Hey there Plop, Thanks for these Zappa album ratings, I appreciate them. I, however, would rate this as being firmly in my top 10, the original version before it was butchered with overdubs for re-release. So thank you & I'll probably chime in every so often, as I love Frank Zappa's music. ONWARD thru the Fog!
I have no difficulty imagining why somone would really enjoy Cruisin' With Ruben & The Jets and rate it much more highly. The pastich/satire - and the songwriting - are all carried off with great aplomb and gusto, as one would expect with FZ. Please chime in as often as you want!
I'll hold my comments 'til I see a ranking the I totlly agree/don't agree with. l be kind about it tho'.. Frank covered such a wide range. Like most listeners, there's some I love and some I hate, um, or may be to dumb to appreciate. In any case, thanks for doing this Plöp. Always looking for ANY excuse to revisit Zappa's catalog. I know Frank loved doo wop. Sadly, I was never a fan. WTF do I know anyway?
My criteria for this ranking exercise are very much slanted towards gut feelings and how essential albums feel NOW and slanted away from musicological or journalistic analysis.
Like I said in my blathering audio clip, if I were grabbing 53 Zappa albums en route to the desert island, this one would make it; but if I were grabbing 52, it wouldn't!
Crusin' With Ruben & The Jets:
1. I was too young when it came out
2. The people who turnd me on to Zappa with the albums they had in the 1970s did not have this one.
3. I first heard it in, maybe, the 1990s, when its nailing-the-genre seemed interesting; however, it did not seem to me to be essential Zappa listening.
4. The posthumous "Greasy Love Songs" release will probably fare better when I come to do the posthumous ranking.
Hey there Plop, Thanks for these Zappa album ratings, I appreciate them. I, however, would rate this as being firmly in my top 10, the original version before it was butchered with overdubs for re-release. So thank you & I'll probably chime in every so often, as I love Frank Zappa's music. ONWARD thru the Fog!
ReplyDeleteI have no difficulty imagining why somone would really enjoy Cruisin' With Ruben & The Jets and rate it much more highly. The pastich/satire - and the songwriting - are all carried off with great aplomb and gusto, as one would expect with FZ. Please chime in as often as you want!
DeleteI'll hold my comments 'til I see a ranking the I totlly agree/don't agree with. l be kind about it tho'.. Frank covered such a wide range. Like most listeners, there's some I love and some I hate, um, or may be to dumb to appreciate. In any case, thanks for doing this Plöp. Always looking for ANY excuse to revisit Zappa's catalog. I know Frank loved doo wop. Sadly, I was never a fan. WTF do I know anyway?
ReplyDeleteMy criteria for this ranking exercise are very much slanted towards gut feelings and how essential albums feel NOW and slanted away from musicological or journalistic analysis.
ReplyDeleteLike I said in my blathering audio clip, if I were grabbing 53 Zappa albums en route to the desert island, this one would make it; but if I were grabbing 52, it wouldn't!
Crusin' With Ruben & The Jets:
1. I was too young when it came out
2. The people who turnd me on to Zappa with the albums they had in the 1970s did not have this one.
3. I first heard it in, maybe, the 1990s, when its nailing-the-genre seemed interesting; however, it did not seem to me to be essential Zappa listening.
4. The posthumous "Greasy Love Songs" release will probably fare better when I come to do the posthumous ranking.