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hellogoodbye 
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 Posted: April 21 2013 at 11:09 |
Just listenning to it. Synclavier works. Sounds great !
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Posted: April 21 2013 at 11:16 |
It makes me think a lot of the album Fabulae by the french electroacoustic composer : François Bayle.
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Posted: April 21 2013 at 11:17 |
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Thanks for the link, but I'm just going to wait until my copy comes in the mail. I have plenty of new albums to listen to still (both Zappa and other stuff.)
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Posted: April 28 2013 at 10:53 |
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My copy of Feeding the Monkies At Ma Maison came in on Thursday, but I've been too busy to sit down to give it a proper listen, especially since it has mostly previously-unreleased material on it. However, the cover art is really cool, with it's 3-D design. And good liner notes inside, though I wish the case itself wasn't so thin. I'm hoping to listen to it for the first time tonight or tomorrow.
What are your opinions on this album guys?
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Posted: April 28 2013 at 11:03 |
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I don't know anything about it. It's a Synclavier album, right? I notice a couple of track titles that are also on CP III.
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Posted: April 28 2013 at 11:27 |
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I haven't bought it yet, but I listen to it regularly on You Tube for several weeks. The length of the pieces makes it very different from Jazz From Hell. Less playful, more deep. Speak with my heart of this record will take more time.
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Posted: April 29 2013 at 12:16 |
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I listened to Feeding the Monkies last night for the first time. Definitely needs more listens, but there was some great stuff I noticed right off the bat. There was also more... "atmosphere" if you will. Not really familiar with CPIII too much, so the ones on FTMAMM that overlap are pretty much new to me.
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Posted: April 29 2013 at 13:11 |
The tracks are also expanded (or perhaps the original lengths? Not sure) from how they appear on CPIII. But the same tracks appearing on two different albums as different pieces shouldn't be all too surprising 
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Posted: April 29 2013 at 14:48 |
Overlap is an aspect of Zappa's entire canon. It's the big note. I meant that since I don't know CPIII very well (listened once to part of disc 1 years ago, and do not own it yet), so FTMAMM is pretty much a brand spankin' new Frank Zappa album for me.  It's sparked a Synclavier-based album marathon for me today.
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Posted: April 29 2013 at 14:51 |
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His Synclavier stuff has aged well for my tastes. I listen to CP III and JFH a lot more than, say, Apostrophe'.
Edited by HolyMoly - April 29 2013 at 14:52
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Posted: April 29 2013 at 15:10 |
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The Synclavier albums are definitely full of dense music requiring years to fully appreciate. An album like Jazz From Hell took me 4-5 years to "get it".
Edited by darkshade - April 29 2013 at 15:11
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Posted: April 30 2013 at 11:55 |
OMG why did I not get Jean-Luc Ponty's King Kong album sooner?? 
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Posted: April 30 2013 at 12:01 |
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Posted: April 30 2013 at 12:28 |
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I also got Road Tapes, Venue #1, and I'm downloading some of the AAAFNRAA birthday bundle (pretty much just the Frank stuff, it's like they're like mini-YCDTOSA albums.)
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Posted: April 30 2013 at 15:58 |
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Seriously, when you put all the FZ tracks from the first four AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundles together, you get a little more than two hours of fresh, new Frank.
Probably the closest to YCDTOSA Vol. 7 that you can get. I re-ordered them, as they don't have any real position on those "albums" anyway. I think I made a good order of them.
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Posted: April 30 2013 at 15:59 |
 HolyMoly wrote:
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There's a chance I may have listened to it once years ago when I was new to Frank, but otherwise it's a new album for me.
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Posted: April 30 2013 at 20:27 |
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I wonder if it's worth it to buy the 200 Motels album for about $40 on Amazon, or wait until it (hopefully) gets reissued on UMe like the rest...... Aside from CPIII, it's the only Zappa album from the main catalog that I'm missing.
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Posted: April 30 2013 at 20:46 |
I probably said this already, get The Real Frank Zappa Book. It's a great read. :)
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted: April 30 2013 at 20:48 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
I probably said this already, get The Real Frank Zappa Book. It's a great read. :)
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I ordered a cheap $1 paperback copy from Amazon, got it a few days ago, and actually started reading today and finished the first chapter already. I have a feeling I'm going to breeze right through the book.
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Posted: May 01 2013 at 23:30 |
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Road Tapes Venue 1 is pretty awesome.
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