Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa - Zappa Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 26, 2020

Frank Zappa - Zappa Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2020)
MP3 320 kbps | 3:14:27 | 449 Mb
Genre: Rock, Jazz / Label: Frank Zappa

Zappa charts the late icon’s career as a self-taught teenaged musician with a taste for the avant-garde to his pioneering Mothers of Invention and his many musical left turns, as well as his censorship battle with the Parents Music Resource Center and the productive years prior to his death.“Frank embodied everything,” Mothers of Invention percussionist Ruth Underwood says in the trailer. “You couldn’t say, ‘Oh yeah, that’s rock n’ roll.’ It wasn’t. ‘It’s jazz.’ No. ‘It’s pop music.’ No. ‘What the hell is it?’ It’s Zappa.”

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Frank Zappa - AAAFNRAA The Bundlement (2006 -2012) {Official Digital Download from zappa.com} Music

Posted by ruskaval at Feb. 3, 2016

Frank Zappa - AAAFNRAA The Bundlement (2006 -2012) {Official Digital Download from zappa.com}
mp3 + aac (tracks) | Official Digital Download | Front Cover
Zappa Records / Zappa.com | 5% repair rar
Rock / Experimental Rock

AAAFNRAA was one of Zappa's mottoes. It stood for Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All. The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle was released as a digital download on iTunes on December 15, 2006. It consists of five previously unreleased tracks performed by Frank Zappa, and six new tracks featuring the Zappa family. (AAAFNRAA stands for "Anything Anytime Anywhere for No Reason At All", Zappa's motto of sorts.)

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Frank Zappa - Redneck Eats (2023) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 30, 2024

Frank Zappa - Redneck Eats (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:25:48 | 491 / 196 Mb
Genre: Classic Rock

Composer, guitarist, singer, and bandleader Frank Zappa was a singular musical figure during a performing and recording career that lasted from the 1960s to the '90s. His disparate influences included doo wop music and avant-garde classical music; although he led groups that could be called rock & roll bands for much of his career, he used them to create a hybrid style that bordered on jazz and complicated, modern serious music, sometimes inducing orchestras to play along. As if his music were not challenging enough, he overlay it with highly satirical and sometimes abstractly humorous lyrics and song titles that marked him as coming out of a provocative literary tradition that included Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and edgy comedians like Lenny Bruce.

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Frank Zappa - Berlin 1978 (2018) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at July 6, 2025

Frank Zappa - Berlin 1978 (2CD, 2018)
FLAC (tracks+.cue,log) | 2:15:15 | 933 Mb
Genre: Pop, Rock / Label: Leftfield Media

CLASSIC 1978 BROADCAST FROM GERMANY S THEN DIVIDED CITY After falling out with his long-time manager Herb Cohen, Frank Zappa spent much of the late 1970s in a legal battle with Cohen and later with Warner Brothers too. With the majority of his own recorded material thus tied up, Zappa concentrated on touring with a small, rock-oriented band. March 1978 witnessed the release of Zappa In New York, recorded live with a 13-strong band at the Palladium in late December 1976. Demonstrating in equal measure Zappa s extraordinary ability as a composer and fearless approach to controversial topics, the record reached a respectable No. 57 on the Billboard chart. Two standout numbers from In New York, Titties & Beer and The Black Page , would be a fixture of Zappa sets by the time his 1978 European tour rolled around, as the concert featured on this two CD set can attest.

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Frank Zappa - Night Flight Interview (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 26, 2020

Frank Zappa - Night Flight Interview (2020)
FLAC tracks | 29:15 | 102 Mb
Genre: Rock Jazz / Label: Night Flight

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.

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Frank Zappa - Waka/Wazoo (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at Dec. 15, 2022

Frank Zappa - Waka/Wazoo (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 605 MB
4:20:09 | Rock | Label: Frank Zappa Catalog / UMG

A comprehensive 4-CD box set celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Mothers Of Invention/Hot Rats/Grand Wazoo experience from 1972. During the aftermath of being pushed off the stage at the Rainbow Theatre in London, England, FZ found himself recuperating for months in his home in Laurel Canyon. Although he was confined to a wheelchair, his work ethic could not be tamed. During this time, he managed, among other things, to assemble an ensemble that quenched his thirst and desire to work with a large “Electric Orchestra.” Ultimately, a 20-piece group was contracted, along with recording sessions and an 8-city tour. Shortly thereafter, a scaled down 10-piece configuration, now known as the “Petit Wazoo” toured for almost two months. After all was said and done, FZ finished the experiment with two albums in the can, Waka/Jawaka & The Grand Wazoo, plus two tours and an archive of show masters in his Vault. It was a monumental feat for a guy with a cast on his leg and a conductor’s baton in his hand.

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Frank Zappa - ZAPPA 75: Zagreb/Ljubljana (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Sept. 6, 2023

Frank Zappa - ZAPPA 75: Zagreb/Ljubljana (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:55:57 minutes | 3,2 GB
Rock | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Frank Zappa's fall 1975 touring schedule brought him to two cities in Yugoslavia, marking the first and only time he played shows in that country.?

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Frank Zappa - Poughkeepsie (2018) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 6, 2023

Frank Zappa - Poughkeepsie (2018)
MP3 320 kbps | 2:09:16 | 295 Mb
Genre: Classic Rock / Label: Smokin'

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Frank Zappa - Ahoy There! (2016) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 6, 2023

Frank Zappa - Ahoy There! (2016)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:44:35 | 673 / 240 Mb
Genre: Classic Rock / Label: Refractor Records

As if his music were not challenging enough, he overlay it with highly satirical and sometimes abstractly humorous lyrics and song titles that marked him as coming out of a provocative literary tradition that included Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and edgy comedians like Lenny Bruce.

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Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore. Vol. 1-6 [Purple Box] (1995) {Rykodisc} [combined re-up] Music

Posted by ruskaval at May 25, 2012

Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore. Vol. 1-6 [Purple Box] (1995) {Rykodisc}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC+CUE+LOG -> 5.40 Gb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 186 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1995 Rykodisc / The Zappa Family Trust | RCD 10561~72
Rock / Experimental Rock

To simplify my life considerably, I'm going to combine the "reviews" of all six Stage releases into a single entry, even though they were released individually. Also, to save a lot of time and effort, I'm not going to give complete track listings of the twelve discs, or do song-by-song reviews (hey, we're talking over 800 minutes of music here, give me a break). If you need to know the track listings, they're probably available through an on-line music sales site like CDNow, or an information site like the All Music Guide. There's probably a few other Zappa sites that list them as well. Maybe one day when I have the time, I'll come back and expand this section to really cover all twelve discs in detail. Until then, I'll just give some general facts and opinions, focusing on highlights and material unique to the Stage series.

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