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<H1>Frank Zappa - Apostrophe -- Discipline Global Mobile Shopping Cart</H1> One of Zappa's most commercially successful albums. <IMG SRC="https://store.nexternal.com/dgm/images/apostrophe.jpg" ALIGN=right ALT="Frank Zappa - Apostrophe" NAME="Frank Zappa - Apostrophe" BORDER=0 HSPACE=10> Personnel: Frank Zappa (vocals, guitar, bass); Tony Duran (guitar); Sugar Cane Harris, Jean-Luc Ponty (violin); Napoleon Murphy Brock (saxophone, background vocals); Ian Underwood (saxophone); George Duke (keyboards); Jack Bruce, Erroneous, Tom Fowler (bass); Jim Gordon, Johnny Guerin, Ralph Humphrey, Aynsley Dunbar (drums); Ruth Underwood (percussion); Ray Collins, Kerry McNabb, Susie Glover, Debbie, Lynn, Ruben Ladron De Guevara, Robert "Frog" Camarena (background vocals).Engineers include: Steve Desper, Terry Dunavan, Barry Keene. Digitally remastered by Bob Stone.One of Zappa's most commercially successful albums, APOSTROPHE is also among his goofiest. The album found its way to the semi-mainstream chiefly on the strength of "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow"'s scatological humor, and the cheap jokes that were part of Zappa's stock in trade abound here, on tracks like the self-explanatory "Stink-Foot." Part of Zappa's genius though, much like that of Gong's Daevid Allen, was to deflate his sophisticated instrumental excursions and conceptual work with lowbrow humor and downright silliness. Nowhere is that process more apparent than on APOSTROPHE.The typically large band (including violin and horns) that accompanies Zappa here follows him through daunting twists and turns as tempos get turned around and counterpoint riffs bounce off each other at breakneck speed. In the midst of all this instrumental facility, Zappa's satirical side is well-represented, as on the bluesy "Cosmik Debris," where he casts aspersions on the guru concept. APOSTROPHE finds Zappa at a peak, where he was still successfully mingling humor with harmonic exploration and yet succumbed to the excesses of neither. Track Listing: 1. Don't Eat The Yellow Snow 2. Nanook Rubs It 3. St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast 4. Father O'Blivion 5. Cosmik Debris 6. Excentrifugal Forz 7. Apostrophe' 8. Uncle Remus 9. 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