Frank Zappa albums (Music Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 39. Chapters: Frank Zappa discography, Freak Out!, We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy, Thing-Fish, Hot Rats, Joe's Garage, Apostrophe, Uncle Meat, Absolutely Free, Sleep Dirt, The Man from Utopia, Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Studio Tan, Orchestral Favorites, Zoot Allures, Chunga's Revenge, Hammersmith Odeon, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, Civilization Phaze III, One Size Fits All, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, You Are What You Is, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, 200 Motels, Congress Shall Make No Law, Over-Nite Sensation, Jazz from Hell, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger, Them or Us, London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 1, Francesco Zappa, The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAA Birthday Bundle 2010, King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa, London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. 2, Baby Snakes, Everything Is Healing Nicely. Excerpt: This is a list of albums by Frank Zappa (including all those credited to The Mothers of Invention) as well as tribute albums to Frank Zappa. During his lifetime Zappa released a total of 62 albums. Between 1994 and 2010 The Zappa Family Trust has released 27 posthumous albums to his name, making a grand total of 89 albums. 130¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ Freak Out! is the debut album by American band The Mothers of Invention, released June 27, 1966 on Verve Records. Often cited as one of rock music's first concept albums, the album is a satirical expression of frontman Frank Zappa's perception of American pop culture. It was also one of the earliest double albums in rock music (although Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde preceded it by a week), and the first 2-record debut. In the UK the album was originally released as a single disc. The album was produced by Tom Wilson, who signed The Mothers, formerly a bar band called the Soul Giants. Zappa said many years later that Wilson signed the group to a record deal in the belief that they were a white blues band. The album features vocalist Ray Collins, along with bass player Roy Estrada, drummer Jimmy Carl Black and guitar player Elliot Ingber, who would later join Captain Beefheart's Magic Band under the name Winged Eel Fingerling. The band's original repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues covers; though after Zappa joined the band he encouraged them to play his own original material, and the name was changed to The Mothers. The musical content of Freak Out! ranges from rhythm and blues, doo-wop and standard blues-influenced rock to orchestral arrangements and avant-garde sound collages. Although the album was initially poorly received in the United States, it was a success in Europe. It gained a cult following in America, where it continued to sell in substantial quantities until it was prematurely discontinued in the early 1970s. The album influenced the production of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In 1999, it