In this episode we set our sights on Frank Zappa‘s mid-Eighties work. Things are getting extra weird, and we wouldn’t have it any other way! It’s a controversial period – partially because some folks ...

Marc With a C continues his voyage of listening to the entirety of Frank Zappa’s discography, putting those albums together as a “the big song” that Zappa alluded to in numerous interviews. In this ...

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Potentially the most voraciously creative musician of the entire 20th century, Frank Zappa’s astounding discography is as unique as it is monumental. Zappa was born on 21 December 1940 in Baltimore, ...

CD 1 - “Someone Has Just Asked Me…”; Cosmik Debris; Pygmy Twylyte; The Idiot Bastard Son; Cheepnis; Inca Roads; Montana; Dupree’s Paradise (Intro). CD 2 - Dupree’s Paradise; It Can’t Happen Here; ...

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Frank Zappa’s final U.S. concert — a March 25th, 1988 gig at New York’s Nassau Coliseum — is the next archival release from the Zappa Trust and UMe. Zappa ’88: The Last U.S. Show, due out June 18th, ...