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List Price : $18.98 Price : $14.17
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Genre: Popular Music
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Release Date: 16-MAY-1995
Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention Reviews
Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention Reviews
| 14 of 15 people found the following review helpful  Excellent! One of Zappa's absolute best albums, By A Customer This review is from: Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention (Audio CD) Along with the Boulez and Nagano (LSO) recordings, this excellent album stands out as Zappa's best work from the first half of the eighties (a bland period). The satire-pop songs ("We're turning again" and "Yo cats")are funny and delightful and the works for synclavier are among Zappa's best compositions ever (along with "Inca Roads, "Peaches", etc.). Too bad that so many people immediately reject them because of their synthetic sound and their "coldness". "One man, One vote", "Little Beige Sambo" , "Aerobics In Bondage" are all exquisite, so are "Alien Orifice", and "What's New In Baltimore" which both include marvellous guitar-playing. Listen to this album a few times, and see that my five star-rating is deserved (By the way: Why can't people shade off their ratings? A lot of five star-ratings include bunches of disclaimers telling of mediocrity). 13 of 16 people found the following review helpful  Mixed Bag, By A Customer This review is from: Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention (Audio CD) The impetus behind this album was, of course, the PMRC hearings on labelling/censoring offensive rock lyrics. The album is a mixed bag of material -- 5 studio tracks with a band, 3 synclavier compositions, and 2 collage tracks. They're somewhat hapharzadly thrown together, making the album extremely disjointed -- but there is a lot of great material on this album, nevertheless.The opener, "I Don't Even Care," is a waste of 5 minutes. Its essentually a groove set down in studio by Zappa's band, with "I don't even care" sung in the background while Johnny "Guitar" Watson (not credited?) ad libs some lines. No solo, though you keep waiting for one. The song goes nowhere and is extremely repetitive. Then follows 3 synclavier compositions, "One Man One Vote," "Little Beige Sambo," and "Aerobics in Bondage." These are pretty good. "One Man One Vote" is the least interesting, but the other two are extremely worthy compositions that measure up to the best material on... Read more 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful Zappa Meets Al and Tipper, By Thomas E. West (New York, New York) - See all my reviews This review is from: Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention (Audio CD) Setting the music aside (read other reviews of that), Zappa's politics infuse the last two tracks of the CD. Taking a tape of Zappa's appearance before an "unofficial" Congressional hearing (prompted by a committee made up of Tipper Gore and other Senators' wives demanding censorship or ratings on recorded music), FZ's surrealistic re-edit and remix create an appropriately dada sound collage. Amid the Congressional fools and blunderers, don't miss samplings of "Lumpy Gravy" and--best of all--Al Gore declaring himself a fan of Zappa's music and an admirer of the man himself! |
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