Even if you do not like great tongue-in-cheek humour /parodies/social commentary in your music, you still gotta give this a spin. Skip Weird Al Yankovic, get this! Essential Zappa. On the other hand if you do, you are already a fan or you are missing out on a great album. I’ll skip all the commentary on … Continue reading »
Cruising with Ruben and the Jets-FRANK ZAPPA-1968
This the album where Zappa buries 50′s doo wop once and for all. Now me, I’ve never heard much of doo wop, having been born much much later, but from what I can comprehend, 50′s doo wop was the epitome of the psuedo individualization of pop music : corporate mass produced fodder for the suburban loving, mindless post WW-II, … Continue reading »
Hot Rats-FRANK ZAPPA-1969
Just to give all the “he-can-only-make-fun-of-good-emotional-music-this-guy-cannot-be-taken-seriously” critics a swift kick in the nuts, Zappa went all instrumental, cast aside all the doo wop and spoken word parodies, and made an awesome all music all the time album which is my favourite Zappa album from the 60′s, as well as coming in the top 3 of my Zappa … Continue reading »
Let Them Talk – HUGH LAURIE – 2011
The misanthropic Dr. House seems fit for music a lot less empathetic than this….something sardonic like Cake would suit him better. As it turns out, Hugh Laurie is much softer and more amenable to such trifles as empathy and disenfranchisement and loves the blues. I didn’t think so. To me, this was simply a curious … Continue reading »
