Sold Date: April 24, 2015
Start Date: April 14, 2015
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THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION Absolutely Free 1967 UK VERVE 1st *STEREO* PRESSING NM THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Absolutely Free

UK VERVE (SVLP 9174) FIRST *STEREO* PRESSING (October 1967)
GREAT COPY - SEEN LITTLE USE AND PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE BLACK/SILVER VERVE LABELS WHICH HAVE THE "SOLD IN THE UK..." STATEMENT AND EMBOSSED 'KT' TAX CODE ON SIDE ONE
MATRIX: V6 5013 A-1G / V6 5013 B-1G
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 1/G and 1/R
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED FLIPBACK SLEEVE "Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd. Patents pending" DATE CODED '6710' (1967, October)
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAIN WHITE INNER SLEEVE WITH "PATENTS APPLIED FOR" AND "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" PRINTED IN GREY

Frank Zappa's liner notes for Freak Out! name-checked an enormous breadth of musical and intellectual influences, and he seemingly attempts to cover them all on the second Mothers of Invention album, Absolutely Free.
Leaping from style to style without warning, the album has a freewheeling, almost schizophrenic quality, encompassing everything from complex mutations of "Louie, Louie" to jazz improvisations and quotes from Stravinsky's Petrushka.
It's made possible not only by expanded instrumentation, but also Zappa's experiments with tape manipulation and abrupt editing, culminating in an orchestrated mini-rock opera ("Brown Shoes Don't Make It") whose musical style shifts every few lines, often in accordance with the lyrical content.
But elsewhere, Zappa's satire also grows more explicitly social, ranting against commercial consumer culture and related themes of artificiality and conformity.
By turns hilarious, inscrutable, and virtuosically complex, Absolutely Free is more difficult to make sense of than Freak Out!, but a fabulously inventive record, bursting at the seams with ideas.

Track Listing: (the play is continuous with no breaks)
Side 1:
Plastic People (3:42)
The Duke Of Prunes (2:13)
Amnesia Vivace (1:01)
The Duke Regains His Chops (1:50)
Call Any Vegetable (2:20)
Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin (7:00)
Soft-Sell Conclusion (1:40)
Side 2:
America Drinks (1:53)
Status Back Baby (2:54)
Uncle Bernie's Farm (2:11)
Son Of Suzy Creamcheese (1:34)
Brown Shoes Don't Make It (7:30)
America Drinks & Goes Home (2:45)

LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with only light spindles traces
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT/EXCELLENT+
Both surfaces shine like new with just one small scuff mark at the beginning of the last track on Side Two (see below)
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT/EXCELLENT+
Plays beautifully throughout with a crystal clear, warm, vibrant and detailed *STEREO* cut and my play-check at volume found practically nothing to fault - just a slight touch of surface on the run-ins and between some of tracks and a couple of ticks at the beginning of the final track on Side Two - nothing really - sounds great - a fantastic copy
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
A beautifully clean and practically unworn example - the front laminate has a deep glossy sheen and the white back has just a little dark ring marking but nothing else to fault

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