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I think this was supposed to be the Archie Bunker principle: it's not racism, it's making fun of racism because of who's saying it. That said, WHO CARES.

Random songs ain't the way to go. Each album is meant to be digested as a cohesive work. I recommend We're Only In It For The Money; it's an outstanding fuck-you to the 1960s. Uncle Meat is the same style of editing, but the social commentary takes a way-back seat to musical composition. Jazz fusion + 20th century avant-garde composers. Oh man, good stuff. It'll take two full listens, but it changed my life and can change yours too And I don't like Joe's Garage that much myself. Probably the third-worst era: Vinnie Colaiuta is good enough to pull it past the stale 80s lineup, and no era of Zappa was worse than Flo and Eddie. Oh man.

How much Zappa have you listened to thus far? Let me show you the way!

Holy shit, I thought he was back.

Wait, you're gay?

THANK YOU!!! The segment was hilarious, Eddie ties or not. My friends and I were laughing during almost the whole thing, and when they went through the set, my one friend who never swears busts out with a "Holy shit!". Good times. As for the reasoning... Eddie probably wanted his lowrider creamated after his death. Randy was obviously helping him fullfill his wishes. Seriously people, like RRR says, get over it. It's been said a million times, but it rings true... if you don't like the stuff on WWE, DON'T WATCH IT!!! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't think Rudo was being perfectly honest at all! That didn't read like a Rudo post

How do they take out their trash in the McMahon house? Send it to the curb and plug it with M80s?

WHO CARES.

Oh shit, that's a whole collection of paradoxes. (Paradocies?)

I tried and failed at The Arcade Fire.

Farnsworth handled the media pressure in Chicago just fine. Maybe he handled the media, but he didn't handle Chicago. He was a student of Mark Grace.

nothing like college kids taking SOAD lyrics as gospel. "WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SEND THE POOR, HUH? AND FEED US LIES FROM THE TABLECLOTH! GIVE US THE TRUTH!" "It's so deep, when he says 'everybody's going to the party, have a real good time,' it really says a lot about America."

"What have you done that's so important, anyway?" "I've changed music five times. What have you done besides be white?" Miles Davis vs. a Washington wife at a White House dinner different times indeed

Big Swing Face is an awesome Buddy Rich album, just for the title track, "NBC Monitor Theme" and "Willowcrest," which is a great minor-key 6/8 song. "Channel One Suite" is probably his band's best tune. Tread lightly with Buddy Rich, some of that stuff is downright cheesy. As Slayer alluded to, Buddy Rich was a big fucking prick. I've played with one of his trumpet players who made some of the infamous bus tapes.

First time I heard "Stephanie Says" I never would have guessed it was the Velvets. Okay. So how bout them Weezer.

Zappa was an asshole because he was an obsessive perfectionist who demanded the best from his musicians so as to realize his ideas. Lou Reed just did a lot of smack. And yeah, John Cale was really the brains behind the Velvets, I think. Take him out of the equation (which Lou did) and you've just got vaguely edgy pop songs.

I don't care.

God I fucking love wrestling.

were Godfather & Val Venis ever marketed as this?

There's a whole board devoted to that topic. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, you would know. You're the former expert on that topic. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, it's not quite "Free Formed Man Servant," but weak nonetheless.

Well, the two bands were kind of opposites. You had the Mothers from LA, who were all these dirty pot/acid-addled freaks, then you have the Velvets in New York, who have the all-black art-student Andy Warhol urban sophistication going. Though they were both the most important experimental bands of the 60s, they carried themselves completely differently. Anyway, both were signed to Verve in the 60s, and at a Velvets-Mothers concert in Los Angeles, the VU got booed off the stage by the L.A. freaks. Lou took it to heart and bashed Frank Zappa at every turn for being a bad musician and fucking asshole. Lou then made Metal Machine Music. Eventually, Lou of all people inducted FZ into the Hall of Fame as some big conciliatory gesture, though his kids never believed him.

Who's got lead voice on "BYOB"? All that "la-la-la-la-la-ooh-wee-ooh" is annoying. In fact, I'll list the annoying vocal parts of that song. "la-la-la-la-la-ooh-wee-ooh" "BBWWAADOAYALWAYSENDAPOOOOR" "AND WE ALL LIVE IN A FASCIST NAYYYYY-SHAWN!"

This, to me, is absurd. Name five bands that have been heavily influenced by VU that have improved on their sound. And I want reasons. Joy Division is a band that I love, but I could see what you're talking about with them. Maybe it's just that I really don't like Lou Reed for bashing Zappa, but I don't think the VU was THAT outstanding on its own, not compared to their West Coast contemporaries in the Mothers. I don't know, I thought it'd be pretty safe to say they were groundbreaking for their time, but got overshadowed by their followers. That's just the natural progression of music.

Weezer. Specifically, how the Pitchforkers embrace Radiohead for their cerebral and complicated music with profound lyrics, then turn around and embrace Weezer for playing I-IV-V progressions and going "oohhhhh ooh-ooh, whoa-oh, yeah oh, ooohh-oh." As for stuff the ol' Banker doesn't get: Joy Division is good in that seminal way, like the Velvet Underground. You can hear where future bands took their cues, but the future bands improved upon it, too. It's like eating raw eggs. Pink Floyd from '70 to '77 is just amazing stuff, that's all