"Uncle Meat" isn't the easiest album to sink into, but once you do, you may never come out. It's a remarkable blend of Eric Dolphy/Ornette Coleman free jazz, on-the-road rants and hijinks, and just plain Zappa  goofiness. As has been noted, Zappa did put a 35-minute sample of dialogue  from the movie on CD number 2 -- by all means skip it; it's worthless. (As  anyone who has seen 200 Motels knows, Zappa had no business making movies.)  But the rest of this work is a spontaneous masterpiece that (almost) never  stops pushing the envelope. Despite the casual atmosphere, one senses in  Zappa a man who never ceases to demand the very best from his musicians. He  asks them to do the impossible and on this record, it sounds like he gets  it.