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Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098 |
Posted: January 13 2018 at 06:08 | ||
I'm all for adding humour to music and I am furthermore a big Zappa fan...yet I find We're Only In It For The Money extremely tiresome and musically uninteresting compared to say Hot Rats, Waka Jawaka or The Grand Wazoo.
There is a clever message completely made up of Zappaesque irony in there, but the execution leaves me completely cold. Mount Rushmore today consists of Luis Alberto Spinetta, Giulio Capiozzo, Reine Fiske and Christian Vander. |
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Mascodagama
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Posted: January 13 2018 at 06:41 | ||
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Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to.
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Mascodagama
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Posted: January 13 2018 at 07:16 | ||
For humour in lyrics I prefer Steely Dan, Beefheart, Tom Waits, Caravan, Bonzos, Ian Dury, They Might Be Giants and not least Flight of the Conchords to Zappa, among others. Edited by Mascodagama - January 13 2018 at 07:16 |
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Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to.
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Mortte
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 11 2016 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 5538 |
Posted: January 13 2018 at 08:07 | ||
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YESESIS
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Posted: January 13 2018 at 13:10 | ||
I guess that makes sense. I like Frank Z's humor though. And he can definitely bring both beauty and power as well.. Willie The Pimp(from hot rats) is pure POWER. While Blessed Relief(from the grand wazoo) is pure BEAUTY.
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YESESIS
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 26 2017 Location: Maine Status: Offline Points: 2215 |
Posted: January 13 2018 at 13:18 | ||
I think We're Only In It For The Money is genius. It's his funniest album imo, plus it has the obnoxiousness(long loud burp). And.. as previously mentioned it has some very good, melodic songs. Basically it's got a whole lot of what makes Zappa Zappa.
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verslibre
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Posted: January 13 2018 at 14:37 | ||
Sheik Yerbouti has been my favorite FZ album ever since I first heard it. It's so juvenile and perverse, I love it. And the music's really good, too!
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YESESIS
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Posted: January 13 2018 at 14:59 | ||
Oh yeah.. very fun album. More of a 70's, almost discoish vibe to a lot of it(hence the title lol). Absolutely great, fun album.
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Dellinger
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Posted: January 13 2018 at 22:05 | ||
Actually, funny lyrics don't bother me so much... well, they do, but I can still enjoy a song with them. But it's "funny" sounds that bother me more, because those are parts of the music. About the lyrics, Gabriel add some such things on Genesis songs, and many of those I still love... but if I pay attention to the lyrics I may wish they were different. |
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Mortte
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Posted: January 13 2018 at 22:49 | ||
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miamiscot
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Posted: January 25 2018 at 08:39 | ||
sl*g.ing on We're Only In It For The Money?
Next you'll be telling me that Red sucks too. I just can't...
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Dellinger
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Posted: January 25 2018 at 20:53 | ||
I guess Mortte actually likes that album, he is just telling me I might not like it because of previous posts in which I stated elements I don't really enjoy in music.
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Mortte
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Posted: January 25 2018 at 23:28 | ||
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