Studio Tan [Import] [Limited Edition]

studio tan [import] [limited edition]

Track Listings

1. Adventures of Greggery Peccary
2. Revised Music for Guitar and Low-Budget Orchestra [Instrumental]
3. Lemme Take You to the Beach
4. RDNZL

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Japanese exclusive reissue of 1978 album. Limited to 2,000 pieces, it's packaged in a miniature LP sleeve.

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Studio Tan
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • You Get The Weenies
  • One of Zappa's very finest
  • A Great Zappa Tour-de-Farce
  • A Great Album, Plain and Simple
  • Soft/Hard/Hard/Hard...But the soft is 25 minutes of an LP!
Studio Tan
Frank Zappa
Manufacturer: Zappa Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000009ST
Release Date: 1995-05-02

Tracks:

  1. The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary
  2. Revised Music For Guitar And Low-Budget Orchestra
  3. Lemme Take You To The Beach
  4. RDNZL

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars You Get The Weenies.......2007-07-17

The packaging is just awful and I almost subtracted a star for it. But the music is good. Greggery Peccary is a narrated story accompanied with character dialog and singing. It's a bit like Billy the Mountain only the music is much more sophisticated. Billy and Ethel actually make a guest appearance somewhere in the Short Forest. This is a slap on Madison Avenue types who use psychology to manipulate the dumb, unsuspecting American masses. Some of it seems a bit corny but it is humorous. Revised Music for Guitar and Low Budget Orchestra is quite interesting. This one includes orchestral passages that reminds me an awful lot of the guitar solo for Inca Roads - in some places it sounds note-for-note like the guitar playing on Inca Roads from YCDTOSA Vol 2. Lemme Take You to the Beach will make you smile, especially the first time you hear it. RNDZL is very good too. Given that lousy packaging, I was pleasantly surprised that this was very much in the mold of the stuff Zappa was doing in 1974 with his Roxy Band. It isn't as good as Roxy & Elsewhere or One Size Fits All (2 releases from the era in which this was recorded) but it's still worth owning. Gotta Go! "vwooden! vwooden!"

5 out of 5 stars One of Zappa's very finest.......2006-02-25

This CD is an excellent intro to the many facets of Zappa's art. It contains some of his funniest (and least cruel) humor, an outstanding 1950s takeoff, two instrumental masterpieces, and a generous helping of his uniquely beautiful guitar playing. You wont regret adding this to your collection!

5 out of 5 stars A Great Zappa Tour-de-Farce.......2005-05-26

Next to Overnight Sensation and Apostrophe, this is my favorite Zappa album, despite how different it is from the other two. This CD is freakin hilarious. I still nearly pee myself listening to The Adventures of Greggery Peccery, not just from lines like "Here was a gregarious wild swine on his way up" or "dancing to a 50 foot high pile of transistor radios, each tuned to a different station", but from the ridiculously dissonant, circus-like instrumental passages that at first sound like a marching band of 5-year-olds, until you realize how astoundingly intricate and tight they are (which is what makes them so funny). The same musical shenanigans can be heard on the two instrumental pieces. And of course the howlingly funny send-up of surf music, Lemme Take You to the Beach. Altogether a great, but not well-known, Zappa gem.

5 out of 5 stars A Great Album, Plain and Simple.......2005-02-25

Although I have yet to purchase this one on CD, I have an original vinyl of it. When I popped it on the spindle and lowered the arm, the sounds that came out were amazing. True, "Greggery Peccary" is a bit long--but it's still fantastic. A complete story, full of FZ conceptual continuity and fun makes this monster more than tolerable. Unlike the CD, Side 2 opens with "Lemme Take You To The Beach." This song (with Davey Moire on vocals) got my friends hooked on Zappa, and with Davey singing lines like "...Have a freak out/ Later we'll peak out..." what's not to love? Next up is "Revised Music..." which is worth it just for the solo doubled by trombone. The Ensemble Modern re-recorded this one on "Greggery Peccary and Other Perusasions," but the original is by and far the best. I cannot say anthing else about this track other than it's pure magic. The closer is the fantastic "RDNZL" (rumored to mean "Ruth [Underwood] Doesn't Need Zappa's Lyrics"). With its soaring marimba and false endings, this track stands out as the best song on the album. Why it was moved, I'll never fully understand. It works best as a closer based on listening to the album using the different track listing. Pay no attention to dissenters, "Studio Tan" is not only a great primer for the "full version" of "Billy The Mountain" on "Playground Psychotics" (it's 30:30!), but a great primer for Zappa. If a fan of FZ already, it's a great addition to his body of work as a composer and guitar player.

3 out of 5 stars Soft/Hard/Hard/Hard...But the soft is 25 minutes of an LP!.......2005-01-07

Greggory Peccary, is not for Cd. listen at you own peril, as it is a rock ballet. The other 3 trax are ungodly. if Peccary were 12 min instead of 29, another tune liek the last 3 would have made this a 4 star album...but due to the time constraints, this is great, but not essentiak AT FTRSt
Studio Tan
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    Studio Tan
    Frank Zappa
    Manufacturer: Vido Arts
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
    Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
    Experimental RockExperimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    Novelty MusicNovelty Music | Comedic Music | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
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    ASIN: B000063L3X
    Release Date: 2002-04-09

    Tracks:

    1. Adventures of Greggery Peccary
    2. Revised Music for Guitar and Low-Budget Orchestra [Instrumental]
    3. Lemme Take You to the Beach
    4. RDNZL

    Album Description

    Japanese exclusive reissue of 1978 album. Limited to 2,000 pieces, it's packaged in a miniature LP sleeve.

    Album Details

    Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Sleeve.. Limited Pressing of 2000 Pcs.
    Studio Tan
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      Studio Tan
      Frank Zappa
      Manufacturer: EMI Distribution
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD
      ASIN: B00000E79G
      Release Date: 1991-09-24

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