Release Calendar

5CD/BD: Zappa.com (opens in new tab)/ uDiscoverMusic.com(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.S.(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.K.(opens in new tab) / Amazon Canada(opens in new tab)
5LP (Pre-Master Mix & Mono Mix + 60th Anniversary Highlights): Zappa.com(opens in new tab) / uDiscoverMusic.com(opens in new tab)
2LP (Remastered 1966 Stereo Mix Only): Zappa.com(opens in new tab) / uDiscoverMusic.com(opens in new tab)

Freak Out!  Frank Zappa’s 1966 Verve Records debut with his band The Mothers of Invention was a call-to-arms to the Los Angeles underground music scene.  Subverting notions of traditional pop and rock, the album blended searing social commentary with doo-wop pastiches, rhythm and blues, absurdist comedy, jazz, and musique concrete.  Even today, the Mothers’ clarion call to the counterculture sounds like no other album, but it was just a portent of things to come from Zappa.  Zappa Records and UMe are celebrating Freak Out! on the occasion of its 60th anniversary with a new suite of releases including a centerpiece 5CD/1Blu-ray Audio Super Deluxe Edition.   The box boasts a whopping 105 tracks in total, including previously unreleased demos, live tracks, outtakes, rehearsals, and more. The Super Deluxe box comes complete with a lithograph and a 26-page booklet with previously unpublished photos from the archives of Ray Leong as well as little-seen session photos by MGM A&R man David Anderle.  Ray Leong, journalist Jason Pettigrew, and Joe Travers all contributed to the booklet which also replicates the original, double-sided fold-out Freak Out! Hot Spots Map created and designed by Zappa.  Also available digitally and in 5LP and 2LP highlights versions.  (As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.)