Product Details
Artist : Frank Zappa
Format : Best of
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0014431053023
Label : Warner
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-01-14
UPC : 014431053023
ASIN : B0000009SY
Track Listings for
Disc-1
1. Central Scrutinizer
2. Joe's Garage
3. Catholic Girls
4. Crew Slut
5. Fembot in a Wet T-Shirt
6. On the Bus
7. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
8. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
9. Scrutinizer Postlude
10. Token of My Extreme
11. Stick It Out
12. Sy Borg
Disc-2
1. Packard Goose
2. Dong Work for Yuda
3. Keep It Greasey
4. Outside Now
5. He Used to Cut the Grass
6. Packard Goose
7. Watermelon in Easter Hay
8. Little Green Rosetta
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Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.co.uk
The Central Scrutinizer is out to protect you from the harmful effects of that horrible force called music. Such is the premise of Joe's Garage, Frank Zappa's three-act concept album that explores the world of groupies, governments, sex toys and Catholic school girls. As always, Zappa's aim is true and his scope wide, following Joe (voiced by his long-time co-conspirator, Ike Willis) as he starts a band, loses his girl, falls in love with a robot and tries to find his true place in society. Filled with catchy classics ("Catholic Girls", "Crew Slut") and blazing guitar work ("Keep it Greasy" and "Watermleon in Easter Hay"), this is the sort of schmorgasbord of imagination and artistry that only Zappa could produce. --Andrew Boscardin
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Au premier degré, Joe's Garage peut passer pour un concept album à l'argument volontairement crétin. On y suit les tribulations d'un aspirant rock-star aux prises avec les groupies, le fétichisme, divers appareils ménagers, et un gouvernement qui décide d'interdire la musique. Des obsessions familières pour l'initié au petit monde délirant de Frank Zappa, et qui ne sont pas innocentes. Derrière le côté "1984" pour patronage perce une réelle crainte de la censure, et Frank sera à l'avant-garde du combat pour la liberté d'expression quand la menace se fera réelle. Si le premier acte est le plus orienté chanson, en empruntant à toutes sortes de styles, du doo wop au reggae en passant par le surf et le blues, les deux derniers sont structurés par le jeu de guitare innovateur du leader, qui signe ici quelques uns de ses plus beaux solos ("Packard Goose", "Watermelon In Easter Hay"). Magistral. --Thierry Chatain
Customer Reviews
Another late 70's classic. (2004-06-21)  1979 was an extremely successful year for Frank Zappa. Orchestral favorites, a performance from 1975, after sitting on the shelf for four years, was released. Sheik yer bouti was also a huge hit released that year. The 17 song edition of Saarrucken was released. Several bootlegs were released. And Joe's garage, like Sheik yer bouti, one of Zappa's biggest commercial successes was released. Each ironic tune ranges from funny to offensive. One I'm not quite so sure on which to classify is Catholic girls. Joe's garage is a wonderful track. The central scruitinizer is another very ironic track. The best song on this album is without a doubt, Watermelon in easter hay, an incredibly moving guitar piece. The most tracks from Joe's garage included on a live album are on Any way the wind blows, a lost jewel of a live album. The point is that this album must be included in any casual Zappa fan's collection, however, if you are a new fan, I suggest Sheik yer bouti first.Gus Fogle
One of Zappa's best studio records (2004-05-01)  First off, if you are a drummer, you must own this record. Vinnie Caliauta invents some of the most ingenious grooves ever recorded. Check out the absolute madness at the end of "Keep it Greasy." That said, this is an extremely enjoyable record in every way. "Joe's Garage" is Zappa's Pop, concept album. It follows our hero Joe from teen rocker to washed up criminal, trying to cope with an Orwellian society in which music is illegal. The story is stream of conscious and extremely silly at times. It is a funny record, but let's forget about that. It is also an extremely well-written and well played collection of music that deserves major attention. Frank Zappa is not just a sardonic, iconoclast rock star; he is one of the great American composers. He is also my favorite guitarist. Joe's last imaginary guitar solo, "Watermelon in Easter Hay" is simply beautiful and brings a touch of real sentiment to an otherwise completely irreverent record.
