Frank Zappa - Son Of Mr Green Genes

[@carineii6747]

This was so ahead of its time, it's just incredible. Zappa is the greatest composer of the 20th century. No but seriously, listen to that gem. It's such a complex music only a genius like Zappa could write. My entire body gets paralyzed listening to this.

[@calcifieddirt4120]

There's such a unique energy here that can't really be explained. It sounds like a jazz fusion interpretation of marching band music.

[@stephenlancaster7038]

Amazing album one of the best

[@AlexakaRosco]

It’s the song that gives me shivers down my spine. Bumps & twirling

[@oompaloompadoompa-de-doo3614]

It sounds like Tom Jones meets jazz meets something completely original and new and unexplainable to me. Very mind opening and enlightening, whatever that means

[@diegoquintero6878]

Pfffffffff

[@Pavlo_Ovcharuk]

You said exactly what i think, maaaan!!!

[@jonmeltzer1361]

Let's not forget here Mr. Ian Underwood on all the keyboards and all the horns.

[@ivanhozjan7137]

Yeah, some time ago I was learning all these different parts from "Peaches en Regalia" to play my poor solo guitar version when I'm bored at home, and I have to say... Damn, how did that poor guy survive those sessions.

[@emilyoshiro]

A very dynamite show

[@canadianstudmuffin]

His guitar work in this song is amazing!

[@frankschmersahl8070]

Truly

[@stephenlancaster7038]

Agree amazing

[@jeantourigny9114]

A revolutionary genius, a Maestro, a accurate critic of the american society and its political hypocrisy.

[@aaronbaraiya3692]

man this stuff was way ahead of its time

[@johnhiggins7530]

For all the haters of Zappa out there, so much joy in this music

[@yeano2759]

I listen to frank zappa every day with my dad he's AWESOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[@cooliereese6952]

Tiny Paws, well, just like frank, dad's aren't around forever, so enjoy em while you can.

[@lightman22]

@@cooliereese6952 so sincere

[@oompaloompadoompa-de-doo3614]

Wish my dad was that cool

[@deeg8849]

A great artist and an even greater American.

[@lennypersonalized]

Wish I had neighbors like that.

[@chenarch]

Symphonic. A lot of people talked about rock becoming "high art," but Zappa really came the closest with the Hot Rats arrangements.

[@robbie4860]

The world STILL misses Frank in 2022!!

[@stonedapesociety5628]

Every single Zappa's song is a masterpiece!!!

[@Odlaw1337]

I"M GLAD WE ALL APPRECIATE THIS !

[@joseortiz2404]

thats right

[@PauliePinch13]

Frank was a musical genius. Also, his guitar playing on this composition is top notch.

[@viniciusalmeida7062]

Probably the best song of all time.

[@theresa42213]

GREAT song. However, there is too much other Zappa to say that just _one_ of his songs are the best. lt sure is lovely though.

[@macknighter]

You misspeled `surely`

[@danmoth5126]

If a really wierd angel came down and told me I could only listen to this tune, Peaches en Regalia, Florentine Pogen and Inca Roads for the rest of my life, I reckon I’d be fine with it.

[@dantean]

Easy now.

[@pacerjp]

It doesn't suck

[@johnhiggins7530]

I should also add I love jazz

[@howardmoon1444]

This man is the greatest composer of the passed 100 years

[@oompaloompadoompa-de-doo3614]

Howard Moon in terms of complexity, you’re probably right

[@davids.3534]

Howard Moon - second best.

[@denrosz]

@@davids.3534 Who's your # 1 ???

[@davids.3534]

@@denrosz Miles.

[@denrosz]

@@davids.3534 I was lucky to see FZ 4 times here in the Detroit area. Did you catch Miles guesting during the encore on NYE 1987 at Paisley park with a huge admirer of his, Prince? The DVD is part of the SOTT Super Deluxe release last Friday. Half the show circulated around on VHS for the last 18 years. The band missed Prince's cue and he shot them a look. The band said they weren't paying attention, because they were all in awe of Miles. Prince's keyboard player said it wasn't like half the band missed Prince's cue, it was the whole damn band. They couldn't believe they were sharing the same stage with Miles. Cool story !!! Here's the link to the show: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJDEcqidlLWji68 Miles plays during the last song which begins about 138:30.

[@uncadoug2715]

I will never grow tired of hearing this masterpiece. I also never (EVER) thought, I could point to one Zappa song, and say definitively, without a doubt “THIS is his best work”...but here I am today typing this out😂...a true musical genius👌

[@uncadoug2715]

Okay, I’m back after only 5 days to say “this is still really good, BUT...”Inca Roads” is probably the better song” Stay tuned...😎

[@aaronbaraiya3692]

@@uncadoug2715 lmao, how are you doing now?

