Customer Rating: 
Summary: DIRECTLY FROM MY HEART TO YOU
Comment: THIS ALBUM IS AN AMALGAM OF THE KIND OF MUSIC THAT FRANK ZAPPA AND THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION WERE PLAYING IN THE LATE 60'S, IT CONTAINS AVANT GARDE, FREE FROM JAZZ, DOO-WOP, BLUES, ROCK, AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC ALL ROLLED INTO ONE. I GUESS IT POSSESSES ALL OF THE ELEMENTS THAT WENT INTO THE MUSICAL INFLUENCES OF FRANK ZAPPA, AND THEREFORE, COULD BE CONSIDERED ONE OF HIS MOST "COMPLETE" ALBUMS, IN TERMS OF HIS "CONCEPTUAL CONTINIUTY"- EVEN THO' THESE SONGS WERE RECRODED OVER TIME AND ASEMBLED FOR THIS ALBUM LATER. GREAT VIOLIN PLAYING BY SUGARCANE HARRIS (ON AN OLD LITTLE RICHARD SONG), & MULTI INSTRUMENTS FROM IAN UNDERWOOD. GREAT COVER ART BY CAL SCHENKEL, IT'S ONE OF MY ALLTIME FAVORITE ALBUM COVERS (ALONG WITH "STICKY FINGERS"- COVER ART BY ANDY WARHOL, "BIG BAMBU", & "CHEAP THRILLS"-COVER ART BY R. CRUMB).
Customer Rating: Summary: My Favorate Mother
Comment: This is probably my favorate MOI album, though Uncle Meat is more ambitious and objectively better.
But it is hard to beleve Zappa edited this together after this band was kaput. The way Zappa jumps from avant-garde (Didja Get Any Onja) to blistering blues (Directly from my heart to you) to other styles on the album feels entirely natrual, as if no other peice could follow the one that proceeded it. Weasles has a white hot threat throughout, which never lets up.
If you are intersted in Uncle Frank, I can't think of a better starting point. If the music doesn't get you, the cover art will---wouldn't it make a great tattoo?
Customer Rating: 
Summary: A frightfully frantic FZ album that should satisfy any fan
Comment: "weasels ripped my flesh" is the follow-up album to "burnt weeny sandwich" and is also the last album performed by the original lineup of Zappa's mothers of invention before Zappa broke up the band and went solo to make one of his best albums (hot rats).
"weasels" is known throughout the music world (even by non-FZ fans) for its bizarre and hilarious cover that shows a man shaving his face with an electric weasel who is tearing into the flesh on the guy's face as tracks of blood are made by the weasel's claws. okay, the cover is great..what about the music?
thankfully, there are a great amount of musical genres that are performed on this album that should please almost any Zappa fan.
There's a cool r&b cover tune (directly from my heart to you) that is sung by Don "Sugar Cane" Harris; the classic guitar-rock song (my guitar wants to kill your mama) sung by Zappa himself; and a very memorable instrumental (the orange county lumber truck - the best version of this song can be found on the album "ahead of their time").
"oh no" was previously heard on "lumpy gravy" without lyrics but it is sung here for the first time with Ray Collins doing a fantastic job on vocals. the lyrics are catchy and very subtly funny.
If you're a huge fan of Zappa's experimental music, then you'll definitely love this album. About half of this album is musique concrete and is therefore similar to the stuff heard on "lumpy gravy." Tracks 4,6, & 7 appear to be normal instrumentals "toads" and "Dolphy" first appear to be sea-shantys but then segue into musique concrete. Some experimental tracks have Roy Estrada's menacing laugh to make things even more frantic.
The closing title track is without a doubt the greatest piece of white noise/feedback ever heard! After the smooth sounding "orange county lumber truck", the title track suddenly throws the listener into a frightful shock. Seriously, this track is very scary to listen to even on its own. I dare anyone to blast it on their iPod at 3 in the morning while walking down a deserted street. I dare ya!
Finally, the listener is then comforted by FZ, who let's you know the terror is over when he says "goodnight." Such an eerie piece that only a master like FZ could organize.
White noise could be very annoying like Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" album but leave it to Zappa to make even constant guitar feedback sound fabulous.
It should have been a single for cryin' out loud..."the first guitar feedback single: "weasels ripped my flesh." Yeah, right. Only in a perfect world.
Of you're new to Zappa, then this album is NOT for you. If you love crazy experimental & improvised pieces of music then "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" is just for you. Enjoy!
