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}}{{about|the album|the Canadian band|Absolutely Free (band)|the song by Frank Zappa|Absolutely Free (song)}}{{Infobox album | name = Absolutely Free | type = studio | artist = The Mothers of Invention | cover = FrankZappa-AbsolutelyFree.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1967|05|26}} | recorded = November 15–18, 1966 | venue = | studio = TTG Studios, Los Angeles, California | genre = {{hlist|Experimental rock|psychedelic rock|doo-wop|avant-pop[1]}} | length = {{Duration|m=38|s=29}} | label = Verve | producer = Tom Wilson | chronology = Frank Zappa | prev_title = Freak Out! | prev_year = 1966 | next_title = Lumpy Gravy | next_year = 1967 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = The Mothers of Invention | type = studio | prev_title = Freak Out! | prev_year = 1966 | title = Absolutely Free | year = 1967 | next_title = We're Only in It for the Money | next_year = 1968 }}{{Singles | name = Absolutely Free | type = studio | single1 = Son of Suzy Creamcheese | single1date = 1967 }} }}{{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[2] | rev2 = Kerrang! | rev2Score = {{Rating|1|5}}[3] | rev3 = Uncut | rev3Score = 8/10 [4] |rev4 = The Village Voice |rev4Score = B–[5] | noprose = yes }} Absolutely Free is the second studio album by the American rock band the Mothers of Invention, led by Frank Zappa, released in 1967. Absolutely Free is, again, a display of complex musical composition with political and social satire. The band had been augmented since Freak Out! by the addition of woodwinds player Bunk Gardner, keyboardist Don Preston, rhythm guitarist Jim Fielder and drummer Billy Mundi. Fielder quit the group before the album was released and his name was removed from the album credits. OverviewThe album's emphasis is on interconnected movements, as each side of the original vinyl LP comprises a mini-suite. It also features one of the most famous songs of Zappa's early career, "Brown Shoes Don't Make It", a track which has been described as a "condensed two-hour musical".{{attribution needed|date=October 2016}}[6] In the book Necessity Is..., former Mothers of Invention band member Ray Collins said that Absolutely Free is probably his favorite of the classic Mothers albums.[7] ReissuesThe CD reissue adds a single that the Mothers released at the time between side one and side two. It features the songs "Why Dontcha Do Me Right?" (titled "Why Don't You Do Me Right" on the 45) and "Big Leg Emma", both described as "an attempt to make dumb music to appeal to dumb teenagers". These were rare Verve singles. The UK-67 release (Verve VLP/SVLP 9174) came in a laminated flip-back cover, with a Mike Raven poem at the reverse that was not on any other issue. Music{{unreferenced|section|date=April 2018}}"Plastic People" begins with a mock introduction of the President of the United States, who (along with his wife) can only recite the opening notes to "Louie, Louie". "Louie, Louie" is often interpolated in Zappa's compositions (other examples appear in the Uncle Meat and Yellow Shark albums, among others), and when Zappa first began performing "Plastic People" around 1965, the words were set to the tune of "Louie, Louie". The title of "Brown Shoes Don't Make It" was inspired by an event covered by Time reporter Hugh Sidey in 1966. The reporter correctly guessed something was wrong when the fastidiously dressed President Lyndon B. Johnson made the fashion faux pas of wearing brown shoes with a gray suit. LBJ flew to Vietnam for a surprise public relations visit later that day. In the songs "America Drinks" and "America Drinks and Goes Home", Zappa combines a silly tune with nightclub sound effects to parody his experiences playing with drunken lounge music bands during the early 1960s. Other songs recorded soon after that used the same kinds of ideas include "On with the Show" by The Rolling Stones (released in 1967), "My Friend" by Jimi Hendrix (recorded in 1968, released in 1971) and "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" by The Beatles (recorded in 1967 and 1969, released in 1970). Cultural references{{unreferenced|section|date=April 2018}}It is not unusual to find melodies or scores from other composers within the music of Frank Zappa. Absolutely Free is full of musical references to other compositions and artists, including Igor Stravinsky. For example, "Amnesia Vivace" begins with a collage of quotations from Stravinsky ballets: first, the band plays the "Ritual Action of the Ancestors" from The Rite of Spring, Part II; then harpsichord and chattering voices evoke the pounding Dance of the Adolescents in Part I, over which sax and Zappa's voice start quoting the bassoon melody at the very opening of the Rite and continue into the lyrical Berceuse (also for bassoon) at the end of Stravinsky's The Firebird. The opening sequence of Petrouchka is quoted in the middle section of "Status Back Baby". "Soft-Sell Conclusion" ends with a version of the trombone melody that opens Stravinsky's "Marche Royale" from The Soldier's Tale. The "Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin", in