#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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#nowplaying Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Like Someone In Love (1967). The album sessions took place in 1960. #onmyturntable #myrecordcollection #artblakeyandthejazzmessengers

#nowplaying Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (1969). Excellent debut album. #onmyturntable #myrecordcollection #ledzeppelin

#nowplaying Joe Jackson - Hope and Fury (2026). The 22nd and latest studio album from Joe Jackson. This record is inspired by his love-hate views on the U.K. #onmyturntable #myrecordcollection #joejackson

🎧 Band: The Mothers Of Invention
💿 Album: Weasels Ripped My Flesh
📅 Date: 1970
🌍 Country: Europe
🏷 Label: Zappa Records
🎛 Reissue: 2016

On my shelf but this record is not a favourite album of the Mothers of Invention to me!
Only a couple of tracks suit my tastes as "Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula", "Oh No", and "The Orange County Lumber Truck"

Most tracks are a real test of loud noise. That is proved at the last track "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" when Zappa decides to show what music is made of... Noise !

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🎧 Band: Jean Luc Ponty
💿 Album: King Kong
📅 Date: 1970
🌍 Country: Portugal
🏷 Label: United Artists
🎛 Original

Jean Luc Ponty plays the music of Frank Zappa.
Somehow, this album was composed and produced by Frank Zappa; he came out as Jean Luc Ponty Playing Frank Zappa Music, and I believe this was the end of an era for Zappa and Ponty.
Some Mothers of Invention are part of this release, including George Duke, Ian Underwood, and Arthur D. Tripp, III.

An interesting instrumental Jazz Fusion album.

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🎧 Band: The Mothers of Invention
💿 Album: Burnt Weeny Sandwich
📅 Date: 1970
🌍 Country: Germany
🏷 Label: Reprise Records
🎛 Original

Right... I give up on writing a review for each individual record!
It will take me years to post just my Zappa collection, so I'd better keep things simple and post the essentials.
Like this will be easy to post more records regularly. ;)

Questions and comments are always welcome!

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#nowplaying The Bevis Frond - Any Gas Faster (1990). The second of the Oxfam Solihull finds. Another excellent sounding record. #onmyturntable #myrecordcollection #thebevisfrond

#nowplaying The Bevis Frond - Auntie Winnie Album (1989). An excellent blend of psychedelic rock. An album I found at Oxfam in Solihull. #onmyturntable #myrecordcollection #thebevisfrond