FRANK ZAPPA Freak out V Rare Original UK 2LP Set Psych
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Frank Zappa
Freak Out
Very Rare UK 2LP set released on Verve/Polydor Records in 1971. UK pressing on the Black and Silver label and comes in a Gatefold sleeve.
Matrix No's
Side One - 2352023 A//1
Side Two - 2352023 B//1
Side Three - 2352024 A//1
Side Four - 2352024 B//1
One of the most ambitious debuts in rock history, Freak Out! was a seminal concept album that somehow foreshadowed both art rock and punk at the same time. Its four LP sides deconstruct rock conventions right and left, eventually pushing into territory inspired by avant-garde classical composers. Yet the album is sequenced in an accessibly logical progression; the first half is dedicated to catchy, satirical pop/rock songs that question assumptions about pop music, setting the tone for the radical new directions of the second half. Opening with the nonconformist call to arms "Hungry Freaks, Daddy," Freak Out! quickly posits the Mothers of Invention as the antithesis of teen-idol bands, often with sneering mockeries of the teen-romance songs that had long been rock's commercial stock-in-trade. Despite his genuine emotional alienation and dissatisfaction with pop conventions, though, Frank Zappa was actually a skilled pop composer; even with the raw performances and his stinging guitar work, there's a subtle sophistication apparent in his unorthodox arrangements and tight, unpredictable melodicism. After returning to social criticism on the first song of the second half, the perceptive Watts riot protest "Trouble Every Day," Zappa exchanges pop song structure for experiments with musique concrète, amelodic dissonance, shifting time signatures, and studio effects. It's the first salvo in his career-long project of synthesizing popular and art music, high and low culture; while these pieces can meander, they virtually explode the limits of what can appear on a rock album, and effectively illustrate Freak Out!'s underlying principles: acceptance of differences and free individual expression. Zappa would spend much of his career developing and exploring ideas -- both musical and conceptual -- first put forth here; while his myriad directions often produced more sophisticated work, Freak Out! contains at least the rudiments of almost everything that followed, and few of Zappa's records can match its excitement over its own sense of possibility.
TRACKS ARE :-
Side One
1. "Hungry Freaks, Daddy"
2. I Ain't Got No Heart
3. Who Are The Brain Police?
4. Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
5. Motherly Love
6. How Could I Be Such A Fool
Side Two
1. Wowie Zowie
2. You Didn't Try To Call Me
3. Any Way The Wind Blows
4. I'm Not Satisfied
5. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
Side Three
1. Trouble Every Day
2. "Help, I'm A Rock"
3. It Can't Happen Here
Side Four
1. The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet
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Released on 'Verve/Polydor Records' in 1971
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Catalogue No. 2683-004
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Discs are in Near Mint condition
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Sleeve is in Ex ++ condition
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FIRST 12" IS £2.00 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL 12" ADD 50p
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FIRST LP IS £2.00 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL LP ADD 50p
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