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On 4/16/05 7:25 PM, in article
, "Jay Kadis"
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SSJVCmag wrote:

On 4/15/05 5:33 PM, in article
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"Jay Kadis" wrote:

In article ,
SSJVCmag wrote:

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But that's the flip side... Fair/good/amazing MUSICAL chops built around
disposable lyrics. Zappa was the extreme of that.


If you think Zappa's lyrics are disposable you aren't listening.


Please do NOT mistake me here as denying ANY of the absolutely GRAND final
results... I was giddly, naively, cluelessly listening to the
goofy/dangerous lyrics and was just stopped COLD when I first heard TWENTY
SMALL CIGARS and suddenly knew there was a WHOLE lot more to WHY he was
making records than just to **** off Suits.

Camarillo Brillo?
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama?
Not a little was wonderfully slapped onto his music in order to get it out
there with more markettable attention for otherwise MARVELOUS music with
really No Commercial Potential. Would APOSTRPHE have sold anywhere near the
numbers for him as an instrumental record? Would FREAK OUT?
The man understood time-decoration as public art.


I was listening to Broadway the Hard Way on the way to work the other
day. He nailed the Christian-right political agenda to the wall back in
1989. [Just think if Frank had lived long enough to enter the
governor's race against Arnold.]


Well DUHH! that's a lot LATER and he had something to SAY and did that
too... If he HAD a message for lyrics, he wrote it an dused it, if he
DIDIN:T, he;d just spray Funwords up there and have a blast too.
You want message? Do FZ MEETS THE MOTHERS OF PREVENTION... Great stuff if
you like real late 20th cent abstract sound collage work (and I do!) and
he's BRUTAL...

I think every word he uttered had serious thought
behind it.


And I think he;d be bemused by that sort of take on his work as a
generalisation...
Anyone who idolized Varese as a kid was hardly a lightweight
in any sense.


The man was remarkable... And from Bal'mer too!


 
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