zappa. yeah...

would starting a discussion about zappa fit in here? oh well who cares.

whats your favorite zappa tune? i only have like 6 songs and i would like to get more into him so whats some listenable material?

 

my favorite is scumbag. also pygymy twylyte is cool. The biscuits do a cool cover of that song

 

I'm the slime is pretty good is my favorite

 

i'd say zappa fits in the jam world more than any other.....get album Chunga's Revenge and you will hear some amazing noodling....

 

I'd say zappa is proggresive and experimental rock..and he's a GOD..i love him passionatley....

 

black napkins is a killer zappa song.

 

willie the pimp from hot rats is one of my favorites. from joe's garage i like the songs from central scrutinizer until scrutinizer postlude the best and the nacy and mary music from chunga's revenge is some real heavy stuff too

 

http://www.myspace.com/frankzappa

anybody else think he was attractive.....
i think he was beautiful!

 

I cant pick just one........

favourites though, lets do a top 10......

willie the pimp
watermelon in easter hay
black napkins
he used to cut the grass
who needs the peace corps?
wowie zowie
who are the brain police?
the idiot bastard son
my guitar is going to kill your mama
montana

 

I like Dirty Love, Montana, and Bobby Brown.

 

Mud Sh-Sh-Shark

 

yeah that ones the shit too.

 

hey i'm not a big fan of frank zappa i've got a few songs of his on my computer...but, for example this song "oh no" isn't it anti-hippie ?i'm sorry if i'm wrong, i've already said, i'm not a fan of his, so i'm not so well-informed...the songs i've listened to sound pretty good, anyway...

Oh no
I don't believe it
You say that you think you know
The meaning of love
You say love is all we need
You say
With your love you can change
All of the fools
All of the hate
I think you're probably
Out to lunch

Oh no
I don't believe it
You say that you think you know
The meaning of love
Do you really think it can be told?
You say that you really know
I think
You should check it again
How can you say
What you believe
Will be the key to a
World of love?

All your love -
Will it save me?
All your love -
Will it save the world
From what we can't understand
Oh no
I don't believe it

 

i don't give a fuck he was anti-hippie, though the hippie-lifestyle inspires me bigtime. his music is great, intelligent and funny. he was anti-establishment too. i think he is to good to ignore just because he was anti-hippie

 

ZOMBY WOOF!!

gotta love the mothers of invention!

 

wowie zowie. enough said

 

Any of the ones previously mentioned, and Peaches En Regalia.

 

Good to see another Frank Zappa thread under "Grateful Dead & Phish" - the last FZ thread I saw was under "Classical"... just goes to show how much his music defies categorization.


Noone has yet mentioned Burnt Weenie Sandwich, my own personal favorite album of his. It was created at approximately the same time as Hot Rats, and while both albums are primarily instrumental ensemble works they are in some ways very different. HR is essentially baroque music, elegant, structured and played by virtuosic musicians - I like to think of it as Zappa's Brandenburg Concertos. BWS has a more Eastern European folk flavor, and features highly complex compositions that showcase the talents developed by the original M.O.I. before their first official break-up. It is in BWS that he starts seriously experimenting with complex polyrhythms. There is a passage in Little House I Used to Live in where a repeating melody in an unevenly divided 12/8 (actually an ancient Bulgarian rhythm) is played against an 11/8 bass, subtly advancing 1 eighth-note each measure until the intersecting rhythms converge in a satisfying melodic, waltz-time cadence.

Speaking of rhythms, I believe Oh No (mentioned in a post above) was written as an answer to the Beatles' All You Need Is Love. Both songs open with the same andante 7/4 meter but in the Zappa song the rhythm quickly becomes far more complex with the addition of triplets and hemiolias - as if to imply that what we call "love" far more complex than can be expressed in a simple song with a catchy beat.

 

i have just acquired One Size Fits All on CD after recognizing passages from Inca Roads and Andy floating around in my head from my old hippy daze.

I had forgotten what a great album it is!