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Imported from Japan by Rykodisc.
Packaged in deluxe mini-album jacket sleeves, these 10 classic albums by rock legend FRANK ZAPPA are now available as limited edition Japanese Imports! These packages re-create the original vinyl packaging in miniaturized form!
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The Central Scrutinizer is out to protect you from the harmful effects of that horrible force called music. Such is the premise of Joe's Garage, Frank Zappa's three-act concept album which explores the world of groupies, governments, sex toys, and Catholic school girls. As always, Zappa's aim is true and his scope wide, following Joe (voiced by his long-time co-conspirator, Ike Willis) as he starts a band, loses his girl, falls in love with a robot, and tries to find his true place in society. Filled with catchy classics ("Catholic Girls" "Crew Slut") and blazing guitar work ("Keep it Greasy," "Watermleon in Easter Hay"), this is the sort of schmorgasbord of imagination and artistry that only Zappa could produce. --Andrew Boscardin
Joe's Garage Acts 1-2-3 Reviews
Joe's Garage Acts 1-2-3 Reviews
| 23 of 23 people found the following review helpful  Joe Zappa, By drefractor (Arizona) - See all my reviews This review is from: Joe's Garage Acts 1-2-3 (Audio CD) Frank Zappa is one of the most interesting and talented persons in the history of music. That people are still writing reviews of his music more than 10 years (and counting) after his death is only partial testament to that fact.Some of the rest of the proof lies in this album. Nowhere else in his recorded history, save perhaps for "Freak Out!" were Frank's warring perceptions of life more on display for all to hear. Zappa's dislike/disdain/contempt for all sorts of things are in ready supply in Joe's Garage, but unlike many of Frank's other works where deliberately offensive (depending on one's point of view) lyrics were surrounded by equally, er, peculiar music, there is a strong counterbalance of humanity interlaced; primarily through the sympathetic treatment of the doomed musician "Joe" in the musical and lyrical compositions. Zappa was coming out of an exhausting legal battle with Warner Brothers in which he put out three intentionally... Read more 25 of 26 people found the following review helpful Quintessential Zappa, By This review is from: Joe's Garage Acts 1-2-3 (Audio CD) I have been a Zappa fan since I snuck a listen to Apostrophe/Over-nite Sensation from my Dad's collection 20 years ago. Like much of Zappa's music, this album, perhaps his finest overall work, can be oversimplified and categorized ascetically (as a previous reviewer attempted to do).This is not just "silly and crude humor music" and it does not fall into a "1,2,3,4 category" of Zappa listener. Joe's Garage, as a complete work, attacks and obliterates those individuals/organizations who, through various means of censorship, insidiously undermine the purpose of creating music. He accomplishes this with direct attacks on the political right (e.g. the Central Scrutinizer), conservative religious parties (e.g. Catholic Girls), the media and all other pseudo-intellectuals (e.g. packed goose), and, really, anyone whose sensibilities would lead them to censorship of creativity. Consider the historical context here: the attack on music throughout the 1980's/Tipper... Read more 71 of 89 people found the following review helpful  A demanding and sometimes frustrating listen - but very good, By Muddy Moe (Plano, TX United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Joe's Garage Acts 1-2-3 (Audio CD) Zappa fanatics already own this and newish Zappa fans already have it on their "Wish List," so I'll direct this review to any Zappa newcomers, cork sniffers, or plain ole curious types.Like most Zappa albums, this album is a mixture of some deadly serious & artsy genre-bending jazz/rock/fusion music and some silly and crude "humor music." To be honest, Zappa makes the listener really work as there are occasionally irritating moments on the record ("Sy Borg"), some VERY profane moments ("Keep It Greasy"), some catchy stuff ("Joe's Garage" and "Why Does it Hurt When I Pee") and some downright beautiful stuff ("Watermelon In Easter Hay"). I think Zappa fans fall into about four groups: 1) Fanatics who think every recorded moment is brilliant 2) Those who prefer the silliness and weird lyrical content, but aren't so big on the extended instrumental noodlings. 3) Those who prefer the extended instrumental noodlings, but aren't so big on the silliness and weird lyrical... Read more |
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