🎧 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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🎧 Band: Frank Zappa & Mothers
💿 Album: Over-Nite Sensation
📅 Date: 1976
🌍 Country: Portugal
🏷 Label: Discreet – LP-S-65-10
🎛 Reissue
Features: Gatefold Sleeve.

Here is an album I recommend to everyone who has never heard Zappa's music. Groovy Rock and one of, if not the best, band formations Zappa had.

This album and the next one, "apostrophe", should have come out as double vinyl, as both are the most-liked Frank Zappa records for many music lovers, even if they dont like the majority of Zappa's work.

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There is a possibility you might like to spend eleven minutes with #Zappa and #TheMothers.
https://youtu.be/9K_RBU_W6ts

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Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention - Florentine Pogen (Live In Los Angeles, CA 8/27/1974)

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"Bongo Fury" by Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart released this day in 1975.
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"Roxy & Elsewhere" by Frank Zappa / The Mothers released this day in 1974.
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"Fillmore East - June 1971" by #TheMothers.

I was about to go to sleep, but noticed the news about #MarkVolman, so wanted to listen to this. I think it's an OK album from Flo & Eddie period.

Thanks for the music.

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Just Another Band From LA

Frank Zappa and The Mothers record the live album on August 7, 1971 in Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles. It includes "Billy the Mountain", Zappa's long, narrative parody of rock operas, which were gaining popularity at that time. Dig the cover art ... Listen to Just Another Band From LA by The Mothers on Amazon Music  #TheMothers #frankzappa #70smusic #hardrock #justanotherbandfromla #progressiverock #rock #rockmusic #music

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Just Another Band From LA

Frank Zappa and The Mothers record the live album on August 7, 1971 in Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles. It includes “Billy the Mountain&#822…

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The Mothers / Over-Nite Sensation (1973); Mit einem Fokus auf tightere Rockstrukturen, Funk-Elementen und einem prominenteren Gesang bot das Album eine zugänglichere, aber keineswegs weniger schräge Vision. Von den ironischen, oft derben Texten in "Dirty Love" bis zu den komplexen Arrangements von "Zomby Woof" – hier kollidieren Virtuosität und Vulgarität auf brillante Weise. #TheMothers #TheMothersOfInvention #FrankZappa #JazzRock ##Experimental #AlternativeRock #ArtRock #Avantgarde
Scissor Dance: Am I Not Here, I Who Am Your Mother?

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Scissor Dance: Am I Not Here, I Who Am Your Mother?

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