This is the record that turned me on to Frank Zappa. I was 12 years old. 'Camarillo Brillo' is still one of my favourite songs of all time and the horns remain a huge influence on my music. With the exception of his friend/enemy/contemporary Captain Beefheart, not one musician has since utilised such humour, musical intelligence and an almost industrial confidence as Frank Zappa. In 'Dinah-Moe Humm' off this album, the lyrics directly reference a $50 bet between two sisters and Zappa that he can't make them come. The verses carry this story over their bed of jazz-funk and give way to an Aretha-style gospel chorus that almost makes me come.
For such a notoriously serious and demanding producer (Zappa produced his own records and those of other artists such as Alice Cooper, The GTO's and Beefheart) his records embody such anarchic fun that it continues to shock me that he and his band did not cause an epidemic of jazz-funk-commentary to course through the veins of America, but that they stayed the singular pioneers of their own genre to this day. He had the ability to stick up a huge "fuck you" to the world without having to say it directly.
For such a notoriously serious and demanding producer (Zappa produced his own records and those of other artists such as Alice Cooper, The GTO's and Beefheart) his records embody such anarchic fun that it continues to shock me that he and his band did not cause an epidemic of jazz-funk-commentary to course through the veins of America, but that they stayed the singular pioneers of their own genre to this day. He had the ability to stick up a huge "fuck you" to the world without having to say it directly.
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Source: bjh
Date: 2012
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