This album has hints of the sounds popular at this point of the 60s... but with a huge helping of weirdness on top. Nowhere near the virtuosic oddball stylings the band would exhibit once Frank fired half the band and ensconced himself well and truly in the driver's seat, but still comfortably 'out there'.
There are one or two pretty solid pop songs here, a direction that Zappa would explore more completely with his doowop album "Cruisin' with Ruben and the Jets".
"Trouble every day" sound suspiciously like it is mocking Bob Dylan... wouldn't surprise me, as Zappa was making fun of EVERYBODY at this point in his career
The last couple of tracks start to investigate some weirder, musique concrete-esque territory (which, again, Zappa would explore more fully in later releases). All in all a startling and well formed debut.
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