Frank Zappa - Hungry Freaks Daddy 1966

[Durandal1717]

This is the very first and still greatest psychedelic song of all time, the freak manifesto

[teetomthomas]

Beatles, Zappa.... Whatever guys........ This is astonishing.

[orpancho]

1:55 - 2:20 . So classy :)

[BrotherTuck1973]

this blows the beatles out of the water.

[vnrhoades]

The Beatles were SO way ahead of this , and had melodies that Zappa could never invent...

SORRY Zappa! And yer guitar kinda SUX too...

[Jasonconfused]

@vnrhoades Are you joking? The Beatles wrote lullabies with cute lyrics. Zappa was FAR ahead of The Beatles in musical terms.

[MrBrainart]

Still relevent today.

[Jesusophile]

I absolutely don't understand why The Beatles still get credit for inventing this genre of music.

[progreadicto]

@Jesusophile finally someone gets the point!!!. frank zappa was a fucking genius who virtually invented progressive rock, rock opera, comedy rock, etc.. and brings clasical music, avantgarde and jazz, to rock music. the beatles only made pop ditties with clasical and pseudo-avantgarde arrangments. "the return of monster magnet" was far more original and psychedelic than tomorrow never knows for example

[iHAVE1j]

@Jesusophile

Eggsactly. God invented all things, inclooding this type of music and the beetles. Why not give him the credit for all things, even this?

[garmonbozia318]

@Jesusophile Because they were clean and vapid, which is how America likes it pop stars. "Nothing scares the shit out of Americans more than real excellence, because they have been bred to appreciate the success of the mediocre." FZ

[Pedr6500]

@Jesusophile they did Zappa just perfected

[Jasonconfused]

@Jesusophile what genre is that exactly?

[KoivuTheHab]

@Jesusophile Why are you comparing this to The Beatles? That is absurd! Also, Zappa is rolling in his grave with comments like that...

[chrismttrs6]

@Jesusophile I was 20 upon this release. While there were very few categories of pop music that could have been considered separate genres, this was not the same category as the Beatles. However, most Zappa fans were also dedicated Beatles fans. Comparing them would be apples-to-oranges. Beatles were commercial but from 1965 onwards created a completely new unique sound with each album, each highly anticipated by the same fans that followed Zappa. Both - valuable innovators & different roles.

[hemoglobin55]

@chrismttrs6 I agree completely. People should have appreciation for all music.

[BeatleFloydZeppelin]

@Jesusophile I'm not sure what genre your talking about. I think the sound of this album is closest to maybe rubber soul which came out a year before this, but even then it's not very close.

[synthemescthewise]

HUNGRY FREAKS, ARISE! It is your birthright, goddammit!!

[MzLoriAnnAWA]

(HEART)

[dafunkforyou]

Smoking ZAPPA tune!!!!!

[J0EYbagaDONUTS]

This dont sound like Sabbath it sounds exactly like The Monkees "Valleri"

[Buszu00]

"Sweet Leaf by Black Sabbath sounds exactly like this! =D"

If you're terrible high - might be.

[luisfran04]

yo tenia este genial album, hasta que una perra me lo robo

[ringmybell45]

QUIT FUCKING MENTIONING L.G. IN EVERYTHING THAT IS QUALITY AND STILL LEFT ON YOUTUBE.

[hejafish]

@ringmybell45 Yes that pisses me off too. Even mentioning the LG's and JB's in every decent video on YT just contributes to their bullshit legacy. If people really dislike that music it shouldn't bother them that it exists at all. We don't need shit music or anything else to justify good music. Just know good music and know that you know... thumbs up that assholes!! :P

[George4the]

@hejafish That's the spirit! Love your comments! I never give a piece of music a thumbs down. I just move on to something I like.

[ringmybell45]

@hejafish well said!!!

