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Thanks to the surprise radio airplay of "Don't Eat that Yellow Snow," Apostrophe introduced a whole new audience to the music of Frank Zappa in the early '70s. Like its companion set, Over-Nite Sensation, this album found Zappa producing highly polished jazz-rock, mixing tales of absurd characters with musical showmanship and snarling guitar work. The first half of the album is a sort of mini-concept album, relating the adventures of an Eskimo named Nanook, and the second half features such Zappa classics as "Cosmik Debris" and "Stink-Foot." --Andrew Boscardin
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 (5 stars) - The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe
Definitive Zappa. If you like a bit of wackiness with your outstanding music, then Zappa's your man. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" introduces us to Nanook. "Nanook Rubs It" involves Nanook and his epic battle with the fur trapper. Next comes "St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast" (where I stole the margarine). Included are "Cosmic Debris", "Excentrifical Forz", "Father O'Blivion", "Apostrophe" (another brilliant Zappa solo), "Uncle Remus" (I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn) and "Stink Foot", which I find to be just plain hilarious.
If you're a Zappa fan, you already have this. If you don't know much about Zappa, this is an excellent place to start.
(5 stars) - Adolescent Mental Orgy
I was a highschool freshman in '76 when I first heard a monstrously bizarre sonic carnival. A sophmore was playing a "Weasles Ripped My Flesh" record, and it drew me like an absurd intoxicating insense. Who is that? WHAT is that? I was amzed, awestruck, stunned, confused, frightened, and even giddy. I listened to the whole side, then the other, while I clutched the cover intently studyng it for clues to the secret of its quixotic allure. When it ended my buddy informed me confidently that he possesed another one that he was sure would Really sizzle my cranium. "Apostrophe" surged into me like the purest melodic opiate. For you see, the disquieting mysteries that "Weasles" had so brazenly vexxed me with were then soulfully, sweetly, snidely assuaged by "Apostrophe." I was hearing answers to questions I never, ever could have conceived of till then. Oh sure, we had been regularly tickiling and pickling our minds with various molecular additives, as was the custom of the day, but here was sumthin' else. "Apostrophe" became my symphonic declaration of independence. In a matter of minutes I had been released from a life of musical bondage, and led to the promised land of infinite possibility. It was a sublime, cosmic, epic birth into a glorious realm of riotously joyous oportunity. Yeah, something like that...
(5 stars) - Good humorous story telling.
This is a funny/really good rock CD. He tells stories while playing his music, he's known for it and its done well here.
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 (4 stars) - very good job
Apostrophe captures Frank Zappa right after releasing his incredibly diverse, whacky, energetic and exciting "Over-nite Sensation" album. While Apostrophe doesn't quite have the same high points THAT album has, it's still pretty good.
Lyrically, like always, they are interesting and twisted, in *only* a way master Zappa knows how to create them. I wouldn't be able to write lyrics this good in a million years!
The title song is absolutely great, and is a jazzy instrumental guitar jam, filled with memorable solos and neat fills and all those things a Hot Rats fan would probably like IMO.
There's a more distinct funky feeling in this album compared to previous Zappa releases, and I guess that's a good thing (I'm a fan of funk- just not a LOT of funk at once). The lyrics will grow on you, and so will the whacky vocal melodies. Frank Zappa is one of a kind, and this album shows you why. The guy has a bunch of albums though, and I recommend "Over-night Sensation" before this one because that album is a little bit better if you ask me. Still, Apostrophe holds up pretty well too.
(5 stars) - Frank Zappa - The Genius of Apostrophe
Frank Zappa. No one can come close to paralleling this man's boundless genius as one listens to 'Apostrophe.' Frank was not only a skilled musician, but an amazing lyricist who wound his lyrics into his songs; all of which make infinite sense to the listener. From "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" all the way down to "Stink-Foot", Frank uses his mental prowess of 'up north to down south' to make his work seem like a body of work, all of which makes the listener think, laugh, and appreciate how Frank goes out of his way to entertain you.
Frank never tired of showing us new and delightful ways of entertaining the public listener. If there was one other CD I would suggest that you buy of Frank's that is a must-listen, is 'One Size Fits All.' There are many other works of Frank's that are very listener-friendly, but these two stand out above the rest, in my humble opinion.
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