Best Zappa album

For non-Zappa Zappa tunes try "King Kong" by Jean Luc Ponty. Jedan Luc started playing his electric violin with Frank on "Hot Rats", I believe, and also contributed to several other titles. Like there aren't enough Zappa options out there -- we now enter the world of covers. It is a really great album, though. A peripheral must, in fact, for the Zappa collector as is all of the Captain Beefheart material. Want to get more peripheral with this tribe (Bizzare/Straight Records days)? Wild Man Fisher. The GTO's. The last band (Girls Together Outragiously) was notable for "Do Me Once And I'll Be Sad, Do Me Twice And I'll Know Better". I won't get into What was said about Suzie Creamcheese, though.

Stick to pre 75 except for Jazz from Hell (very good stuff). Apostrophe is excellent zappa pop, as is Chunga's Revenge. My favorites are Hot Rats - which is a must - Uncle Meat, and Just another band from LA. Uncle Meat has one of the most beautiful pieces of avante garde pop ever recorded: Dog Breath Variations, which still moves me every time I hear it. Just Another Band has a side recorded in concert with the two vocalists from the Turtles (Howard Kalen and ...) which is stunning in its complexity, juice and humor. "Magdalena, when you're near me like this, in the hallway, with your blouse and your tits..." After 75 he got too smooth for my taste. Oh, I forgot Ruben & the Jets, humorous but very good cover of the doowop era with original songs. And there's... oh well, buy some of the early stuff.

"One Size Fits All" Rykodisc reissue

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