Freak Out - Frank Zappa The Mothers of Invention.Verve Select 2683 Stereo Double
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Description
Disks excellent.Cover excelent although very slight wear as would expect from an album of this age.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Frank Zappa except where noted.
Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" 3:32 2. "I Ain't Got No Heart" 2:34 3. "Who Are the Brain Police?" 3:25 4. "Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder" Frank Zappa and Ray Collins 3:43 5. "Motherly Love" 2:50 6. "How Could I Be Such a Fool?" 2:16 Side two No. Title Length 7. "Wowie Zowie" 2:55 8. "You Didn't Try to Call Me" 3:21 9. "Any Way the Wind Blows" 2:55 10. "I'm Not Satisfied" 2:41 11. "You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here" 3:41 Side three No. Title Length 12. "Trouble Every Day" 5:53 13. "Help, I'm a Rock (Suite in Three Movements)- I. Okay to Tap Dance
- II. In Memoriam, Edgar Varèse
- III. It Can't Happen Here"
- I. Ritual Dance of the Child-Killers
- II. Nullis Pretii (No Commercial Potential)"
On the CD release, "Help, I'm a Rock" is split into two tracks: "Help, I'm a Rock" (4:43) and "It Can't Happen Here" (3:57)
[edit] Credits
Musicians- Frank Zappa – guitar, conductor, vocals
- Jimmy Carl Black – percussion, drums, vocals
- Ray Collins – harmonica, cymbals, sound effects, tambourine, vocals, finger cymbals
- Elliot Ingber – alternate lead & rhythm guitar
- Roy Estrada – bass, vocals
- Gene Estes – percussion
- Eugene Di Novi – piano
- Neil Le Vang – guitar
- John Rotella – clarinet, sax
- Carol Kaye - 12-string guitar
- Kurt Reher – cello
- Raymond Kelley – cello
- Paul Bergstrom – cello
- Emmet Sargeant – cello
- Joseph Saxon – cello
- Edwin V. Beach – cello
- Arthur Maebe – French horn, tuba
- Motorhead Sherwood – noises
- Kim Fowley - megaphone
- Mac Rebennack – piano
- Paul Butterfield – vocals
- Les McCann – piano
- Jeannie Vassoir – (the voice of Cheese)
Freak Out! is the debut album by American band The Mothers of Invention, released June 27, 1966 on Verve Records. Often cited as one of rock music's first concept albums, the album is a satirical expression of frontman Frank Zappa's perception of American pop culture. It was also one of the earliest double albums in rock music (although Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde preceded it by a week), and the first 2-record debut. In the UK the album was originally released as a single disc.
The album was produced by Tom Wilson, who signed The Mothers, formerly a bar band called the Soul Giants. Zappa said many years later that Wilson signed the group to a record deal in the belief that they were a white blues band.[1][2] The album features vocalist Ray Collins, along with bass player Roy Estrada, drummer Jimmy Carl Black and guitar player Elliot Ingber, who would later join Captain Beefheart's Magic Band under the name Winged Eel Fingerling.[3][4]
The band's original repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues covers; though after Zappa joined the band he encouraged them to play his own original material, and the name was changed to The Mothers.[5] The musical content of Freak Out! ranges from rhythm and blues, doo-wop and standard blues-influenced rock to orchestral arrangements and avant-garde sound collages. Although the album was initially poorly received in the United States, it was a success in Europe. It gained a cult following in America, where it continued to sell in substantial quantities until it was prematurely discontinued in the early 1970s.
In 1999, it was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award,[6] and in 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it among the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[7] In 2006, The MOFO Project/Object, an audio documentary on the making of the album, was released in honor of its 40th anniversary.[8][9]
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