[@uncadoug2715]

@@aaronbaraiya3692 well, I had the musical genius part right! Obviously I meant to say “Blessed Relief”

[@aaronbaraiya3692]

@@uncadoug2715 lol, thats a good song

[@uncadoug2715]

@@aaronbaraiya3692 lately I’ve been considering “Apostrophe” as the front runner🙌

[@TubawithLegs]

This wonderful relic of music makes homework so much easier.

[@Pages394]

Totally agree lol

[@TubawithLegs]

It's so creative.

[@rampa125521]

makes my hanging washing easier too......

[@bridgmjm]

Love ya Katie the Prog

[@nipplesuckermothertrucker8398]

The drums and guitar in this song is phenomenal. Frank Zappa sure is a musical genius.

[@emylrmm]

perhaps the best track on this album

[@woogs1956]

The best I ever saw or heard. I lived in Ny till '83 and saw Frank close to 30 times, sometimes 3 times on a weekend, awesome. Saw Dweezil a few yeas back at the Beacon theater in NY, great concert. I drove 300 miles for that one. RIP Frank, you were the greatest!!

[@kleban10]

sounds so much later than 1969. i love it

[@Bainbridge40]

Every time I listen to this I just get so caught up in the groove...I love it.

[@napomania]

i particularly love the point at @2:00 where during the organ solo the guitar solo grows up in the background and the song comes in one of his peak of drama/pathos

[@agentebonapartista]

This is life.

[@sergdraws]

This is my second Frank Zappa song. Still can't believe this is the same guy who made "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?". Honestly thought you couldn't get any better than that.

[@aaronbaraiya3692]

lmao

[@ramonpujalscavalle6526]

There is so much power, brilliance, melody and thrust in this song that really cannot be taken lightly. This is a peak of western pop music.

[@johnhiggins7530]

I love classical music and this is some of my favourite

[@710hiopyschonaut9]

We need another musical legends like zapa in this day of age no more rappers

[@johnhiggins7530]

Greatest opening riff ever

[@frankszappaschin]

one of the most technical songs ever made.

[@59wsulli1]

miss you so much Frank.....

[@AColbertHero]

This song is epic. Just sit back and close your eyes and you will be taken on a musical voyage.....

[@raulcruces7643]

Que bien me siento con la música del Maestro de Maestros bendiciones donde estés Me Zappa.

[@jessicaamber6623]

I hate pretentious solos but Frank....ahhh...could listen to him solo all day and night.

[@normameza5227]

Best guitar player ever!

[@johnb6080]

All year..

[@j7dharma]

@@johnb6080 Zappa Music goes around in my head forever. It is one of the few that do and interprets the way I move though my life. I love Zappa.

[@joshstiehl1170]

But this ain't pretentious, baby. Just a sweet mofuggin jam

[@kurtsvendsby4436]

@@normameza5227 å....what feelings I get.

[@Specksworld]

I can't wait to see DZ do this one!

[@PJBubbles]

He every guitar part note for note..spectacular! 👍👍👍

[@janosvass3525]

Ez a zene abban azévben született amikor én. Ide, magyarországra a 80as évek közepén jutott el. Azonnal magával ragadott. Ilyen összetett zenei stílust addig még nem hallottam. Nem beszélem az angol nyelvet, ezért a dalok szövegeiből semmit sem értettem. Még is, a kamasz korom Frank Zappa zenéjének bűvöletében telt. Szerintem ez is azt bizonyítja, hogy zseniális muzsikus volt. Son Of Mr Free Genius

[@Totema1]

Real talk, I love this pretty much as much as Peaches

[@soup_is_good_food5743]

This is a really great composition -- there are a lot of parts and they all fit together really well. I really like this era of Zappa's music -- strong composition and strong performances together. Later it became all about the guitar solos, but at this point there was no single instrument taking center stage.

[@andythomas706]

The guitar is going straight into the desk. This album raised the bar in so many ways!

[@hotstove6539]

I really dig the bass in this song. Who is the musician?

[@AlecKronicle]

sooo sooo soooooooooo gooooooooooddddddddddd. who knew an assault on the senses could be so stimulating. zappa is one of the best musicians of the last century, hands down

[@dougjeffries68]

A great jam from an amazing album.

[@aaronbaraiya3692]

THE SHEIK HIMSELF IS HERE!!! I thought you were dead?

[@mikevlade4221]

doorkeys please.

[@anthonycurtola]

Genius at work. My god that's forever beautiful!

