Frank Zappa - Artificial Rhonda NSFW
From the amazing Thing Fish album. With voices from Terry and Dale Bozio from Missing Person.

I imagine this song is representative of many b3tan weekends.

NSFW for subject matter and language.
( BrokenCoccyx get your hands off macaque, Thu 31 May 2012, 21:46, Reply)

To my shame
this is the first Zappa I've heard. I like very much and now trawling through catalogue on YouTube.
( joetotale, Thu 31 May 2012, 21:50, Reply)

You should start at the beginning and go through it to get the feel and story line
Zappa was hit and miss, but ThingFish was a masterpiece of writing and performance.

It also said words and spoke about things that made us blush as kids.
( BrokenCoccyx get your hands off macaque, Thu 31 May 2012, 21:57, Reply)

Joe's Garage...
...is probably one of the most easily accessible and it's where I personally started with my obsession.
Or if you want to chuck yourself in at the deep end go for Uncle Meat, though it's very liable to either turn you in to a rabid fan or put you off altogether.

Can't really go wrong with any of the many, many, many, many compilation albums though.

The Cheap Thrills anthology give you a good representation of material from all over his career.
(Megamoss, Fri 1 Jun 2012, 18:12, Reply)

To my shame
I know every word and note and sound on this album. Plus all the other albums. But Thing-Fish was one of the first I played extensively, about 20 years ago.
( mediocre approves, Thu 31 May 2012, 21:54, Reply)

Also, this has been made into a comic, and there are some groups performing this as a musical
image google for 'thing-fish hustler'
( mediocre approves, Thu 31 May 2012, 21:56, Reply)

I would recommend:
Peaches en regalia
Don't eat the yellow snow
My guitar wants to kill your mama
Orange county lumber truck

to name but a few...

edit* gah, meant to reply to joetotale :D
(mrmonkfish D3 - Will#2170, Thu 31 May 2012, 21:57, Reply)

You are what you is
From ThingFish is another great tune
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKfK1TxruHU&feature=relmfu
( BrokenCoccyx get your hands off macaque, Thu 31 May 2012, 21:59, Reply)

Cheers both - will do!

( joetotale, Thu 31 May 2012, 22:11, Reply)

Also:
Gumbo Variations, Bobby Brown Goes Down... ahh, just get the 'Strictly Commercial' album
(Ol' Ginger Bastard is getting some marmamamamalade!, Fri 1 Jun 2012, 4:56, Reply)

great album
had heard bits and pieces of Zappa stuff, here and there but it was only in the last 3 years i really paid attention, and feel i missed a lot.
on a side note speaking of music... very NSFW by the way, on similar lines i guess. that song always reminded me of this.
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( miss fortunate not everything is improved with grated cheese, Thu 31 May 2012, 22:04, Reply)

...I bet you anything, that the harp on that track is Cpt.Beefheart. ;)
Also:
Inca Roads -- contains one of the best guitar solos recorded.
Big Swifty / The Grand Wazoo / Anything off Peaches en Ragalia -- for instrumental goodness.
Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy
(MrKane Resurrected According To Plan Nine, Fri 1 Jun 2012, 7:42, Reply)