[veryshort7986]

i have to say the first riff sounds a little like 'sweet leaf' by sabbath

[sammiller254]

I AM 14 YEARS OLD, AND ZAPPA IS MY HERO.... I HAVE ABOUT HALF OF HIS ALBUMS, MY FAVORITES BEING "WERE ONLY IN FOR THE MONEY" , "WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH" AND "ABSOLUTLY FREE." IT IS SOME OF THE GREATEST MUSIC EVER RECORDED... ANTI ESTABLISMENT, MUSICALLY COMPLEX, BRILLIANT, INTELLIGENT LYRICS, UNCLE FRANK BROUGHT A MUCH NEEDED ELEMENT OF SOPHISTICATION TO ROCK MUSIC. SCREW JUSTIN BEIBER AND BEYONCE. FRANK, YOU ARE MISSED. "MUSIC IS THE BEST..."

[SquidFan]

@sammiller254

yet you use capslock

[TheKenfig]

There were masterpieces before 1966 : several by The Beatles, The Sounds Of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel, both Dylans 1965 albums for sure

[Theargoytimecompany]

we are close to 1.000.000 views!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[progreadicto]

the best rock composer ever, no doubt, in 1966 the only two masterpieces of rock music was this album and blonde on blonde

[TheKenfig]

@progreadicto That's merely your opinion, but you declare it as definitive and conclusive

[progreadicto]

@TheKenfig it's not only my opinion, it's the truth. tell me, how many other rock masterpieces were released before 66: nothing but blonde on blonde and this album (and maybe highway 61), frank zappa was a genius, he blends jazz, clasical, rock, avantgarde, he invented progresive rock, opera rock (absoultely free), and inspired dozens of artists that came before, no other rock composer could do this.

[TheKenfig]

@progreadicto LOL !, of course it's your opinion !. Look, 'Pet Sounds' is regarded rightfully by millions of fans and critics throughout the world as a masterpiece. I can't find fault with those views. 'Revolver' is a pop masterpiece, more often than not topping many fan and critics polls for the best album ever made. That view is subjective, but it's a worthy contender. I love Frank Zappa and Beefheart. Its debatable who invented prog rock. I have WOIIFTM Mothers album, Hot Rats & Burnt Weeny

[progreadicto]

@TheKenfig i suppose you told me that!, revolver and pet sounds are not masterpieces but good pop albums. critics dont understand that a masterpiece is a work of art at high level. the beatles never made a masterpiece, only good albums (peppers, magical, abbey road ) regular (white album, revolver) and several mediocre (rubber soul, yellow submarine, hard days night) and bad albums. frank zappa was the father of prog rock who reach its apex with king crimson.

[TheKenfig]

@progreadicto Look, I told you what not only MANY critics over the last 45 years or so have felt, and many do listen to a lot of music, but millions of fans who vote in polls as well.That's not ONLY ME is it ?. To glibly dismiss all those views is arrogant.The rest of your last comment merely reinforces and consolidates what most might well consider to be your 'opinion' because if I agreed with it, it would be. It doesn't matter if you proclaim Zappa with a superficial label like 'father of' etc

[vampyros1]

@TheKenfig Agreed; that's gotta be one of the most ignorant comments I've ever seen posted. Loads of brilliant stuff out ca. '66 ...

[progreadicto]

@vampyros1 i had listened several comments of people like you calling me an ignorant cos i dont recognize their pop ditties as masterpieces. in rock music only about 50 albums can be considerated masterpieces (at the same level of jazz or clasical music masterpieces), none of them by the beatles or the stones or the who, etc... but made by people like frank zappa, captain beefheart, nick cave, bob dylan or groups like the velvet underground, the doors etc.

[vampyros1]

@progreadicto I love some Zappa music or I wouldn't have been here to begin with. It would be more appropriate for someone with a musically retarded mentality as yourself to be posting on crotch-grabbing hairband or gangsta rap video's. Now fuck off.

[progreadicto]

@vampyros1 if you call retarded to a people who thinks different, the only retarded here is YOU. retarded is people like you, who confuse a pretty song with a masterpiece and cannot understand that music is an art and not a fucking enterntainment for stupid people like you. if you want to know what is a REALLY masterpiece go and listen to beethoven, john coltrane, shostakovich, stockhausen, etc.. or the REAL geniuses of rock,.. not the ditties of less talented bands.

