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Frank Zappa Vol 1 (1966 - 1993) [FLAC]
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Frank Zappa: Vol. 1 (55 Official Albums 1966 - 1993) Biography:
Frank Zappa, in full Frank Vincent Zappa, (born December 21, 1940, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died December 4, 1993, Los Angeles, California), American composer, guitarist, and satirist of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. Zappa was, in no apparent order, a first-rate cultural gadfly dedicated to upsetting American suburban complacency and puncturing the hypocrisy and pretensions of both the U.S. political establishment and the counterculture that opposed it; a contemporary orchestral composer uncompromisingly rooted in 20th-century avant-garde tradition; a rock bandleader who put together a series of stellar ensembles both under the rubric of the Mothers of Invention and under his own name; an erudite lover of the most esoteric traditions of rock and roll and of rhythm and blues; an innovative record producer whose use of high-speed editing techniques predated the later innovations of hip-hop; and one of the premier electric guitar improvisers of a generation that included Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck. One of the great polymaths of the rock era who, arguably, possessed a broader range of skills and interests than any of his peers, he was an instinctive postmodernist who demolished the barriers and hierarchies separating “high” and “low” culture. USA 2006 - 78th Annual Academy Awards. Closeup of giant Oscar statue at the entrance of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, film movie hollywood Zappa was a prolific workaholic who released more than 60 albums in his 30-year career. His first release with the original Mothers of Invention, the conceptual double album Freak Out! (1966), was a key influence on the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released the following year. By way of wry acknowledgment, the cover of the Mothers’ third album, We’re Only in It for the Money (1968), parodied that of Sgt. Pepper’s, just as the music challenged the Beatles’ visions of love and beauty with the deliberate “ugliness” with which Zappa assailed what he saw as the totalitarian philistinism of the establishment and the vacuous fatuity of many aspects of hippie subculture. Zappa was not a hippie, he claimed. He was a “freak. After retiring the name the Mothers of Invention in the late 1970s, Zappa withdrew from explicit political commentary and released, under his own name, the enormously influential jazz-rock fusion album Hot Rats (1969), which featured a memorable vocal from his old friend Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart. Throughout the 1970s Zappa released instrumental albums that featured orchestral music, jazz, his own guitar improvisations, and, later, synthesizers and sequencers. He also released rock-oriented vocal albums that, like most of his live concerts, specialized in jaw-dropping displays of technical virtuosity and crowd-pleasing exercises in misogynistic grossness such as “Titties & Beer” (1978) and “Jewish Princess” (1979). In the 1980s, by contrast, Zappa was sufficiently angered by the policies of U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan’s administration to rediscover politics. He set up voter-registration booths in the lobbies of his concerts and memorably testified against censorship at the Parents’ Music Resource Center hearings in 1985 in Washington, D.C. In the wake of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution (1989), Zappa was invited to Prague, where he met with the country’s new president, Václav Havel. A longtime admirer of Zappa’s commitment to individual freedom, Havel named him a special ambassador to the West on trade, culture, and tourism, but U.S. officials pressured Havel into retracting the appointment. Through it all, Zappa continued recording. He had an unlikely hit single with “Valley Girl” (1982), which featured a rap by his daughter Moon Unit, and, shortly before his death from prostate cancer in 1993, he was finally recognized as a composer of “serious” music when his Yellow Shark suite was performed and recorded by Germany’s Ensemble Modern. Zappa was posthumously honoured when a set of his pieces was performed during the Proms festival at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Considering that he had been banned from the Albert Hall in 1970 when the theatre manager objected to some of the saltier lyrics from Zappa’s motion picture 200 Motels (1971), this was no mean achievement. Similarly, an annual festival celebrating Zappa thrived in the early 21st century in Bad Doberan, Germany (formerly in East Germany), where his music had once been banned. Zappa was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, and he was a 1997 recipient of the Grammy Award for lifetime achievement. His life was chronicled in the documentaries Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016) and Zappa (2020).
Album List:
(1966) Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
(1967) Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy
(1967) Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Absolutely Free
(1968) Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Cruising With Ruben & The Jets
(1968) Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money
(1969) Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
(1969) Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Mothermania
(1969) Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat
(1970) Frank Zappa - Chunga's Revenge
(1970) Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
(1970) Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Burnt Weeny Sandwich
(1971) Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - 200 Motels
(1971) Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Fillmore East-June 1971
(1972) Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
(1972) Frank Zappa - Waka ∕ Jawaka
(1972) Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Just Another Band from L.A
(1973) Frank Zappa – Over-Nite Sensation
(1974) Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')
(1974) Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere
(1975) Frank Zappa - Bongo Fury (with Captain Beefheart and The Mothers of Invention)
(1975) Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
(1976) Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
(1978) Frank Zappa - Studio Tan
(1978) Frank Zappa - Zappa In New York
(1979) Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III
(1979) Frank Zappa - Orchestral Favorites
(1979) Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
(1979) Frank Zappa - Sleep Dirt
(1981) Frank Zappa - Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar
(1981) Frank Zappa - Tinsel Town Rebellion
(1981) Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is
(1982) Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
(1983) Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes
(1983) Frank Zappa - The Man From Utopia
(1984) Frank Zappa - Boulez Conducts Zappa The Perfect Stranger
(1984) Frank Zappa - Francesco Zappa
(1984) Frank Zappa - Them or Us
(1984) Frank Zappa - Thing-Fish
(1985) Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention
(1986) Frank Zappa - Does Humor Belong In Music?
(1986) Frank Zappa - Jazz from Hell
(1987) Frank Zappa - The Guitar World According To Frank Zappa
(1988) Frank Zappa - Guitar
(1988) Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 1
(1988) Frank Zappa - Broadway the Hard Way
(1988) Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 2
(1989) Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 3
(1991) Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 4
(1991) Frank Zappa - Make a Jazz Noise Here
(1991) Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
(1992) Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 5
(1992) Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. 6
(1992) Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Playground Psychotics
(1993) Frank Zappa & Ensemble Modern - The Yellow Shark
(1993) Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Ahead Of Their Time
Media Report:
Genre: Experimental rock, jazz-rock
Country: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
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