Frank Zappa - Over-Nite Sensation CD (album) cover   Frank Zappa
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Honorary Collaborator 3 stars The music of FRANK ZAPPA is an
acquired taste, no question about that. A taste that I haven't
been able to acquire, I must say.  For the sake of brevity, I'll
just say that I can feel there's a genius at work when I listen
to this album (and most of ZAPPA's music, especially "Hot Rats")
but I can't lie and say it's something that gets to me, to what
makes me tick. The strong americana flavor, the excessive
humour, the disdain for singing (extremelt related to the last
point), I'm not sure what it is that stops me from enjoying this
artist's offer. I can detect the jazz, I can detect the
knowledge of music and the use of dissonances and complex time
signatures, and I appreciate all of that.  I just can't see a
song in all of this. And as in any kind of music that bears the
word rock in its title, I al