[mickeymousebiker1]

Public schools, public housing (urban development) and the media during the 1960s. God, what went wrong? Was it all the fault of Big Brother?

[mickeymousebiker1]

Amazingly, this still applies to the 21st century. This should become a campaign song. I guess the ever-widening expanse between the super-rich and the poor just isn't a cause for outrage and change these days. THIRD PARTY NOW!

[megustadabears]

this man was god with a moustache(who unfortunately also smoked)

[mariothepookster]

I still have his album ... "Help I'm a rock" cut is hilarious.

[75billyG]

feelings...brotha



[TheMrilson]

It is basically saying to the North-Americans between Mexico and Canada that consumist´s mentality is fucked up.

[MoralNihilism]

This is not a political song, it is apolitical. It is a satire of both conformists and hippies without endorsing any particular point of view. That is one of the reasons why Zappa has aged better than most 60s musicians, he was like a precursor of Generation X

[TheMrilson]

@MoralNihilism

Fuck brow, I never thought this way..., it makes sense!

[BillTurkeyburger]

@MoralNihilism That's still political, he holds a contrary view to the two main sides of the time, and is trying to show the ridiculousness of both. Apolitical would be not even discussing politics.

[leroyspunkin]

Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf" never sounded better. Funny, since this was like five years before it. Ha aha hahahahah.

Miss ya, Franky.

[betadazeahed]

@leroyspunkin Damn, you're right. Same melody as Sweet Leaf.

[sourjaws]

When i was little my dad used to play Zappa for me

I hated it and called it weird

Today I'm 16 years old and now i'm glad my dad has so much Zappa for me to listen to :D

[legalzinho12]

i think the brazilian band Mutantes was clearly influenced by this album!

[wildsidecrew]

the beginning reminds me so much of satisfaction by the stones

[conmaesta]

1966 baby, no more needs to be said.....

[musiclover01ization]

Cool song

[rosesarefree2009]

I have this original press!

[JM13121]

Thanks for the uploads...Zappa was one of a kind, "there will never be another musician like him."

[MOONSIP2]

Zappa was a genius, a visionary...

[JM13121]

@MOONSIP2 : "Couldn't agree more with you!" Zappa to me was Mr. Innovative".

[Treadlightlyful]

Stop the silly comparisons peeps ...its for certain that all life on this planet is a "freak" happening & were all hungry Freaks , to be sure. The struggle is the same today as it ever was , so lets leave the posed comparisons at the door .

Enjoy , there's time enough for the the world to freak out & crash & burn ...or transform it into something new . This was definitely a watershed album ...not for the feint of heart at the time , lol. Long live Zappa !

[troutmask1970]

the beginning of a career of a man who was NOT afraid.

[louiseduvee]

The 1st album I ever bought, when I was 10 years old. I got busted by my grandmother, and had to see a Christian counselor for a year. Still my favourite album!

[ToastmachineIdiot]

@louiseduvee Yeah, I heard this album scared a lot of parents. I just bought it, and I love it!

[jcast18k]

Sweet Leaf by Black Sabbath sounds exactly like this! =D

[Tubernaut]

@jcast18k It's the other way around.

[OHmygodXoBil3]

@Tubernaut

No its not , black sabbaths song sweet leaf came out like 5 years later. Whatever , black sabbath and zappa are both awesome

[Tubernaut]

@OHmygodXoBil3 You are correct as Master of Reality came out in 1971.

[EurynomusBH]

@jcast18k But this came out in '66 and Sweet Leaf came out in '71.

Both songs are absolutely amazing though, don't get me wrong.

[jcast18k]

@EurynomusBH I know, and I agree!

[mitchbennett0]

@jcast18k Also red hot chili peppers made it funky in give it away.

[CyberZec]

@jcast18k They admitted to stealing the riff :-) Nothing is sacred in rock n' roll...

[NWG92]

@jcast18k Yeah, it sounds like a mix between the Stones' Satisfaction and Sabbath's Sweet Leaf

[Supertzar999]

@jcast18k Yeah, it's a similar bass line but sped-up here.

