Classical music takes itself too seriously. I think more people would attend classical concerts and support orchestras if they played more works like this. It's complex music that's also really funny and satirical.
@@wcsxwcsx Why has it to be satyrical and who claimed that. Me as a European who has it harder to understand english Texts immediately has found out not listening to the Content of the Satire a good Thing. Many of Zappa's Lyrics never ever come close to his Music. That's why I like Grand Wazoo more than any other Zappa Records.
One of my most impressing experiences while being under the very first influence of a recreational drug was the decision to pick up this album from a pile of borrowed lp´s, unaware of it´s possible content, and put it on the record player. I was laughing my a** off, I was in tears and my stomach muscles hurt. After this I had to rest for a while to get some breath again, flipping to the B- side and had to stop after Let me take you to the beach, unable to handle more of this input that day. From then on, I treated Zappa lp´s with appropriate respect which turned out to be the right decision. Lord, have mercy on me!
This comment section is one of my favorite things to come and get updated about. Crazy how something as unique as this musical piece can bring together such a bunch of charismatic individuals.
I think this the most difficult piece of music I've ever heard, besides being so brilliant. Zappa's greatest moment for me, it combines all the best of his various musical "personas" into a whole
Definitely a heavy dose of irony, He decided to go back to cartoons and owes us a huge apology for stealing Mel Blanc, but as we all know, we're all children
This is an absolute masterpiece. It combines everything that made Frank great: his classical composition, combined with jazz and rock, impeccable musicianship, plus social satire.
Recording started in Dec. '74, then Jan. 3-14, '75 and Royce Hall, UCLA September 18-19, 1975 during the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra concert which produced Orchestral Favorites.
One of my best friend does. And he is still my friend. He put Zoot allures on one his playlist. But I guess it will be a hard work to make him like G. P. But I won’t give up !
BTW: wiki says: Quentin Robert DeNameland makes a second appearance in Zappa's 1984 musical Thing-Fish. By then, he seems to have abandoned his profession as "philostopher" and become a televangelist, leading the "Quentin Robert DeNameland Video Chapel of Economic Worship" (in "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing").
Just before this came out, I was sitting with 3 people on a Friday evening when the local radio station in Portsmouth UK played this all the way through. I was totally blown away whilst the other 3 were looking at me as if I was crazy.
This is the only guy who could sing a cartoon in stereoscopic insanitationical grockticinic operashionic plrferiousic zoinkisonal proportioning frapisonic preckleion. Excellent work!
oriaxberkaal Swine suave! Voodn, voodn! Now, where’s my calendar, Rolodex, and Blackberry..... and when will my secretary get all of these combined? I shouldn’t have to drive with more than two of them.
While visiting an old high school friend , he places the recently released "Studio Tan" on to the turntable . Two of us loved it . The other two visitors , thought it was stupid . Decades later I found this video . Every riff and arpeggio . The story is classic comedy and satire . I am enjoying this with my headphone .
Cat and mouse in a relentless chase, cops and robbers in a wild pursuit and no time to pee, a breathless roller coaster ride, a nose dive from 83rd floor only to be saved by a trampoline, taken by an ambulance and ran full speed and sent to Disney Opera House, saved his life by the music of the orchestra....impeccable artistry, Mr. Frank!!
Listening to this with KRK headphones is too much. It's like Mozart except postmodern. Ouch ouch. Zappa composed this masterpiece alone. It's clearly insane. I love it.
5:27 to 8:30 - perhaps the most impeccably arranged and recorded section of music in Zappa’s recorded output. The whole think sounds like a musical play for kids, like the Beach Boy’s “Magic Transistor Radio” disc, with which it has quite a bit in common.
For all ages.. My 2 daughters have loved it since they were 3 and 5.... Played it for them in the car all the time. "And Flower Power" .. I had to replay that part every time. Incredible all the way through.
Yeah, the sublime Farther Oblivion which Zappa sometimes ushered in with “join the march and eat my starch”. You hear bits of the whole composition in released music - like here, the song “Cucamonga” and elsewhere.
What if frank zappa was on the show space ghost coast to coast that would have been sick unfortunately the show was in 1994 an frank died 1993 life really sucks
It sounds like a continuation of 200 motels. To my mind, Zappa will never be fully understood. He was a far too complex mind for the majority of people used to the mainstream pop shite that has for years dominated the music industry. He was a true maverick, catering to no one's taste but his own. Creating works to satisfy himself without a care in the world to what other people might think. In that sense a bit like an earlier maverick, Frederick Delius.
There are indeed some sequences by Mr Bickford with a peccary cruising around in a red beatle and excaping from a raging crowd to a mountain... but I can't remember in what Zappa video product. Maybe "Baby Snakes", or the solo part of "Inca Roards" live at Roxy, or the VHS "The Amazing Mister Bickford"... maybe even in all of them scattered in pieces in pure Zappa fashion...
From what I understand, "Studio Tan" and "The Ocean is The Ultimate Solution" were both compiled from studio recordings and released without Frank's permission by the label to fulfill what they thought was a breach of contract. When informed that the two records existed, Frank asked people not to buy them. One can tell they contain ideas fleshed out in later compositions or evolved from older music.
10:54 "Chameleon" by Herbie Hancock 11:12 "Revolution" by the Beatles I like how Zappa quotes these two songs to represent the culture he's satirizing in the lyrics.
Finding out how old they were is a metaphor for the truth. That trends create sameness; a slow death for the souls and minds. Hearing this when I was 11 years old really made an impression on me and made me ask questions of my teachers. @12:59 my spirit loves this .. thanks so much
Sometimes it sounds like the music score that used to be on the Dr. Seuss animated specials. I wonder if that composer borrowed a thing or two from Frank!
frank hated flower power and reckoned hippies were insincere..flower power....cannabis and opium and some coca leaves as well....thats what they meant by flower power...the effeminate males who become lady boys by the toke.
The ending has no conclusion 😪💫🌀 but yet, awweee it still tickles my fancy. Don't! I repeat, Don't listen to this if you are under the influence of "trendy chemical amusement aids" you just my become a little paranoid 😂😗😝❤💥👽😷😎🙊🙉
I purchased this in my late teens after introduced to FZ, a friend who turned me on to him was ripping me a bit. Shout out to John S. & Adam Mc I was schooled that those were released to get out of his current contract which required 3 more albums. I think I scored all 3 each w / the same throw away art covers. The images differed but same artist & style bright blocky abstract color. There were bargain bins w / the album sleeve having approximate .5-.75 inch cut which seemed to be from a band saw. (Think they were cut in bulk unsure if that was only my local independent dept store's cheap way to mark them. Maybe it discouraged common shoplifting techniques ie: switching the bright orange SALE stickers or slipping multiple LP's into one jacket that some I knew used to expand their music collection!) I don't recall titles of any but this was my fave of the bunch. I now must find out the other two albums as all my vinyl was sold off long ago :(
Sheesh, WCMF plays this rather longish Orff based concerto on a daily basis, mixing it up with TOTO and other silly musical numbers from the '70's. I want to thank the orchestra for all of the hard work playing this, albeit experimental exercise in
Weird music made by a resident of the San Fernando valley in the north of Los Angeles California, strange as it might seem, home of the Van Nuys Mud Hens
every musical style of the 20th century gets seamlessly seque as this classic telling of the enslavement of man by the time measurers and calender makers....gregory fucked all those girls in the steno pool....
