ZAPPA / MOI Freak Out UK Verve 2 LPs DIFFERENT MIX

	£		23
	$		30

POSTAGE IS NOT FREE..............SINGLE LP RATES ARE AS FOLLOWS.................UK £3.50................EUROPE £6.00......................ROW £7.50

SLEEVE ...some light edge wear, start of seam split top of cover 1 inch , nice readable spine. colour repair to front weriting freak out, hardly noticable, have to grade this sleeve a solid EX

VINYL.....hardly any play both lps grade a strict EX+/EX+

Artist or Band: THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION

Album Title: Freak Out!

Cat Number: 2683 004 Select Stereo.

Track Listing:Hungry Freaks Daddy; I Ain’t Got No Heart; Who Are the Brain Police?; Go Cry on Somebody Else’s Shoulder; Motherly Love; How Could I be Such a Fool?; Wowie Zowie; You Didn’t Try to Call Me; Any Way the Wind Blows; I’m Not Satisfied; You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here; Trouble Every Day; Help, I’m a Rock; The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet.

Label/Format: Verve (Black and silver format).

Country of Manufacture: Gt Britain.

Rarity: The UK original Freak Out single album in stereo is without doubt one of the very hardest FZ/MOI albums to find and to be quite honest even this UK reissue is.not that easy now either, virtually mint copies with a stunning cover, well judge for yourselves.

Quick Guide to the Differences 1966 to 1971: The original mono and stereo Freak Out! was edited to a single album. The tracks omitted were: Go Cry on Somebody Else’s Shoulder; How Could I be Such a Fool?; Any Way the Wind Blows. Also Trouble Every Day was severely cut from around 6 minutes to 2 minutes something. The missing songs were later issued on the Ruben and the Jets album but different versions and edits. The original was a single format cover and was laminated on the front and had flipbacks and subtle differences to the back artwork. This second edition was a double album, unedited with all songs included. The cover is a gatefold now and never laminated or included flipbacks of course. The UK double album does not exist in mono.

Original Year of Release: 1966. This very important issue was released in 1971.

Matrix Nos: 2352023 A1 420 1 1 2 and B1 420 1 1 2 – 2352024 A1 420 1 1 1 and B1 420 1 1 1. This is almost certainly a first pressing of this essential reissue. This is a very solid pressing, to the standards of the original, it looks and feels fantastic.

Genre Type: Underground rock/psych

Brief Artist & Album Info: It’s always a huge pleasure to offer such an important album in such stupendous condition - I take my Zappa items very seriously as he is my man and items have to be of the highest quality to offer.

Led by the genius that was Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention were outsiders, even on this their debut album. Older than most of their contemporaries, they brought a cynicism to their work that celebrated joys without recourse to nostalgia. Telling parodies of pop forms that were as engaging as those upon which they drew, while experimental pieces, drawn from avant garde compositions by Varese and Stravinsky, took the notion of ‘rock’ into unchartered territory. Zappa’s skills as a musician and engineer ensuring the innovative nature of this creation. Still, even today, its great fun to listen too. The original did not chart in the UK and only made 150 in the States. Made with a budget of $25,000, some $6,000 more than average at this time the albums’ producer was Tom Wilson, he laid his job on the line to make this album and stayed with the band for four albums. This copy on offer is the Select reissue - but it varies so much from the 66 release is reissue the correct word? - like all Zappa Verve albums, this is vital to any collection, all the Verves were different and Freak Out, along with Money are the most essential. Even from the opening bars of ‘Hungry Freaks Daddy’ with its distorted riff which replicates the Stones ‘Satisfaction’ the stage is set. It has a leering savagery and points the finger at Mr America and suggests a wave of non-conformism. The original album, issued in 1966 was a single album, several songs included here were missing and some were abridged, including the stunning groudbreaking ‘Trouble Every Day’ a song about the Watts race riots in America at this time. The astonishing ‘Help, I’m a Rock’ which concludes side three must be the ultimate ‘Freak Out’ track - this must have send shock-waves out to listeners on first issue, nothing had been heard like this before. Side four is even more challenging: ‘The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet’ a modernist sound-composition, it has to be heard many times to be fully appreciated, almost like ‘Revolution No 9’ from The Beatles White Album. This track alone saw Zappa trashing 60s top ten pop music - this was loud, rude and mind-shattering - one subtitle, ‘Ritual Dance of the Child Killer’ - referred to the plot of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring, but in this scandalous context, with ‘Suzy Creamcheese’ (a high-school virgin, who tells us this band is crazy and that they all smell bad on the cover), played by Jeannie Vassoir, shes sounds as if she’s simultaneously losing her virginity and having an orgasm, but this was the 60s and nobody noticed. A stunning conclusion to a remarkable work - nothing had ever been heard like it before (or since). Zappa with the greatest moustache in musical history, put the snarl and sneer into music, he did not conform and this album, like the man himself was a true original. Too weird and unconventional for most at the time, Freak Out remains one of the most important albums ever, breaking so much new ground, its influence and importance cannot be overstated - its was rock’s first double album too. This copy is probably the best I have ever seen, its in remarkable condition that’s both records and the cover - finding either in anything like mint is rare, make no mistake about that. This cover is virtually never found looking nice. This pair of heavy pressed records - no thin cheap replicas on this one - are truly exceptional, this will never be found looking like this again, I say this with total confidence. They even come in their original double patent lined inners which like all else included here are near mint too. So in terms of musical history and development of the underground ‘alternative’ scene, few records come close to the importance of Freak Out. I think this full double set is THE definitive version. This record almost single-handedly reinvented rock and little remained the same thereafter. If this was type was not for you back when it all happened, try it now, no serious album collection can ever be taken that serious without this legendary masterpiece being included. [Whooooo could imajun, They would Freak Out on Ebay? - Ebay, Ebay doo doo doo doo doo doo].(Sorry, a bit of nostalgia for the ‘old folks’ there).