[RockNfuckinRoller97]

@jcast18k sabbath has listed zappa as a major influence

[Buszu00]

@jcast18k

if you're terrible high - might be.

[oposoum]

Thanx for the post, but why you propose to see in HD a still image?

[scimmiablu992]

@oposoum the fact is that when switching to HD rendering, not only the video but also the audio quality increase. I'd dare say that audio brings an even stronger change when switching, compared to video.

Enjoy! :)

ps: i hate this, but my channel requires it-> check out my videos if u got time to watch a few minutes of a newbie trying to conclude something musical on a piano! :D

[werdvds]

This was the 1st rock/Zappa music I listened to, even before the beatles etc.-still love it-Paul

[attChippyGirl]

This man was a legend. All of the Lady Gaga's and Beyonces are nothing, a zero, with Frank Zappa. So sad he died. His biography was amazing. He was through many things. He died from cancer. And I love Frank Zappa, he is one of the best singers ever, no matter what other idiots that don't know good music say. Always <3 Frank Zappa :((

[rondy2]

@attChippyGirl Hello..... it is an insult to speak about FZ in the same breathe with - what`s the name - you wrote Lady Gaga (don`t know where she is... oh my god... i spoke today with a eight year old girl and she laughed: you don´t know about Lady Gaga???) So please: FZ was a serious composer of the 20th century and you can`t compare him with a Pop starlet!!! More respect please!! Sorry for my bad english....

[Tubernaut]

@rondy2 Lady Gaga and that eight year old are a product of Mr. America's schools that do not teach.

[rondy2]

@Tubernaut Great, I hope you mean that serious. The situation with the nice little girl was not in America.

It was in (Munich) Germany, and this country is more than 50 years on the way....to.....yes.....United States.

Frank Zappa was one of the critical who attacked the American way of life... I´m really sorry that Germany hadn`t such a great serious and likewise popular composer and musician like FZ. No Pathos, but It is so...

[Tubernaut]

@rondy2 Indeed I was serious.

[Shady32]

@attChippyGirl Forget about Gaga and Beyonce and all that shit. They will not be remembered as musical geniuses, they will not remain as a huge influence on many generations, they will not be an important part of music history.

Frank Zappa will.

[Gerald56]

@attChippyGirl I'll second that any time!

[mrkallen]

@attChippyGirl Frank Zappa was awesome and talented but Beyonce and Lady gaga still have some catchy hits!

[robinzhooded]

@mrkallen They suck just listen to more zappa.

[IFStravinsky]

@attChippyGirl Amen to all that.

[zergy1]

Sweet Leaf!!

[paolo66626]

Great song. When in Italy they played stupid pop songs, in USA there were a lot of wonderful musicians. I like West Coast and I've been to Los Angeles twice. I would have liked to go there in the sitxies.

[bebopwino]

Frank's kick in the balls frustration with America...

[prim3minister]

sounds too actual ... for like ever

[cellardoor199991]

I can see how people can mistake Zappa for influencing PUNK. It makes sense.

[jacarto]

@cellardoor199991 It also sounds like PUNK to me...! Imagine the effect of this music and its message in the people of 66'.

[tvcult]

can you tell me is this the sound quality on cd?The drums sound faint.

[spacepatrolman]

@tvcult yea it doesnt sound like the record I know a guy who bought the album but took it back because it was scareing his sister and freaking her out he exchanged it for a cladine longet [ a breathy sex vocalist and he also got that jane birkin record with all the moaning and panting ] record she shot her boyfriend to death i bought 2 copys one in the store one in a garage sale

[pacnwcomre]

@tvcult As a contemporary of Zappa and seeing him at Winterland and the San Carlos Circle Theatre, he was so far ahead of his time it is hard to imagine really. We stood up to the war defiantly and said, "we won't go." The thought was to revolt against the Military-Industrial Complex; Zappa and the Doors helped us realize the need to resist against a system that was rigged. It is even worse today when a total jerk like Bush is allowed to do what he did. What we have now is rap and cowardice.

