Freak Out! / Absolutely Free / We're Only In It For The Money (Threesome V.1)

Product Details

Artist : Frank Zappa
Format : Best of, Box set
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0014431058226
Label : Rykodisc
Number of Discs : 3
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2007-11-08
UPC : 014431058226

ASIN : B0000641B2

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
2. I Ain't Got No Heart
3. Who Are the Brain Police?
4. Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder
5. Motherly Love
6. How Could I Be Such a Fool
7. Wowie Zowie
8. You Didn't Try to Call Me
9. Any Way the Wind Blows
10. I'm Not Satisfied
11. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
12. Trouble Every Day
13. Help, I'm a Rock
14. The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet

Disc-2
1. Plastic People
2. The Duke of Prunes
3. Amnesia Vivace
4. The Duke Regains His Chops
5. Call Any Vegetable
6. Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin
7. Soft-Sell Conclusion
8. Big Leg Emma
9. 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 & Goes Home

Disc-3
1. Are You Hung Up
2. Who Needs the Peace Corps
3. Concentration Moon
4. Mom and Dad
5. Harry, You're a Beast
6. What's the Ugliest Part
7. Absolutely Free
8. Flower Punk
9. Hot Poop
10. Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
11. Let's Make the Water Turn Black
12. Idiot Bastard Son
13. Lonely Little Girl
14. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
15. Mother People
16. The Chrome Plated Magaphone of Destiny

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Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.com

The first three Mothers albums, released between June 1966 and March 1968, come packaged as a ruthless, mind-bending, (and now, midline) monster. During this period of remarkable and unprecedented creativity, Zappa and the Mothers produced ambitious, far-ranging, unsettling, provocative, and wholly original psychedelic rock--simultaneously ridiculing psychedelic rock as they raised it to a completely new level. The musical trail brilliantly meandered (bulldozed?) through garage rock, groovy R&B, avant-garde jazz, blissful pop, and patchwork sonic experimentalism. Lyrically, Zappa delivered serious political and social commentary in ways that were completely nonsensical; he delivered utter nonsense in ways that were completely sober. In the process, he left no sub-sect of society unscathed, impaling hippies, capitalists, police, and anyone else he could think of. From 1966's Freak Out! through the following year's Absolutely Free to 1968's crowning We're Only in It for the Money, Zappa and crew provided a creepy and menacing counterpoint to flower-power optimism, and did it using the counterculture's own psychedelic language. Together these three albums form the ultimate bad trip trilogy. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews

Crazy, wild, brilliant stuff (2002-09-06)

In an alternative reality, groups such as Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and the Velvet Underground would have received radio airplay while the likes of Three Dog Night and the Carpenters would have remained in relative obscurity. But we live in the real world and, although I was young and alive in '67-'68 when these albums were released, Frank Zappa was a name I never heard until several years later, when I purchased their rather salacious "Live at the Fillmore East". But it was just this year, 2002, sickened by the mediocrity of the current music scene and still trying to find something new to listen to, that I experienced these classic sides. Then, all this that was old suddenly became new, because it was new to me.

The diversity of Zappa's musical language is nothing short of astounding. Everything but the kitchen sink is in these CD's. The initial offering, "Freak Out", has a few songs on it that are almost but just not quite commercial enough for the climate of the Summer of Love. Zappa is, of course, the supreme rock satirist, but the song "Trouble Every Day" is fairly straightforward social commentary set to a garage-band vibe that wouldn't sound out of place on a "Nuggets" compilation. On the other hand, "Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" is an experimental tour-de-force that goes places rock music had not ventured prior to that time. The follow-up album, "Absolutely Free", has its moments as well, but all that is just preperatory for the ultimate Zappa masterpiece "We're Only In It for the Money." A devastating satire on hippie culture, while at the same time lampooning "straight" society, it belongs on any list of top rock albums you would care to enumerate. Listen, laugh, and marvel.

Classic Zappa (2002-07-21)

I recommend this 3cd set to anyone interested in hearing what Frank was like/about back in the early days. Freak Out! is my favorite of the 3, but all of them are good. A good intro to early Frank and The Mothers.

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