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The press was not tender about the Over-Nite Sensation album that Frank Zappa released in 1973 with a new lineup of The Mothers. People fell especially over the lavishly sung sex in songs like Camarillo Brillo and Dinah-Moe Hum. The latter even describes in rap-like fashion and in rancid detail the progress of a number with said miss and her sister. And then there is the corny Montana about a dental… floss farmer galloping on his pygmy pony. Zappa, considered a serious artist, who just a year earlier had released the unsurpassed jazz-rock album The Grand Wazoo, would sell out here (long before the crazed 1979 sex trilogy Joe's Garage). Still, Over-Nite Sensation is an undisputed Zappa favorite and a balanced rock album full of rich and complex arrangements that don't feel complex, played by a fantastic band. Singing mostly by himself, Zappa shows that his dark-sardonic voice is the best interpreter of his naughty tales. Saignant are the background choruses provided by The Ikettes with Tina Turner. When their boss Ike Turner got wind of this, he forbade Zappa from mentioning the names on the cover. This anniversary box set with plenty of extras of outtakes and live recordings shows that Zappa was at a creative peak in the early 1970s. An additional disc shows the album once again on superior blu-ray. (MR)more
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