Frank Zappa/Mothers Archives

[Review] The Mothers of Invention: Freak Out! (1966)

A freaking brilliant, sarcastic sendup of society and popular music in which all pretense to normalcy and decency is dropped.

More social satire and modern classical music for low-budget rock band plus a mini-opera!

Frank’s music concrète masterpiece sounds like the whole 20th century being sucked into a black hole.

A smorgasbord of demented genius in snack-size bites that challenges the status quo, the counterculture and everything in between.

Fast, bulbous and tapered for your pleasure… Captain Beefheart’s beefy monsterpiece.

Posted On 28 Aug

A mindblender of jazz, classical and rock music that stands as one of the greatest albums of the twentieth century.

The low-budget seduction of a classical/jazz violinist and an ad hoc orchestra.

Avant-garde, quasi-orchestral music bookended by a pair of doo-wop songs, which in the world of Frank Zappa makes perfect nonsense.

A Frankenstein feast of tasty leftovers and live tracks from the band what brought you Lumpy Gravy, Uncle Meat and Burnt Weeny Sandwich.

The beginning of the Flo & Eddie experiment, in which the pair become the witting mouthpiece for Frank.

A single-disc live album featuring the humorous banter of Flo & Eddie and the mating call of the mud shark.

This probably should have come with a free bar of soap and shampoo, since you’ll need a shower after listening to it.

Another live Mothers album to come home to after a tiring day of making maple syrup for the pancakes of your land.

Frank gets pushed from a stage and spends months at home pushing the envelope of musical smallmindedness.

Don’t like classical jazz/rock music? Blow it out your Wazoo.