When my kids won’t get ready for bed, I threaten to play this album.

Honestly this album is awful. It is simply terrible to listen to. there are zero auditory positives. It’s fucking horrible.

I assume the critical acclaim is just a very long term and successful troll by Zappa, and a mass bandwagon effect among people that want to sound smart about music.

One of the very first reviews was “very great to play when you’re feeling shitty, because you’ll never feel as shitty as this record”. Yeah that’s about right.