[@ruklick]

Yes man! I've spent the last couple of months watching everything and anything that Frank has to say. he is one of the most intelligent people and articulaate speakers that the modern world has come to know. It is so very sad that he past away so young because I think he would have made a great polotician and I believe he was headed that way. Everything he says is purely logicl and his kids seemed to have turned out perfectly, so I believe his views about all those issues R dead right

[@christianugolini8493]

indescriptiblement génial

[@ThePappadeux]

Remember seeing FZ at Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia, MD right around the time Valley Girl came out. Went by myself and when he played Carmarillo Brillo I almost fell right over - awesome !!!

[@northof-62]

Pure genius and mastery of harmony

[@chriscollins570]

Masterpiece symphonic jam!

[@evancodsworth2]

This is the first song I think of when I think of Frank Zappa.

[@Ken-fw9dh]

Knocks ordinary rock into the trash can, this is perfection. What A RIP

[@winstonsmith9533]

Breaks my heart this man is gone. What loss!!

[@carmelodevisu1464]

minute 7:09 makes my mind blow. i sing along every single note of the song and that piece is something i cannot explain, makes me freak out.

[@Thisistrulyus]

Nothing was better than seeing an extreemly excited six year old at a ZPZ concert. I was amung three of the youngest people there. A six year old, a twelve year old and I was there a week after I turned thirteen.

[@ntxmt]

FZ is awesome. The way he incorporates all those instruments into his song is genius. The songs are great. He is truly missed.

[@stephenlancaster7038]

Still a fantastic album all these years on

[@dennisorfield9198]

i love this song !!

[@aaronbaraiya3692]

yeah, its my fav album

[@skunkmonkey3365]

Man, that passage from about 5:50-ish scrambles my brain so beautifully.. Every time!

[@sbed54]

hear my first zappa tune at 3 am woke up to montana at 15 years old , am now 60 and a can;t enought . My Hero

[@PeaceNirvana1912]

sbed54 don't mean to come off as rude, but the math here doesn't make sense, and it's really messin with me!

[@CollectionOfSpirals]

I'm 21 and I discovered Zappa 5 years ago. I have one thing to say - WHAT TOOK SO LONG? better late than never though

[@aaronbaraiya3692]

how r u now?

[@SirXander]

Musical awesomeness itself. Zappa was an epic musical genius.

[@4QBUD]

I sure miss Fronk Zappa. He was an Amazing Man (from what I have read about him) and a Musical Genius (From what I've heard of his Music) Some of my friends called me Uncle Meat in High School because I wouldn't shut the hell up about Zappa/

[@4QBUD]

Aldo Duque Finally, Someone! hahaha

[@corinnedominique9167]

+Mr Sardonicus Haha, oh my god, I'm the same! Can't seem to shut up about him either... And I have no plans of doing so. I try to surround myself with other Zappa-fans, or just musicians, who might have some way of understanding this little obsession of mine. In late october I'm going to see Zappa plays Zappa for the first time... (I am 23 years old)

[@4QBUD]

Corinne Dominique Last time I had been to see Frank, he was at Merriweather Post Pavilion in 84 I think. I've never seen Dweezil play live. I hope it's as great as his dad's Concerts.

[@corinnedominique9167]

+Mr Sardonicus Yeah, I know that Frank died. That's right, Dweezil has carried on the legacy of his father's music by touring with the group Zappa Plays Zappa.

[@4QBUD]

Corinne Dominique I had seen it on the Net, but never had the pleasure of seeing Frank's kids play. I know it'll be great./ Have fun. I edited my post because I didn't pay attention to that Zappa plays Zappa line. Sorry about that. I have dyslexia and miss lots of stuff,

[@janknibbeler8727]

Zappa the genius

[@danielslapcoff2255]

his work kept getting more and more complex and creative. He is such a genius that he managed to fit A LOT of sarcasm in his ultra-sophistacated compositions

[@ruklick]

my high school R&R band had a marimba player and we smoked, so I LOVE the marimbas too, the horns and synthesizers as well as the synclavier (sp?) sorry to turn this into a "chat". But I've found it wonderful that I have saved this complex music for this time of my life.I have a whole new respect for FZ and a seemlessly endless catalog of music to dive into. plus I love listening to his interviews.His genius is propped up by common sense. Oh if he were here now w the technology of today! Thanks!

[@kyonkochan]

50 Years and still going strong. Hello from the past for the 100, 150, and 200th anniversaries.

[@alvarodiaz163]

A finales de 1974 escuche por primera vez esta canción interpretada por el guitarrista colombiano Ferdie Fernandez, quien fue guitarrista líder de la banda Columna de Fuego de Colombia, un clásico y una gran canción del maestro Francis Vincent Zappa.

