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It’s musical Russian Roulette-remastered, of course.- Ryan Reed 18. Walk in to your local record store, grab one at random off the shelf, and brace yourself for the weirdness. But every single entry in Zappa’s schizophrenic catalog has its unique charms-from the commercial-jingle, psychedelic satire of 1968’s We’re Only in it For the Money to the spacey jazz-fusion of 1969’s Hot Rats to the muscular, hallucinatory chaos of 1974’s Apostrophe. Sure, buying all 60 would take some pretty sweet coin, but it’s just as likely that you’ll hate as many Zappa albums as you’d love: This mustachioed musical madman remains the most unpredictable figure in pop history, blurring the lines between rock, jazz, prog, doo-wop, satire and stupidity. Unless you’re an extreme completist (or a deranged millionaire), it’s unlikely you purchased all 60 of Frank Zappa’s 2012 reissues.

Shout! Factory has gathered those three studio albums, along with two discs of rarities and live cuts, into the exhaustive box set The Complete Beat, which is so good that even listeners who swear they don’t like reggae will find much to love.- Stephen M. They played long, raucous, sweaty live shows, but toured mostly in Europe rather than the States.

They remain a cult act in the U.S., famous primarily for “Mirror in the Bathroom,” but during their short life-just three albums in five years-the Beat released one classic LP, one really good one and one fair. Check out the Best Reissues and Box Sets of 2012, as voted upon by our panel of staff and writers, below.

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We’ve already told you our picks for the best new music of 2012, so today we’re celebrating the releases that look backwards as we choose the year’s best reissues, best-of compilations and box sets-although, of course, some new or previously unheard material managed to crack the list. 31 and is made possible by our friends at Tretorn.

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Paste’s Best of 2012 series continues through Dec.

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