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What happened to Sheik Yerbouti and Orchestral Favorites? I know you've got the latter album.
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I've played them both but apparently forgot to tell you all.
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At any rate, now I've arrived at Baby Snakes, I recalled that I now understand the lyrics to Jones Crusher.
And there I was thinking it was about celebrity crushing...
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The Man From Utopia (Ryko)
Last year I gave a bad review of this album, but up to The Dangerous Kitchen it is actually a very enjoyable album. Granted, Cocaine Decision is not
my favourite track, but I can still listen to it. I love SEX of course, Tink Walks Amok is an awesome instrumental,and Radio/Broken is OK, We Are Not
Alone is a fantastic melody, and Dangerous Kitchen may have sprechstimme but it's still fun.
After that comes Man From Utopia vd Mary Lou, not the best cover, it's a bit messy. Stick Together is highly unenthusiastic, Jazz Discharge Party
Hatsmay have gross lyrics, and it has Sprechstimme, but you've got to admire Vai's capability of playing that along perfectly.
Luigi & The Wise Guys is simply put an earsore.
And there's Moggio, which is gorgeous.
So far, UMRK hasn't brought me much good as a fan.
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Baby Snakes (Zappa Records)
I occasionally hear crackle, as if it was recorded using the LP as master.
Baby Snakes may not have any original tracks, although the title track is slowed down compared to Sheik Yerbouti (but I understod SY was recorded sped
up). It is all the same a lot of fun to listen to. Plus it has "my" Disco Boy: the one that drew me into FZ all those years ago.
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London Symphony Orchestra vol 1 & 2, Ryko CD
This album is apparently best to listen to as background, which I did this time around while drawing. It is occasionally lovely, like in Bogus Pomp,
but with the little rehearsal time, the orchestra is a complete mess at times. Poor Frank!
Kent Nagano has received negative heat on the Z-forum, but I find him a good conductor. He also did Varèse's orchestral works with the Orchestre
National de France, with Phyllis Bryn-Julson ("And every poor soul who's adrift in the storm...") as soprano on Nocturnal.
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The Perfect Stranger
The UMRK presents four Synclavier pieces. Of those two, Love Story and Outside Now Again are not exactly benefitting from Frank's new-found
preciseness: both sound far from great. In Outside Now this is caused by the percussion-like staccato notes.
Fortunately the other two (Magnesium Dress and Jonestown) sound a lot better: former has those harp-like quick notes, and Jonestown is particularly
chilling.
Recently I read "Earthly Powers" by Anthony Burgess, a masterpiece of literature. In it, Burgess describes an event that may be fictuous, but clearly
roots in the Jonestown events. Jonestown may have occurred in 1978, but the impact it made can be clearly seen from art like Earthly Powers, or this
Zappa piece.
The true star of Perfect Stranger are the three orchestral pieces, conducted into perfection by Pierre Boulez. Dupree's Paradise particularly sounds
nothing short of amazing.
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Thing-Fish (Ryko) is another 80s album that doesn't receive as much love as it deserves... granted the briefcase scene is too much, and Ike Willis'
accent gets annoying, but there are quite a few good songs on it. Today's surprise discovery is Clowns On Velvet. Try it!
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Them Or Us
TOU is a fun album,most of it anyway. Although it starts badly with a whiny cover song, In France quicly helps the pace up.
Some of the songs do not have strong foundations: Little Frogs for instance. Baby Take Your Teeth Out comes straight out of Sesame Street. Stevie's
Spanking gets boring very quickly.
The instrumentals are great, though: the Sinister Footwear #2 (where's 1?), the title track, various solos, and of course Marque-Son's Chicken.
This time around I noticed how Marque-Son's Chicken is reminiscent of Dupree's Paradise.
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Cocaine Decisions occasionally reminds me of House For Sale by Lucifer/Margriet Eshuys. I knew I disliked it for a reason.
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YCDTOSA vol 3
The third in a series of hoping I don't get too much concert piled up towards the end. Volume 3 has several attractions: Frank bursting out in
laughter on Bobby Brown and Keep It Greasey, and hearing Frank trying to calm an Italian crowd. I still need to watch DRS, so I haven't yet seen the
footage/
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Francesco Zappa
Personal favourite track is #14.
This album is cute, harmless, nearly pointless, its material is simple... It's Frank's little mystery. So to answer the question "Who gets this one?"
the answer is "I don't, but I like it anyways."
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that footage is not on the DRS dvd though it makes sense it would be. Maybe some day. It's mostly what's his name, Mossimo singing Tengo Na Minchia
and acting like he's snorting coke and playing with a rubber chicken, intercut with Frank and the people in the dubroom. The '74 stuff is better with
the claymation stuff. I guess I don't really like that one.
Francesco though, that's great. After dinner, nap time.
[Edited on 14-12-10 by punknaynowned]
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Shut Up & Play Your Guitar
Yowza!
Discovered some similarity between TreacherousCretins and the music to THIS.
Canard du Jour is amazing!!
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YCDTOSA vol 4
is one of my favourites, since it has the gorgeous fivesome My Guitar/Willie the Pimp/Montana/Brown Moses/The Evil Prince. It has still
better-sounding versions of Thing-Fish songs. Initially I wasn't too fond of all those R&B covers on disk 2, but now I've noticed they're all
12-bar-blueses, it's amusing me.
Note to sel"f: list all 12 bar blueses in Zappa's work.
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Jazz From Hell
Zappa's Grammy-winner. Although the sounds are a little outdated on most of the tracks, Zappa proves himself a great composer. St Etienne is gorgeous,
but we're fortunate that most of these songs are available in proper version elsewhere.
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No more short single vinyl albums from now...
Broadway The Hard Way
Has many songs about the Reagan administration, an era I don't know much about. It's got several worse songs, such as Promiscuous and Any Kind Of
Pain, but some good soloing and Sting at the second half of it.
Guitar (vinyl)
One I still need to have on CD. Although it doesn't have any highlights like Ship Ahoy, Canarsie or Canard Du Jour, Guitar is highly enjoyable,
although I would have appreciated less Ship/Witch. When a man is tired of Ship he is tired of life.
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On Guitar: Fulcanelli was an alchemist from the early 20ieth century, whose identity is disputed.
YCDTOSA vol 5
Because I had to cook for myself, I couldn't listen to it in full yesterday and had to finish the rest off today
The first disk is charming me a lot more than it did initially, I've come to like the blues tracks on them.
Disk 2 is about a very different band: the 82 band with Steve Vai, Tommy Mars, Ray White, Bobby Martin, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman. It has
many great performances, although I cannot appreciate City Of Tiny Lites. Long notes are a good performance trick, and granted, Ray White is a lot
better at it than Les Claypool, but on a CD it just brings the music to a standstill.
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The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
(also dubbed Just Another Band From L.A. in moments of lapse of concentration of yours truly)
The prime attraction of TBBYNHIYL are covers: Purple Haze, Stairway To Heaven, Ring Of Fire, Bonanza, and for Americans, Bolero. The rest of the songs
exist elsewhere. Which ones I prefer over the original?
None really. I get a little annoyed by the FXes like Dog Bark and Clap Hand. Doesn't mean it's a bad album, not in the least, but it is a bit of a
pointless exercition to me. Making it all the more painful that it is the second most expensive record I am listening to during Zappadan, only CP3
cost more.
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Ahead Of Their Time
A very pleasant live album with a funny play, and quite a few great tracks! My heart went out when FZ closed the concert early because "subways close
early around here." Wow!
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