Artist

Frank Zappa

Freak Out! CD

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Description

Freak Out! by The Mothers of Invention is the group’s 1966 debut album and the first major statement from Frank Zappa as a bandleader, composer, and satirist. Produced by Tom Wilson for Verve, it arrived as an unusually ambitious double album for a new rock act, folding doo-wop, garage rock, orchestral fragments, and social commentary into one unruly framework. “Hungry Freaks, Daddy” opens with a sharp countercultural address, while “Who Are the Brain Police?” turns paranoia and tape manipulation into one of the album’s defining moments. “Trouble Every Day” gives the record its most direct topical edge, written in response to the 1965 Watts unrest. Available on CD.

Tracklist

1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
2. I Ain't Got No Heart
3. Who Are The Brain Police?
4. Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
5. Motherly Love
6. How Could I Be Such A Fool
7. Wowie Zowie
8. You Didn't Try To Call Me
9. Any Way The Wind Blows
10. I'm Not Satisfied
11. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
12. Trouble Every Day
13. Help, I'm A Rock
14. It Can't Happen Here
15. The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet