Threesome No. 1 [Box set, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Frank Zappa | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 23, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Box set, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Zappa Records
• ASIN: B0000641B2
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy

2. I Ain't Got No Heart

3. Who Are the Brain Police?

4. Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder

5. Motherly Love

6. How Could I Be Such a Fool

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Plastic People

2. The Duke of Prunes

3. Amnesia Vivace

4. The Duke Regains His Chops

5. Call Any Vegetable

6. Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Are You Hung Up

2. Who Needs the Peace Corps

3. Concentration Moon

4. Mom and Dad

5. Harry, You're a Beast

6. What's the Ugliest Part

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Crazy, wild, brilliant stuff, September 5, 2002

By 

Tom Hinkle (Tulsa, OK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Threesome No. 1 (Audio CD)

In an alternative reality, groups such as Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and the Velvet Underground would have received radio airplay while the likes of Three Dog Night and the Carpenters would have remained in relative obscurity. But we live in the real world and, although I was young and alive in '67-'68 when these albums were released, Frank Zappa was a name I never heard until several years later, when I purchased their rather salacious "Live at the Fillmore East". But it was just this year, 2002, sickened by the mediocrity of the current music scene and still trying to find something new to listen to, that I experienced these classic sides. Then, all this that was old suddenly became new, because it was new to me.

The diversity of Zappa's musical language is nothing short of astounding. Everything but the kitchen sink is in these CD's. The initial offering, "Freak Out", has a few songs on it that are almost but just not quite commercial enough for the climate of the Summer of Love. Zappa is, of course, the supreme rock satirist, but the song "Trouble Every Day" is fairly straightforward social commentary set to a garage-band vibe that wouldn't sound out of place on a "Nuggets" compilation. On the other hand, "Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" is an experimental tour-de-force that goes places rock music had not ventured prior to that time. The follow-up album, "Absolutely Free", has its moments as well, but all that is just preperatory for the ultimate Zappa masterpiece "We're Only In It for the Money." A devastating satire on hippie culture, while at the same time lampooning "straight" society, it belongs on any list of top rock albums you would care to enumerate. Listen, laugh, and marvel.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Zappa, July 21, 2002

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Robert Scott Brimer (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Threesome No. 1 (Audio CD)

I recommend this 3cd set to anyone interested in hearing what Frank was like/about back in the early days. Freak Out! is my favorite of the 3, but all of them are good. A good intro to early Frank and The Mothers.