Essential & Non-Essential Zappa

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  1. John Fell

    John Fell Forum Survivor

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    True but it is really a compilation as it contains 3 tracks that already appeared on this other albums and then 3 unreleased live versions of the same tracks plus 1 new track. Still worth having even though some of the tracks are repeats.
     
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  2. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

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    Thanks, but as noted above, somebody already noted ot for you above. Which leaves me no less confident about posting it where I intended to post it.

    People looking for help on whether this one is more "Essential" than that one are most certainly looking for help on deciding the same amount of essentialness they could just as easily decide on their own with two items.
    The disc in question.
    Ears.

    But, in case you have all forgotten (or, shamefully never learned since you are not a Zappa expert therefore not worthy), the only real essential album is...You Can't Do That Onstage Anymore, Vol 1.

    Why? Think about it.

    Give up? Listen to the poetry slam in the "Yellow Snow" suite, wherin Our Boy, trying to move on past the poetry interloper and failing, says, "Very Essential".
     
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  3. Instant Dharma

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    Tinseltown
    YAWYI
    Drowning Witch
    Perfect Stranger
    Them of Us
    Broadway the Hard Way

    All border on essential to me.
     
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  4. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    My version on cd has 3 discs in a nice cozy clamshell box.
     
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  5. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits....

    On a budget?
    NO!!!!!!!!
     
  6. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    Budget? No such thing when you are a Zappa freak like me.

    Ok fine.

    Zappa on a budget:
    WOITFTM
    Hot Rats
    Roxy and Elsewhere
    Zappa In New York
     
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  7. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits....

    There is such a thing as a newbie.
    Hey! They get the good stuff, then more stuff. :)
     
  8. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    Ehhh. Newbie schmoobie I found out the hard way. Bought a bunch of zappa albums and discarded the not so good ones.
     
  9. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits....

    Not so good ones?
     
  10. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    Sure. Maybe my opinion has changed on a few
    but the only ones I would completely stay away from are few.

    Thing Fish namely. The rest ymmv
     
  11. fuse999

    fuse999 Forum Resident

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    I've got everything by him, pretty much on both vinyl and cd, but what I listen to the most are the first 25-30 studio albums. Be sure and get them on the Zappa Records Reissues, they sound the most like the original vinyl albums.
     
  12. pbuzby

    pbuzby Senior Member

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    Most CD releases of Shut Up... have been 2 CDs but for some reason in 1995 Ryko decided to make it 3 CDs.
     
  13. kaztor

    kaztor Music is the Best

    They should've just named it Uncle Meat and replaced the old set so that interested Zappa neophytes don't get fooled into buying the monstrosity that currently bears that name on cd.
     
  14. John B

    John B Once Blue Gort,<br>now just blue.

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    Might I take a wild guess that your patience is not tried at all by those albums? ;)
     
  15. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    Made me wonder why they didn't reissue Joes Garage in the same format.
     
  16. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    Its supposed to be a supplement to the original release not replace it. Thats the whole point of these Project/Object releases.
     
  17. glenecho

    glenecho Forum Resident

    Maybe Sun Ra...other than that I can't think of anyone.
     
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  18. WonkyWilly

    WonkyWilly Forum Resident

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    I think a better way of saying it would be that it's a supplement to the standard digital release, which could be any number of things.
     
  19. Instant Dharma

    Instant Dharma Dude/man

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    Miles. Man.
     
  20. 93curr

    93curr Senior Member

    Oh, yeah. Fer sure. I'm FAR past the point where I can even pretend that ANY Zappa isn't essential for me. :D
     
  21. scompton

    scompton Forum Resident

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    John Zorn
     
  22. scompton

    scompton Forum Resident

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    Same with me, but I do rarely listen to the 80s or Flo & Eddie albums.
     
  23. scompton

    scompton Forum Resident

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    You mean you don't have a few hundred live shows :D

    I went crazy when I discovered Zappateers and I bought the full box of Halloween 77. I'd buy every concert they'd give us. That said, he is my favorite artist. The concerts are, for the most part, essential only for rabid fans like myself.
     
  24. B. Bu Po

    B. Bu Po Senior Member

    So, you are as clever as you are socially civil.
     
  25. greenoort

    greenoort Forum Resident

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    The Mothers discography from 1966 - mid seventies are all essential listenings. Lumpy Gravy, Hot Rats, and The Great Wazoo are very very essential Zappa solo recordings. Zappa's solo discography is so huge, its up to you at this point!
     
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