[HolyToledo7]

The guitar riff sounds so much like Sweet Leaf by Black Sabbath.

[pvelectric]

@HolyToledo7 you mean Sweet Leaf sounds like the guitar riff. like first the egg then the chicklet, the chicken being musical notes in any major scale.

[abricoso]

Beefheart or Zappa?

[cadin2020]

I was exposed early, never knew who did this till '77,,, then things started making cents..., but by then I was ready for it.. I had heard the stuff being played via radio,, I had to keep reverting to the good stuff....

[djmambito]

Anyone know Frank did any latin or latin-fusion ?

I'm looking for some freaky-salsa-kind-of-stuff

Thanks !

[Denmalition]

@djmambito check out the second half of tiny city of lights. not salsa but definitely latin

[d2techknow]

now i feel greasy

I c

seam

struck aside

the left behinds

do you have any creamcheese?

oh no it's a monster!

[ColinTheButthead]

kinda sounds like sweet leaf

[sydferret]

The Fall do a worthy cover where Mark E. alternates between Mister America and Mister Britannica, pointing out our "special relationship."

[DarkMedievalTimes1]

@sydferret What's the "special relationship"?

[sydferret]

@DarkMedievalTimes1 The Special Relationship is a phrase used to describe the close political, diplomatic, cultural and historical relations between the United Kingdom and the United States, following its use in a 1946 speech by British statesman Winston Churchill.

[jonsilence]

Funny that once he hit his stride Zappa was largely a 'fusion' artist which would have been dismissed by the majority of those who were his fans were it not for his inclusion of wit and humor elements.

[lurch321]

"The Beatles were funny, but you could never quite feel the SNEER that was in Zappa's music."--Matt Groening, Simpsons creator

[AttilaMagno]

Musicaly it's a great parody of Satisfaction, Mothers of Invention and Frank Zappa rule!

[Django5198]

FUCKING GENIUS!

[zappafanx]

classic

[mthrnatrsson1]

hungry freaks daddy.....

[unionguy36]

The brilliant retro TV series Mad Men is now up to 1964. Two more seasons, and maybe they can figure out a way to fit this song into the closing credits. (Last week they played "Tobacco Road" by the Nashville Teens.)

"...And all the corny tricks you tried will not forestall the rising tide of Hungry Freaks, Daddy!"

[MasterrFlamaster]

The best career opening that I can think about

[dullsvillain]

More kazoo less cowbell!

[OlRetro]

I played around with this a few months ago - lots of fun to play. The lyrics simply devastate the entire area - hahaha. Regards, '62 Mathew St. (Full Group Retro Rock)

[620NA]

I haven't heard this in years...but it was one of my favorite albums..

.I think Steely Dan completely just ripped this off and polished it with finer and finer polishing compound until it had no form at all......for their entire career and we never knew it til now...

[grassyhillnz]

I can't believe this was made in 1966!

[PTR131]

System of a Down ripped off this guy a lot.

[leldoryn]

@PTR131 Some of the shit Serj does does kind of remind me of Zappa sometimes xD

[pulsedemon]

@PTR131

System Of A Down ripped off a lot of good bands a lot (and shamelessly take the credit for such "innovation")

[wrecktem]

@pulsedemon

Holy crap! You're exactly right, Serj Tankian copied this vocal style to a T. Never realised it until now.

[Pluh88]

Ever think your born in the wrong time

[HomelyCooking]

Only Frank would have part of a rock song sung in parallel minor seconds.

[ptkemail]

@HomelyCooking

I'm not sure what that means, but i'm impressed. definitely minor... but ahead of its era in a major key!. i wanna hear caravana with a drum sola!

[Rawego]

the intro riff is a rip off of Stone's Satisfaction

[Gizmogibbongimp]

@Rawego

Oh. Oh you idiot.

While the Stones make great songs, Satisfaction came out AFTER Hungry Freaks, Daddy.

