Review: Frank Zappa, "200 Motels: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - 50th Anniversary Edition"

By Joe Marchese | January 26, 2022 | 2 Comments

Frank Zappa called 200 Motels "a surrealistic documentary."  Leonard Maltin described it as a "visual, aural assault disguised as a movie; completely berserk, freeform film...some of it ingenious, some funny, but not enough to maintain [an] entire film."  Roger Ebert compared the surreal musical to the work of experimental composer Harry Partch before observing that […]

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