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IMPORTED FROM JAPAN BY RYKODISC This collector?s dream set completes our 20-disc series of limited edition Frank... more

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  One Size Fits All

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  • Posted:Jun-09-2008

  • For the Jazz Fusion Fans....Zappa's best
  • Great collection with tolerably absurd lyrics. The never cross the line into being distractingly ridiculous. The melodies here are VERY strong, and FZ's guitar solo on Inca Roads, his best ever....
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  Freak Out!

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  • Posted:Aug-30-2008

  • The Real FREAK OUT!
  • The first Mother's album was a huge step outside the normal rock and roll of the mid sixties, introducing it's audience to the Psychodelic era. This album is historic if nothing else. The music...
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  • Posted:Sep-16-2002

  • A hint of things to come
  • I don't understand why the fans like this album so much. I love Frank Zappa's music, but this one just never moved me, beyond a few chuckles over the mock do-wop and bubble-gum numbers, and beyond,...
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  • Posted:Nov-29-1999

  • A bit dated
  • If nothing else this disk should be recognized for one thing many people seem to overlook; it contains the world's first Rap Tune, "Trouble Every Day"
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  The Grand Wazoo

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  • Posted:Dec-12-2008

  • My Kind of Zappa
  • This album comes out of my collection and onto my CD player or iPod playlist every few years, and it never disappoints. Of the three early-70s primarily instrumental albums, "The Grand Wazoo"...
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  • Posted:Jul-27-2004

  • Three out of Five...
  • The first three tracks are relatively uninteresting...'Grand Wazoo' should have been on Waka/Jawaka, its experimental blues/fusion/big band doesn't fit this one. The two vocal tracks are mediocre...
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  Just Another Band from L.A.

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  • Posted:Jun-24-2008

  • Its A Mother Of A CD
  • Just Another Band From LA comes near the end of the Mothers of Invention's existance and although Frank Zappa went on to related musical journeys the Mothers were the best. This is an outstanding...
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  • Posted:Oct-04-2007

  • what a pile of junk !!
  • anyone out there who thinks this guy wasn't on drugs is as crazy as he was. All this nut's music was a big pile of dung !! this stuff makes no sense at all !! sorry but this is just awful, not...
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  • Posted:Jul-26-2007

  • Great! ...if you are a teenage boy
  • I love Zappa's music and have many, many CDs from different eras. My first Zappa purchase was in 1972, Weasles Ripped My Flesh. I even saw the Roxy lineup live in March 1974. I do not own any of...
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  Uncle Meat

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  • Posted:Dec-22-2008

  • Great album - Here's a tip...
  • Buy the CD two-disc set, then look up the original LP track listing and burn it all on a CD with the original tracks only (in order, or course). This way you can listen to this masterpiece without...
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  • Posted:Nov-25-2007

  • This 1987 Remix Unpacks the Fruit
  • I'd give this five stars for the music, but after doing an A-B comparison of this CD set and the original vinyl, I give the CD set three stars for its 1987 remix. I rate the vinyl as far...
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  • Posted:Apr-30-2003

  • Okay, but where is the idea?
  • I will try to be as elegant as possible. First, to record, (or create something in general) one needs an idea.This is possibly old fashioned, but to me recording conversations, very, very ordinary...
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  Burnt Weeny Sandwich

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  • Posted:Sep-20-2008

  • Zappa Thrills Listeners!
  • This album is hilarious at times with songs like WPLJ, and the instrumental arrangements are testaments to Zappa's skilled, unrestrained manner of musical expression.
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  Absolutely Free

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  • Posted:Jun-23-2008

  • Absolutely Priceless
  • My first exposure to Frank Zappa was a release of "Flower Punk" on an early Mothers anthology. Fast, repetitive music with a bunch of sped up voices, it didn't really grab me then, though part of...
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  • Posted:Jan-13-2007

  • Absolute Garbage
  • Thankfully this was not my first Zappa album or I may not have bought another. Zappa shows his disdain for the ignorant listening public with Absolutely Free which is only slightly better than Were...
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  • Posted:Feb-11-2002

  • Absolutely Free Don't Make It
  • Much as I would like to be more positive about "Absolutely Free", the problem is it just doesn't stand up as well in the year 2002 as the Mothers' other 60's work. There is plenty to ADMIRE here...
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  Cruising with Ruben & the Jets

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  • Posted:Oct-04-2008

  • A masterpiece
  • Of course, i am talking about the original (vinyl) album. Get it from various places in the internet (type the name of the album and the word 'blogspot' and google it) the original version of this,...
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  • Posted:Mar-15-2008

  • A Major Error Of Judgement
  • During the 80s, Zappa began to reissue his back catalogue on CD. Most suffered some sort of tweaking as Zappa attempted to "improve" on what he'd done in years before. Some albums got through...
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  • Posted:Oct-27-2007

  • A question
  • I have not heard his CD but I did own the LP at one time and would rate it 3 stars only because it had a very funny parody of garage band histories (along with a classic picture of Zappa) on the...
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  Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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  • Posted:Dec-23-2008

  • DIRECTLY FROM MY HEART TO YOU
  • THIS ALBUM IS AN AMALGAM OF THE KIND OF MUSIC THAT FRANK ZAPPA AND THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION WERE PLAYING IN THE LATE 60'S, IT CONTAINS AVANT GARDE, FREE FROM JAZZ, DOO-WOP, BLUES, ROCK, AND...
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  • Posted:Apr-03-2007

  • Weasels Ripped My Flesh
  • The music on this album is very early stuff from MOI, and they tried to do a lot! Its not neccessarily "bad" but FZ and the MOI have done better. If you are not familliar to Zappa, this album would...
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  • Posted:Sep-29-2006

  • descuido prolijo de un genio.....
  • que hacer con tantas grabaciones desperdiciadas por excesiva experimentacion o busqueda..que hacer con ensayos,improvisacion sin inspiracion....esto es lo que podemos escuchar en este album..ya se...
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