Mothers Of Invention FREAK OUT Frank Zappa Orig.1966 Garage Psych EX/NM 2LP

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Hundreds of Psych, Garage & '60's rock vinyl LPs over next few weeks.
Many 1st Pressings, Promos, Rarities and Imports included. 
Most are EX+ to NM+ condition.

Both AUCTIONS and a few Fixed-Price BUY IT NOW listings and  in this series
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All opening bids in the auction series begin at only 98¢
Being the middle of summer, I know that many of these will sell way too low, as so many bidders are away now.
So everybody here has a good shot at taking some of these beauties home! GOOD LUCK ALL!!

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THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
FREAK OUT!
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VERVE Records V6-5005-2
Original 1966 issue • Stereo 2LP set
1st issue with "Freak Out Hot-Spots" MAP BLURB

VINYL is NM/EX
Exceedingly clean high gloss vinyl shows a very few faint hairline wisps on Record One; virtually none on Record Two, viewed in hard bright light. LP plays superb throughout. Silver on Blue VERVE labels are pristine all 4 sides.
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COVER is EX
possibly EX+... Very crisp and clean all around. Front and back have only light shelf wear -far less than usual for this cover; bright, very clean inner gatefold shows some areas of faint tanning. No creases, writing or soil. Seams and flat, smooth spine are completely intact with mere touch of wear. NO splits. All edges straight, all corners sharp.

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

Cucamonga's FInest in their Debut LP!
Still their best-ever record among a catalog of many amazing albums.
 
ORIGINAL ISSUE with the
"Freak Out Hot-Spots" MAP OFFER inside gatefold
later removed due to no commercial potential.

EXTREMELY RARE TO FIND THIS CLEAN!

Includes BOTH original printed Verve inner sleeves.
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Discs inside separate poly inner sleeves to protect both the original inners & the vinyl
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve
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The incredible L.A. Underground masterpiece from 1966 by Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention?.?

One of the most ambitious debuts in rock history, Freak Out! was a seminal concept album that somehow foreshadowed both art rock and punk at the same time.

Its four LP sides deconstruct rock conventions right and left, eventually pushing into territory inspired by avant-garde classical composers. Yet the album is sequenced in an accessibly logical progression; the first half is dedicated to catchy, satirical pop/rock songs that put into question all previous assumptions about pop music, setting the tone for the radical new directions of the second half. Opening with the nonconformist call to arms "Hungry Freaks, Daddy", Freak Out! quickly posits the Mothers of Invention as the antithesis of teen-idol bands, often with sneering mockeries of the teen-romance songs that had long been rock's commercial stock-in-trade.

Despite his genuine emotional alienation and dissatisfaction with pop conventions, though, Frank Zappa was actually an extremely skilled pop composer; even with the raw performances and his stinging guitar work, there's a subtle sophistication undeniably apparent in his unorthodox arrangements and tight, unpredictable melodicism.

After returning to scathing social criticism on the first song of the second half, the explosive, spot-on perceptive Watts riot protest "Trouble Comin' Every Day", Zappa exchanges pop song structure for experiments with musique concrète, amelodic dissonance, shifting time signatures, and studio effects. Experience one of the first widely distributed albums containing psychedelic rock in terms of the 8:37 "Help I'm A Rock" and the side long epic "The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet" -- they virtually explode the limits of what can appear on a rock album, and effectively illustrate Freak Out!'s underlying principles: acceptance of differences and free individual expression.

Zappa would spend much of his career developing and exploring ideas -- both musical and conceptual -- first put forth here; Freak Out! contains at least the rudiments of almost everything that followed, and few of Zappa's records can match its excitement over its own sense of possibility.

It's all right here in its infancy, filling its diapers for you boys and girls!

SIDE ONE
Hungry Freaks, Daddy
I Ain' t Got No Heart
Who Are The Brain Police?
Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
Motherly Love
How Could I Be Such A Fool

SIDE TWO
Wowie Zowie
You Didn't Try To Call Me
Any Way The Wind Blows
I'm Not Satisfied
You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here

SIDE THREE
Trouble Comin' Every Day
Help, I'm A Rock
It Can't Happen Here

SIDE FOUR
The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet

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Collectible, Vintage 1960's / Psych LPs
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All records packed with vinyl (inside inner sleeve) behind cover - and shipped in strong LP mailer boxes with bubble-wrap around all sides - sandwiched between stiff corrugated flats for best protection in the mail.
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