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Frank Zappa - Chunga's Revenge Audio CD

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Frank Zappa Band: Frank Zappa
Title: Chunga's Revenge
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Release Date: 1995-05-02
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Transylvania Boogie 2: Road Ladies 3: Twenty Small Cigars 4: Nancy & Mary Music 5: Tell Me You Love Me 6: Would You Go All the Way? 7: Chunga's Revenge 8: Clap 9: Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink 10: Sharleena

Chunga's Revenge


fast shipment great. Chunga's Revenge one of the best frank zappa cds there is.


excellent
True, Zappa put this out in between the origional Mothers and the Flo and Eddie band. Here is another Zappa disc that does not get its just due. Some say the material is fragmented. Diverse is more the correct term, and all the material is great.

"Traselvana Boogie," is a fantastic gypsy rocker with great wha wha work by Zappa and some fantastic driving bass. "Road Ladies," and "Rudy Wants. . . . " show the vocal prowess of his new group. The suite that ends side one is pure Zappa, as editor and genre blender. Don't forget the great percussion experiment, "The Clap," and the title track, which could have been an early 70s Miles Davis electric horn brew.

And would not Deep Purple or Black Sabbath have killed to have "Tell Me You Love Me" as the A side of a single, its twisting opening riff accending like guitar DNA.

Don't be a critic snob. This is great.


Best of the Flo & Eddy releases
com, you know right away with the opening guitar riffs of "Transylvania Boogie" that "Chunga's Revenge" is gonna be a keeper! The first of the Flo & Eddie recordings featuring former Turtles Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, Chunga's Revenge is by far the best of the group, both in terms of its down and dirty, nitty gritty style and its compositional excellence. As I mention in my blog at frankzappasrevenge.

The styles run the gamut with avant-garde pieces, as well as some ripping good blues, such as "Road Ladies. " Zappa's style is point on, the riffs are classic, and hold a ragged razor edge that thrills me.

The title track is outstanding as well, with Ian Underwood at the opening with a saxophone solo distorted with a pedal volume. Yes, that's a saxophone, not a guitar.

Buy it. Keep it. This is good.


One of those forgotten Zappa albums that got lost....
When you're as prolific as Frank was, many albums get lost in the shuffle, and Chunga's Revenge is one of them. This is yet another underrated album by Zappa.

There are several excellent tracks on this album. The opener, Transylvania Boogie, has a slashing guitar solo by Zappa, one of his most powerful and memorable. The next song, Road Ladies, is good, but has somewhat smarmy lyrics, mocking blues songs. If Zappa had sung a straighforward blues song (like he did with Trouble Every Day, his classic song off of Freak Out), the song would have totally worked. Twenty Small Cigars is a lovely song (especially on this version. Jean-Luc Ponty recorded it on his colloboration with Zappa, King Kong). One of the best here is the epic The Nancy and Mary Music, a hodgepodge/collage of drum soloing, strange vocals, and freewheelin' free jazz. It's reminiscent of Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Zappa's most free jazzish album. Tell Me You Love Me is good and raw, a lot more powerful than the live Tinsel Town Rebellion (even though the drumming on the live version is better).

Overall, this is one of Zappa's more complex albums, a forgotten one that should be spun a little more than it is. .


I Can't Believe What I Read!
I'd never before heard one note of Zappa when I made this purchase. This is the first Zappa album I ever purchased way back in 1970. I was going strictly upon reputation and I was not disappointed. I became a Zappa fan immediately, based solely upon "Transylvania Boogie" and "Road Ladies". I was seeking wailing guitar and I got it. And yet, there is so much more to this release. This album ROCKS from beginning to end! I'm only writing this review because I read the other reviews and see luke-warm garbage being bandied about regarding this release. This album is THE STANDARD by which I judge all Zappa releases. If you like Hot Rats and Apostrophe, then run, don't walk, to your nearest online CD dealer and make this purchase. This album rocks from beginning to end and contains examples of EVERYTHING that any Zappa fan ever loved about Zappa. You under-30s, who try to review records like this, really should go back to Curt Cobain worship and leave the good stuff to those of us who know of what we speak. Do people still have ears on the side of their skulls or has that become Politically Incorrect these days?.


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