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Frank Zappa β One Size Fits All
Itβs almost impossible for me to pick a particular favorite Frank Zappa record but when I was younger, this record was like an oasis. I had gone through this beautiful phase where I was introduced β by a friend of mine β to all the progressive rock music of the seventies β like Deep Purple, Queen, Jethro Tull and Emerson Lake and Palmer and it was all really great because it had distinct compositional elements to it. But when I heard Frank Zappa, it had something that nothing else had: it had comedy, it had these really long visceral solos, and the melodies were richer and more compositional than anything else that I was listening to. How could you compare βInca Roadsβ with anything else? So that record was one of those was one of those rare gifts in a personβs life that changes the quality of life forever.