Currently Listening: Apostrophe (Frank Zappa, 1974)

My first foray into Zappa was in grade school. 7th grade, so 1983. A bunch of us girls were having a sleepover at Jennifer Dixon's house in Cheshire CT, playing records, when Jen put on "Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch." Stunning record, and the album art cracked me up. We went crazy for "Valley Girl," featuring Frank's 14-year old daughter Moon Unit. Moon did a lot to introduce her dad to prepubescent…

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