zappa. yeah...

Discussion in 'Grateful Dead and Phish' started by guyute625, Jan 5, 2007.

  1. guyute625

    guyute625 Member

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    would starting a discussion about zappa fit in here? oh well who cares.

    whats your favorite zappa tune? i only have like 6 songs and i would like to get more into him so whats some listenable material?
     
  2. Half A Sandwich

    Half A Sandwich Member

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    my favorite is scumbag. also pygymy twylyte is cool. The biscuits do a cool cover of that song
     
  3. drumminmama

    drumminmama Super Moderator Super Moderator

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    Not what I'd lump in with jam vibes, but I do love me some FZ.
    I'm originally a folkie, so his whimsey and storytelling in the lyrics works for me, a fave is Montana.
     
  4. rachaelc

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    I'm the slime is pretty good is my favorite
     
  5. solla._.sollew

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    i'd say zappa fits in the jam world more than any other.....get album Chunga's Revenge and you will hear some amazing noodling....
     
  6. Rar1013

    Rar1013 GroovaMama

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    I'd say zappa is proggresive and experimental rock..and he's a GOD..i love him passionatley....
     
  7. quickphix

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    black napkins is a killer zappa song.
     
  8. rainbowedskylover

    rainbowedskylover Senior Member

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    willie the pimp from hot rats is one of my favorites. from joe's garage i like the songs from central scrutinizer until scrutinizer postlude the best and the nacy and mary music from chunga's revenge is some real heavy stuff too
     
  9. Rar1013

    Rar1013 GroovaMama

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  10. madcrappie

    madcrappie crazy fish

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    I cant pick just one........

    favourites though, lets do a top 10......

    willie the pimp
    watermelon in easter hay
    black napkins
    he used to cut the grass
    who needs the peace corps?
    wowie zowie
    who are the brain police?
    the idiot bastard son
    my guitar is going to kill your mama
    montana
     
  11. hayduke_lives5447

    hayduke_lives5447 Sancho

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    I like Dirty Love, Montana, and Bobby Brown.
     
  12. AreYouExperienced

    AreYouExperienced American Victim

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    Mud Sh-Sh-Shark
     
  13. hayduke_lives5447

    hayduke_lives5447 Sancho

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    yeah that ones the shit too.
     
  14. OneMoreCupOfCoffee

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    hey i'm not a big fan of frank zappa i've got a few songs of his on my computer...but, for example this song "oh no" isn't it anti-hippie ?i'm sorry if i'm wrong, i've already said, i'm not a fan of his, so i'm not so well-informed...the songs i've listened to sound pretty good, anyway...

    Oh no
    I don't believe it
    You say that you think you know
    The meaning of love
    You say love is all we need
    You say
    With your love you can change
    All of the fools
    All of the hate
    I think you're probably
    Out to lunch

    Oh no
    I don't believe it
    You say that you think you know
    The meaning of love
    Do you really think it can be told?
    You say that you really know
    I think
    You should check it again
    How can you say
    What you believe
    Will be the key to a
    World of love?

    All your love -
    Will it save me?
    All your love -
    Will it save the world
    From what we can't understand
    Oh no
    I don't believe it
     
  15. rainbowedskylover

    rainbowedskylover Senior Member

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    i don't give a fuck he was anti-hippie, though the hippie-lifestyle inspires me bigtime. his music is great, intelligent and funny. he was anti-establishment too. i think he is to good to ignore just because he was anti-hippie
     
  16. hippy i am

    hippy i am poppy seed bagels

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    ZOMBY WOOF!!

    gotta love the mothers of invention!
     
  17. guyute625

    guyute625 Member

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    wowie zowie. enough said
     
  18. MoonjavaSeed

    MoonjavaSeed Yeah, Toast!

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    Any of the ones previously mentioned, and Peaches En Regalia. :D
     
  19. Zajko

    Zajko Hip Forums Supporter HipForums Supporter

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    Good to see another Frank Zappa thread under "Grateful Dead & Phish" - the last FZ thread I saw was under "Classical"... just goes to show how much his music defies categorization.


    Noone has yet mentioned Burnt Weenie Sandwich, my own personal favorite album of his. It was created at approximately the same time as Hot Rats, and while both albums are primarily instrumental ensemble works they are in some ways very different. HR is essentially baroque music, elegant, structured and played by virtuosic musicians - I like to think of it as Zappa's Brandenburg Concertos. BWS has a more Eastern European folk flavor, and features highly complex compositions that showcase the talents developed by the original M.O.I. before their first official break-up. It is in BWS that he starts seriously experimenting with complex polyrhythms. There is a passage in Little House I Used to Live in where a repeating melody in an unevenly divided 12/8 (actually an ancient Bulgarian rhythm) is played against an 11/8 bass, subtly advancing 1 eighth-note each measure until the intersecting rhythms converge in a satisfying melodic, waltz-time cadence.

    Speaking of rhythms, I believe Oh No (mentioned in a post above) was written as an answer to the Beatles' All You Need Is Love. Both songs open with the same andante 7/4 meter but in the Zappa song the rhythm quickly becomes far more complex with the addition of triplets and hemiolias - as if to imply that what we call "love" far more complex than can be expressed in a simple song with a catchy beat.
     
  20. Zajko

    Zajko Hip Forums Supporter HipForums Supporter

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    i have just acquired One Size Fits All on CD after recognizing passages from Inca Roads and Andy floating around in my head from my old hippy daze.

    I had forgotten what a great album it is!
     

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