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Absolutely Free

Frank Zappa

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Genre : Rock & Pop Catalogue Number : 0238352
Number of Discs : 1 Label : Usm
Release Country : International
Format : CD
Other : Reissue

Absolutely Free

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Other Editions

  • CD Absolutely Free
             Japan Edition   ¥2,243     28 May 1996  
  • CD Absolutely Free
             CAN Edition   ¥2,116     31 Jul 2012  

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Frank Zappa's liner notes for Freak Out! name-checked an enormous breadth of musical and intellectual influences, and he seemingly attempts to cover them all on the second Mothers of Invention album, Absolutely Free. Leaping from style to style without warning, the album has a freewheeling, almost schizophrenic quality, encompassing everything from complex mutations of Louie, Louie to jazz improvisations and quotes from Stravinsky's Petrushka. It's made possible not only by expanded instrumentation, but also Zappa's experiments with tape manipulation and abrupt editing, culminating in an orchestrated mini-rock opera (Brown Shoes Don't Make It) whose musical style shifts every few lines, often in accordance with the lyrical content. In general, the lyrics here are more given over to absurdity and non sequiturs, with the sense that they're often part of some private framework of satirical symbols. But elsewhere, Zappa's satire also grows more explicitly social, ranting against commercial consumer culture and related themes of artificiality and conformity. By turns hilarious, inscrutable, and virtuosically complex, Absolutely Free is more difficult to make sense of than Freak Out!, partly because it lacks that album's careful pacing and conceptual focus. But even if it isn't quite fully realized, Absolutely Free is still a fabulously inventive record, bursting at the seams with ideas that would coalesce into a masterpiece with Zappa's next project. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi

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Credit
Ami Hadani(Engineer),  Frank Zappa(Arranger),  Tom Wilson(Producer),  Alice Ochs(Photography),  Doug Sax(Mastering),  Frank Zappa(Composer),  Frank Zappa(Conductor),  Frank Zappa(Liner Notes),  Jerry Deiter(Photography),  Marshal Harmon(Photography),  Robert Hadley(Mastering),  Sangwook "Sunny" Nam(Mastering),  Frank Zappa(Cover Art),  Frank Zappa(Lyricist),  Joe Travers(Transfers),  Melanie Starks(Production Manager),  Edgard Varese(Quotation Author),  Frank Zappa(Collage),  Frank Zappa(Layout),  Val Valentin(Director of Engineering)

Track List

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    01.
    Plastic People  (03:42)
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    02.
    Duke of Prunes  (02:12)
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    03.
    Amnesia Vivace  (01:01)
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    04.
    Duke Regains His Chops  (01:52)
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    05.
    Call Any Vegetable  (02:14)
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    06.
    Invocation and Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin  (06:59)
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    07.
    Soft-Sell Conclusion  (01:41)
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    08.
    Big Leg Emma  (02:31)
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    09.
    Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?  (02:39)
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    10.
    America Drinks  (01:52)
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    11.
    Status Back Baby  (02:53)
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    12.
    Uncle Bernie's Farm  (02:10)
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    13.
    Son of Suzy Creamcheese  (01:33)
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    14.
    Brown Shoes Don't Make It  (07:29)
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    15.
    America Drinks and Goes Home  (02:48)

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    梁  |  能代市  |  不明  |  12/November/2004

    日本盤(1780円だった)が出た時は、解説が小倉エージでした。コール・ミー・ヴェジタブルやアメリカ・ゴーズ・ホームはこれが原点。猥雑で騒がしくて濃密です。名盤の中に埋もれていますが、ザパ入門には良いのではないかな。 これもリミックスなのかと思うと少し哀しい。

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