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Title: good on LP, great on CD
Review: I've owned this one for 25 years or so, originally on LP. On LP this one was merely very good. The sound on the LP was very thin. The CD has much improved sound quality, and it has several tracks not on the LP. The infamous "Punky's Whips" was censored off the original LP. "Cruising for Burgers" and "Pound for a Brown" are very different from the Uncle Meat versions and great. "I Am the Slime" has Zappa doing half the vocals over vampire movie type music and then Don Pardo, the announcer from the original Saturday Night Live, hollering the other half. The added tracks and improved sound make all the difference!This album and "Roxy and Elsewhere" are great examples of his "Big Band" sound. The band includes Ray White, one of FZ's best vocalists, and Randy Becker on trumpet and Michael Brecker on tenor tax. They do great solos on "Purple Lagoon", although FZ somehow found it necessary to mess up the trumpet solo with sound treatments. Overall very good.
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