This Frank Zappa disc has some trademark sounds. I think the side long "Greggary Peccary" has quite a bit in common with the "...Yellow Snow..." suite from Apostrophe.  It's classic Zappa, really. The whole album works well, and delivers the exact kind of thing I expect from the man's music. Then again, with Zappa, I guess you should always expect the unexpected, and this does have some of that, too.

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This cut is 20-minutes-and-40 seconds long. It's also bizarre and so much fun. It has a lot of classical music built into it. There are vocal sections that resemble cartoon voices along with more standard Zappa spoken vocals. The music has almost a cartoon soundtrack vibe at lot of the time. There are large patches of purely instrumental music built into this thing. This has so many twists and turns, at times turning more rock based. There are some classic Zappa trappings built into the track. There are even some bits of old school rock and roll, circus music and more. There is a journey into full jazz later, too. This thing is impossible to keep a bead on because it's constantly changing and reinventing itself.

In stark contrast to the epic that preceded it, this track is less than three-minutes long. It's fast paced, playful and tastefully silly. The vocals are cartoon-like. This is entertaining and has some doo wop vocals in the mix at times.