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Cannonball With Hat 
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Three classic jazz-fusion albums by Mr. Zappa, all of which are excellent IMO. So which do you prefer, the hot and heavy Hot Rats, the bigger and jazzier The Grand Wazoo, or the sadly overlooked Waka/Jawaka?
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Prog Geo
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Posted: 18 Apr 2011 at 4:48pm |
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Hot rats!
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triceratopsoil
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Posted: 18 Apr 2011 at 4:57pm |
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Hot Rats has a few songs I like better than anything on the others, but overall it's Grand Wazoo for me
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Posted: 18 Apr 2011 at 5:42pm |
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I like them all, and Waka/Jawaka does get overlooked quite a lot. I'll give it my vote this time.
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darkshade
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Posted: 18 Apr 2011 at 6:49pm |
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Waka/Jawaka is overlooked, but it's because the Grand Wazoo overshadows it, and did what it did better than WJW. I also think Hot Rats is a little overrated.
The Grand Wazoo for me, but all 3 are classic fusion from the master |
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Abraxas
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Posted: 18 Apr 2011 at 7:01pm |
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Grand Wazoo for Blessed Relief and Eat that Question, two of the finest Zappa compositions. The title track is excellent, a pitty it drags a tad bit and even repeats its great guitar riff that for me would have been better with only one appearance.
Hot Rats is great, though for me it'll always be a different deal compared to the big-bands of Wazoo and Jawaka.
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darkshade
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Posted: 18 Apr 2011 at 7:05pm |
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This trilogy had 2 off-shoots, of sorts. Imaginary Diseases and Wazoo. Both are phenomenal live albums based mostly on Waka and Grand Wazoo type stuff (big band).
If those 2 albums were part of the poll, I'd have had a harder time deciding which is best |
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Cannonball With Hat
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Posted: 18 Apr 2011 at 10:43pm |
I thought about adding them...but didn't feel it was in the true spirit of the poll, which I was looking at studio albums. Besides I can't call it a trilogy with five albums.
 But those two in a seperate poll...hmm...
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Posted: 19 Apr 2011 at 1:42am |
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Hot Rats
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Posted: 19 Apr 2011 at 8:07am |
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Tough one... i went for Jaka, because it had fewer votes
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Posted: 19 Apr 2011 at 12:59pm |
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Hot Rats for me.
 Still enjoy the other two though. That reminds me, I still haven't got round to getting that live Wazoo era album that came out last year.
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darkshade
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Posted: 19 Apr 2011 at 1:08pm |
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The live Wazoo (came out in 2007 i think) is awesome. Better than ID, and shows FZ going deeper into the "jazz" realm of those classic 1972 albums; more improvisation and such, but also features an early symphonic version of The Adventures of Greggary Peccary, with jazz improv in between the 4 movements.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2011 at 10:43pm |
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Hot Rats by a fairly large margin though I enjoy them all.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2011 at 10:57pm |
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It would have to be Wazoo because I was a Zappa virgin untill I heard it. It took my cherry. I went on to love the others but it was my first.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2011 at 2:20am |
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The Grand Wazoo, is also very good.
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Posted: 20 Apr 2011 at 10:11am |
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Had to be Hot Rats - that got me into Zappa
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Posted: 22 Apr 2011 at 8:30pm |
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Hot Rats
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"If you're trying to be hip, be hip." - Miles Davis
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Posted: 22 Apr 2011 at 8:35pm |
Only because Jean Luc's on there
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Posted: 28 Apr 2011 at 8:40am |
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All three are good but Grand Wazoo is special.
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Posted: 29 Apr 2011 at 5:35am |
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Wow not much love for Waka/ Jawaka
 . Well it gets my vote. I´ve always loved that one.
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