Mission Statement: to do very little, for very few, for not very long. Disappointing the easily pleased since 1819. Not as good as it used to be from Day One. History is Bunk - PT Barnum. Artificially Intelligent before it was fashionable. Fat camp for the mind! Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost. The Shock of the Old! Often bettered, never imitated.
The set consists of two luxury compilations exclusive to you, Mr. Big Time Movie Backer: a full length CD, and a twenty minute EP! Go ahead, make like you gots 'em awready. Nobody here's goin' to believe you neither. You got that type face.
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Today's subject for mass debate is - do lab rats prefer Miles Davis or Beethoven? What about if they're shot full of cocaine?
ReplyDeleteMy guess would be Miles with or without "Bolivian Marching Powder".
DeleteI have to wonder what Ludwig might have composed, with a head full of snow.
Personally, I was never a fan of Cocaine.
Don't make me laugh. Beethoven, of course! Well, maybe Miles. Dag-nabbit.
DeleteBy the way, where's the link. Can't find it. Thank you very hard.
Cocaine is the cocaine of drugs.
DeleteCocaine is like really evil coffee.
DeleteNever did anything for me (unlike coffee, which at least tastes good).
DeleteThe Rev.Dr.Baz points out that rats share some charateristics with human earthlings - they engage in sexual congress for pleasure & also kill for pleasure.And remember if you corner one & it leaps at you, it`s not attacking, its trying to jump over your shoulder to escape. Like humans I think some will prefer Miles & others Ludwig Von & some will enjoy both (especially the cardboard covers).
ReplyDeleteIs it Beethoven for sex & latter day Miles for murder or visa versa?
If you have a male & female rat on Jan 1st & you leave them alone you will have 2000 rats by December 31st (although they will probably kill most of them).It is alleged that the millions of rats in Australia are all descended from the half dozen that accompanied the first caucasian invasion.
Hot Rats!
ReplyDeleteMy fave FZ platter is Reuben & The Jets & for me, The Mothers went downhill after the wonderful Ray Collins departed. I have the Greasy Love Songs disc which, if I can find it,I will gladly upload if you like. I also have a copy of the fill-um, which I found diappointing.All I can say is "Blow Your Harmonica Son". The Rev. Dr Baz Chaplain of The Cosmonauts of Inner Space.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mr. Mania. I have this too, and will loadup swiftly. Ish.
Deletethis lab rat likes both depending on the day/ likes GD when Pigpen was alive better/Likes all the stuff Hawkwind did/ all the stuff Jade Warrior did /likes early Amon Duul ll /likes Copeland/ Stravinsky /Wagner /almost all psyke /almost all Blues/ most stuff really
ReplyDeleteHere's an interesting link...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/classical-music-drugs/
Listening to classical music on acid was a bafflingly flat experience, like it was happening in the next room. Nothing to hear here folks.
DeleteI only sorta like Zappa. Joes Garage, Apostrophe, maybe not a lot else. But what I'd really like to find is a promo film. I don't even know the name of it, or what Zappa product it was promoting, but I'd love to find it. It was a bit like the BBC short films Morph, an early Aardman Animations effort.
ReplyDeleteOh, and the rats. It'll be a generational thing. The young dudes would eat up Miles, and the more mature rodents go for Beethoven. With or without stimulants.
Here's a link to "The Crux of the Biscuit", which is different studio versions and mixes of "Apostrophe".
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/vZUgn4KDeE5
The Yellow Snow Suite from Crux is just superb.
DeleteSorry, forgot to mention. The promo film was like plasticine landscapes bubbling up and down in a suggestive menner.
ReplyDeleteHi geriatrix maybe these Uchewbs will help
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjXiEqxvfqI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdcoyjKMhBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVeKiA-_oos
I think the video you are talking about is "city of tiny lights" made for The old grey whistle test. A 70's British music show mainly for old farts stoners and hippies.
DeleteThe host at the time Mr "whispering" Bob Harris referred to the New York dolls as "mock rock" resulting in Mr Sid Vicious whacking him upside the head with a bike chain.
Bambi - Hi, and big thanks for the links. Perfect.
ReplyDeleteMiles at his most Beethovenesque?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6M2GFYpSo0
this not too jazzy album is about the only MD i go for
The links will be up shortly, Shirley. Having difficulty focussing right now, bent over me keyboard.
ReplyDeleteThe rats thing - there was an actual study - rats responded better to Beethoven until dosed with cocaine, and even when the drug wore off they preferred Miles.
Here's the rare meat as advertised: https://workupload.com/file/eL5nvA5Vzj7
ReplyDelete(Stealth Link© beyond me capabilities, so maintain social distancing whilst downloading)
Thank you sire.
ReplyDeleteHere's Greasy Love Songs, one of many marketing misfires screwed up by the Zappa Family Trust. "Hey - let's not just reissue the original Reuben recordings in highest quality in the original sleeve - let's call it something else and give it a really shitty sleeve design! That'll work!"
ReplyDeleteIncredible how Zappa's music has always been mishandled by people called Zappa. Frank himself was of course guilty of stripping away the rhythm section and floating in new musicians for the godawful CD issue, lying that the original tapes had been lost. Well, they hadn't, and this reissue lets us hear how fantastic-sounding they still are.
https://workupload.com/file/QBq3c6S9Svn
thank you for this unknown to me, this is shocking as anyone who has known me for more than 5 minutes will tell you that i know everything. and i am not afraid to admit it.
DeleteThe whole series of Lost was a kind of concept board sketch for th' IoF©. Kind of a rough outline of what's happening here.
DeleteIt behooves me at this point to announce th' IoF© will, until I get screed from youse lazy-assed bums, be devoted entirely to the Life And Recordings Of Carly Simon, starting in a couple of days.
ReplyDeleteWhat? No Mrs. Miller!
DeleteNot until you write that critical reassessment, Clar!
DeleteI enjoyed it muchly, too.
ReplyDeleteMr. Pune has put you all to shame with a swell, if slight, slice o' screed that'll be loadupped in a couple of days, narrowly averting the Carlyfest (at least this time around). No flipping!
ReplyDeleteAnticipation, anticipation......
DeleteHere's three Zappa covers albums - Pierre Jean Gaucher with a guitar-heavy fusionesque instrumental album, Caballero Reynaldo who simply defies description, and a comp of surf style interpretations which occasionally, like Charlie, don't surf.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/WytTWMD5v23
Thanks, I look forward to hearing these.
DeleteSounds interesting. Check out my contribution to the oeuvre, below.
DeleteI love this place....
ReplyDeleteHave a colleague who lit-er-ally studies this stuff...mostly she gives rats large quantities of various drugs and sees what happens with sex, but she's been known to also play music at them. Also roller derbys and currently has blue hair. As teh kidz say, she's a mood. And not to be missed.
Super stuff you posted. Great especially for a Zappa fan like me.
ReplyDeleteLate to the party with some FZ tunes played by a wind quintet, Le Concert Impromptu, good for trying to fool people into thinking you got taste and sophistication, or perhaps scoring those old 8mm silent home movies. A lot more enjoyable than that London Symphony stuff or anything with a synclavier on it, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteWhile we're here, here's an expanded edish of Burnt Weeny, with a couple of absolutely album-specific instrymentals
ReplyDeleteslipped between the bread.