Pros:

album (3)

• ...it 5 stars. From the cover art to the music everything about this album is fantastic . Frank Zappa's musical genius laces this cd. Black gospel inspired...[1.0]
• ...All is one of the best lyric albums Frank made in my opinion. The album is great from start to finish. I highly recommend ANY Frank Zappa album...[1.0]
• ...the studio afterwards. While the instrumental arrangements on this album are superb , the lyrical and vocal content are somewhat lacking compared...[1.0]

albums (9)

• ...here and kept it clean, yet still scathing in its sarcasm. This album is so amazing , so beautiful, (it's making me write like a madman in a feeble...[0.9]
• ... I love this album ! I used to listen to it way back in the 80's! I had to buy it...[0.8]
• ...unto you, this album is a miracle! This one's in my top 3 of best albums ever made! This is an album of rock/bluegrass/prog/fusion/punk...[0.8]
• ...his other works. All in all, if you are new to Frank Zappa I highly recommend this album before venturing out deeper into more complicated works like...[0.8]

bands (4)

• ...All three recordings are must haves for any Zappa fan. The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life was probably a better ensemble...[0.8]
• ...This album caps 10 years of this amazing band . Encompassing blues, rock, show & jazz music, this is a zappa...[0.8]
• ...Zappa using his unique finger tapping technique. One of the best best bands he ever assembled, with George Duke on keys, and Ruth Underwood...[0.8]
• ...discs in a long, wide and varied career. Frank takes one of his best bands , including George Duke, Napoleon Murphy Brock and Ruth Underwood...[0.8]

feature set (3)

• ...goes "Po-jama people", a song with a great solo, which also features nice interplay with George Duke. It's a catchy song (again), which...[0.9]
• ...unfortunately, edited before the band really takes it away and features a great guitar solo by Frank. You wouldn't miss it only knowing from...[0.9]
• ...This is a very underrated Zappa album. Inca Roads features excellent vocals by George Duke and a truly excellent guitar solo recorded...[0.9]

general (7)

• ...it's a lifetime investment and I mean that quite seriously. I loved it when I was 3 and I still love it now. ...[1.0]
• ...his other works. All in all, if you are new to Frank Zappa I highly recommend this album before venturing out deeper into more complicated works...[1.0]
• ...tight band handles all segues and time changes effortlessly. The guitar solo here is incredible . "Can't Afford No Shoes" is a straight-ahead bluesy rocker...[1.0]
• ...Zappa name. There would be no pleasing them anyway. This is an incredible piece of music....[0.8]

guitar (9)

• ...album. Inca Roads features excellent vocals by George Duke and a truly excellent guitar solo recorded in Helsinki and available on YCDTOSA Vol 2. The...[1.0]
• ...at its finest. (Although if I may disagree with others here, my favorite guitar solo is the "Baby Snakes" version of Punky's Whips, or maybe...[0.8]
• ...Zappa has led, a pretty simple vamp with some odd punctuation, a stunning guitar solo, and some incredibly difficult instrumentation for good...[0.8]
• ...a pretty basic, amusing and straight-ahead rock track with a great guitar /drum/piano combo and lyrics that will make you laugh. Both the...[0.8]

melodies (3)

• ...is a straight-foreward rocker, leading into possibly the most elegant melody in Zappa's body of work, the instrumental "Sofa." This number...[0.8]
• ...Brock trading vocal sections. Tense snare drum rhythms against a beautiful melody played on an organ broken into a million pieces by FZ's nebula...[0.8]
• ...is wasted. Highlights: Inca Roads. Not only one of FZ's most beautiful melodies but contains one of his greatest guitar solos interspliced from...[0.4]

musicians (5)

