This dynamic live album is a masterpiece of arrangement and musicianship.  The songs on R&E reflect Zappa's love affair with the absurd.  Through this absurdity, however, emerges an album of astonishing sophistication.  Jaw-dropping musicianship and tightly-constructed instrumental interludes  blanket the album.  Zappa gets very bluesy and heavy on the R&E record.  "Penguin in Bondage", "More Trouble Every Day", and  "Son of Orange County" bring slinky rhythms, performed by a world  class rhythm section.  "Village of the Sun", one of the album's  many highlights, reveals a lovely vocal and pudding-like(!) texture.  PEOPLE OF AMERICA!  LISTEN TO ZAPPA!  YOU'LL LOVE IT!  IT'S A WAY OF LIFE!