Reddit mentions of Strictly Commercial: The Best Of Frank Zappa

The "greatest hits" album is Strictly Commercial and that's how I got started. Spotify now has a gigantic collection of his work, and I would wholeheartedly recommend that any rock/jazz musicians try out a few of his songs. He was an incredible composer and band leader.

Dude, I heard "Dirty Love" on a classic rock station, and when I bought the CD I found it on, it was a compilation CD that was put out in the mid 90's called "Strictly Commercial". I listened to the CD once, broke out in a cold sweat, nearly came, and dropped to my knees babbling like a southern baptist preacher in the midst of a well rehearsed glossolalia, as the inward parts of my brain convulsed in ecstasy. It really runs the Zappa gambit of some of his most hook laden works, and isn't burdened by all the jazz fusion stuff that you may or may not like later.

>Frank Zappa 101. As close as anyone has come to a definitive greatest hits set, Strictly Commercial manages to encapsulate much, if not most, of a career that deliberately defied any such attempts. This is the most accessible single collection of Zappa's music available, containing familiar ditties such as "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," "Joe's Garage," and the radio hit, "Valley Girl." Those skeptical of his guitar work will most certainly find the included selections, "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace," "I'm the Slime," and "Muffin Man" to be educational. Excellent for whetting the appetites of potential Zappa fanatics. --Andrew Boscardin