Frank Zappa - Any Way The Wind Blows 1966

[valeriemci1]

ONE of my favorite Mothers' songs! I grew up on this stuff...well I was a teenager...but these guys influenced me.

[pacnwcomre1]

yeah she treats me like she loves me and she never makes me cry, I'm gonna stick with her til the day I day, she's not like you baby she would never ever lie........this was as close to the best Zappa lyrical excursion as mainstream..I'm gonna go away and leave you standing at the door, I'm telling you pretty baby I won't be back no more........Now we're at the end of our tether in another time and looking back..a tragedy is straight ahead of us. "Plastic people oh baby how you're such a drag."

[Jambodan]

I'm 20, started listening to this when I was 18. When someone my age tells me about how much swag Nicki Minaj has, or how awesome LMFAO are, I think "fuck my generation".

[magikkris]

@Jambodan respect

[johnnyfarout]

Frank was bangin' and we all got it back in 1966 and we heard all the shit&irony and all&everything... smoke a jeef and cool it baby anyway the wind blows don't even know.

[purvicide]

Ah, much better than the "Cruising With Ruben & The Jets" version.

[SuperScorpio47]

@ vampyros Zappa wrote this after his divorce.

[SuperTika123]

I really love the album Pregnant. I still have it (oh I am so old now). Okay, then I was 13 years old.

[Saskatchewan00]

@SuperTika123 You're not old, random stranger. Don't be so defeatist. Haha!

[vampyros1]

I like Zappa but this is a piece of bubblegum tripe, and it ain't no "parody" of it either. There are great songs on 'Freak Out!' though.

[mario64guy]

@vampyros1

Actually, it is a parody of the standard R&B pop songs that you'd hear on the radio back then. Zappa was mocking them, yet having fun with it. And I think it sounds pretty swingin'.

[vampyros1]

@mario64guy I couldn't disagree more; glad you like it though.

[Ruuch666]

damn epic song!

[WytZox1]

Susie Creamcheese, what's got into you?

[MrNitsugaGuitar]

Ohhhh The Beatles!!!

[Guitarmanblue]

I vote Frank Zappa for the best musician of the last Millenium.

[ichfinddich1]

who made this track first? zappa or jj cale?

[AOAWHATSUP]

@ichfinddich1 Zappa. By several decades

[sourjaws]

@ichfinddich1 Zappa lol

[rosesarefree2009]

I own the original vinyl press!

[grimcow4000]

Its so amazing how this is like the epitome of pop song in the 1960's and the genius could write it on an album with "brain police"

[physicalgraffiti714]

zappa never ceases to amaze me

[kordinia]

it is not Zappa or to fast

[Garboth]

Frank Zappa speaks to me lyrically.

[doddsino]

@Garboth

He speaks to me colonically...

[msa1985]

there was a fucking version on youtube which sounded like it was being sung by Captain beefheart. does anyone know what the hell I'm talking about? it was on here just a few months ago.

[DimensionsofChange]

@msa1985 I found a version on Grooveshark that sounded like Ike Willis was singing it

[msa1985]

@DimensionsofChange Oh I found the version I was thinking of. It's the version from "Joe's Corsage", recorded before the version in this video.

I like it a lot more.

[DimensionsofChange]

@msa1985 wait a minute, so beef heart sings like a black guy?

[msa1985]

@DimensionsofChange Kind of, he had a very soulful voice. Like old blues singers.

BTW I only thought it was Beefheart it was really Ray Collins, who also has a soulful voice and that's why I thought it might be Beefheart.

[DimensionsofChange]

@msa1985 it really is a good version. I can't believe this wasn't atleast closer to the top 40

[DimensionsofChange]

@DimensionsofChange sang* RIP

[capnmurphycrunch]

@msa1985 joes corsage came after.

[sigbangschmidt]

because it is not importent!

[boyztomen]

This is quality, let it play and hope we all do something.

[TheSuperHeretic]

@nicknorthable correction. these "masters" are going to need to crane their necks just to see the bottom of Franks shoe.

[qwisp]

Zappa's first album is an unhearlded rock masterpiece. I never understood why this album doesn't pop up on top 100 Greatest Rock Albums list. Soooo many great and weird pop classics.

[vvtheduckvv]

@qwisp It might be because you said it best... "Weird...." the general public doesn't like "weird" because they don't understand it.  :)

[spideringoo]

@vvtheduckvv It's also the irony and the sarcasm, people whose M.O is not compatible with satire would be unsettled

[vvtheduckvv]

@spideringoo Yep, I'll give you that!

[zcars1323]

RAD TITS FUCKING AMZING SONG !!!!!!!!

[legalizethegreen]

help i'm a rock

[raymazarek]

this songs sound is a lot like 'harlem shuffle' by bob and earl

classic song thou

[skovie23232]

Zappa was king

[nicknorthable]

..".No Commercial Potential".. .remember ? I heard that some early on record executive told Frank his music & career had " no commercial potential "...That's prob why Frank ended up owning Third Story Publishing & Record Label & who knows what else..& as far as his knowledge of music he'll be up there with the masters...*

[hellbilly479]

zappa was way too far ahead of his time rip

[WhomTheGodsDetest]

@hellbilly479 Thats why its so amazing that we have Dweezil taking up the reigns.

[die2no]

this could have easily had been an a top 40 hit.i

[Sandbagger300]

@die2no 8 or 9 songs could have been a hit on this CD, they have the pop standard(and even Doo Wop on 1 song ) backbeat, and funny but great lyrics, definately one of the best cd's of all time!

[harstrib]

@die2no Not in 1966...Top 40 AM radio only heard of the Beach Boys.....''Mothers of Invention''....''That must stand for ANARCHY''....''NO WAY WERE PLAYING THIS SHIT!!!''........and so began the birth of ''FreeForm'' FM Radio where all this good shit was played!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mickindanny]

Now my story can be told...LOL. As bizarre as this is, it makes you want to dance!