🎧 Band: Frank Zappa
💿 Album: Zappa In New York (Censored version)
📅 Date: 1978
🌍 Country: Portugal
🏷 Label: Discreet – DIS 69204
🎛 Original
Features: Double live album.

Here's another favourite! A good live record from Zappa. I have the censored version. The track "Punky's Whips" was removed from the track list (I can only assume morals speak louder than reality).

On this live record, Zappa brings in many new musicians, including Adrian Belew and Terry Bozzio, who had joined Zappa on the previous record, plus musicians from other bands, but no Mothers of Invention members here!

The album is basically rock, satirical and represents a very good time in Zappa's music career.

On the theatrical side, the album has tracks like Titties & Beer, The Illinois Enema Bandit, and the track missing from my pressing... "Punky's Whips".

There is a new pressing that came out not too long ago as a three-record set, and I believe that one includes all tracks and extras.
I may get the new pressing at some point, as there are many other interesting tracks from this great show.
That means... soon I will sell this record ;)

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🎧 Band: Frank Zappa
💿 Album: Zoot Allures
📅 Date: 1976
🌍 Country: France
🏷 Label: Warner Bros. – 56 298
🎛 Original

Another band shift is happening on this one. Many of the players here would later form a band called Missing Persons.
Warren Cuccurullo, Terry Bozzio and Patrick O'Hearn all pass through this phase of Zappa’s world, but this is where it really takes shape.
All of them studio musicians.

Amazing tracks and a solid, direct, and very much a rock album in Zappa's discography.

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🎧 Band: Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention
💿 Album: One Size Fits All
📅 Date: 1975
🌍 Country: Portugal
🏷 Label: Discreet – LP-S-65-5
🎛 Original
Features: Gatefold Sleeve.

Another great album with very accessible tracks and a great band. Almost the same musicians as Roxy Elswere, except Ralph Humphrey. This album has the peculiar appearance of Johnny Guitar Watson singing a chorus and Zappa's school friend, Captain Beefheart, playing harp.

No doubt the Grand Wazoo era was a close chapter, but this new era is a golden one, with records such as Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe, Roxy & Elswere, and closing with One Size Fits All.

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🎧 Band: Frank Zappa & Mothers
💿 Album: Apostrophe (')
📅 Date: 1976
🌍 Country: UK
🏷 Label: Discreet – LP-S-65-14
🎛 Original

It’s hard to talk about this album without also mentioning Over-Nite Sensation. Without a doubt, both are among Zappa’s most polished and refined recordings, created with one of the strongest line-ups he ever assembled.

Every track here is exceptional, and highlighting favourites feels almost impossible.

I often imagine this period of Zappa’s work as a definitive box set era: Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe (’), One Size Fits All, and completed by the live masterpiece Roxy & Elsewhere.

These albums are deeply connected, not only through their musical brilliance but through the chemistry of the musicians involved.
Every player was a virtuoso.

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Cyne - Water For Mars

*️⃣ Label: Project: Mooncircle
*️⃣ Cat: PMC171
*️⃣ Released: 2019 🇪🇺
*️⃣ Originally released: 2009 (CD) 🇯🇵
*️⃣ Format: 2x vinyl, limited, deluxe, red
*️⃣ Limited: 300
*️⃣ Genre: hip hop
*️⃣ Style: conscious

Hidden hip hop gem 💎

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Röyksopp - True Electric

*️⃣ Label: Dog Triumph
*️⃣ Cat: DOG113LP
*️⃣ Released: 2025 🇪🇺
*️⃣ Format: 3x vinyl, limited, numbered
*️⃣ Limited / number: 4000 / 1642
*️⃣ Genre: electronic
*️⃣ Style: house, electro

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UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

*️⃣ Label: Island Records
*️⃣ Cat: 6759386
*️⃣ Released: 2019 🇪🇺
*️⃣ Originally released: 1998 🇬🇧
*️⃣ Format: 2x vinyl
*️⃣ Genre: electronic, hip hop
*️⃣ Style: downtempo, trio hop

Debut album by British band UNKLE. Produced by DJ Shadow.

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🎧 Band: The Mothers
💿 Album: Just Another Band From L.A.
📅 Date: 1972
🌍 Country: France
🏷 Label: Reprise
🎛 Original
Features: Gatefold Sleeve

This live recording is another hilarious album with the theatrical feel as Zappa accustomed his audience.
All tracks in this album are good, and Zappa still has Flo & Eddie to create those comical voices he loves so much.

Spotlight for this record is "Billy The Mountain", which covers one side of the record.
A story of a Mountain and his small wooden wife Ethel, who lives on his shoulder and is an activist!
A full story and one of the first stories Zappa incorporated into his catalogue.
Later, the musical stories will go from "Billy The Mountain" to "Thing Fish", "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" and "Joe's Garage", but that is for another chapter later in time!

During the "Just Another Band From L.A." tour, Zappa was pushed by a fan!? out of stage at London's Rainbow Theatre. This brought him some head trauma, broken bones and a wheelchair for nearly a year.

Here, the story takes a turn!
Do you want to know more?
Insert coin! ;)

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#nowplaying Duran Duran - Duran Duran (The Wedding Album) (1993). This album rescued their career. This is the 2026 reissue. #onmyturntable #myrecordcollection #duranduran

🎧 Band: Zappa & Mothers Of Invention
💿 Album: 200 Motels
📅 Date: 1971
🌍 Country: UK
🏷 Label: United Artists
🎛 Original
Features: Double album gatefold sleeve, poster and booklet.

Ladies & gentlemen, here it is.....
200 MOTELSssssss...
I got the album and the movie... and a bootleg (more later)
This is an album and a movie at the same time. Zappa decided to gather the London Philharmonic Orchestra and bring some guests in for the movie.
Ringo Starr (Beatles) as Frank Zappa, Keith Moon (The Who) as a nun and all the Mothers of Invention band, including Groupies and the fundamental pieces for the scenario, Mark Volman & Howard Kaylan (Flo & Eddie)

This movie/record is... hard to explain!
A satirical movie documentary hilariously performed to showcase a rock band on tour. This includes members' drug use, groupies, redneck cowboys from small towns, terrible town hall villages and hoovers, plus other housekeeping utilities!

Basically, it is an absurd documentary with a mixture of rock tracks and orchestral variations. It's hard not to laugh, and it's not easy to understand!
Highlight tracks to me are: Strictly Genteel, Lonesome Cowboy Burt, *** Dimension, Mystery Roach, This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy and many others!
It all wrapped up in theatrical comedy, animation, serious music and chaos.
Does humour belong in music? Yes! Even if it is absurd, bizarre, comical, hilarious and an orchestral experimentation.

If you have never watched this movie before, do it! If you dont understand, watch it again. If you think it's crazy, think Dadaism and watch it again, if nothing works... listen to the record!
This is the mad genius at work!

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