Popular Records - Pass Aspirin, Please

Los Angeles Times
Calendar, Sunday, August 7, 1966
(Cited from one in a series of advertisements designed by Frank Zappa in the Los Angeles Free Press )
By Pete Johnson

The Mothers of Invention, a talented but warped quintet, have fathered an album poetically titled "Freak Out" (Verve V-5005-2) which could be theg reatest stimulus to the aspirin industry since the income tax.
The two record set, which is selling for the price of one LP as an attraction to teen-agers, contains some potent satire but the group often meanders into excesses of abstraction, blunting their numbers to pointlessness.
"Freaking ou" is defined, loosely, as free expression inspired by casting off outmoded and restrictive standards of thinking, dress and etiquette.
Sources of inspration for the vocalists, listed at length inside the album jacket, include Salvador Dali, Brian Epstein, Lules Feiffer, James Joyce, Sacco and Vancetti, J. Arthur Rank, Elvis Presley and sundry other miscellaneous wellsprings.
Amon the 14 recorded selections are "Hungry Freaks, Daddy," "Wowie Zowie," "You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here," "Help, I'm A Rock" and "The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet," a 12 minute 17 second "unfinished ballet in two tableux."