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Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') (1974)
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One of Frank Zappa's most commercially successful albums, APOSTROPHE is also among his goofiest. The album found its way to the semi-mainstream chiefly on the strength of "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow." As the title of that single indicates, the scatological humor and cheap jokes that are part of Zappa's stock in trade abound here (see also the self-explanatory "Stink-Foot"). Part of Zappa's genius, though, much like that of Gong's Daevid Allen, was to deflate his sophisticated instrumental excursions and conceptual work with lowbrow humor and downright silliness. Nowhere is that process more apparent than on APOSTROPHE.
The typically large band (including violin and horns) that accompanies Zappa here follows him through daunting twists and turns as tempos get turned around and counterpoint riffs bounce off each other at breakneck speed. In the midst of all this instrumental facility, Zappa's satirical side blazes forth, as on "Uncle Remus," which addresses racial strife, and the bluesy "Cosmik Debris," where he casts aspersions on the idea of gurus. APOSTROPHE finds Zappa at a peak: successfully mingling humor with harmonic exploration, yet succumbing to the excesses of neither.
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01. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
02. Nanook Rubs It
03. St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
04. Father O'Blivion
05. Cosmik Debris
06. Excentrifugal Forz
07. Apostrophe'
08. Uncle Remus
09. Stink-Foot
*1995 Rykodisc / The Zappa Family Trust | RCD 10519 {1995 Ryko Remaster}
Personnel:
Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar, bass, bouzouki
Lynn (Linda Sims) – vocals, backing vocals
Tina Turner - backing vocals (uncredited)
Robert "Frog" Camarena – vocals, backing vocals
Ruben Ladron de Guevara – vocals, backing vocals
Debbie – vocals, backing vocals
Ray Collins – backing vocals
Sue Glover – backing vocals
Kerry McNabb – backing vocals, engineer, remixing
Sal Marquez – trumpet
Ian Underwood – saxophone
Napoleon Murphy Brock – saxophone, backing vocals
Bruce Fowler – trombone
Don "Sugarcane" Harris – violin
Jean-Luc Ponty – violin
Ruth Underwood – percussion
George Duke – keyboards, backing vocals
Tony Duran – rhythm guitar
Tom Fowler – bass guitar
Erroneous (Alex Dmochowski) – bass guitar
Jack Bruce – bass on "Apostrophe'" (see controversy presented above)
Ralph Humphrey – drums (side one)
Johnny Guerin – drums on "Excentrifugal Forz"
Aynsley Dunbar – drums on "Uncle Remus" and "Stink-Foot"
Jim Gordon – drums on "Apostrophe"