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Frank Zappa 101. As close as anyone has come to a definitive greatest hits set, Strictly Commercial manages to encapsulate much, if not most, of a career that deliberately defied any such attempts. This is the most accessible single collection of Zappa's music available, containing familiar ditties such as "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," "Joe's Garage," and the radio hit, "Valley Girl." Those skeptical of his guitar work will most certainly find the included selections, "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace," "I'm the Slimeand," "Muffin Man" to be educational. Excellent for whetting the appetites of potential Zappa fanatics. --Andrew Boscardin
Product Reviews
 (4 stars) - Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa
Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa is a compilation album by Zappa and was released 2 years after his death to great reviews by the critics. Allmusic gave it 4 1/2 stars and since I can not give half stars on amazon I therefore give it 4 stars. Zappa is a one of a kind of an artist and a rebel like Iggy Pop and Willy Deville. 4/5.
 (5 stars) - Zappa the Great
If you like Zappa this is the thing to get. If you don't like Zappa stay away and phooy on you.
(5 stars) - classic!
Frank Zappa was the original oddball musician. With his crazy way of sharing stories with people. The songs seem to make no sense but they are hilarious! Check out this peaceful, funny man!
 (3 stars) - For die hard fans
Frank Zappa and his friends have produced a cornucopia of CDs and I am sure his heirs hope you collect them all. I personally 'enjoyed" "We're Only In It for the Money." With this CD, "Let's make the water turn black," "Trouble Every Day," and perhaps "Don't eat the yellow snow" were entertaining. And, there is much more. So, if you prefer the esoteric Zappa, be prepared to have a good time.
(4 stars) - By no means definitve, but a great first step
Strictly Commercial is by no means a definitive Zappa collection. Between his work with the Mothers of Invention, Solo albums, live albums, orchestral works and the later solo guitar albums (and who knows how much unreleased stuff is sitting in his archives), 19 songs on 1 CD barely scratches the surface if you're a hardcore fan. The important word being IF. But if you're a casual fan (like me), and your local radio station occasionally played "Montana", "Joe's Garage", "Cosmik Debris", or even "Valley Girl" (like mine did) this might be the collection for you. Strictly Commercial is just that, some (but probably not all) of the commercial (i.e. accessible, or best known) music Zappa recorded in his long career. Don't get me wrong, Frank Zappa was an artist way ahead of his time. He challenged not only his audience, but himself with every album he recorded. Did he get it right every time? Not always. Was it always different? Absolutely. But the problem with Zappa is he more than often went too far and created immensely complicated or flat-out weird albums (i.e. Uncle Meat, Lather, Thing-Fish) that probably drove fans away shaking their heads. So an album like SC works as a starting point. If you want to go further, there are plenty of paths you can take. But as the saying goes; a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. For better or worse, Strictly Commercial is that first step.
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