Sheik Yerbouti Music Cd

Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti

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Sheik Yerbouti      Artist : Frank Zappa      List Price : $16.98 USD        Your Price : $13.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1995-05-02      Studio : Zappa Records      Label : Zappa Records      Avg. Customer Rating : (58 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Sheik Yerbouti      UGH...not the brightest moment in a career      Rating:      I dunno, boys and girls. Dont get me wrong. I truly think Zappa is one of America's most overlooked musical geniuses. Screw the Beatles. He has been a beacon in a musical wasteland of overly produced, commericalized, imitative pop gunk that has poisoned us for years. I was glad to see him live and to own his recordings. But for us true Zappa fans, (the ones who own a copy of Absolutely Free)this is kinda crappy. Frank resorts to dated high schoolyard humor, the music became more standardized glam-metal-reggae and left out the adventurous angular, polymetric twists and aural weirdness he was known for. I think as his bands got younger and younger, Frank tried to keep up by resorting to their level of humor, which was kinda juvenile. Just my opinon, but this is not a true reflection of what Frank Zappa was capable of. See The Yellow Shark, for instance. A mature work, by a much wiser man. Not one song from this album was included in that work. Sorry folks...but see One Size Fits All...for real Zappa rock.     Customer Reviews for Sheik Yerbouti Cd      Come Back, Frank al Zappa!!      Rating:      I'm going to start with a confession: I used to think that Frank Zappa was an untalented clown with nothing to offer aside from childish, scatalogical novelty tunes. And then I listened to 'Sheik Yerbouti'. I have never been so wrong about an artist in my life. I'm sorry, Frank--it took me a long time to figure it out! This man was a musical genius! Other reveiwers, more conversant with the mechanics of music than I, have mentioned the experimental nature of 'Rubber Shirt', a 4/4 bass line melded with an 11/4 drum track. Such a thing would never even have occured to me, yet it works amazingly well, like a beautiful ballad sung in a language you cannot speak. Frank's guitar chops can easily stand up to any of the conventionaly recognized 'guitar gods', most of whom I never particularly cared for anyway. Eric Clapton? I apologize if you are a fan; I simply never saw the appeal. Frank's approach reminds me of another virtuoso, Joe Walsh. Both quite capable of laying down an aural assault of smoking hot licks; both largely unsung and relatively obscure. Who knew that 'success', at least in the conventional sense of the word, should prove such an inaccurate yardstick to measure Worth! The piece de resistance is the lyrics. Zappa takes all our hypocritical little conventions and sneers at 'em. You can either acknowledge the extent to which you, yes YOU, have also been brainwashed and laugh along, or you can prove every point he was making by leaping on your soapbox and moralizing. This is a breath of fresh air in the fetid, oppressive PC gulag we as a Free People have created for ourselves in this brave new century. I'm sick unto death of all the thought control, the Orwellian demands that we submit, that we agree, that we do not offend! I find 'sensitivity training' a frightening concept; how much more Thought Policing will we tolerate before rising up to cast off the velvet shackles of our Busybody Overlords!? Free your mind! Think for yourself! Americans are ALLOWED to offend; that's what Free Speech IS! I want 'Bobby Brown Goes Down' played non-stop on every radio broadcast until people begin to grasp this fact. Frank, we need you now more than ever!