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Bongo Fury by: Frank Zappa List Price: £13.99 CD-Charts Price: £11.69 You Save: £2.30 (16%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0014431052224 Format: Explicit Lyrics, Live Label: Rykodisc Manufacturer: Rykodisc Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Rykodisc Release Date: April 01, 2002 Studio: Rykodisc Sales Rank: 15116 MPN: 310522 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - Sam was a basket case!Astonishingly, an FZ album which DIDN'T really grab my attention upon first listening. Subsequently, however, it has grown into one of my absolute favourites. Right up there in the pantheon of the indispensables. Lots of interesting background in the previous reviews. I didn't realise the FZ/CB rift dated back to this album, but they must have gotten each other's creative juices flowing. This wondrous album features, i would say, some of FZ's finest guitar work. Check out the wicked solos on "Carolina Hard-core Ecstasy" and "Advance Romance", for starters. Marvel to the brilliant "Muffin Man". The Captain is also pretty much at the top of his game, with his zany interventions. Growling and howling his way so menacingly, that you'd ... Read More: Rating: - Best FZ Album ever?It's a close run thing between Uncle Meat and Bongo Fury. What might swing it in favour of BF is that it might just be the best place to start for someone who - God forbid - had never heard any FZ before. Buy this album. If you don't love it, I'll move in next door to you and your lawn will die. Rating: - Triumph through adversityThis is as good a record as we'll ever get of the '74 Zappa/Beefheart tour. It's consistently excellent and is a testament to Frank's tolerance of the insulting disrespect he received from Beefheart on a tough tour. As Zappa himself said, the reason he took Beefheart out on tour was that the Captain had tied himself into contractual knots meaning he couldn't tour or record alone. Frank was helping out an old friend. The result is a great album that fuses driving dirty blues, massive fuming guitar solos and moments of inspired madness. In fact the Beefheart tracks are really very good and as whole the album shows no sign of the unpleasantnesses going on. It hangs together beautifully. But look at the cover. ... Read More: Rating: - Brilliant live albumRock's mad scientist and Dadaist extraordinaire team up for the first time since 1969's "Hot Rats" and deliver a totally manic, freeform, and above all, entertaining live record. The opening track "Debra Kedabra" hurls round so many musical hairpin bends it's hard to keep track of what's goin on. Every track on here sounds so fiendishly difficult to play one can only listen in awe of the skill of this incarnation of Zappa's band. It's mostly led by Zappa's overdriven guitar and the Captain's demonic growling, but with various flashes of horns and keyboards clashing with insane time signatures. It isn't without the humour which often comes with Zappa, such as in "200 Years Old" (a "celebration" of the USA's 200th birthday), or the gloriously bonkers ... Read More: Rating: - A wonderful album made in adversityThat this album should be so good belies the trouble that went into it's production. Beefheart had hogtied himself with contractual problems and so Frank invited him out onto the road to perform and to earn some much needed cash. The resulting tour became a nightmare, Beefheart baiting Frank onstage and arguing with him offstage. Just look at the cover. Frank glowers unhappily at the camera as the Captain hides his face beneath his hat. In one of Frank's last television interviews you could see that he was still fairly upset by the affair. After all, he and the Captain had grown up together in Lancaster. But out of such seeds of discontent grew an album of fine quality. Frank's exceptional production skills ... Read More: |
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