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HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE FACTORY MISPRESS

                              *MONO* 1966 ORIGINAL

                     (2-LP) GATEFOLD!

           MAP OFFER INSIDE! = first print!

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                  FRANK ZAPPA

      The MOTHERS OF INVENTION

               
                 FREAK OUT !

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     USA - ((MONO)) Blue/Silver Verve Records =  V 5005-2

PLAYS CLEAN...

Thee ORIGINAL 53 YEARS AGO COLLECTIBLE =  includes the "Freak-Out" HOT SPOTS Map offer ... the four sides of this double LP set are in glorious MONOPHONIC format!

Released in 1966, the MONO song mixes first printing offers a bold punchy production considerably different from the stereo release...

Both original 1966 printed VERVE inner sleeves = YES!

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ATTENTION: This is a rare FACTORY MISPRESS,  as follows:

Sides ONE and TWO have "stereo" printed labels when in actuality are the correct MONO sides, clearly as indicated in the matrix :

V- 5005 - 2 (the stereo is V6-5005-2) ... We checked the audio as well and confirmed the the factory error mispress of the the intended MONO labels.

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One of the most ambitious debuts in rock history, Freak Out! was a seminal concept album that somehow foreshadowed both art rock and punk at the same time. Its four LP sides deconstruct rock conventions right and left, eventually pushing into territory inspired by avant-garde classical composers. Yet the album is sequenced in an accessibly logical progression; the first half is dedicated to catchy, satirical pop/rock songs that question assumptions about pop music, setting the tone for the radical new directions of the second half. Opening with the nonconformist call to arms "Hungry Freaks, Daddy," Freak Out! quickly posits the Mothers of Invention as the antithesis of teen-idol bands, often with sneering mockeries of the teen-romance songs that had long been rock's commercial stock-in-trade. Despite his genuine emotional alienation and dissatisfaction with pop conventions, though, Frank Zappa was actually a skilled pop composer; even with the raw performances and his stinging guitar work, there's a subtle sophistication apparent in his unorthodox arrangements and tight, unpredictable melodicism. After returning to social criticism on the first song of the second half, the perceptive Watts riot protest "Trouble Every Day," Zappa exchanges pop song structure for experiments with musique concrète, amelodic dissonance, shifting time signatures, and studio effects. Experience one of the first widely distributed albums containing psychedelic rock in terms of the 8:37 "Help I'm A Rock" and the side long epic "The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet" -- they virtually explode the limits of what can appear on a rock album, and effectively illustrate Freak Out!'s underlying principles: acceptance of differences and free individual expression. Zappa would spend much of his career developing and exploring ideas -- both musical and conceptual -- first put forth here; Freak Out! contains at least the rudiments of almost everything that followed, and few of Zappa's records can match its excitement over its own sense of possibility.

              Here is the true *STEREO* 1966 first pressing !

                 NEVER OPENED / UNPLAYED / FACTORY SEALED:

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Hungry Freaks, Daddy I Ain' t Got No Heart Who Are The Brain Police? Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder Motherly Love How Could I Be Such A Fool Wowie Zowie You Didn't Try To Call Me Any Way The Wind Blows I'm Not Satisfied You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here Trouble Every Day Help, I'm A Rock It Can't Happen Here The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet

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CONDITION: The cover: rated: The thick gatefold cover is VG++ has bits of light stray light shelf wear on front and back, but nothing bad or alarming, The original colors are bright and sharp ... the insides of gatefold grades: M- ... generally very solid, there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ... all-around stiff and solid and extremely rare as a mispress.

The vinyl: Rated: VG+ (+) some stray light hairline scuffs along the otherwise shiny deep groove pressing. All four sides play with excellent audio and decidedly far better than the grade given above.  All 4 silver royal blue labels shine like new!

     1966 (RARE) MONO MISPRESS COLLECTIBLE!           

                                 

                  FRANK ZAPPA

      The MOTHERS OF INVENTION

                
                    FREAK OUT !

A cool addition to anyone's music library! 

SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people..

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record

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