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Originally Posted by Crowquill
Holy crap, I love frank zappa now.
What stuff of his should I check out?
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Zappa has a oddball style.... A lot of his music is very jazz based, with lots of avant-garde, neo classical and r&b elements and absurdist Monty Python style humor.... He's also known for his tendacy to mock any trend that comes around, Zappa was never above going beyond the boundries of bad taste (in lyrical terms), nonetheless he is one of my favorite musicians for that very reason, a virtuoso, but a virtuoso with balls.... His willingness to try new things was always endearing to me, even when he failed. In the 90s he began experiementing with a style known as musical concrete, easy to say it was very inaccessible stuff.... He had a very powerful (if indirect) influence on the psychedelic and progressive rock movements of the 60s and 70s.
Freak Out!,
We're Only In It For The Money,
Hot Rats,
Uncle Meat,
Weasels Ripped My Flesh,
Chunga's Revenge,
Over-Nite Sensation,
Apostrophie ('),
Grand Wazoo,
One Size Fits All,
Shiek Yerbouti and
Joes Garage is among his very best work... Zappa has done over 60 albums, he was a workaholic to say the least.