Frank Zappa was one of the great iconoclastic musicians of
the 20th Century. He was born in 1940 in Baltimore where
his Sicilian-born, Greek-Arab meteorologist father was
employed by an arsenal that manufactured poison gas during
World War II. The Zappa family eventually settled in
Lancaster, Calif., a Mohave Desert town Frank called a
cultural wasteland. Ironically, it was here, during his
high school years, that Zappa's interest in outlandish
combinations of music bloomed. He formed an R&B group
called the Blackouts, he bought Stravinsky and Varese
records, he played drums in his high school band, where he
was introduced to 12-tone music and did some composing and
conducting. And he began to suspect he was destined to live
a life deviating from the norms of Amer More...
Review about Frank Zappa zappa plays zappa | Reviewer: maarten
------ About the song The Torture Never Stops performed by Frank Zappa
i'm listening to the torture.. right now in the edition on the zpz album. beatyful; thanks to dweezel vai napoleon and the rest this song really ads something to the leggacy of frank. thanks for the 'return of the son of the master; dweezel; i'can't wait for yors to tour europe again.... soon!!!!
Wag the Fido (On a Lighter Note...) | Reviewer: Dog Gone, God Done
------ About the song Stink Foot performed by Frank Zappa
I doubt that Frank Ever thought about all this academic tail-chasing (although maybe Fido did in his spare time)
This is, to use a word I can just hear Frank saying, preposterous -- nearly as funny and ridiculous as The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play, which it sounds like you may have been reading.
But, What the Fuck...why not?
attention earthlings | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Lobster Girl performed by Frank Zappa
The Lobster Girl Lyrics are the property of my space and "time" in this universe. Towards the informational illucidation of all spacelings..........print lyrics Internetwise. NO "ONE" owns frank zappa's music-not even frank zappa
WTF! | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Trouble Every Day performed by Frank Zappa
Since i'm the first commentor, i guess that means i'm the first viewer for this amazing song. This song should be listened to more often, it happens to be extremely powerful, although written about the watts riots, it still applies today, bur batem. WHY doesn't anyone else listen to this song! WTF!
Dinah Moe live was a real treat | Reviewer: Al Dente
------ About the song Dinah-Moe Humm performed by Frank Zappa
I've seen this tune live and it has very special meaning when you are witness to Frank's unique capability to convey the bizarre. Frank left the Earth way too soon.
So PI I love it | Reviewer: Jeff
------ About the song Jewish Princess performed by Frank Zappa
do you think anyone would be able to get away with a song like this in this society? seriously, if this song came out now every civil liberty group would have take a group sh*t on this, but it's so funny
fucking perfetic | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Keep It Greasy performed by Frank Zappa
these lyrics are some of themost stupidest and most unnecerssary lyrics i have ever read in my entire life!!!!
Stink Foot: Heavier than assumed | Reviewer: C. Howie Phartz; B.S.
------ About the song Stink Foot performed by Frank Zappa
Ostenably written about a Mennin podiatary deodorant commercial (in which a dog keels over from the brozure of his master's slippers), this deceptively insipid monochordal blues tune that caps the "Apostrophe" LP carries with it some of the most profound themes of western literature.
The man/dog dialog that concludes the song is a brilliant spoof on the King/Jester scene from Shakespeare's "King Lear". Both conversations equate the assumption of so-called ultimate truths as absolute human folly. Blindings and feet figure strongly in the symbolism of "Lear" and "Apostrophe" The character Cornwall assumes the foot as the organ of domination, and the eye with perception. Lear makes the Jester remove his boots for him ("Now now. Pull off my boots! Harder, harder-so). Whilist struggling to remove his own boots, the man has Fido fetch his slippers. Zappa's use of cultural dross destroys any pretensions of a dichotomy between the so-called high arts, and utter bullshit.
Dogs are a traditional occidental symbol for obedience and submission. Again, the Bard: "Truth's a dog must to kennel, he must be whipt out!" Sado masochism and the servility of the dog. Zappa: (New Musical Express, 4/17/76) "If they think I have some dog fetish, they are sadly mistaken. It's not profound, it's entertainment".
"Phaedo" (homonym "Fido") is the Greek philosopher Plato's Socratic dialog (another dialog!) on the immortality of the soul. Fido seeking domnestic approval through blind obedience to his master, Phaedo seeking immortality through servitude to his gods. In narrating the ritual tonsure of clipped poodles (contained in bootleged live performances of "Stink Foot"), Zappa makes another archtypal connection. Fido/Phaedo learns of the actuality of loss, castration, and-- mortality.
Oh yeah, its a DOGgone funny song, to BOOT.
YES MAN IN THE MOON - OPEN YOUR EYES '05 | Reviewer: greg
------ About the song Find Her Finer performed by Frank Zappa
NEWER YES GOOD NOT EXTREME MUSICALLY BUT ALWAYS IN THE REAL SEAT LYRICALLY
Mock-heroic waltz with a truly beautiful melody | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song Sofa #2 performed by Frank Zappa
This song, from Zappa's magnificent "One Size Fits All", is a huge, bombastic, mock-heroic waltz about -- your sofa. Don't let the published English-language lyrics fool you, it is sung almost entirely in German, which is the language of choice for the Big Guy whenever it's really Heavy Business. The music, harmonization, and instrumentation are about as perfect as they could be -- I think Zappa's message here is that the sublime and transcendent always lurk just behind the surface of the mundane, and that Music -- which is The Best -- has the power to bring this right to the front. The man was a diamond-edged skeptic, but this is as spiritual as his music -- or any music -- gets. That, plus it's funny.
Re-Make of Brain Police Overdue! | Reviewer: Jack Holeman
------ About artist/band Frank Zappa
May 21
Frank Zappa's "BRAIN POLICE"
Frank Zappa, like so many musicians, had the knack for telling the future. He really demonstrated it by producing the hit album, "THE BEATLESS."
Simon and Garfunkel did this when they wrote, "And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls..." And The Jefferson Airplaine's Gracie Slick, "And the white knight is talking backwards..."
The Song BRAIN POLICE by Zappa, which featured a mock up picture of the Seargent Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles) had a picture of his dad on the inside cover. His dad used to teach me math and he headed up the Checkers Club, back at the parochial school I used to attend in Florida. It wasn't as big as WW II but I was there.
Frank's sister is still playing the songs that Frank wrote, live, in nightclubs.
Now that was a song for this generation, with internet intruders being as they are, these days, destroying a person's right to own the computer that they have paid for and can't use, where people type and type and type only to become legends in their own minds when they find out it's all been erased or something.
People everywhere are more and more confused about the VIRUSES, WORMS AND TROJAN HORSES on the web, but when it comes to music that sounds sure and rings true, most people relate to it and accept it without questioning the source.
NECESSITY COULD BE THE 'MOTHERS OF INVENTION' AND MAYBE SOME HACKERS REALLY NEED TO HAVE THEIR BRAINS POLICED!
Zappa | Reviewer: Lols
------ About the song Cheap Thrills performed by Frank Zappa
Zappa is the shit and this song rocks my sox.
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