[@negosiandogasolina]

the best composition in the history of music

[@messiapesta]

Thanks Zappa

[@ruklick]

Dirty Love? See that is Interesting. I just had breakfast with both my bros. I'm 45 and they R aproaching 50. They seem to like the songs with the insanely funny lyrics like yellow Snow, Camerillo Brillo, Bobby Brown, etc. When I was learning guitar and finding new music I loved peaches en Regalia. Loved the jamming, but not much more. I never was big with synthesizers or horns. But NOW I collect vintage analog gear like pedals and analog synth type stuff, & amps. Zappa embraced the gear I love

[@francescomazzella5940]

Genius!

[@CollectionOfSpirals]

This album is his masterpiece imo

[@walrtbstudios5430]

One of my favourite FZ compositions, and something of a rarity- I cannot think of another occasion on which Uncle Frank solos over what is effectively a twelve-bar blues (I-IV-V) pattern. He almost invariably soloed over a repeating two-note bassline- even when the rest of the piece was considerably more complex (cf ‘Inca Roads’).

[@gunnarsigursson3096]

This song gets stuck in my head every now and then. I'ts not bad...

[@lirvana2]

One of the most perfect songs on Hot Rats..

[@LetterToVoltaire]

Untouchable.....

[@starx911]

I heard this album so much growing up.

[@EmielM94]

It feels like he is having a good day out and suddenly at 1:20 he is trapped by some bullies. He has to battle them and is guitaring his way out of it. And then finally at 7:52 when the piano overrules the other instruments, he is finally free and he can go back home.

[@oompaloompadoompa-de-doo3614]

EmielM94 are you speaking from experience? I hope all those bullies get VD 🤣

[@aaronbaraiya3692]

@@oompaloompadoompa-de-doo3614 catholic girls

[@TomateFouree]

5:55 - 6:28 epicest shit ever

[@aidanmca4177]

0:00-9:02*

[@BlackRecoil]

Aidan McA madvillainnn

[@DX7036]

Cheerful , playful , beautiful. Frank Zappa's music in other words. It also has a certain nostalgic feel to It , the R&B bit at 6:54 for example...like he's mixing all the music of his youth paying respects to it , yes he always did but in this particular case it all sounds a bit nostalgic and innocent to my ears.

[@jro161]

I thoroughly enjoy every instrument being played on this song, but Zappa's extended guitar solo's are so fucking good. Still blow's me away every time I hear it.

[@AngeloBuffalo]

A great genius of the 20th century

[@paolamarin2677]

Love Zappa!

[@ruklick]

I am a musician nd I think yolu are absolutely right. There is so much information and the music is highly advanced that it really takes some type of musical understanding to appreciate this great music. I like to say it is rock and roll for adults. Although both of my older brothers are and always have been fans and they are not musicians. I think they really related to the lyrics and they "got" the humor. And again, the humor is sofisticated and much of it relates to actual thing that occured

[@ruklick]

... until just this year to come back to frank Zapps music and really to understand it. I saw him twice when I was young. Once front row center in 1988, Auditorium Theater, Chicago. I always appreciated his guitar work, but NOW I understand the whole picture. This is ADULT ROCK AND ROLL. When I heard his take on Hey Joe (we're only in it for the money) I laughed my ASS off because- and I grew up a hippie- but he's right: hippies are dirty and self indulgent and guess what- drugs ARE bad. so in..

[@jeffreysiegel9125]

This tune is indelibly carved in my brain! And I don't mind it being ther, at all!!!

[@demetriustebet3786]

In a class of his own, a true musical genius...

[@DelgiftC08]

Nothing like being stopped in the street because of the understanding people may have between each other. Generally those conversations become memorable and they can hardly go wrong. :)

[@ramirocuellar4663]

estoy aprendiendo a tocar esta magnífica canción en el trombón!! 😄😃😊

[@blzbob7936]

Literally timeless. As many of Franks tracks are.

[@Dobie_Gillis]

Genius at work. It was all one work in progress to him. One huge piece with so many movements. He ascribed titles so we could follow along. The count is somewhere around 1500.

[@skidzholeshot1316]

AWESOME AS USUAL

[@Lydialivermore]

thanks frank

[@gabrielm81]

magician

[@xmusebeansx6154]

blown away every time.

[@petercook360]

5:55 the sustained chords on the keys sound similar to a section on Can's TAGO MAGO, maybe on the track "Oh Yeah." This predates that record by a couple years.

[@DelgiftC08]

I´d recommend songs like "We Are Not Alone", "Montana", "I´m The Slime", "Sharleena", "Bamboozled by Love", "Black Napkins", "Watermelon In Easter Hay" and many more.

[@dealius]

A TRUE GENIUS

[@signalservice5607]

Genius