Frank Zappa是西方20世纪流行音乐的异类，他的音乐始终包含着一种洞穿世俗的犀利的冷嘲热讽。这是个合滑稽可笑和坚定勇敢于一身的人物。Frank Zappa的音乐生命和the mothers of invention乐队密不可分，他的几张优秀专辑都是和乐队一起创作、录制的，这支乐队中的几位成员，同样都是些目空一切、好反潮流的人物。Freak out出版于1966年，当时的流行乐界，服用LSD、安非他命等迷幻药物日渐风行。在这样的情形下，Frank Zappa录制了这张专辑，其中的音乐也很古怪迷幻，但Frank Zappa和乐队是在头脑清醒没有服用致幻剂的状态下进行专辑的录制工作的，他用行动说明，真正能创作出好的音乐的因素，并非是药物而只能是人自己的头脑，毒品无助于音乐创作。值得一提的是，这张专辑也是摇滚乐史上第一张概念专辑（concept album），它比后来人们认为的第一张概念专辑--甲壳虫的佩帕军士要早上一年.这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第243位。One of the most ambitious debuts in rock history, Freak Out! was a seminal concept album that somehow foreshadowed both art rock and punk at the same time. Its four LP sides deconstruct rock conventions right and left, eventually pushing into territory inspired by avant-garde classical composers. Yet the album is sequenced in an accessibly logical progression; the first half is dedicated to catchy, satirical pop\u002Frock songs that question assumptions about pop music, setting the tone for the radical new directions of the second half. Opening with the nonconformist call to arms Hungry Freaks, Daddy, Freak Out! quickly posits the Mothers of Invention as the antithesis of teen-idol bands, often with sneering mockeries of the teen-romance songs that had long been rock's commercial stock-in-trade. Despite his genuine emotional alienation and dissatisfaction with pop conventions, though, Frank Zappa was actually a skilled pop composer; even with the raw performances and his stinging guitar work, there's a subtle sophistication apparent in his unorthodox arrangements and tight, unpredictable melodicism. After returning to social criticism on the first song of the second half, the perceptive Watts riot protest Trouble Every Day, Zappa exchanges pop song structure for experiments with musique concrète, amelodic dissonance, shifting time signatures, and studio effects. It's the first salvo in his career-long project of synthesizing popular and art music, high and low culture; while these pieces can meander, they virtually explode the limits of what can appear on a rock album, and effectively illustrate Freak Out!'s underlying principles: acceptance of differences and free individual expression. Zappa would spend much of his career developing and exploring ideas -- both musical and conceptual -- first put forth here; while his myriad directions often produced more sophisticated work, Freak Out! contains at least the rudiments of almost everything that followed, and few of Zappa's records can match its excitement over its own sense of possibility.