* MOTHERS OF INVENTION Freak Out RARE PSYCH ACID Frank Zappa V6-5005-2X 2xLP
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* MOTHERS OF INVENTION Freak Out RARE PSYCH ACID Frank Zappa V6-5005-2X 2xLP
100% ORIGINAL PRESSINGS - NO NEW RE-ISSUES!RARE ROCK LPs UP THIS WEEK!
Mothers of Invention "Freak Out!" Rare 1st Pressing ~ 2XLP, released by Verve, catalog# V6-5005-2X. Gatefold with "Freak-Out hot spots" map ad inside to the right! The labels are blue with silver print.
Don't sleep on a sweet original pressing!
CONDITION: VINYL NM- / COVER NM- gatefold
FROM ALLMUSIC: "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. "
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GRADING SCALE: I USE NM-/EX/VG+/VG/VG-
USA $4 for 1st LP ($1.00 per additional LP)
CANADA $12 for 1st LP ($3.00 per additional LP up to 6 LPs)
THE REST OF THE WORLD $17 for 1st LP ($4.00 per additional LP up to 6 LPs)
Double LPs count as 2 ~ Triple LPs count as 3!
* Any International Package valued at over $150 will ONLY be shipped via Priority Mail USPS ~
The price for PRIORITY MAIL is $50 for the 1st LP + $4 per extra!
* PLEASE NOTE * All items are shipped 7-10 days after payment clears Paypal payment.
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