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Strictly Commercial: The Best Of Frank Zappa (CD)

By: Frank Zappa (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Strictly Commercial: The Best Of Frank Zappa (CD) Album By Frank Zappa (Artist)
1   Peaches En Regalia
2   Don't Eat The Yellow Snow - (single version)
3   Dancin' Fool
4   San Ber'dino
5   Dirty Love
6   My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
7   Cosmik Debris
8   Trouble Every Day
9   Disco Boy
10   Fine Girl
11   Sexual Harassment In The Workplace
12   Let's Make The Water Turn Black
13   I'm The Slime
14   Joe's Garage - (single version)
15   Tell Me You Love Me
16   Montana - (single version)
17   Valley Girl
18   Be In My Video
19   Muffin Man
 

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Review

Q (12/95, p.181) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...this selection of Zappa's most popular tunes and commercial hits offers the novice a nice point of entry into a bizarre realm...timeless instrumental bravura..."
NME (Magazine) (8/19/95, p.51) - 7 (out of 10) - "...an album for those of us who...have shelled out on a few random albums only to get tangled in hours of impenetrable guitar solos....[here] those trademark Zappa solos play second fiddle to his deep, mocking voice....It's in this compressed format that Zappa's humour and songwriting both flourish..."

Title Note

Full title: Strictly Commercial: The Best Of Frank Zappa.

Personnel includes: Frank Zappa (vocals, guitar); Flo & Eddie, Jean-Luc Ponty, Captain Beefheart, Steve Vai, The Mothers Of Invention, Lowell George, George Duke, Terry Bozzio, Aynsley Dunbar, Ike Willis, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Chester Thompson, Adrian Belew, Chad Wackerman, Moon Zappa.

Producers: Frank Zappa, Tom Wilson.

Compilation producer: Jill Christiansen.

Recorded between 1966 and 1988. Includes liner notes by Terry Gilliam and Dan Oullette.

Even though Zappa purists tend to loathe this splendid 19-track compilation, there is no better introduction to the wild and wonderful world of Frank Zappa than STRICTLY COMMERCIAL. Throughout his long, celebrated career, Zappa essentially maintained two separate personas. At one end of the spectrum, he was a wicked satirist who performed such bizarre rock ditties as "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" and "Dancin' Fool." On the other end, he was a masterful composer and guitarist who created fascinating fusion instrumentals like "Peaches En Regalia" and even full-scale symphonic works.

While you don't get any examples of Zappa's more elaborate musical pieces on STRICTLY COMMERCIAL, what you do get is track after track of clever, immaculately performed rock. Songs range from "Trouble Every Day," a 1966 blues-rock recording with The Mothers of Invention, to "Valley Girl," the 1982 hit single that Zappa recorded with his daughter Moon Unit on vocals. While the sheer volume of Zappa's work makes it impossible to include every career highpoint on a single disc collection, it's hard to imagine how you could create a better Zappa compilation than STRICTLY COMMERCIAL.

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