Strictly Commercial The Best Of Frank Zappa Music Cd

Frank Zappa - Strictly Commercial The Best Of Frank Zappa

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Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa      Artist : Frank Zappa      List Price : $16.98 USD        Your Price : $14.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1995-08-22      Studio : Zappa Records      Label : Zappa Records      Avg. Customer Rating : (64 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Strictly Commercial The Best Of Frank Zappa      For die hard fans      Rating:      Frank Zappa and his friends have produced a cornucopia of CDs and I am sure his heirs hope you collect them all. I personally 'enjoyed" "We're Only In It for the Money." With this CD, "Let's make the water turn black," "Trouble Every Day," and perhaps "Don't eat the yellow snow" were entertaining. And, there is much more. So, if you prefer the esoteric Zappa, be prepared to have a good time.     Customer Reviews for Strictly Commercial The Best Of Frank Zappa Cd      By no means definitve, but a great first step      Rating:      Strictly Commercial is by no means a definitive Zappa collection. Between his work with the Mothers of Invention, Solo albums, live albums, orchestral works and the later solo guitar albums (and who knows how much unreleased stuff is sitting in his archives), 19 songs on 1 CD barely scratches the surface if you're a hardcore fan. The important word being IF. But if you're a casual fan (like me), and your local radio station occasionally played "Montana", "Joe's Garage", "Cosmik Debris", or even "Valley Girl" (like mine did) this might be the collection for you. Strictly Commercial is just that, some (but probably not all) of the commercial (i.e. accessible, or best known) music Zappa recorded in his long career. Don't get me wrong, Frank Zappa was an artist way ahead of his time. He challenged not only his audience, but himself with every album he recorded. Did he get it right every time? Not always. Was it always different? Absolutely. But the problem with Zappa is he more than often went too far and created immensely complicated or flat-out weird albums (i.e. Uncle Meat, Lather, Thing-Fish) that probably drove fans away shaking their heads. So an album like SC works as a starting point. If you want to go further, there are plenty of paths you can take. But as the saying goes; a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. For better or worse, Strictly Commercial is that first step.