I can prove scientifically that this is good music. (2003-12-22) Anyone who dare disparage this disc is obviously a communist, a reader of Ann Landers or perhaps just mentally deficient. Why do some folks "get it," while others are left scratching some unmentionable appendage? After a thorough examination of Joe's Garage, and through our exhaustive and comprehensive research into the field of adequacy and metaretrospective skills, I feel that this phenomena of duality can be summed up with but one word: Stupid. (Race, gender and sexual preference failed to characterize any results in this or any of the studies reported in this article, and consequently receives no further mention.) Unfortunately, one of the essential features of ignorance is that the person so afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is in fact stupid. Moreover, to have such information would be a panacea for the offense. I would like to make some simple points here, and these first points are noncontentious: In many areas in existence, prosperity and gratification depend on comprehension, sagacity, or postulation in knowing which rules to follow and which tactics to pursue. This is true not only for committing crimes, but also for many tasks in the social and intellectual domains, such as constructing a solid and logical argument, or designing a punctilious musical endeavor. Secondly, people contrast widely in the perception and strategies they apply in these areas, with irregular levels of prosperity. Some of the information and conjecture that people apply to their behaviors are reasonable and meet with advantageous results. Others, for example the 'I love The Backstreet Boys' hypothesis put forward by many adolescent girls, are imperfect at best and stupid or petulant at worst. Perhaps more debatable is this point, when we argue that when people are stupid in the tactics they adopt to achieve success and satisfaction, they suffer a twofold impediment: Not only do they reach inaccurate conclusions and make inept choices, but their stupidity robs them of the capacity to recognize that they are stupid. Instead they are left with the mistaken impression that they are proceeding correctly. As Charles Darwin judiciously noted over a century ago, "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge". At first, the reader may point to a "contrary-evolutionary effect" as an alternative explanation of our results. This theory is propounded by some scientists that believe human evolution is now working in reverse, as demonstrated by the current popularity of low-fat mayonnaise, the electric facial-exerciser and television shows like "Survivor." Although this fact appears obvious, stupidity is not invariably correlated with actual statistics or success rates. The abnormal endurance of WWF wrestling and the fact that some of the population vote republican demonstrates this effect. Face it, there is nothing more dangerous than a stupid person who thinks he is smart. Eat more Zappa.
An understandable album? (2003-12-20) Do people really understand this album? All the other reviews rant about the same parts of the album: the beginning and the second to last song. I used to feel the same way at first when I discovered this album. But you know, as with any album, the songs you liked best at the beginning are not necessarily the ones you will like best later on. The first part of the album is "easy", and the Watermelon solo too. But the more I listened to the album, the more I began to appreciate and really like the songs that were in between these two parts, especially starting when Joe gets out. This sounds like a structureless piece of music, but listen closely and many times and you will really like that second CD. Maybe even better than the first one. Don't miss Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up, A Token Of My Extreme, Sy Borg, Outside Now, He Used To Cut The Grass and Packard Goose!
One of the most famous works by Frank "the master" Zappa (2003-12-13) Perhaps this is one of the most famous albums and of the best ones as well (perhaps the best one)...it's a sort of concept album telling the story of Joe and his role of "Central Scrutinizer", as He's obliged to hold an unnatural behavior, within such role, till becoming an outlaw.The album begins with the accessible title track: Joe's Garage. After this easy intro, He becomes more and more ironical and quite bizarre too. Zappa doesn't perform a particular complex job with his guitar here,that is simply his typical rock and roll guitar solo, but his inspiration also in the lightest things is high as usual. Watermelon in Easter Hay demonstrates his skillful technique on guitar:his guitar playing inside is fantastic and as an incredible testament for his life, this song was played at his funeral...anybody, except on his Son Dweezil,won't play this "cover song" anymore!!At last all the songs for instance on Act I are a must-have,but this "Watermelon in Easter Hay" in particular is an unforgettable tribute,whenever it can be played by a capable and amazing guitarist too! So this testament is essential for every kind of personal "discoteque"
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