Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in ...
 beyond "Gone With the Wind": Historically, Southern women have been type-case as fragile, codependent, incapable, overgrown children. Growing up in the South, it was always difficult to find role models from local history, or in the mass media. [... more]
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Approximately Infinite Universe
This Is Not All That Bad: Yoko-san does more than howl and scream on this offering. Instead, Yoko shows us that she, too, can rock with the best of them. Fine! This recording is not perfect. Nor is she a song writer the caliber of Bob Dylan or her late [... more]
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Sailin Shoes
Amazon.com essential recording: Sailin' Shoes demonstrates just how briskly Little Feat was developing in their early 1970s formative years. A pronounced step up from the Southern California quartet's critically praised 1971 debut, it's not as fully [... more]
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We're Only in It for the Money
: The Mothers of Invention answer the sentiments of the suits, the suburb dwellers and flower children of the 1960s with a big fat raspberry. Considered by many to be the Mothers' (and some would say Zappa's) best album, We're Only In It For The Money [... more]
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Hot Rats / Waka Jawaka / Grand Wazoo (Threesome V.2)
From Amazon.com: The three CDs collected here, from his stunning 1969-1972 period, find Zappa toning down the wild experimentalism of his late-'60s work with the Mothers of Invention, veering away from psychedelic-rock surrealism and careening toward [... more]
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Grand Wazoo
Chronique amazon.fr: Avec Hot Rats, Chunga's Revenge, King Kong, Waka-Jawaka, Frank Zappa, épaulé par le violoniste Jean-Luc Ponty, prend un virage jazz rock. Sur The Grand Wazoo, on peut même ajouter qu'il est franchement orchestral [... more]
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You Can't Do That on Stage
Really the most correct and percise volume.: I say this because this volume is focused specifically on two time periods, it doesn't really jump around as much as the other volumes. The first disc is crammed full of early Mothers material. This disc [... more]
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No Commercial Potential: The Saga Of Frank Zappa
From Amazon.com: Once considered the best biography on American composer Frank Zappa available, David Walley's No Commercial Potential: The Saga of Frank Zappa still contains the most compelling and accurate portrait of Zappa at the beginning of his [... more]
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Sometime In New York City
From Amazon.com: Agitprop political sensibilities have seldom made for great rock music, even in the hands of a genius like John Lennon. Or perhaps we should say especially in the hands of Lennon. Coming as it did on the heels of Imagine, arguably his [... more]
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Golden Classics
The Lighter Side Of The 50s and Early 60s: That one reviewer probably wasn't around when Beep Beep climbed up the charts in 1958 is evidenced by the reference to the "mash Rambler." Actually, the car doing the annoying beep beeps was, as [... more]
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Ahead of Their Time
You Can't Do That on Stage does it better: When Zappa released the You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore CDs, one of the statements he made was that the latest group of musicians was more talented than earlier incarnations of his band. Ahead of Their Time [... more]
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Mother!: The Frank Zappa Story
Zappa: The Enigma: I have read the following books by or about Frank Zappa. In addition, this list constitutes a ranking of my assessment of the quality of these books. THE REAL FRANK ZAPPA BOOK by Frank Zappa and Peter Occhioigrosso MOTHER! THE FRANK [... more]
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