Audio CD review:
Frank Zappa - 200 Motels: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD]

Frank Zappa - 200 Motels: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD]

Band: Frank Zappa Title: 200 Motels: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD] Rating: Release Date: 14 October, 1997 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Semi-Fraudulent/Direct-From-Hollywood Overture 2: Mystery Roach 3: Dance Of The Rock & Roll Interviewers 4: This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Prologue) 5: Tuna Fish Promenade 6: Dance Of The Just Plain Folks 7: This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Reprise) 8: The Sealed Tuna Bolero 9: Lonesome Cowboy Burt 10: Touring Can Make You Crazy 11: Would You Like A Snack? 12: Redneck Eats 13: Centerville 14: She Painted Up Her Face 15: Janet's Big Dance Number 16: Half A Dozen Provocative Squats 17: Mysterioso 18: Shove It Right In 19: Lucy's Seduction Of A Bored Violinist & Postlude 20: I'm Stealing The Towels 21: Dental Hygene Dilemma 22: Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You? 23: Daddy, Daddy, Daddy 24: Penis Dimension 25: What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning 26: A Nun Suit Painted On Some Old Boxes 27: Magic Fingers 28: Motorhead's Midnight Ranch 29: Dew On The Newts We Got 30: The Lad Searches The Night For His Newts 31: The Girl Wants To Fix Him Some Broth 32: The Girls Dream 33: Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce 34: Strictly Genteel (The Finale) 35: Cut 1 'Coming Soon!...' 36: Cut 2 'The Wide Screen Erupts...' 37: Cut 3 'Coming Soon !...' 38: Cut 4 ' Frank Zappa's 200 Motels...' 39: Magic Fingers (Single Edit)

Editoral Review But 200 Motels also serves as a good introduction to the late rock icon/avant-garde composer's absurd view of his world; i. Searching for this missing piece of the Frank Zappa catalog helped Rykodisc secure the rights to the United Artists and post-1985 MGM film libraries. e. , the pop music business. Essentially a filmed dadaist opera (the bulk of the music is performed live as the video cameras rolled, 200 Motels incorporates sporadic patches of Mothers of Inventions rock into the atonal, largely European, musical framework that Zappa was clearly more interested in. He shrewdly used contemporary pop merely as a marketing shill for the complex, often difficult, music that drove him. (For a taste of the film's uniquely skewed artistic sense, Ryko has included the original 200 Motels theatrical trailer as part of this set's enhanced-CD bonus material). As always, the Zappa of 200 Motels sometimes confuses the profound with the obscene, but with every passing year, he seems more likely to take his place alongside the great American modernist Charles Ives, another composer whose work was every bit as commercially troubled and artistically misunderstood. --Jerry McCulley .. You can see a complete list of all Frank Zappa discography, or go back to the Frank Zappa tabs