Best Mothers of Invention Album

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I loves it lots! I just love the other original Mothers records at least as much. After Uncle Meat and WOIIFTM, I could rank #3-7 in just about any order and be happy -- like, a five-way tie for third.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link

I went for Freak Out.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link

best song on AF - STAUS BACK BABY

― chaki, Tuesday, 24 April 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link

I also like the closing of the album: "America Drinks and Goes Home".
Waiting for the hitherto unknown Scott Walker cover of it (with heart-wrenching Peter Knight string arrangment) to be miraculously discovered one day and distributed among the masses.

― Joe, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Bump - even distribution for first three, dwarfing all others.

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link

Who voted for Ruben and the Jets?? I might have done so myself, but was deferring to my long-held opinion of Freak Out.

― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link

Does Ruben and the Jets sound like that track on Freak Out "Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder"? I always liked that one.

― Johnny Hotcox, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Lumpy Gravy doesn't count?

― ellaguru, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link

i love how flo & eddie got HATED on

― cutty, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Lumpy Gravy was released under FZ's name, not the Mothers.

i love how flo & eddie got HATED on

Me too. Aside from crap material, those records just SOUND bad. Which is unusual for Zappa.

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link

i think they sound cool. especially ansley dunbar's drums.

― chaki, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link

billy was a mountain ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder

― Tim Ellison, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link

shoulda been a three way tie

― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:30 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't think it was eligible

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f534/f53429fiwfn.jpg

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:38 (sixteen years ago) link

five years pass...

Ray Collins has passed away.

― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 31 December 2012 06:01 (eleven years ago) link

nine years pass...

Don Preston turns 90 today, almost certainly the first 60s rock performer to do so.

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link

That is pretty cool, well done Don!

― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link

Great observation!

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link

I was all about to bring up Ed Cassidy, but I see he died five months short of his 90th birthday!

HBD Don!

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link

seven months pass...

Another Mother turns 90 today: saxophonist Bunk Gardner, who can also be heard on Tim Buckley's Starsailor,

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 23:52 (eleven months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlujBK31XAw

This was a fun listen yesterday. "Village/Echidna's/Don't You" is even faster than You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2 recorded 2 months earlier. Ridiculously tight, with all sorts of interesting tweaks to arrangements. And what a setlist:

Tush Tush Tush, Stinkfoot, RDNZL, Village Of The Sun, Echidna's Arf, Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?, Penguin In Bondage, T'Mershi Duween, Dog Meat, Building A Girl, Dinah-Moe Humm, Camarillo Brillo, Oh No, Trouble Every Day, Any Downers, Babbette, Approximate, Montana, Yellow Snow Suite, Pygmy Twylyte (incl. Dummy Up, Room Service), Tush Tush Tush

― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 5 May 2023 17:03 (eleven months ago) link

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