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Freak Out!

The Mothers Of Invention

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One of the most ambitious debuts in rock history, Freak Out! was a seminal concept album that somehow foreshadowed both art rock and punk at the same time. Its four LP sides deconstruct rock conventions right and left, eventually pushing into territory inspired by avant-garde classical composers. Yet the album is sequenced in an accessibly logical progression; the first half is dedicated to catchy, satirical pop/rock songs that question assumptions about pop music, setting the tone for the radical new directions of the second half. Opening with the nonconformist call to arms "Hungry Freaks, Daddy," Freak Out! quickly posits the Mothers of Invention as the antithesis of teen-idol bands, often with sneering mockeries of the teen-romance songs that had long been rock's commercial stock-in-trade. Despite his genuine emotional alienation and dissatisfaction with pop conventions, though, Frank Zappa was actually a skilled pop composer; even with the raw performances and his stinging guitar work, there's a subtle sophistication apparent in his unorthodox arrangements and tight, unpredictable melodicism. After returning to social criticism on the first song of the second half, the perceptive Watts riot protest "Trouble Every Day," Zappa exchanges pop song structure for experiments with musique concrète, amelodic dissonance, shifting time signatures, and studio effects. It's the first salvo in his career-long project of synthesizing popular and art music, high and low culture; while these pieces can meander, they virtually explode the limits of what can appear on a rock album, and effectively illustrate Freak Out!'s underlying principles: acceptance of differences and free individual expression. Zappa would spend much of his career developing and exploring ideas -- both musical and conceptual -- first put forth here; while his myriad directions often produced more sophisticated work, Freak Out! contains at least the rudiments of almost everything that followed, and few of Zappa's records can match its excitement over its own sense of possibility.

© Steve Huey /TiVo

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1
Hungry Freaks, Daddy
00:03:30

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

2
I Ain't Got No Heart
00:02:35

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

3
Who Are The Brain Police?
00:03:33

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

4
Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
00:03:40

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

5
Motherly Love
00:02:44

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

6
How Could I Be Such A Fool
00:02:11

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

7
Wowie Zowie
00:02:52

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

8
You Didn't Try To Call Me
00:03:17

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

9
Anyway The Wind Blows
00:02:55

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

10
I'm Not Satisfied
00:02:38

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

11
You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
00:03:37

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

12
Trouble Every Day
00:05:49

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

13
Help, I'm A Rock
00:04:43

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

14
It Can't Happen Here
00:03:55

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

15
The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet
00:12:19

Frank Zappa, Conductor, Guitar, Vocals, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jim Black, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Wilson, Producer - Roy Estrada, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Elliot Ingber, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Collins, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Mothers Of Invention, MainArtist

℗ 1966 Zappa Family Trust

Album review

One of the most ambitious debuts in rock history, Freak Out! was a seminal concept album that somehow foreshadowed both art rock and punk at the same time. Its four LP sides deconstruct rock conventions right and left, eventually pushing into territory inspired by avant-garde classical composers. Yet the album is sequenced in an accessibly logical progression; the first half is dedicated to catchy, satirical pop/rock songs that question assumptions about pop music, setting the tone for the radical new directions of the second half. Opening with the nonconformist call to arms "Hungry Freaks, Daddy," Freak Out! quickly posits the Mothers of Invention as the antithesis of teen-idol bands, often with sneering mockeries of the teen-romance songs that had long been rock's commercial stock-in-trade. Despite his genuine emotional alienation and dissatisfaction with pop conventions, though, Frank Zappa was actually a skilled pop composer; even with the raw performances and his stinging guitar work, there's a subtle sophistication apparent in his unorthodox arrangements and tight, unpredictable melodicism. After returning to social criticism on the first song of the second half, the perceptive Watts riot protest "Trouble Every Day," Zappa exchanges pop song structure for experiments with musique concrète, amelodic dissonance, shifting time signatures, and studio effects. It's the first salvo in his career-long project of synthesizing popular and art music, high and low culture; while these pieces can meander, they virtually explode the limits of what can appear on a rock album, and effectively illustrate Freak Out!'s underlying principles: acceptance of differences and free individual expression. Zappa would spend much of his career developing and exploring ideas -- both musical and conceptual -- first put forth here; while his myriad directions often produced more sophisticated work, Freak Out! contains at least the rudiments of almost everything that followed, and few of Zappa's records can match its excitement over its own sense of possibility.

© Steve Huey /TiVo

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