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Apostrophe' / Overnite Sensation (CD)

By: Frank Zappa (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Apostrophe' / Overnite Sensation (CD) Album By Frank Zappa (Artist)
1   Don't Eat The Yellow Snow  
2   Nanook Rubs It  
3   St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast  
4   Father O'Blivion  
5   Cosmik Debris  
6   Excentrifugal Forz  
7   Apostrophe' - (with Jack Bruce & Jim Gordon)  
8   Uncle Remus  
9   Stink Foot  
10   Camarillo Brillo  
11   I'm The Slime  
12   Dirty Love  
13   50/50  
14   Zomby Woof  
15   Dinah-Moe-Hum  
16   Montana  
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (12/17/93, p.36) - "...A jazz-rock-fusion album with lyrics? Sounds like a terrible idea, but this is one of Zappa's most consistently enjoyable works...."
Down Beat - 3.5 stars - Very Good
Recommended

Title Note

Personnel: Frank Zappa (guitar, vocals), Tony Duran (guitar), Sugar Cane Harris (violin), Jean-Luc Ponty (violin, baritone violin), Ian Underwood (alto & tenor saxophones, flute, clarinet), Napoleon Murphy Brock (saxophones, vocals), Sal Marquez (trumpet), Bruce Fowler (trombone), George Duke (keyboards, synthesizers, vocals), Erroneous, Tom Fowler (bass), John Guerin, Aynsley Dunbar, Ralph Humphrey (drums), Ruth Underwood (marimba, vibraphone, percussion) Ray Collins, Kerry McNab, Susie Glover, Ruben Ladron De Guevara, Robert "Frog" Camarena (background vocals).

Digitally remastered by Bob Stone (1984).

All music written by Frank Zappa except for "Apostrophe'" (Frank Zappa/Jack Bruce/Jim Gordon) and "Uncle Remus" (Frank Zappa/George Duke).

OVERNITE SENSATION was originally released in 1973. APOSTROPHE was originally released in 1974.

Combining rock and intricate, experimental jazz with biting social commentary and a healthy dose of juvenile humor, Zappa's music was never less than provocative and often quite challenging. He manages to be musically ambitious, ironic, scatological, and just plain weird, often within the same song. If you're looking to dive into his voluminous oeuvre, 1973'S OVER-NITE SENSATION is a good place to start. Following a string of experimental, nearly instrumental releases, the record is about as accessible as Zappa gets, and features some of his catchiest, wittiest songs.

Even with musicians such as George Duke and Jean-Luc Ponty and several horn players, the album is more rock than jazz. Awash with references to tweezers, dental floss, dandruff, ponchos, poodles, and dwarves, OVER-NITE SENSATION is laugh-out-loud funny. The opener, "Camarillo Brillo," which recounts a nutty sexual encounter, is full of intricate wordplay, and the more explicit "Dinah Moe Hum" surely delighted legions of brainy high school boys when it was released. The wonderfully demented "Dirty Love" belongs in the pantheon of great Zappa songs, as does "I Am the Slime," a hilariously astute, prescient take on couch-potato culture, decades before the term was coined.

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