On Tracking Angle! One Size Fits All, 50 Years Later

Conceptual continuity comes to Tracking Angle: this Zappaverse traveler unpacks the 50th anniversary remaster of One Size Fits All

1975 was a weird year for pop music. The Captain and Tennille had the best-selling single of the year with “Love Will Keep Us Together.” Meanwhile, Neil Young was parked in the ditch, wasted at the wake on Tonight’s The Night. Just over the guardrail, Bob Dylan returned from his own surreal excursions. Queen released the biggest song of their career. While the Carpenters were snuggled up in their parent-pleasing inoffensive confections, Led Zeppelin dealt blockbuster Physical Graffiti. Buckingham-Nicks Fleetwood Mac began their year-long slow burn. Talking Heads played their first gig at CBGB’s.

With One Size Fits All, king of "freak music" Frank Zappa rounded out a quadrilogy marking one of the creative high points of his career.

For my latest Tracking Angle contribution, I changed into my own po-jamas, awkwardly stepped around the green Arne Jacobsen lookalike I seriously underestimated the size of, and settled in to see how Chris Bellman's 50th anniversary remaster measures up to the original One Size Fits All...

...though I might have taken this review a little too seriously. "Can't afford no shoes" indeed!

Read my review of One Size Fits All now, on TrackingAngle.com

(and read my other Zappa reviews on this site!)