Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Absolutely Free (1967)
01.Plastic People
02.The Duke of Prunes
03.Amnesia Vivace
04.The Duke Regains His Chops
05.Call Any Vegetable
06.Invocation and Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin
07.Soft-Sell Conclusion
08.Big Leg Emma
09.Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?
10.America Drinks
11.Status Back Baby
12.Uncle Bernie's Farm
13.Son of Suzy Creamcheese
14.Brown Shoes Don't Make It
15.America Drinks and Goes Home.
02.The Duke of Prunes
04.The Duke Regains His Chops
05.Call Any Vegetable
06.Invocation and Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin
07.Soft-Sell Conclusion
08.Big Leg Emma
09.Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?
10.America Drinks
11.Status Back Baby
12.Uncle Bernie's Farm
13.Son of Suzy Creamcheese
14.Brown Shoes Don't Make It
15.America Drinks and Goes Home.
Jimmy Carl Black - Percussion, Drums
Herb Cohen
Lisa Cohen
Ray Collins - Guitar, Vocals
Don Ellis - Horn
Roy Estrada - Bass, Vocals
Bunk Gardner - Wind
Billy Mundi - Drums, Vocals
Kurt Retar
John Rotella - Percussion
Herb Cohen
Lisa Cohen
Ray Collins - Guitar, Vocals
Don Ellis - Horn
Roy Estrada - Bass, Vocals
Bunk Gardner - Wind
Billy Mundi - Drums, Vocals
Kurt Retar
John Rotella - Percussion
Jim Sherwood - Guitar, Vocals, Wind
Frank Zappa - Guitar, Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Keyboards, Vocals, Multi Instruments, Producer, Pamela Zarubica - Vocals.
Frank Zappa - Guitar, Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Keyboards, Vocals, Multi Instruments, Producer, Pamela Zarubica - Vocals.
Absolutely Free
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by Steve Huey
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 The Rite of Spring. 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. In general, the lyrics here are more given over to absurdity and non sequiturs, with the sense that they're often part of some private framework of satirical symbols. 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!, partly because it lacks that album's careful pacing and conceptual focus. But even if it isn't quite fully realized, Absolutely Free is still a fabulously inventive record, bursting at the seams with ideas that would coalesce into a masterpiece with Zappa's next project.
um, I don't get it, where are the download links?
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