbellion and Shut up and play your guitar amongst others are all great as well....

1/Hot rats
2/Overnite sensation
3/Lather
4/grand Wazoo
5/Zappa in NY
6/We're only in it for the money
7/One size fits all
8/Helsinki concert
9/Freak out
10/Uncle meat

1) Weasels Ripped My Flesh. It took me some time to appreciate this one which is often a good sign. Apart from loving the individual songs what really gets me about it is the programming of the tracks. On paper the album is just a collection of odds and ends but I actually thing the way the tracks segue is genius and Frank never bettered it. The flow of this album is superb and the way it builds to Oh No and Orange County Lumber Truck (a long time favorite FZ melody) still excites my ears after years of hearing it. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue got me into Dolphy then Coltrane and the wider world of classic Jazz. A perfect album!

2) The Yellow Shark. A perfect mixture of classic Zappa melodies from early days mixed with some astonishing newer compositions, beautifully recorded and played. Dog Breath and Uncle Meat will probably never be played this well again. Get Whitey, Outrage at Valdez and The Girl in the Magnesium Dress are Zappa at the top of his compositional game in my view. This album can still give me goose bumps.

3) Make a Jazz Noise Here. I tend to prefer instrumental Zappa and this one tends to emphasize that side of the superb '88 band. One of my favorite live albums.

4) YCDTOSA V.2. Another terrific live album. Just edges out Roxy and Elsewhere for me.

5) Uncle Meat. Although far from a perfect album, Zappa's extraordinary capacity for melodic invention is in full flight here. Some of those melodies will stick in my head for days after hearing them.

6) Civilization Phaze III. I think some of Frank's earlier synclavier pieces sounded dry and clinical, here he really nailed it and some of the music is very moving.

7) We're Only In It For The Money. As good as it's reputation suggests. Zappa gets the satirical tone just right and I'm not sure he ever bettered it in that regard.

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar. I can barely listen to guitar solos these days, but I never tire of Zappa's solos. I still think as far as a solo being a coherent statement, no other guitarist is better.

9) Burnt Weeny Sandwich. Solid from end to end.

10) Imaginary Diseases. Not sure it's earned its place yet but I do really love it.