Name: Absolutely Free
Brand: Frank Zappa

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ZR3835

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-07-31

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Unive­rsal

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

00824302383520

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Artist

Frank Zappa

Genre US

60s & 70s

Label US

Zappa Records

Zappa was always one to wear his influences on his sleeve and each album represented his voracious taste and intellectual leanings at the time. Absolutely Free is not only display of complex musical composition but also showed Zappa’s dry sense of humour and political satire on songs like ‘Brown Shoes Don’t Make It’. Never to be constrained to one genre, Absolutely Free sonically skips around from psychedelic pop to prog rock, free jazz to garage rock and even some doo-wop in between.

As Zappa wrote in the “libretto”, “The music of the MOTHERS speaks of the feelings of what might be described as THE VAST MINORITY. The feelings of the people on the fringe of everything . . . the ones who don’t care if they’re IN or OUT … don’t care if they’re HIP, HEP, SWINGIN’ or ZORCH. This is the audience the MOTHERS want to reach … those few have the power within themselves to cause or motivate social change but have never used it for one reason or another. If you are reading this and understand it (even if you have short hair and watch TV 18 hours a day), it is time that you realized WHO and WHAT YOU ARE. It is time you realized what the words to our songs mean.”

Absolutely Free

Music US