Frank Zappa - Tinsel Town Rebel
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Artist: Frank ZappaBrand: ZAPPA,FRANK
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2010-01-15
Music Label: Zappa Records
Soundtracks:
- Fine Girl
- Easy Meat
- For the Young Sophisticate
- Love of My Life
- I Ain't Got No Heart
- Panty Rap
- Tell Me You Love Me
- Now You See It- Now You Don't
- Dance Contest
- Blue Light
- Tinsel Town Rebellion
- Pick Me, I'm Clean
- Bamboozled by Love
- Brown Shoes Don't Make It
- Peaches III
Music reviews of Tinsel Town Rebel
Music Review: I still dig it, though maybe not as much as I used to...
Rating: 4 Stars
This was one of my first Zappa albums, and I still play it from time to time. It's not as good as some of the later albums I picked up, but it's still worthwhile. There is plenty here to please all Zappa fans, such as the amazing guitar work on Easy Meat (and Vinnie Colauita's amazing drumming), and there are some excellent remakes of earlier songs. The song Love of My Life from Ruben and the Jets is much better on this album, with a great Zappa vocal and Bob Harris's excellent falsetto vocals. Tell Me You Love Me is more dynamic than the Chunga's Revenge version. I may be one of the few people who likes the new version of Brown Shoes Don't Make It. I think it's better than the original. I don't like Peaches III at all, even when I first picked up the album (I hadn't heard the original version at that time). Now You See It, Now You Don't is an excellent Zappa instrumental (despite a rather lame title). Now, there is average/mediocre material here. The "songs" Panty Rap and Dance Contest are really just Zappa sounding like a sleazy carnival/strip show hawker while the band just doodles (even though there's a brief drum breakout by Vinnie on Panty Rap). Some of the lyrics are very smug, like on The Blue Light, where Zappa obsesses about ugly, waxy cheese and lame Shakey's customers. It sounds almost Gen Xish, "ironic", and that type of thinking I've always hated. But on the flip side, the title song is still good today. Zappa goes on about the demise of the music business (I love the line "and pray that the business don't collapse"), which is still going on today. This is still a good album, even though I don't like it as much as I used to.
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