Comments on: Zappa In New York

By: Randolph the Red

Randolph the Red — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:25:19 +0000

Every song is smokin’, in the top five for sure. Besides the obvious, Purple Lagoon is fuken amazing. The Breckers are incredible.

By: mr benn

mr benn — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:41:10 +0000

Very odd sequencing. Don’t find myself listening to this one that often anymore

By: Jamez

Jamez — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:37:20 +0000

Very 70’s New York Jazz (take it or leave it), together with classic ‘disgusting’ Zappa songs, such as ‘Titties and Beer’ and ‘The Illinois Enema Bandit’. Plus…the first appearnce of the world-famous..RAY WHITE!!

By: bob

bob — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 04:14:45 +0000

10 out of 10.
top notch performance + recording.
worth purchasing for purple lagoon alone.
cruising for burgers is totally gorgeous - in a trashy sort of way.

4wt

By: chad

chad — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:04:19 +0000

I’ll have to admit that when I was gazing at a used copy of this at a store I almost didn’t buy it. Even though I was amazed to find anything buy Zappa secondhand. I looked at the song titles and thought I understood why. Titties and Beer, I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth, Illinois Enema Bandit and so on, I figured this was one of Zappa’s pervert albums that I was not at all interested in. I’m glad I took the chance. This is one of my favs. Did he have a band that was as gifted as this one? I Promise… ends up being one of the man’s most interesting instumentals and Titties still makes me giggle every time I listen. As a guitar player I really enjoy his playing on this album. It has some of his most focused leads ever.

By: Frunobulax

Frunobulax — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 07:36:15 +0000

As I’ve never heard an original vinyl, and only have the Ryko release and Läther I cannot be nostalgic with the way the album originally was. However, I love this album–except for 2 major hiccups in this machine. The fact that FZ overdubbed racous guitar on ‘Punky’s Whips’ and mixed Eddie Jobson soooo low on ‘The Black Page Drum Solo/Black Page #1′ make the versions on Läther THAT much better. In spite of this, all the bonus tracks and the full version of ‘Titties and Beer’ make this great. I know about these features thanks to various sources. In my opinion, both Black Pages, ‘I Promise…’ and the piccolo on ‘BP #2′ (it’s there behind the heavy bass) make this album truly great. I could easily write a book on the facets of both Black Pages (especially #2), but that would be a waste of time on this website.

By: abe

abe — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 05:48:37 +0000

this album is excellent. i think it is an intro to zappa album (at least of this era). great great jamming guitar work on cruisin for burgers, great energy in titties and beer. a very entertaining enema bandit. and patrick o hearn’s bass solo at the end (purple lagoon) is very liquid like.

By: xorg

xorg — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:46:51 +0000

Up there with Uncle Meat as one of FZ’s most musically accomplished albums. Very useful for introducing people to Zappa. There MUST be more of this line-up on tape in the vaults.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:59:54 +0000

I think this is one of his best albums ever (though not as good as “the best band you never heard in your life”). The versions of “The Illinois Enema Bandit” (with the fantastic intro by Don Pardo), “The Torture Never Stops” and “I’m The Slime” (again Don Pardo) are sublime, great band, great solo’s, all you want! This album thought me that flute (Lou Marini) can sound beautiful, ’cause for my generation (born ‘78) Berdine Steinberg screwed up the ability to like flute. It’s one of those albums you can keep on playing time after time!

By: Balint

Balint — Sun, 09 Nov 2003 02:44:52 +0000

I just found out, that in december 76 they always played The Black Page nr. 2 BEFORE nr. 1, and Nr. 1 was a part of Pound For A Brown… Hm, interesting… (from FZshows homepage)