ZAPPA / MOTHERS OF INVENTION psych 2-LP “Freak Out ” mono gatefold ’66 NICE

$

39

Artist:  THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION

Title:   “Freak Out!”

Label:   VERVE ~ # V-5005.  Monaural pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is blue with silver text. 

Year:  1966.

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is nice VG+ with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple light marks that produce a few very soft tics, but record has no serious play issues.  Plays very enjoyably with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.  A very nice playing copy.

JACKET:  Gatefold jacket is VG+ with moderate wear and signs of handling, but is structurally sound with no serious issues.   Panels are clean, except light trace of ring wear beginning to appear.  Wear is noticeable on seams, spine and corners.  No seam splits, writing, stickers or cutout indications.  Overall a very decent jacket.   

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Hungry Freaks, Daddy
• I Ain’t Got No Heart
• Who Are the Brain Police
• Go Cry on Someone Else’s Shoulder
• Motherly Love
• How Could I Be Such a Fool  

Side Two:

• 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

Side Three:

• Trouble Comin’ Every Day
• Help, I’m a Rock  

Side Four:

• The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet

Review:

“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.”

(courtesy Steve Huey, allmusic.com).

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