This is usually held up as 1 of Zappa's finest achievements or as a bit  excessive. I'd say the former. I've got the video of the film & very  fun though it can be fun, the album is a lot better [the reverse would be  true of 200 Motels, though much of the music there is difficult]. A long  double album is made even longer w/ film excerpts. It opens w/ Uncle Meat  (Main Title Theme), 1 of his utter best instrumental tunes up there w/  Holiday In Berlin & Peaches En regalia [off the following 2 lps], then  we have the Voice Of Cheese, as in Suzy Creamcheese aka Pamela Zarubica w/  a little bit of commentary about a European tour. A definite highlight is  Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague, simultaneously a catchy tune w/  nostalgia for a closed down football stadium & a grand composition  & technology experiment. We then have the Dog Breath Variations, as  well as a couple more preludes & variations. In the liner notes FZ  states that this is basically an instrumental album & that the words  were randomly selected from various dreams thus songs like Sleeping In A  Jar &  Electric Aunt Jemima. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus is another  memorable instrumental.  Ian Underwood Whips It Out has an amusing spoken  intro of how he got in the Mothers before setting off into pure skronkdom  w/ his sax, not very clearly recorded but a preview of his work on Hot  Rats. That album also famously reused Mr. Green Genes, a tune about eating  yr greens, yr socks & the truck they came in. The album contains little  oddities like "If We'd All Been Living In California...", Jimmy  Carl Black's complaint about never getting paid for this & having 5  kids to feed & the line between comedy & serious real life concerns  get blurred. On disc 2 of the cd version you get 2 long excerpts from the  movie [which itself has a lot of repetition of phrases like "I'm using  the chicken to measure it" & "silence fools don't you know  anything about progress?"] & a song from that which is slightly  irrelevant to the others in that it's from the 80s not the 60s, Tengo Na  Minchia Tanta & the literal meaning of that is something phallic in  Italian, then we have what was side 4 of the lp, King Kong in all its  glory, though there are about 6 or 7 titles listed, it is all sewn together  & mostly from the 1 same performance. Overall it's a very impressive  creation & the packaging w/ the glorious 12 page booklet [looks even  better in 12" format] & Cal Schenkel art & lyrics &  photos, a drawing of a giraffe listening to the radio, which must be some  very hip station since Moonlight on Vermont by Captain Beefheart & his  Magic Band is coming out of it, especially since Trout Mask wasn't even  released yet then. Whilst lyrically it doesn't say as much as We're Only In  It For the Money or Absolutely Free, musically it says more than enough  & I'm happy to pay attention. You need this.