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Music : Sheik Yerbouti
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0014431052828 Number Of Discs: 1 Sales Rank: 7796 MPN: 310528 Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
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 Rating: - It's not just about the songs either...The other reviews of this wonderful record concentrate on the songs which are indeed very good, with vulgar lyrics and great melodies which you will be humming for evermore. However, there is so much more to enjoy as well. For starters, the album contains guitar playing up there with Zappa's best; Rat Tomago and The Sheik Yerbouti Tango are superb guitar solos and the magnificent twelve minutes that is Yo' Mama builds and soars to a massive climax, (sorry, there is no other way to describe it), accompanied by Tommy Mars only slightly overblown keyboards. Some of the vocal and musical arrangements are stunning too. Apart from Yo' Mama, Bobby Brown, Dancin' Fool, Jewish Princess and the oft overlooked Wild Love are ... Read More: Rating: - Zappa's bestI am not a fan of the long guitar solos or obsessive muso ramblings and so I approach every Zappa album with some fear. For me, when he lets his humour run riot he was at his best and when you have to listen through a nine minute guitar solo he was at his worst. I know that is not a popular opinion with many Zappa fans, but if you are like me then the good news is that this is the album for you. There is a huge amount of humour, some restraint in the instrumentals and if you do get bored occassionally then there is enough variation in the album to mean that there will be something else along in a minute. 'Dancin Fool' is fun, 'Jewish Princess' and 'Bobby Brown' are marvellously offensive, 'Trying to Grow a Chin' has an addictive chorus ... Read More: Rating: - ONE OF HIS BESTThere is a difficulty in recommending Frank Zappa's music: it does not lie in the quality - it's all good - but in the shere variety of it. It's possible to be an ardent fan of some of Zappa's work, only to find the rest of it inaccessible or just simply not your cup of tea. Sheik Yerbouti may be a difficult album to recommend - paradoxical as this may sound - due to it's fairly straightforward nature. There is nothing particularly avante-garde or virtuoso about this record (in comparison with many of his other albums) and therefore may fly against the expectations of some first time listeners. At the very least, though, this album gives a balanced picture of his varied output and like all his records it is indefinably yet unmistakably Zappa. One ... Read More: Rating:  - Rocking good satireThis album of mostly humorous, melodic and powerful rock songs was recorded during the height of the disco era. It doesn't only satirize the disco culture as in "Dancin' Fool," but also deals with other, more controversial subjects in a politically very incorrect way, always with amusing results. I might have been offended, for various reasons, by "Bobby Brown Goes Down," but instead it's my favorite track on the album. I love Zappa's unconventional sense of humor! The music is very accessible, although there are a couple of more experimental pieces too. Recommended for those who love intelligent rock music and are sufficiently open-minded. It's right up there with Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Joe's Garage and You Are What You Is. Rating: - Let's do Frank justice...I haven't read the other reviews of this album, but I guess they can only be full of the same superlatives mine will be. This album is beautifully segued, scintillatingly produced, exceptionally performed, marvellously written - in short, all we expected from Frank Zappa. Oh - the songs? If you don't know 'Bobby Brown...' you really have no right to even use the name of Frank Zappa, although my personal favourite from this album is 'Snakes' (with a delicious co-vocal from 'Bob Dylan'), particularly for the line "I am a moron, and this is my wife...". Only Zappa can throw lines like that away into the middle of a song, knowing that we will still be listening. And exquisite listening it is. Here's my last ditch sales pitch (this is why I never ... Read More: |
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