Freak Out!

Torn on this. It doesn't have too much of the really out there Zappa stuff that I don't like, but I didn't find too much of the "normal" 60s rock all that compelling.

Got kinda annoying by the end, but it's fine

Kultiges Debüt, wild, schräg, voller Ideen – aber eher historisch spannend als wirklich packend

I remember being excited to hear a Zappa album for the first time, many years ago. I had one friend in particular who thought Zappa was a genius, but that guy had tastes outside my own at the time, including free jazz and stuff like that. I don't remember which album it was, but I immediately didn't like it. Fast forward 25 years and Hot Rats came up for me on the generator, and I gave it a 3. I didn’t love it, but I did consider that I might have been wrong all those years ago. So now we get to test this theory again. Well, this album was going along okay but they really lost me with the last two tracks. If I want something wild from this era, I’ll stick with the Velvet Underground and the 13th Floor Elevators.

I want to like this. I really do. It's obviously breaking new ground, and you can hear all the things it influenced, but it's just not that great as an album. Very long, and mostly trolling.

2.07

This was a weird one. Rock of the 60/70s

i get what its going for but sorry frank this one doesnt hit the target

kakva albumčina! naginjao sam nekako četvorci, ali na zadnjoj pjesmi pomislio sam, jebote, petica. nevjerojatno koliko nešto može biti eksperimentalno a ugodno za slušanje, parodijski a opet kvalitetno. jebena 1966?! nevjerojatno. bitlsi mi djeluju još gluplje nakon što sam ovo odslušao. svakako mi je bilo puno bolje od prethodno odslušanog »we're only in it for the money«, koji mi je ostao u sjećanju kao da uzmeš s ovog albuma najčudnije dijelove s »help, i'm a rock« i razvučeš ih u čitav album. u svakom slučaju drage ću volje ponovo slušati

This is the band of Frank Zappa! In all honesty, I don't know who Frank Zappa is, except that (1) Weird Al did a song based on him and (2) his kid is named Moon Unit, and they are usually credited with popularizing the "Valley Girl" sociolinguistic stereotype (except nowadays, most students have never even heard of this stereotype, so really I can throw out all my Frank Zappa knowledge).

It seems Frank Zappa is a pretty weird guy. Good for him, I guess, but I'm not getting anything from listening to this. Maybe you had to be there. I bet he inspired Maureen from "Rent".

Most accurate title ever? First half was groovy and second half scared me and turned me into bits

It amazes me that something this freewheeling and explorative came out in 1966. Even today acts like Ariel Pink and MGMT are still pulling at these threads.

It’s hard to categorise so much of Freak Out! Any time that The Mothers of Invention arrive at a way of organising their sound, it shifts. The main theme (to my ears) is them mocking the common forms of music that people would have been very familiar with (and perhaps bored of) in the mid-1960s.

Joke-y music can go one of two ways, it often falls flat because quality song writing and instrumentation has less importance placed on it than silly premises. A song like‘Motherly Love takes an extremely thin and silly premise and unnaturally stretches it out. This time round, for whatever reason it works on me.

Much of the back end sounds improvised as they employ some impressive psychedelic production techniques. I have a high tolerance of “silly” experimental music so the story of Suzie Creamcheese, which includes random hoots, groans and animal noises, works on me - I’m sure it’ll bemuse a general audience. It’s not as good as Jazz Rock era Zappa but gets top marks for ingenuity and entertainment value.

Cream cheese, cream cheese, cream cheese! Wtf was this. Weird and not for me. 2/5

I’ve never believed Zappa didn’t do drugs.

Garbage, should have been forgotten in the 60s. 1*

Lame. Zappa's a tool. Cheers.

When you cover this many genres, there's bound to be something that I don't like which is why this isn't getting a 5. However, it's weird enough that I'd feel bad giving it anything lower than a 4. I've got high hopes for the next Zappa album I come across.

My last 12 albums have included this one, from 1966, and a 1981 album from bauhaus, and ten - TEN - albums from the 70s.

I am not yet to 1,000 records, but I have been forced to listen to more than 250 albums from the 70s. That is more albums than I have gotten from 1996 until 2026.

I have had more albums form the 60s and 70s combined than I have from the 90s until now.

I get it, art is subjective, but the bias in this project is exhausting. I'm sick to death of 60s and 70s rock that I've never heard of before. I'm not talking about Led Zeppelin albums, or Pink Floyd. Hell, I loathe The Rolling Stones, but I *understand* why they're on a list like this! but Do we really need THREE Tim Buckley albums? SIX albums from The Who?

Also, this album sucks. We DEFINITELY don't need two albums of this self-indulgent, self-masturbatory bullshit

silly goofy

Probably the definitive counter-culture album given both its politics and parody of the earlier youth culture.