Freak Out!

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!

Freak Out!
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Artist: Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
Brand: ZAPPA,FRANK
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1995-05-02
Music Label: Zappa Records
Soundtracks:
  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?
  7. Wowie Zowie
  8. You Didn't Try to Call Me
  9. Any Way the Wind Blows
  10. I'm Not Satisfied
  11. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
  12. Trouble Every Day
  13. Help, I'm a Rock
  14. It Can't Happen Here
  15. Return of the Son of Monster Magnet

Music reviews of Freak Out!

Music Review: Classic
Rating: 5 Stars

Zappa has better music than Freak Out! Even by Absolutely Free he was growing by leaps, and by Uncle Meat he had redefined the rock album


But Freak Out is monumentally important because it took elements that were only starting to seep into the air and talked about them in a way no rock album ever had. Bob Dylan may have made protest music and talked about the personal with poetry that remains unmatched today. But Freak Out is like picking up a newspaper from any given day in 1966.

This was no earnast Phil Ochs or Joan Baez folk; cafe music. This was a rock and roll album. "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" is about the L.A. Hippie scene that few people in middle America even knew of. "Trouble Everyday" is about race riots, when long hot summers were met with fear and dread by police, the national gaurd, and the white middle class. There really seemed to be an insurrection underway. You would see burning neighborhoods on the cover of Life Magaizine.

This is not hippy dippy poetry. Zappa takes what was in the news and talks about it directly.

If you're young, try to understand how long ago this was; how different American culutre was. Rock and roll was the teen beat. Dance music for the kids between episodes of Gunsmoke and My Three Sons. Zappa was making it into jounalism. He talks about the times as if you were across the table. All the frights in the cities were put on a rock album. In 1966, this was like putting nudes in Saturday morning cartoons.

Musically, Freak Out contains all the music Zappa loved, particularly doo-wop. But "Monster Magnent" and "Who Are The Brain Police" are some of the first songs in rock to deal with the avant-gaurde.

That, hungry freaks, is a classic album.

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Media Type: CD
Artist: ZAPPA,FRANK
Title: FREAK OUT!
Street Release Date: 04/28/1995
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
"This is the voice of your conscience, baby..." The recording debut of the Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention is a brilliantly wicked counter-strike to the flower power sensibilities prevalent at the time of it's release in 1966. Arguably rock music's first true "concept album," Zappa's aural collage mashes together chunks of psychedelic guitars, outspoken political commentary, cultural satire, and avant-garde musical sensibilities, and then hides it all under cleverly crafted pop melodies. Not diminished in the slightest by the passage of time, Freak Out! remains as vital and relevant today as it was in the 1960's. --Andrew Boscardin

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