the beginning of the saxophone solo (first cadence) quotes the trio directly from the fourth movement of Gustav Holst's The Planets, Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity. The melody to "The Duke of Prunes" is the love theme from Zappa's own film score to Run Home Slow. Track listing{{Track listing| headline = Side one: "Absolutely Free" (#1 in a Series of Underground Oratorios) | all_writing = Frank Zappa | title1 = Plastic People | length1 = {{Duration|m=3|s=40}} | title2 = The Duke of Prunes | length2 = {{Duration|m=2|s=12}} | title3 = Amnesia Vivace | length3 = {{Duration|m=1|s=01}} | title4 = The Duke Regains His Chops | length4 = {{Duration|m=1|s=45}} | title5 = Call Any Vegetable | length5 = {{Duration|m=2|s=19}} | title6 = Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin | length6 = {{Duration|m=6|s=57}} | title7 = Soft-Sell Conclusion | length7 = {{Duration|m=1|s=40}} }}{{Track listing | headline = Side two: "The M.O.I. American Pageant" (#2 in a Series of Underground Oratorios) | title1 = America Drinks | length1 = {{Duration|m=1|s=52}} | title2 = Status Back Baby | length2 = {{Duration|m=2|s=52}} | title3 = Uncle Bernie's Farm | length3 = {{Duration|m=2|s=09}} | title4 = Son of Suzy Creamcheese | length4 = {{Duration|m=1|s=33}} | title5 = Brown Shoes Don't Make It | length5 = {{Duration|m=7|s=26}} | title6 = America Drinks & Goes Home | length6 = {{Duration|m=2|s=43}} }}{{Tracklisting | collapsed = yes | headline = 2017 Reissue Bonus Record | title1 = Absolutely Free Radio Ad #1 | length1 ={{Duration|m=1|s=01}} | title2 = Why Don'tcha Do Me Right? | length2 ={{Duration|m=2|s=39}} | title3 = Big Leg Emma | length3 ={{Duration|m=2|s=32}} | title4 = Absolutely Free Radio Ad #2 | length4 ={{Duration|m=1|s=01}} | title5 = Glutton for Punishment... | length5 ={{Duration|m=0|s=24}} | title6 = America Drinks (1969 Re-Mix) | length6 ={{Duration|m=1|s=55}} | title7 = Brown Shoes Don't Make It (1969 Re-Mix) | length7 ={{Duration|m=7|s=27}} | title8 = America Drinks & Go Home (1969 Re-Mix) | length8 ={{Duration|m=2|s=42}} }}{{Track listing | collapsed = yes | headline = CD Reissue | title1 = Plastic People | length1 = {{Duration|m=3|s=42}} | title2 = The Duke of Prunes | length2 = {{Duration|m=2|s=13}} | title3 = Amnesia Vivace | length3 = {{Duration|m=1|s=01}} | title4 = The Duke Regains His Chops | length4 = {{Duration|m=1|s=52}} | title5 = Call Any Vegetable | length5 = {{Duration|m=2|s=15}} | title6 = Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin | length6 = {{Duration|m=7|s=00}} | title7 = Soft-Sell Conclusion | length7 = {{Duration|m=1|s=40}} | title8 = Big Leg Emma | length8 = {{Duration|m=2|s=31}} | title9 = Why Don'tcha Do Me Right? | length9 = {{Duration|m=2|s=37}} | title10 = America Drinks | length10 = {{Duration|m=1|s=53}} | title11 = Status Back Baby | length11 = {{Duration|m=2|s=54}} | title12 = Uncle Bernie's Farm | length12 = {{Duration|m=2|s=10}} | title13 = Son of Suzy Creamcheese | length13 = {{Duration|m=1|s=34}} | title14 = Brown Shoes Don't Make It | length14 = {{Duration|m=7|s=30}} | title15 = America Drinks & Goes Home | length15 = {{Duration|m=2|s=45}} }} PersonnelThe Mothers of Invention
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References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Grimstad|first1=Paul|title=What is Avant-Pop?|url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/9/music/what-is-avant-pop|website=Brooklyn Rail|accessdate=1 October 2016}} 2. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/absolutely-free-mw0000198347 |title=Absolutely Free – The Mothers of Invention | AllMusic |first=Steve |last=Huey |work=AllMusic |accessdate=26 June 2011}} 3. ^{{cite magazine |title=Slippery Customers |magazine=Kerrang! |date=28 January 1989 |last=Henderson|first=Paul |issue=223 |page=18 |issn=0262-6624 }} 4. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/album/frank-zappathe-mothers-of-invention-reissues |title=Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention reissues |first=David |last=Cavanagh |work=uncut.co.uk |publisher = Uncut|accessdate=25 December 2016}} 5. ^{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|date=December 20, 1976|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6N9LAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RYsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6134,4535773|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide to 1967|newspaper=The Village Voice|page=69|location=New York|accessdate=June 22, 2013}} 6. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/song/brown-shoes-dont-make-it-mt0027133646 |title=Brown Shoes Don't Make It - The Mothers of Invention,Frank Zappa | Listen, Appearances, Song Review | AllMusic |first=François |last=Couture |work=allmusic.com |accessdate=8 December 2013}} 7. ^Billy James, Necessity Is...: The Early Years of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, SAF Publishing Ltd (2001), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9AkNKdIuEcC&printsec=frontcover#PPA51 p51], {{ISBN|978-0-946719-14-3}} External links
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