His essentials?

dont do this

cope

imagine being so young that you need other people to tell you how good music is

Freak out is actually so good. kinda underrated

imagine wasting countless hours listening to mediocre albums because you're too stubborn to listen to a critic lmao

SAD

Broadway the Hardway is a personal favorite. Your main era of Zappa is gonna be everything released from 1966 to 1984. The most accessible stuff is probably going to be Overnite Sensation/Apostrophe and One Size Fits All, and Joes Garage. Also of you like guitat stuff then obviously Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar.

>wasting countless hours

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>these are his only good albums
what about we're only in it for the money?

Good list outside of
>200 Motels
the classical bits are a bit bland, he had far better
>Road Tapes Venus #3
Trash

also no
>Zappa in New York
the 40th ann that just dropped is solid as fuck
>Lather
you need to sit though this in all it's 3 hour glory
>Chungas Revenge
Not a bad album
>You Are What You Is
a sort of 80's version of WOIIFTM

literally everything he released between 1969-1979 is essential
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>put zoot allures and shut up n play yer guitar on the list
>he doesnt put absolutely free, uncle meat, weasels ripped my flesh, or burnt weeny sandwich

you disgust me. your taste is so atrocious that i threw up in my mouth

are you illiterate?

Add overnight sensation and you have a good launching point into Zappa. His work is wacky and sometimes uncomfortable but his guitar work is second to none.

The mothers albums, hot rats, the grand wazoo, and his mid 70's rnb albums.

Everything

Well I "did" put Apostrophe and Uncle Meat on there but since both aren't exactly my favorites I put them in as speech bubbles to be tongue-in-cheek.

Uncle Meat is an interesting listen with some really good songs like Green Genes and Living In A Jar but the rest is largely just wacky shit that kind of wears down on me. Apostrophe has a couple of good songs but it's not that good.

I think the albums that are pictured on the chart are all really fucking good, I have a mix of live and studio because the live stuff is really its own thing and are just as essential as my favorite studio albums.

Weasels and Burnt Weeny Sandwich aren't anything special to me. They just never interested me. In terms of the Mothers material Freak Out!, We're Only In It For the Money, and Fillmore East are the one's that stand out to me the most.

Everything up to Joe's Garage which is the watershed.
In itself its OK but it marks the beginning of the end.

He doesn't have any essentials. Simple as.

>lol so random: the """artist""""
cringe overload

it's all shit except for this song
youtube.com/watch?v=0ZwLSRrGHIk

Jazz from Hell is an essential late career Zappa, and massively underrated imo

"Peaches en Regalia", which is decent library music-tier groove, and "Trouble Every Day", which is historically important because it's Zappa pretending to be capable of compassion in order to get a record deal.

This and Burnt Weeny Sandwich are his absolute best

reminder that Apostrophe is shit