What's his best album?

is this bait

what age where you when you realize zappa used to do whippets?

what are whippets

honestly Hot Rats is the best album for anyone who doesn't have time to approach his wide discography.

does your ISP not get google?

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yeah but i was just trying to struck a conversation with you. I've been so alone these days.

it's alright user, but his early work until, I dunno, '71 or so, was influenced by nitrous oxide on some level.

I'm sure you're right, I haven't listened to all that Zappa, to be honest. How are you anyway? Are you enjoying your quarantine?

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this ones the most obvious
youtube.com/watch?v=DWCcs8ZnDF4
but these are pretty nitrousy too
youtube.com/watch?v=Nj9nm9_SOvM
youtube.com/watch?v=eXSyCJEQcM8

We are not alone is probably 10/10. I love me some bari sax

a nice competent tromboon sounds better than bari sax any day of the week

fight me

no thanks i dont punch downwards

We're Only in it for the Money is basically a proto-noise rock album, and it makes fun of hippies so that's cool too.

Apostrophe is my favorite. I dont really know what people consider his "best" though.

>Best doo wop
>No cruisin with ruben

How is hot rats experimental? Is just Jazz pieces.

who the fuck calls nangs whippets

people who don't live on a giant burning desert island like australia

Joe's garage
>no cruisin with reuben and the jets
trash list

It's the only one most normies have heard

Probably Hot Rats

Personal favorite is Absolutely Free

source?
im convinced he's at least tried lsd, even if he didn't endorse it.

I don't have a source but I'd argue you can tell if you know what nitrous sounds like... the textures/sounds he uses + how he uses repetition and ostinato on those early albums. Nitrous was also a music studio fixture back then, the record plant had tanks of it installed in the ceiling of the control room.

i think those textures and sounds are just due to the primitive technology he was using back then and you probably just did too many whippets listening to Zappa.

why are you hostile to the idea that he did?

i'm not really, i'll consider it next time i listen to we're only in it for the money.

I mean the last track on there is a sound collage of noise, tape hiss, different people laughing hysterically. I don't really have a stake in this either way but I don't think it's at all controversial to posit that he did.

We're Only in It for the Money is more of experimental tho

same with absolutely free.

that anons entire post was cringe

and how would what you just described not also be explained by psychedelic usage?
his stuff rings more lsd than whippets to me.

well aside from it sounding like whippets, and not like acid, whippets last under a minute and he was a workaholic so I'd reckon he'd be more inclined to use them as a creative tool than something that lasts upwards of 12 hours.

is zappa the peak of music?
everyone knows his name but how the fuck is so so underrated? songs like King Kong rival the greatest jazz that's ever come out.

he was a celebrated 'underground' musician in the 60s and played massive sold out shows throughout the states & europe in the 70s/80s, why do you think he's underrated?

im talking in today's standards. zappa hit the billboard top 100 with almost all of his early releases, which is insane to me but the 60s were a unique time.
im mostly talking about in today's context. you never see him referenced anywhere, even by music fans.

i still think you're wrong about him being underrated, boomers still love him. My dad met aynsly dunbar at a hibachi restaurant like 8 years ago and still won't shut up about it.

>NOOOO you can't just make me put parental advisory labels on my recorderinos! You're infringing on my free speech and serving a fascist theocracy!

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zappa knew it had nothing to do with religion but everything to do with sales and marketing.

explain this guy to me, i always thought he was just some pretentious dad rock white man jazz

listen to freak out, and work your way from there.

zoom zoom, faggot

rock music for musicians who hate rock music
listen to his live recording of stairway to heaven, where they play it as a reggae song and the horn section plays the entire guitar solo

Best album?
Far easier to ask what his worst album is.

The one with the pee pee poo poo lyrics.

> Best
Either Joe's Garage or Hot Rats

> Favorite
Either You Are What You Is or Sheik Yerbouti

I like a huge chunk of his discography but the ones I come back to the most are Over-Nite Sensation and One Size Fits All

Haven't heard nearly enough of his albums to give out a hot onion about his best album, but I can safely say my own favorites are Joe's Garage, Apostrophe and Over-Nite Sensation, really like that fusion-y fuckery he did.
Bonus award for Does Humor Belong In Music? for having probably the best version of Whipping Post. Rate it above Allman's recordings.

I like Zappa in New York

youtube.com/watch?v=yOADUlfh2qY
I genuinely believe this to be superior to the original.

And now folks it's time for Don Pardo to deliver our special Illinois Enema Bandit-type announcement. Take it away, Don!