Frank Zappa-Apostrophe'/Overnight Sensation (1986)


 

Artist: Frank Zappa

Title: Apostrophe'/Overnight Sensation

Label: Rykodisc

Format: CD

Cat #:RCD 40025

Year of Release: 1986

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US BMG Cllub Edition

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 4/18/22

Sell Price: $3.99

Discogs Last Sold: 3/6/22 $4.18

Low: $3.00

Median: $4.75

Average: $5.02

High:$12.99

Current low price:$4.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 8

Have/Want: 155/19

Where Sold: Grottoes, VA

Time it took to sell: 7 years

Where and When Bought: consignment collection

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

This 2-fer early Ryko remaster combined Zappa's 1974 Apostrophe' with The Mothers' 1973 Over-Nite Sensation.  This was among the first wave of Zappa CD reissues and as the newness of CD reissues wore off they were split up to their original releases.

Although this came from a consignment collection, I also bought this in the late 80's.   I had Apostrophe' on vinyl and was happy to finally get "Dinah-Moe Humm" having heard it years before on the radio.  That and "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" were the "hit" tracks that sometimes made it on the  commercial airwaves as late as the 80's.

The albums themselves make for a nice CD pair, neither are that long.  The songs are a bit more concise than the live albums that were coming out earlier in the  70's.  As for the highlights: "Saint Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast" sets a circus tone.  The title track of Apostrophe is the standout guitar track of Apostrophe. "Stink-Foot"  and we learn about the place that keeps imaginary diseases.

As for Over-Nite Sensation, the opener "Camarillo Brillo" sounds like a Thin Lizzy melody.  As for guitar workouts they are all over the place, as expected with Zappa.  

As "commercial" as Zappa got in the 70's.  Move to Montana?

Yippie-yi-yo-tay-yay!

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