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The Man from Utopia [Original recording remastered]

~ Frank Zappa
3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (1 May 1995)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Rykodisc
  • ASIN: B0000009T5
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 38,510 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Cocaine Decisions
2. Dangerous Kitchen
3. Tink Walks Amok
4. Radio Is Broken
5. Moggio
6. Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou
7. Stick Together
8. Sex
9. Jazz Discharge Party Hats
10. We Are Not Alone

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CD Description
By the '80s, Frank Zappa became known as a genius who hid asocial conscience behind a biting sense of humor. No matterhow crude the lyrics were, he was always making a point. Occasionally, however, he did like to just make a silly record, and THE MAN FROM UTOPIA is mighty silly. On "The Radio Is Broken", he roasts those really bad sci-fi movies that inhabit late night TV. "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" tells whatwe can only hope is a fictional groupie story over free-jazz backing. Zappa could even write a funny instrumental, picking a baritone sax to handle the melody on "We Are Not Alone". UTOPIA also features an up-and-coming Steve Vai who had the unenviable task of transcribing and then doubling Zappa'svocal part on "The Dangerous Kitchen" and "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats".

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A listener's utopia, 24 Mar 2005
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New to Zappa? Start somewhere else.
Brave? LOVE music and fancy a challenge? Jump right in!

I own 25 Zappa albums and was truly thrilled when I first heard this. Ship Arriving Too Late TSsDW is brilliant and challenging, ground breaking and unusual, but Man from Utopia brings in the most overt and cringingly unapologetic experiments.

Dangerous Kitchen and Jazz Discharge Party Hats have something going on with voice and guitar that still has me scratching my head and playing it to friends saying "How do they do that? What the heck is going on?"

Buy this album. It will never fail to raise your social standing when you play it at dinner parties. You can noncholantly discuss the voice and guitar work while the lyrics scare the heck out of your guests. You'll look positively intelectual until you start using your pants for a hat.

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Quiet respect due, 7 Mar 2004
This is a recording that divides Zappa fans like no other. Interesting that only two have so far taken the time to recommend it. The silence from the rest of the legions of Zappa loyalists is deafening.

This is an album that contains some instantly pleasurable gems (Cocaine Decisions, Tink, We are Not Alone). If this were an EP consisting solely of its most commercial tracks, it would be raved about from here to Montana. It would be the second Zappa album that fans of Hot Rats ever bought!

However, and as always, Zappa cares not for this. He seems intent on spoiling the party with atonal, offensive interjections. Any critism of this is to misunderstand Zappa himself. If you wish for catchy, cool music you can play at a party, buy a Michael Jackson CD. If you want something challenging and deep, something that rewards repeated listening, something that responds to personal effort and provokes self-analysis of your own response to aural-stimulae and attitudes towards music as an art form, then buy Zappa.

Zappa fans are silent because while they are collecting more Zappa CDs, this one is quietly collecting cobwebs. However, they know that it deserves a quiet respect, and critism would say more about them than the music.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Genius!, 2 Mar 2000
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This album proves that despite the decade it was produced in, interesting music was being made. The Man From Utopia successfully combines the silly with the avant garde. This is a lot of fun and musically it makes you think. Buy a million copies and make this album number one in Britain.
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