Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa
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Artist: Frank Zappa
Label: Video Arts
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988112413603
ASIN: B00006JLH4
Release Date: 2002-12-05 |
Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa
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Tracks:
- Peaches en Regalia
- Don't Eat the Yellow Snow [Single Version]
- Dancin' Fool [12" Dance Mix]
- San Ber'dino
- Let's Make the Water Turn Black
- Dirty Love
- My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
- Cosmik Debris
- Trouble Every Day
- Disco Boy
Tracks:
- Bobby Brown Goes Down
- I'm the Slime
- Joe's Garage [Single Version]
- Fine Girl
- Planet of the Baritone Women
- Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
- Tell Me You Love Me
- Montana [Single Version]
- Valley Girl
- Be in My Video
- Muffin Man
Album Description
2002 Japanese (limited & numbered) reissue of 1995 compilation, packaged in a miniature gatefold LP sleeve. Ryko.
Album Details
Japanese version featuring a limited LP style slipcase cover.
Customer Reviews:
Slightly different track listing than American version.......2005-07-08
Anyone who knows Zappa - even a little - knows he isn't the most accessible artist, although perhaps one of the most versatile, brilliant, and worthwhile (for those willing to break through the initial inaccessibility to find the treasures that lie beyond).
Having said that, this is the album (and/or American version) to start with. I will not rehash, then, reviews of the American release of Strictly Commercial, I'll just comment on the subtle differences on this one, and how this one works as a whole.
This version has twenty-one songs as opposed to American version's nineteen. That's cool. The addition of two extra tracks is what makes this edition unique. "Planet of the Baritone Women," offers the late 80s Zappa era previously unincluded, even if the song itself isn't fantastic (but worthy). The Horn section and Ike Willis on vocals, how can you go wrong?
The other addition is "Bobby Brown Goes Down." From what I understand, this was a number one hit in Norway at one point. "Huh?" says I. The song itself is humorous and showed that Zappa was a witty lyricist, but from a musical standpoint, I would say it's just okay. Not bad, not sub-par, but okay.
An interesting phenomenon that occurred to me with the listening of the American version was the care that whoever took in arranging the song order. Even though the tracks, chronologically speaking, spanned two decades, each song segued smoothly into the next. For a "best of" collection, it really stood on its own as its own album, and I found that especially impressive.
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- Long Road Back ~ Peter Andre
- Something Grand ~ Shrimp Boat
- March ~ Matching Mole
- Fallen Angel ~ Pulcher Femina
- Spatial/Design ~ Canvas Solaris
- Jar of Gems ~ Jars of Clay
- Rebirth of Agony ~ Leæther Strip
- Justincase ~ justincase
- Flight of Wally Funk ~ Spiderbait
- Mallard/In a Different Climate ~ Mallard
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Raincheck ~ Nick Brignola
Penn's Landing ~ Clarence Penn
Kansas City Boulevard Big Band ~ Kansas City Boulevard Big Band
One More Time In the Air ~ Anna Dagmar Johnson
Yesterday's Dream ~ Gary Brunotte
Like A Star
Die Laengste Single Der W ~ Wolfgang Petry
Musicians of Sicily ~ Various Artists
Cantar Galponeiro ~ Jose Claudio Machado
Eternal Beats ~ DJ Luna