Best Frank Zappa´s Recordings

One Size Fits All! I love this album to death. I also really like The Grand Wazoo. BTW, I just watched Y Tu Mama Tambien and noticed it uses part of Joe's Garage for the soundtrack towards the end (great soundtrack overall IMO). When are we gonna see some Zappa SACDs?

great to see how many people love & appreciate the genius of zappa....my faves:
joe's garage
apostrophe
one size fits all
honorable mention to overnight sensation...now, if only they'd remaster those cds so they have some stage!

rhyno

Seldenr I think everyone likes Apostrophe but it is (in some people's opinion) kind of his first 'commercial' record and is a departure from the typical FZ record. I think it is ignored not for what it is but what it represents.

that said I am in the camp of 'Frank Zappa did no wrong' in his very prolific career I like almost everything I have heard from FZ and that definetly includes Apostrophe.

I have a lot of Frank Zappa. I've enjoyed most of his music since soon after "Absolutely Free" first came out in the '60s.

I don't know that these are his best, but these are the six that I think I play the most these days:
"Freak Out"
"Weasels Ripped My Flesh"
"Roxy & Elsewhere"
"Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar"
"One Size Fits All"
"Apostrophe"

Phil, Burnt Weenie has some of the commentary and has the most "experimental" music on it. Chunga's Revenge is kind of a turning point with some more conventional music, still some parody and sarcasm. Waka Jawaka and the Grand Wazoo are almost all instrumental, the Wazoo has a lot of charted horns. I saw him play this live and it was incredible, the players looking a little puzzled at times but a great performance. None of these albums feature the spoken narration style like Overnight Sensation and much of his later work. And oh ya, I love Ruben and the Jets but it is all tounge in cheek 50s music Zappa style.