Threesome No. 1 [Box set]

Threesome No. 1 [Box set]

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The first three Mothers albums, released between June 1966 and March 1968, come packaged as a ruthless, mind-bending, (and now, midline) monster. During this period of remarkable and unprecedented creativity, Zappa and the Mothers produced ambitious, far-ranging, unsettling, provocative, and wholly original psychedelic rock--simultaneously ridiculing psychedelic rock as they raised it to a completely new level. The musical trail brilliantly meandered (bulldozed?) through garage rock, groovy R&B, avant-garde jazz, blissful pop, and patchwork sonic experimentalism. Lyrically, Zappa delivered serious political and social commentary in ways that were completely nonsensical; he delivered utter nonsense in ways that were completely sober. In the process, he left no sub-sect of society unscathed, impaling hippies, capitalists, police, and anyone else he could think of. From 1966's Freak Out! through the following year's Absolutely Free to 1968's crowning We're Only in It for the Money, Zappa and crew provided a creepy and menacing counterpoint to flower-power optimism, and did it using the counterculture's own psychedelic language. Together these three albums form the ultimate bad trip trilogy. --Marc Greilsamer

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