Sold Date:
February 18, 2015
Start Date:
September 25, 2014
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FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
'Freak Out'
Hungry Freaks, Daddy
I Ain't Got No Heart
Who Are the Brain Police?
Motherly Love
Wowie Zowie
You Didn't Try to Call Me
You're Probably Wondering Why
Trouble Every Day
Help, I'm a Rock
The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet
In 1966, when even the Doors and the Grateful Dead were still at a garage band level, Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention took great pride in being the ambassadors of freakdom. The hippie/flower power culture was just getting under way, but the Mothers' debut album found them already taking great delight in turning Aquarian imagery inside out. No starry-eyed rainbow people, the Mothers were the living incarnation of underground comics such as R. Crumb's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: nasty, ugly, and downright dirty.Much of the musical template on this early effort is far more conventional than Zappa's later work. The framework is a blend of the avant garde, pop/rock, and, improbably, doo-wop, but it's overlaid with sardonic, subversive lyrics, bizarre instrumental touches, and an unrelentingly ironic sensibility. Along the way, the Mothers insert snatches of free jazz, bizarre sound collage, and parodic spoken-word, all with the aim of setting the nascent counterculture gloriously askew.
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