Track Listing

1. Camarillo Brillo
2. I'm The Slime
3. Dirty Love
4. 50/50
5. Zomby Woof
6. Dinah Moe Humm
7. Montana

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22509 in Music
• Released on: 1995-04-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

CD Description
Combining rock and intricate, experimental jazz with bitingsocial commentary and a healthy dose of juvenile humor, Zappa's music was never less than provocative and often quite challenging. He manages to be musically ambitious, ironic, scatological and just plain weird, often within the same song.If you're looking to dive into his voluminous oeuvre, 1973'S OVER-NITE SENSATION is a good place to start. Following a string of experimental, nearly instrumental releases, the record is about as accessible as Zappa gets, and features someof his catchiest, wittiest songs.
Even with musicians such as George Duke and Jean-Luc Ponty and several horn players, the album is more rock than jazz. Awash with references to tweezers, dental floss, dandruff, ponchos, poodles and dwarves, OVER-NITE SENSATION is laugh-out-loud funny. The opener, "Camarillo Brillo", which recounts a nutty sexual encounter, is full of intricate wordplay, and the more explicit "Dinah Moe Hum" surely delighted legions of brainy high school boys when it was released. The wonderfully demented "Dirty Love" belongs in the pantheon of great Zappa songs, as does "I Am the Slime", a hilariously astute, prescient take on couch-potato culture, decades before the term was coined.

Customer Reviews

Best FZ album ever!
Everything's in the right place - the composition and arrangements, the guitar solos, the lyrics, the cover! Alternative best buy: ' or Hot Rats!

How can you ask for more than this???
Only 7 tracks, but every one as good as the last... no, better... no, as good.

Displaying Zappa's wonderful bassy tones after his perculiar accident and featuring both Dianamo Hum and Montana, two of my top five Zappa tunes, and I'm The Slime, a song that George Clinton Himself has been know to play live - you cannot ask for a more tuneful and amusing tribute to Zappa mad invention... wonderful from start to finish.

also check apostrophe(') for more of frank's best vocals and more mad funky soul.

An intro to Zappa
This is the perfect way to introduce yourself to multiple talents of Frank Zappa. Guitarist, Composer, Songwriter and Satirist.

The track listing is:
Camarillo Brillo
I'm The Slime
Dirty Love
Fifty-Fifty
Zomby Woof
Dinah-Moe-Humm
Montana

The lyrics are frequently very near the knuckle (especially on Dinah-Moe-Humm), but they are also very funny and pertinent to today's society. Take 'I'm the Slime' as an example:

"I'm the tool of the Government, an industry tool, for I am destined to rule, and regulate you, I may be vile and pernicious but you can't look away, I make you think I'm delicious, with the stuff that I say, I'm the best you can get have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out from your TV set"

Bare in mind this written over 30 years ago, and you can see that Zappa was on the ball. Of course it's true he lived in the US where the awfulness of TV was way ahead of us! Whilst the songs may be near the mark, this is one of Zappa's more catchy albums.

With Ian Underwood, George Duke and Jean-Luc Ponty in the band the standard of musicianship is also very high. Listen to Fifty Fifty and Camarillo Brillo as examples. Zappa will not be to everybody's taste but this is as a good a way to start as I know.

If you're still not sure, try the cheap compilations Cheap Thrills and Son of Cheap Thrills.