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Music : Zoot Allures
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Zoot Allures by: Frank Zappa List Price: £13.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.98 You Save: £4.01 (29%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0014431052323 Label: Rykodisc Manufacturer: Rykodisc Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Rykodisc Release Date: May 01, 1995 Studio: Rykodisc Sales Rank: 7315 MPN: 310523 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - Leave his hair alone, but you can kiss his comb...Show me your thumb if you're dumb! Here is one of Zappa's hardest LPs to enjoy; it sounds like a perverted clumsy pastiche of seventies pop at its worst. Like Reuben & The Jets ten years on, Zappa seems to want to ape somebody else's sonic world but this time his target's too up close and personal - instead of a loving tribute Zoot Allures sounds like a slick and cynical covers band. Functional yet joyless, in hindsight these recordings sound very 'out of whack' with Zappa's intricate jazz-rock of the time. And yet, and yet: its very awkwardness is a perfectly-timed (1976) poke in the eye at its own context, neatly sidestepping disco and the 'new wave' at the same time as indulging its own knowing bandwagoneering. Frank has his cake and ... Read More: Rating: - Dazza "Perfect FZ Rock Album"This for me is the only stripped down rock record by Frank Zappa and is perfectly put together with Zappa on lead vocals. I think the best song on the album has to be "Find her finer" because zappa is on fine form on lead vocals producing a fine song and all-in-all a fine "Rock Record" Well Done Rating:  - Zappa a little boring on his ownZappa did a lot himself on this album. Except playing guitar and doing the lead vocals he also played bass and keyboards. It's basically FZ and drummer Terry Bozzio playing songs that in most cases aren't fabulous compositions. That makes it a little boring. The opening track Wind Up Working In A Gas Station is among the best though, but compare it to the live version on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore which really cooks! Rating: - The sick product of a warped mind... thank goodness!From the moral warnings against dozing through school of “Wind up working...” to the anti-macho satire of “Disco Boy” by way of the Gothic sexual shenanigans of “The torture...”, this is typical Zappa territory: wicked, cynical, moralising, literate black comedy lyrics sung (and in the case of “torture”, growled malevolently) over snidely subversive parodies of rock, pop, jazz and any other musical style the late, great Frank could think of. If you can’t believe all of American culture is as bland and safe as Hollywood would have us believe, listen to this. It’s wicked stuff of the nastiest sort. Refreshing as an alsatian’s fart after a day in a candy-floss factory. Rating:  - This album is amazing!Patrick O'Hearn and Eddie Jobson are both on the cover but neither play on the album. Notice Terry Bozzio's "ANGELS" t-shirt. This is one of the best Zappa albums out, especially Wind Up Working In A Gas Station & The Torture Never Stops. |
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