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Zappa, anyone?

The Packard Goose

22:28 / 18.07.01

I've brought up Frank Zappa on this site before, and had to enter a witness relocation program to get away from the hostile responses. But if at first, etc.
This site is concerned, at least on some levels, with upsetting the status quo. Zappa's entire life was a model in independence, revolution, freedom, and dada, and I think much of his music appeals to the same parts of my soul that Invisibles, Barbelith, and other topics on this site get all tingly.
Anybody else here listen to Zappa?
Did "We're Only in it For the Money" change anybody else's life?
Does anybody else wish that the U.S. had agreed to the Czech Republic's request to have Zappa be the U.S. ambassador to that country?
Has anyone here listened to "Plastic People" or "Who Are the Brain Police?" and thought "Holy shit, this has the stink of truth to it?"

01:38 / 19.07.01

I personally love Zappa, I highly recommend you pick up Lather, it's a 3 cd album that he put out because his record company wanted 4 albums so he decided to give it to them all at once. It's got The Adventures of Gregory Pecory, a song about a pig that invents the calender and how there's a backlash to it (there's more to the song, it's like 20 minutes long and has an in depth story) and Titties And Beer a funkish tune about how the devil ate his girlfriend and beer and how he goes about getting them back. The man's a certified genius, for fuck's sake I've seen footage of him playing a bicycle. And his movie, 200 Motels, is a wonderful mess where Ringo Starr plays Frank Zappa while constantly making references to him being Ringo Starr and how Frank Zappa's a pervert.

04:35 / 19.07.01

I'll admit it. I like Zappa, too. I was introduced to him many years ago by a friend, and I went on a huge Zappa spree, listening to anything of his that I could.

An A1 genuine goddamn genius.

14:46 / 19.07.01

I like Zappa. I even went to the high school that he blew up the chem lab in when he was a student.

I especially liked the lyrics: "You're an asshole you're an asshole that's right! So ram it up your poop shoot."

16:00 / 19.07.01

In my high school years I once watched Baby Snakes late at night whilst tripping on liquid acid.

[ 19-07-2001: Message edited by: Ierne ]

The Packard Goose

16:25 / 19.07.01

Excellent! Good to know that there are more Zappa appreciators around.

Ierne--Damn. I watched Baby Snakes in college, sober (for once), and it still was a trip. You must have gone somewhere very interesting during your viewing. I love when Terry Bozzio (the drummer) puts on the devil horns during "Titties & Beer." And how 'bout that guy doing the claymation? Brilliantly twisted!

Cop Killer--Thanks for the Lather recommendation. That's one I haven't heard yet (it's amazing how much material Zappa put out; something like sixty or seventy CD's currently available?!!), but I'll try to grab it soon.

Lothar Tuppan and Nick Jordan--Thanks for reaffirming my hope for mankind.

My best friend just got married a couple of weeks ago, and he somehow got his bride to agree to have the DJ play a section of "Flakes" when the newlyweds walked into the reception:

"I'm a moron, and this is my wife;
She's frosting a cake with a paper knife!
All what we got here's American-made;
It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.
Well, we don't get excited when it crumbles and breaks,
We just get on the phone and call up some Flakes.
They rush on over and wreck it some more,
And we are so dumb they're lining up at our door. . ."

The bride's mother was mortified ("The guests will think you're ungrateful!"), but everybody else got a good laugh out of it.

16:36 / 19.07.01

And how 'bout that guy doing the claymation?

"And then the Monster goes into the Discotechque..."

oo-ee!

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:16 / 19.07.01

quote:Originally posted by Lothar Tuppan:
I especially liked the lyrics: "You're an asshole you're an asshole that's right! So ram it up your poop shoot."

That's from my particular Zappa favorite: "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes."