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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #45 on: November 21, 2006, 02:01:49 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on November 21, 2006, 06:36:50 am
See, I'd say that the Unified Introductory Zappa Theory would involve handing someone "Joe's Garage".

It's both "serious" and "funny", has a narrative through-line to carry a new listener...

And "Watermelon in Easter Hay" is pretty much the most beautiful guitar solo ever.

I can't disagree with anything you've said.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #46 on: November 21, 2006, 05:38:42 pm »
Quote from: AugustWest on November 21, 2006, 02:01:49 pm
I can't disagree with anything you've said.

Absolutely. I suspect it was that track in particular that made me want to play guitar. I listened to that album far too much as a child.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #47 on: November 21, 2006, 08:34:55 pm »
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I suspect it was that track in particular that made me want to play guitar.

Interestingly, one of my dream projects (if I'm ever successful in the entertainment industry) revolves around the Zappa family's request that "Watermelon in Easter Hay" never be covered. An anthology of three short films about the difficulty of making it in the arts, broken up and bookended by four smaller scenes concerning two directors having lunch at a cheap diner, scheming over how to steal and use the song and use it in a very commerical project.

I also wrote a play in high school that was heavily influenced by a combination of "Joe's Garage" and an un-nuanced teenage interpretation of the works of Kurt Vonnegut. Happily, all traces of this play are long destroyed.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #48 on: November 21, 2006, 11:23:51 pm »
Oh whoops, I meant Time Out.  Time Out is the Brubeck album with Take Five.  The entire album is cool jazz in non-standard time signatures, hence Take Five being in 5/4.  That clever jew.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #49 on: November 22, 2006, 05:38:28 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on November 21, 2006, 08:34:55 pm
I also wrote a play in high school that was heavily influenced by a combination of "Joe's Garage" and an un-nuanced teenage interpretation of the works of Kurt Vonnegut. Happily, all traces of this play are long destroyed.

A little green rosetta er, can of Dr. Pepper for this.

Also, a tiny little chip of ice nine.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #50 on: November 22, 2006, 11:10:22 am »
I'm really looking to get into Audioslave.  Any recommendations?
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #51 on: November 22, 2006, 12:21:43 pm »
My uncle Phil introduced me to the Mothers at the Fillmore East album when I was in high school, along with the double CD of Apostrophe' and Overnight Sensation.

Since then I've been looking for a camarillo brillo.

Speaking of that song, there's a line "she had grey-green skin, a doll with a pin" but I always thought it was "a dog with a fin" and to this day I like that image better.

"Oh, it's a, it's a shitzu, isn't it?  I, I dig the fin."
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #52 on: November 22, 2006, 01:56:16 pm »
Quote from: thedudeabides85 on November 22, 2006, 11:10:22 am
I'm really looking to get into Audioslave.  Any recommendations?

Is this a joke?  I can't tell.  They only have three albums, one of which just came out and I haven't heard yet.  Of the other two, I like the first one better (the one with "Like a Stone" on it).

They sound pretty much exactly like Rage Against the Machine if Chris Cornell sang for them instead of Zach de la Rocha.  No surprises.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #53 on: November 22, 2006, 02:35:24 pm »
Quote from: carlosdelvaca on November 22, 2006, 01:56:16 pm
Is this a joke?  I can't tell.  They only have three albums, one of which just came out and I haven't heard yet.  Of the other two, I like the first one better (the one with "Like a Stone" on it).

They sound pretty much exactly like Rage Against the Machine if Chris Cornell sang for them instead of Zach de la Rocha.  No surprises.

No surprises, but Cornell's voice is always worth it, and Zach was getting kind of  boring with Rage. That said, Cornell is in my mind better doing other stuff. Even so, I agree the first album's the best, the third second best and the middle one not as good.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #54 on: November 22, 2006, 03:58:06 pm »
Yeah I was just joking, actually.  I'd been under the impression they only released one album; I've supplemented whatever time I used to spend keeping up with mainstream music with afternoons of Quantum Leap reruns in HD.

I don't mean to diss on Chris Cornell though. His songwriting's become kinda vacuous, but that boy has chops.  Yes I'm an 80 year old black man from the South; I can say that people "have chops."
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #55 on: November 22, 2006, 05:15:25 pm »
Quote from: thedudeabides85 on November 22, 2006, 11:10:22 am
I'm really looking to get into Audioslave.  Any recommendations?

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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #56 on: November 22, 2006, 08:11:49 pm »
Quote from: thedudeabides85 on November 22, 2006, 11:10:22 am
I'm really looking to get into Audioslave.  Any recommendations?

Do yourself a favor and get Badmotorfinger instead. That's my Introductory Soundgarden Album, if anyone asks.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #57 on: November 22, 2006, 08:27:36 pm »
Yeah, instead of Audioslave, you're better off listening to Soundgarden's Superunknown and Rage Against The Machine's Evil Empire simultaneously.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #58 on: November 22, 2006, 08:29:38 pm »
Badmotorfinger.
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Re: The Introductory Album Thread
« Reply #59 on: November 28, 2006, 04:09:41 pm »
I've got a good one here, and it's a doozy.

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