Frank Zappa - Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa (1995) CD-Rip

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 — December 4, 1993) was a legendary American composer, guitarist, singer, film director and satirist. He was the leader of the rock band The Mothers of Invention. Grammy Award winner.
During his 33-year musical career, Zappa proved to be one of the most prolific composers of his era, releasing more than sixty albums, almost all of which contain non-repeating compositions. In addition, he was a well-known electric guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, talented sound engineer and producer with encyclopedic knowledge of studio technologies, who independently produced almost all of his recordings made after his debut in 1966.
In Zappa's work, elements of all musical styles are applied with equal aplomb – modern and classical music, jazz, heavy metal and almost all recognizable forms. Over the past 16 years, the 42-year-old guitarist-composer-producer has created 35 albums – among which there are double ones – and a lot more material is waiting for information and publication. He gave pleasure to millions of people and gained legendary status thanks to a sharply honed (some would say offensive) sense of humor.
His fans are in awe of him. Although other people just don't like him, in many cases their opinions are not based on reactions to his music, but solely on rumors. (In a 1979 interview with Record Review Magazine, he said: "Most of them don't know what I do, but they know my name.")
In one case, the criticism went beyond simple displeasure: in 1971, during a performance in London, he was pushed off the stage by an angry listener - Frank Zappa received a compound leg fracture and a lot of bruises. Although he has a worldwide reputation (mainly due to stage antics, sharp social comments and lampoons on music, musicians and music consumers), his work has hardly caused any excitement in the world of pop music - but according to Frank, this is normal. Indeed, the fact that he acts outside the smoothed, tendentious format limitations of pop music (especially AM radio) has given him the freedom to compose and perform exactly what he wants, without having to change his direction abruptly depending on the changing whims of the public.
"I am interested in melodies, and this is one of the things that I think is missing in music today. Creating a melody is a specialized art form.I know a lot of people who can compose and write arrangements, but don't pay much attention to the place of the melody.
Writing a melody is a serious task. That's why people who can improvise well against the background of chord changes are so unique – because this task confronts them every second. When all you have is a harmonic skeleton, your task is to create your own melody against the background of this set of chords, and this is a very impressive achievement."