• ...shows this. The band is extrodinarily tight, and consists of superb musicians such as: George Duke (jazz pianist), Johnny Guitar Watson (r...[0.8]
• ...ideas not as just a composer but in capturing a group effort of amazing musicians . All these pieces are so strong melodically and rhythmically...[0.8]
• ...something magical about it. FZ is known for many things, one is the great quality of his musicians , and many claim that this band was his finest. OSFA proves that...[0.8]
• ...and extremely accomplished, and features the most technically brilliant musicians he every played with. The entire album plays like a party in...[0.8]

playback quality (3)

• ...loose and fluid and George Duke is doing his thing singing and playing brilliant keyboards. One of Zappa's absolute best....[0.9]
• ...reminds me of Led Zeppelin, but a lot more fun. Denny Walley plays great . And the end of this song, where you have the guys doing some...[0.9]
• ...increasingly ignorant America we live in.) Well written, well arranged, well played , and well worth your musical money. ...[0.8]

record quality (3)

• ...greatest guitar players/composers ever, has recorded numerous outstanding records (Joe's Garage, You Are What You Is, Overnite Sensation) and...[0.8]
• ...florentine pogan, and all the rest like sofa 1 and sofa 2,this is a great record to buy....[0.8]
• ...CD. The dynamic range expansion offered by the gold is truly superior to any other form of recorded medium currently available. The complexity of Zappa's music...[0.6400000000000001]

simply (3)

• ...prepared to give them...underneath the raw madness, his phrasing is simply beautiful and you won't hear a better example of it than Inca Roads. Quite...[0.9]
• ...all indeed. It's one of few Zappa albums that can be described simply as "perfect " - there's something magical about it. FZ is known for many...[0.9]
• ...Roads is worth the p.o.a alone! All the songs on the record are simply amazing . Buy this now!...[0.9]

solos (8)

• ...Not that his playing on the other tracks isn't fantastic as well - the solo in Pojama People remains one of my all time favorites too. ...[0.8]
• ...a 2-minute plus guitar solo from the man himself! Actually, I love the solo here, not only because it shows how talented Frank Zappa was...[0.8]
• ...better with Zappa than with Weather Report. George Duke takes an amazing solo here. I think Zappa brought out the best in Duke as well. Every...[0.8]
• ...Pogen' is perfectly weird, and would evolve to one of Frank's best solos ('The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life') Sofa's beauty...[0.8]

songs (11)

• ... The album itself is very catchy and carefully crafted. The songs are nicely sequenced and they segue. It starts with "Inca Roads", a song...[0.9]
• ...to follow and is very pretty. Then goes "Po-jama people", a song with a great solo, which also features nice interplay with George Duke. It...[0.9]
• ...t Afford No Shoes, just halarious lyrics, great sound one of my favorite songs on the is album, right up next to Po-Jama People, which is perfectly...[0.8]
• ...which is a good spacer song. Favorite song is Andy, i just love the song .. the voice work.. its all just amazing... Wonderful CD... Frank...[0.8]

sound quality (13)

• ...Size Fits All" may also be described as Zappa's signature: " Music is the Best ."...[1.0]
• ...recorded medium currently available. The complexity of Zappa's music is perfect for this. See also, Apostrophe (')...[0.9]
• ...his voice went considerably deeper afterwards, and probably sounds better than he would've otherwise. And of course, the lengthy, fuzz-tone...[0.9]
• ...1974. The engineering skill that Zappa possessed made the album sound so clean that you wouldn't even know that it was live recording. To attest...[0.9]

tracking (4)

• ...No Shoes" is a pretty basic, amusing and straight-ahead rock track with a great guitar/drum/piano combo and lyrics that will make you laugh...[0.9]
• ...notch. Inca roads is the first track, and gets my vote as the best track . It's got a great solo which was culled from the 74 helsinki...[0.8]
• ...Again, solos!! Florentine Pogen goes along vey well and is a good track . Evelyn is just a joke piece, i think, with just frank and a...[0.8]
• ...with just frank and a piano. San Ber'dino and andy are both great tracks as well and are a good way to wind down. This album is a good...[0.8]