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Frank Zappa - Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa Audio CD

A fair review of the Frank Zappa "Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Frank Zappa reviews here, or go back to the Frank Zappa tabs.

Frank Zappa Band: Frank Zappa
Title: Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa
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Release Date: 1995-08-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Peaches en Regalia 2: Don't Eat the Yellow Snow [Single Version] 3: Dancin' Fool 4: San Ber'dino 5: Dirty Love 6: My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama 7: Cosmik Debris 8: Trouble Every Day 9: Disco Boy 10: Fine Girl 11: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace 12: Let's Make the Water Turn Black 13: I'm the Slime 14: Joe's Garage [Single Version] 15: Tell Me You Love Me 16: Montana [Single Version] 17: Valley Girl - Frank Zappa, Moon Unit Zappa 18: Be in My Video 19: Muffin Man

Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa
Allmusic gave it 4 1/2 stars and since I can not give half stars on amazon I therefore give it 4 stars. Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa is a compilation album by Zappa and was released 2 years after his death to great reviews by the critics. Zappa is a one of a kind of an artist and a rebel like Iggy Pop and Willy Deville. 4/5.


Zappa the Great
If you don't like Zappa stay away and phooy on you. If you like Zappa this is the thing to get.


classic!
With his crazy way of sharing stories with people. Frank Zappa was the original oddball musician. The songs seem to make no sense but they are hilarious! Check out this peaceful, funny man!.


For die hard fans
I personally 'enjoyed" "We're Only In It for the Money. Frank Zappa and his friends have produced a cornucopia of CDs and I am sure his heirs hope you collect them all. " With this CD, "Let's make the water turn black," "Trouble Every Day," and perhaps "Don't eat the yellow snow" were entertaining. And, there is much more. So, if you prefer the esoteric Zappa, be prepared to have a good time.


By no means definitve, but a great first step
Between his work with the Mothers of Invention, Solo albums, live albums, orchestral works and the later solo guitar albums (and who knows how much unreleased stuff is sitting in his archives), 19 songs on 1 CD barely scratches the surface if you're a hardcore fan. Strictly Commercial is by no means a definitive Zappa collection. The important word being IF. But if you're a casual fan (like me), and your local radio station occasionally played "Montana", "Joe's Garage", "Cosmik Debris", or even "Valley Girl" (like mine did) this might be the collection for you. Strictly Commercial is just that, some (but probably not all) of the commercial (i. e. accessible, or best known) music Zappa recorded in his long career. Don't get me wrong, Frank Zappa was an artist way ahead of his time. He challenged not only his audience, but himself with every album he recorded. Did he get it right every time? Not always. Was it always different? Absolutely. But the problem with Zappa is he more than often went too far and created immensely complicated or flat-out weird albums (i. e. Uncle Meat, Lather, Thing-Fish) that probably drove fans away shaking their heads. So an album like SC works as a starting point. If you want to go further, there are plenty of paths you can take. But as the saying goes; a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. For better or worse, Strictly Commercial is that first step. .


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