Zappa: Part 3 "the 80s"
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Topic: Zappa: Part 3 "the 80s"
Posted By: manofmystery
Subject: Zappa: Part 3 "the 80s"
Date Posted: December 20 2008 at 23:40
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Ok, the basic idea here is to identify the greatest Zappa album from each decade then to take the winners and pit them against each other in a final mind boggling, mustache twirling battle royal. Each poll will include both studio and live releases and there will be five polls: "the 60s", "the 70s", "the 80s", "the 90s (including posthumous)", and "the 2000s (all posthumous)". Any excuse for more Zappa in the forums, I say! Hot Rats took "the 60s" while "the 70s" went to the One Size Fits All by a slim two vote margin over some fierce competitors and this week judgement will be passed on "the 80s". Once again, you will be granted a weeks worth of seconds, minutes, hours, and days to decide.
Results:
"the 60s": Hot Rats (1969)
"the 70s": One Size Fits All (1975) -------------  Time always wins. |
Replies:
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 00:02
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The Perfect Stranger for me.Zappa does chamber music,and does it very well. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 00:04
Jazz from Hell is a great album. 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 00:21
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Well, I think I know which one will win. And I would love to give a vote to YCDTOSA Vol 2, but alas, I must vote for Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Which.
It can not go voteless. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 01:57
| Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar; one of the best guitar albums of all time |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 09:48
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As usual, it's difficult to pick just one. However, FZ was not necessarily consistent in the '80s, to these ears. In the end I went for You Are What You Is, which has non-stop great songs:
Harder Than Your Husband
Doreen
Goblin Girl
etc.
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 10:59
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Make A Jazz Noise doesnt count? i know it was released in 90 or 91 i think, but it showcases the 88 band, IMO, his best overall band
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 11:06
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Guitar for me... ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 11:38
| Valley Girls, so funny, so 80`s |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 12:28
| I haven't much of these, but the one that I enjoy most is Guitar. |
Posted By: horsewithteeth11
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 14:59
And where my vote went as well. ------------- 
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MovingPictures07 wrote:Posted By: Astrodomine
Date Posted: December 21 2008 at 22:56
| Jazz From Hell is mind blowing! It has my vote. |
Posted By: Carl Snow
Date Posted: December 22 2008 at 18:38
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gotta be Tinsel Town Rebellion fer me.... was 18 , in a used Lp store a friends friend owned ... i had previously only heard Hot Rats and Roxy and loved 'em ... friends friend locks the door puts FZ's TTR on , sparks one and asks , or rather tells me, i'm about to be blow away .... i was. still am. YAWYI is also a great intro to conceptual FZ. ...and the 1988 band kicked ... and then theres Guitar and and and ... i vote them al in!~ this may be of slight interest to one or two iof ya : i teach guitar fer a living and have managed to stay away from making folks play House Of The Rising Sone ETC .. due to Monk , FZ, and Crimson! Really! FZ's Sleep Dirt (da tune) is a great begginers finger-picking piece and my mid-leval chord-freaks get a LOT from Zoot Allures (da tune, again) and the "lead" Watermelon In Easter Hay is great for teaching a "new" twist on modal playing (IE: playing the Major of each degree ofr a chord , instead of the actual mode IE": WWWHWWH to WHWWWW and such) as Frank loved to move semi-pentatonic "boxes" through 'basic' (ie: I IV miii miv V ..etc) ViVa! FZ! ... "Music is the best"-FZ |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: December 22 2008 at 19:57
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Tinseltown Rebellion was going to get my vote and i find it to be Zappa's most 'entertaining' album, but i went with SATLTSADW because the title track is oh too good
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: December 22 2008 at 20:57
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this is exciting, the most competitive Zappa poll yet ------------- Time always wins. |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: December 26 2008 at 01:57
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in a tie situation with only 2 voting days left the madness ------------- Time always wins. |