Zappa Playground

Cheap Thrills is designed for the curious listener who has always wanted to explore Frank Zappa but was intimidated by his overwhelming catalog. Of course, so is Strictly Commercial, which contains all of Zappa's most familiar songs, but Cheap Thrills has the advantage of being cheap, plus giving an idea of the weird diversity of Zappa's catalog, since it's filled with cult favorites, live tracks, smutty jokes, and assorted album tracks. It's not necessarily the most accessible introduction to Zappa – again, that would be Strictly Commercial – but it's more accessible than the average album while giving a sense of what the albums feel like. And you can't ask for much more than that from a budget-priced introduction.

Frank Zappa - Zappa Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2020) {Zappa Records / UMe}
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Rock / Experimental Rock / Avant-Garde / Art Rock / Jazz Rock

Zappa original motion picture soundtrack available digitally today via zappa records/UMe as acclaimed “zappa” documentary is now available everywhere in the u.s. 68-track album features 12 unreleased tracks from the vault including performances from The Whisky A Go-Go in ’68, the Fillmore West in ’70 and “Saturday Night Live” in ’78. Includes more than two dozen tracks from across zappa’s prolific four-decade career, rarities, interview clips plus 26 original score cues 
by composer John Frizzell.

Four-hour, 72-track anthology of the Laurel Canyon music community that became a dominant worldwide force in the late 60s/early 70s. Tracing the scene's development from The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Love and The Doors through to early country-rock and the singer/songwriter boom that defined the early 70s. By the end of the 60s, the international music world's nexus had shifted from such previous hotspots as Liverpool, London and San Francisco to Laurel Canyon, a rural oasis in the midst of the bustle of Los Angeles. Just minutes from Hollywood, the Sunset Strip and the LA record companies/studios, Laurel Canyon became home to a folk, country, rock and pop hybrid that encompassed everyone from early players The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield to The Doors, Frank Zappa, Glen Campbell and manufactured pop kingpins The Monkees.

Orpheus Nine emerged with an instant classic in 2017's "Transcendental Circus". While the centerpiece is a six-part, nearly-22-minute title track, O9 deftly balances virtuosity with emotion and melody in every one of the album's beautifully crafted songs. Listeners to this very impressive debut have cited elements of ELP, King Crimson, Rush, Saga, Styx, Genesis, Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant, Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings, Yes, Marillion, Kansas, Echolyn, Glass Hammer, and Return to Forever - yet any past influence quickly yields to the fresh and original sound of a band focused on future possibilities.