Cruising with Ruben & the Jets

Artist: Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
Label: Zappa Records
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 014431050527
EAN: 0014431050527
ASIN: B0000009S0

Release Date: 1995-05-16

Cruising with Ruben & the Jets

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Tracks:

Cheap Thrills
Love Of My Life
How Could I Be Such A Fool
Deseri
I'm Not Satisfied
Jelly Roll Gum Drop
Anything
Later That Night
You Didn't try To Call Me
Fountain Of love
'No. No. No. '
Anyway The Wind Blows
Stuff Up The Cracks

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Customer Reviews:

Beware: This is NOT the Original Recording Remastered.......2007-04-20

I now own 2 copies of the 1980s didgial remix because this page claims to be the original recording remastered...unfortuneately Roy Estarda's bass and Jummy Carl Black's drums have been replaced with the 1980s sound of Arthur Barrow's Bass and Chad Wackerman's Drums. Ryko please release the actual Original recordings remastered like you did for 'We're Only In It For The Money'

Really close to a masterpiece.......2007-04-07

Zappa goes back to his roots & writes what I would call a doo wop album,although it is much more than that. Every Zappa fan should own this one. A good first album to start with if you are not a Zappa fan as is 'HOT RATS'. I love the way Zappa sucker-punches everyone with the outro guitar on 'STUFF UP THE CRACKS'. I don't know if the man was genius or not but he left some impressive music behind.

omg.......2007-03-10

omg it's like, totally, what? i don't remember. i was there in the '60s but this like, totally....what? I don't remember. Get the vinyl.

Avoid the "colorized" CD and get the original if you can find it........2006-07-31

I own both the LP and the "new & improved" CD, and it's the original that I ripped to MP3s for regular listening. With all due respect to Frank Zappa, who's been one of my heroes since the late 60s, and who is the undisputed father of art rock, progressive rock, jazz-rock fusion, punk, alt and just about every other musical style that came after him, this reissue was simply not a very good job. Tacking on some bloated bass, drum rolls and snarky vocals to this gem of an album would have been vandalism if it hadn't been the vandal's own work. Frankly I find it hard to believe that Zappa actually did this himself, such a perfectionist would have made an effort to integrate the new stuff into the original mix. Since the LP can now be had for reasonable prices, buy a clean one (the recording isn't great but the pressings were generally pretty good), add a little bass & treble boost if you need to, and enjoy one of the best albums of 50s music, and THE BEST PARODY of 50s music, of all time.

One facet of many.......2006-05-29

Each of the LP's recorded by The Mothers Of Invention had, or has, a special flavor to seperate itself from the others. As men born in the late 1930's and early 1940's, they grew up listening to the type of music featured exclusively on this disc. And they play it well, but I personally think it was two-fold: One, to have some fun recording the music of their roots, and two, as proof to their detractors that they can play "real" music. Just an opinion, but I believe this to be the case.

The reworking of the tracks on this disc has gotten some praise, and a lot of criticism. The "Official" story has the original master tapes being improperly stored in the vaults for all those years by Warner Brothers, and after Zappa regained legal possession of the tapes, he had to remaster them, as the bass and the drum tracks were unusable. This could be the case. But the puzzler is, even if this were the case, he could have just cleaned up a good copy of the tape as was available, like what happened with "We're Only In It For The Money." Some fidelity is lost, but you do get to hear the original work as it came out the first time. And it is easy to make a "before-and-after" comparison here, because the run-off track, "Stuff Up The Cracks" is unretouched. And you can tell a big difference in the sound. The other tracks sound cleaner and "newer," but the element of it being a time piece is lost. It's supposed to sound like a bunch of old, greasy songs from the 1950's, you don't need to be a mind reader to know this. But as usual, Frank Zappa was looking for ways to improve his work, constantly changing the running order of songs, putting a new version of an old song on a new release, making it more accessable, and the like, but I agree with most of the reviewers on this site, the "improvements" were to the original work's detriment. If anything, he could have just cleaned up the sound a bit.

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