Over-Nite Sensation: Frank Zappa: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Camarillo Brillo

2. I'm The Slime

3. Dirty Love

4. Fifty-Fifty

5. Zombie Woof

6. Dinah-Moe Humm

7. Montana

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Best known for the infamous "Dinah-Mo-Hum"--a tale of sexual depravity and bovine perspiration-- Over-Nite Sensation is a flawlessly executed collection of jazz-rock Frank Zappa classics. The seven-song set, which includes backup vocals by Tina Turner and the Ikettes, equally showcases Zappa's unique penchant for storytelling and the abilities of his studio-musician sidemen. Zappa's guitar work is also some of his finest, flaring up on "I'm the Slime", "Zomby Woof" and "Montana". Andrew Boscardin

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Over-Nite Sensation regroupe très judicieusement quelques-uns des plus grands classiques jazz-rock de Frank Zappa. Ce recueil de sept morceaux, sur certains desquels figurent d'excellentes prestations vocales de Tina Turner et des Ikettes, illustre aussi bien les talents de conteur de Zappa que la classe de ses musiciens de studio. La guitare hors pair de Zappa enflamme des titres comme "I'm The Slime", "Zomby Woof" et "Montana." --Andrew Boscardin

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pass the zircon encrusted tweezers, thanks, July 5 2004

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Chet Fakir (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Over-Nite Sensation (Audio CD)

"Your mind is totally controlled. It has been stuffed into my mold, and you will do as you are told. Until the rights to you are sold." Has there every been a better criticism of televison than "I am the Slime?" Over-Night Sensation is the one album to have if you're not a total Zappa head. It has some of his best known (and great) songs including the silly sexual send-ups "Dina Moe Hum" and "Dirty Love": "Give me some dirty love, like some tacky little pamphlet in your Daddy's bottom drawer." I purchased ONS sometime in the last century when I was fifteen and I got in serious (...) with my Mom for cranking Dinah Moe Hum up in the house with my friends. I don't think she thought it was very funny.

I hadn't heard this album in years and just gave a listen, damn if there isn't some fantastic fusion inflected rock to be found there-in. I'd forgotten how creative the music and arrangements are. Great drumming by Ralph Humphries, the excellent keyboards of George Duke, Ruth Underwoods lightning marimba and violin courtesy of John Luc Ponty. Not to mention the marvelous bass and horn players and some of Zappa's most smoking leads ever. What a great tone he has on this album - excellent wah playing (waka jawaka). I love his distorted leads on "Zomby Woof," and of course "Moving to Montana," a song about a gentleman dental floss farmer. Its silly sure, buts its funny and has great instrumental bits and melody. Humor and real instrumental muscle equals essential Zappa.

People have criticised this album for the silly sexual songs, so what, they're funny and freaking grooving. Check out the funky backing track worthy of Sly or '70s period Miles behind the "busy" part of Dina Moe Hum. I recently saw George Clinton and the P-funk alstars and they quoted a lengthy bit of Zomby Woof! So "do as you are told" and buy this album.

"The poodle bites, the poodle chews it. Not a speck of cereal for my dog."

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5.0 out of 5 stars FZ!, Mar 18 2004

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Alejandro Caputi (dysneyland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Over-Nite Sensation (Audio CD)

Come on is a FZ! they are all good, why did i chose to review this? it was closer on the screen...
Ok, a great record, if you're looking for any CD to start with the great universe of FZ i would recommend this or "Freak Out" to see how it all started... , but this has all FZ items, sex noises, sex abuse, comedy (laughs yeah, it's good for your health ya know),irony, and punishment to that "UGLY RADIO"
-Camerillo Brillo, Some weird girl is stocking you? play her this song, i garantee you won't score
-I'm the Slime, heard it on the radio? don't so, this a punch in the face to that crapy "pop" songs you usually hear at the radio, yeah your mind is "TOTALLY CONTROLED", unless you buy this
-Dirty Love, Sex noises, FZ could put you in a comma with his DIRTY LOVE
-55, what's to say
-Dinamo-Hum, another weird girl, a groupie? just check the DVD of "Does Humor Belong in Music", she like "Twisted Siters"
Can i tell ya more? laugh, laugh, and hear FZ
Buy it!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gonna Be A Mental Toss Flycoon, Jan 5 2004

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Mad Dog "maddog6969" (TimbuckThree, Tennessee) - See all my reviews

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The myth is that if you liked the oldest Zappa albums made with the original Mothers of Invention, you were supposed to hate his stuff from this era. Well, I'm here to tell you that it's nothing but a myth. I love Freak Out, We're Only In It For The Money and all that old stuff, and I love Overnight Sensation too. This album has an interesting mix of theme and execution. The band was fully adept at the genres of guitar-driven rock and avant jazz. The song lyrics were not written to solve the world's problems, but they were instead clear descriptions of the human condition, delivered with cynical, satirical wit.

Some of the lyrics from these tunes became essential phraseology for the keepers of the faith, those that locked into this incarnation of Zappa's band. From Camarillo Brillo, it was: "Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho?" and "We did it till we were unconcho, and it was useless anymore". From Dina-moe-humm, it was: "How 'bout you, Fauna, ya wanna?" and "Sounds like you're chokin' on somethin'." And of course, "Gonna be a mental toss flycoon" from Montana.

Like Eddie said in the first Cruisers movie: "Words and music, Word-man" - and that's what makes Overnight Sensation the album it is. Not the Dylan type poetry, because that wouldn't fit Frank's music in the first place. Nope, it took one as unique as Zappa to write the incredible guitar on Dirty Love and combine it with the sexual perversions of poodle logic, yielding a masterpiece of fusion. The entire album is consistently excellent, completely complete in every way.

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