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🎧 Band: The Mothers Of Invention
💿 Album: Cruising With Ruben & The Jets (1968)
🎶 Features: Doo-wop concept, satire & homage to 50s vocal groups
📅 Date: 1968
🎛 Reissue: 1984

This was the time Frank Zappa was dealing with an unhappy record label, with radio stations refusing to play Mothers of Invention records. So instead of pushing further into the avant-garde, he did something completely unexpected and went backwards. Or at least it sounded that way.

Cruising With Ruben & The Jets is Zappa stepping into the world of 1950s doo-wop, creating a fictional band and wrapping the whole thing in nostalgia. The first time I heard it, it almost felt like I’d picked up the wrong record, until you start noticing those little twists.
The harmonies are sweet and simple on the surface, but underneath there’s still that Zappa complexity, those odd shifts and details that don’t quite belong in a doo-wop record.

What I like about this one in my collection is the genuine tribute to those old vocal group records from the 50s, but at the same time, it’s clearly Zappa having a bit of fun with the whole idea of pop music and radio expectations.
It's my favourite love songs album ever :)

This copy is from the later reissue line of the 1984 remix, in which Zappa updated parts of the rhythm section. It gives the album a slightly different feel compared to the original 1968 pressings, but cleaner, a bit more modern, while still keeping that retro illusion intact.

It’s definitely one of the more accessible Mothers albums, and one I keep coming back to when I want something lighter from Zappa without losing that clever edge.

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This week's #TuneTuesday theme is #SmokeAndSmokingSongs. As a non-smoker, this topic is not particularly dear to me, but I have to admit that there are quite a few good songs to choose from. Here's an early doowop classic:

The Mellows featuring Lillian Leach: Smoke From Your Cigarette (1955)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSYbqdk4jMk

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Madonna - Cherish

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Rihanna - Love On The Brain

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Rihanna - Love On The Brain

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Twin Temple – Burn Your Bible, Live at the Slowdown, Omaha, NE (3/9/2024)

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Ultimate Rick Jones - The Senseless Waste of a Beautiful Thing

"A toe tapper about memory and the weird algebra of grief."

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