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If you're like me, and thank Christ you're not for both our sakes, you'll do your best music lissnin' in the car, specially when you're on your own and you can crank it right up (and have the music loud, too). I was rocking the Toyota Xanax upriver to Nakhon Phanom today and this came up on shuffle and I had NO IDEA what it was, because it was one of the many downloads I hadn't gotten around to hearing. And I was BLOWN AWAY I tell ya! There's a bunch of great promo radio nonsense (for "greasy teens") and there's some remixes from '69 (what th' actual?!?) that sound radically different even to me. There may even be some extra doity woids. It's a swell alternative listen, is what it is.
Anyway, I did some research and it turns out it's Side Three of a double vinyl 50th Anniversary set. It's a standalone suite, so I knocked up a cover [above - Ed.] and here it is. I never tire of this guy.
THIS JUST IN!
Mothermania makes a groovy companion piece to Side Three, featuring as it does a few other Mystery Remixes from '69 available only on this hard-to-find waxing! Oboy!
Link in comments.
This post funded in part by the Stephen Hawking Lapdancing Academy
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ReplyDeleteoh, magnificent Farquhar. might you shine your magnanimous grace upon us once again? your curatorial sensibilities are beyond compare and though we are clearly not worthy of the gifts you consistently rain upon us, could you forgive us for our neediness and band up a'link fer' this FZ tomfoolification? tanks a'million ...
ReplyDeleteCan't ever have too much Zappa, even if you Can't Afford No Shoes...Please sir, Crank some Frank!
ReplyDeleteOne of my all time musical juxtapositions by Fred Zappie is on the original "Live in New York" album where he goes form the oh-so-clever intricacies of "The Black Page" to an absolutely swinging and dumb-as-a-dumb thing "Big Leg Emma". It doesn't get better. The whole album is my favourite of his, as the smutty and sardonic songs ("Punky's Lips", "The Illinois Enema Bandit", etc) REALLY annoy those folk with terminal hemorrhoids who think Zappa's rude songs detracted from his being a serious person's genius (as if anyone cares or would believe them). WRONG. The asshole songs were his finest work, funny, funky, clever, and they really annoyed the right people. Job done.
ReplyDeleteZappa's lyrics have very rarely conformed to contemporary songwriting tropes. There's Trouble Every Day, and ... nope, that's about it. I mean, what was he going to sing about? Sappy love?
DeleteA recent rediscovery, in the better-than-I-remember-it category, is You Are What You Is, his last studio album. It's a corker!
Sorry, still stuck on the euphonious phrase "I was rocking the Toyota Xanax upriver to Nakhon Phanom today" and trying to remember if that's on Zappa's Mae Nak Phra Khanong Boogie album or that weird Beatles' album they did on their way home from India with Prudence, Thai Rammana, with Ringo on the thon...Not exactly begging, but a kinda indirect pleading, mebbe?
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ReplyDeleteYes, please. Farq, Wouldn't you love to have heard the material FZ would have come up with since 1993, especially during the Bush and Trump administrations? Boggles the mind!
ReplyDeleteArf! Arf!
ReplyDeletePleeze!! Oh, pleeze!!
ReplyDeleteHere you are, fellows! And if you enjoy it half as much as I, then I've enjoyed it twice as much as you!
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ReplyDeleteWhy Don'tcha Do Me Right is of Zappa's finer moments. Monster track.
DeleteThe man--with the Mothers in particular--was more fun that a barrel of Monkees...who were pretty fun.
DeleteThanks Farq!! First saw Frank in 1970 at the London Coliseum .. with allsortsa weirdness happening!! Great stuff!!
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