[FetaCheese222]

@Gizmogibbongimp Uh, no it didn't. Satisfaction came out a year before Zappa released Freak Out!, including Hungry Freaks, Daddy. :|

[Merzbowxnoise]

Zappa made his own sound, his music was zappa, not fusion jazz, avant-rock, progressive rock or something other.

His music was Zappa.

Nothing else.

[squanto2]

@Merzbowxnoise Right!!!!

[spacepatrolman]

@Merzbowxnoise he was very original and a big influence on the president of czeckoslovakia thats why they made zappa their trade minister [they had a group there the plastic people of the universe influenced by the freak out album ]

[tvcult]

@spacepatrolman I was just asking that if I bought this album on cd would it sound the same as this video becasue the drums sound faint in volume in this video.

[snuffelsuf]

this is more affected by phil spector than other stuff.also doo wop

[squanto2]

@snuffelsuf What? That's bullshit.

[snuffelsuf]

@squanto2  .............well thats that then isnt it "bullshit" well thanks for your fine analasis

[novaflo339]

Realize:

.....this almost 50 years old.

+ it kicks the sh*t out of any modern offerings!!!

[niffelhem000]

black sabbath completely ripped off this riff on Sweet Leaf.

[assfacedfucker]

@niffelhem000 lol

[DarkZekeX]

@niffelhem000 not really >_>

[snuffelsuf]

@niffelhem000 this dont sound anything like sweatleaf

[tuxguys]

A great recording... and one of a handful of guitar solos that changed, forever, what was expected of a "rock" guitar solo...

[TheStrangeSound]

Great kazoo solo at 1:15.

[Idolcruisefix]

philosophy that turns away from those who arent afraid to say, what's on their mind! the left behinds, of the great society" cue(que? Q?) kazoo .... ha ha ha

[bwd81977]

Over 40 years ago, Frank really hit the nail on the head...

[skovie23232]

Great song

[curiousnomad]

Sociological observations that were YEARS ahead of their time. "your schools that do not teach......"

Ever heard ANYTHING else like this? Ever? Exactly - that's the point!

[Tubernaut]

This is only one reason why Frank Zappa will always be revered.

[bwd81977]

To me, this doesnt sound anything like Jumpin Jack Flash. This song has a good guitar solo, but its kinda far back in the mix. I wonder if that was intentional...

[pacnwcomre]

@bwd81977 I listened to Jumpin Jack Flash the other day and I thought how trite the lyrics were.....a good song to dance to but it is as Zappa would call it "trivial poop"....... the self absorbed giraions of middle class decadence.....I mean, who cares.....? compare that song with "Break On Through(to the other side)" or "Whiskey Bar" by the Doors in the first album....the Stones are so over rated. Richards will have a heart attack on stage........he looks like he died last year.

[boogster123321]

60's rock at its finest

[sadhustar]

the best rock album ever!

[pacnwcomre]

Like the Doors, Frank Zappa was not only ahead of his time, he was outside his time.........I was playing this album driving in France earlier this decade.........awesome memories..... I also like the unbelievable humor of "you're probably wondering why I'm here" and "You didn't try to call me"........funnier than shit every time I hear them.

[pacnwcomre]

@sadhustar No..the first Doors album was

[RoyFive]

My Seventh-Grade instructor, Mr. Fox, played this song for us once in class, and also Help! I'm A Rock, when the album was out just a short time. I'm serious--he was that cool.

[spacepatrolman]

@RoyFive Thats very cool indeed i first hear it on the radio when murry the k played it

[nicknorthable]

A record executive told Frank his music had "No Commercial Potential "..He just wouldn't listen that troubled adult youngster..".kick him out of school"..".That will teach him."..{actually that's what did happen to me for a semester...I did take correspondence courses & was ahead by grad. time)..That will teach them for catching me smoken pot & being a rebel...

[davidborboa]

THIS WAS WRITTEN FOR CARL FRANZONI !

[dazamaru]

so peculiar....this should be required listening for today's device-addicted kids....

[areallystupidguy]

So punk, I love 60s Zappa

[rubblerbullet]

He was much ahead of his time. This song fitts better to todays governments.

[ovelonse]

i love this song...mr america sarcastic i love it