stuartk
Responses from stuartk
| Diana Krall I've never understood her appeal. Like Patricia Barber, she seems to be particularly favored by audiophiles. | |
| Please clear up my confusion re: meaning of "balanced" ! Ordered Jotunheim (amp only). The black units are back-ordered 6-8 weeks and although I'd prefer black, as it would match all my other components, I went with silver, as I simply didn't want to wait that long. In the meantime, Patrick Cullen is ma... | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? @heretobuy:Thanks for the suggestions. | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? @edgewear:"There are many reasons to hold FZ in high regard as a musical force, but his complete disregard and rejection of the high culture/low culture divide is certainly one of them. These cultural categories are associated with class, status a... | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? @chetatkins:Skimmed through SU&PYG and liked enough of the tracks to add it to my "to buy" list. | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? @edgewear:"I assume FZ would have been highly amused by the very idea that a person might consider himself too UNsophisticated to appreciate his stuff". What I had in mind when I suggested I might be too unsophisticated was my difficulty enjoying... | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? @edgewear:"Zappa considered his social commentaries to be ’antropological field studies’, describing situations and characters pretty much as they appeared to him in real life"Can't say I've personally encountered many such characters/situations i... | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? @roxy54 and bigtwin: I'm liking "Waka Jawaka" and "The Grand Wazoo"-- perhaps because they're quite jazzy. I can actually envision buying these.I'll check out the numerous other recommendations made throughout the thread. . . | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? @middlemass: "How can you exclude "Don't eat The Yellow Snow" Hello Hello.. Don't go where the huskies go, don't be eatin' that yellow snow.. Hello Hello.." Yeah-- when that came out I was in HS. . . we used to listen to that one often when we w... | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? I meant to type:"... but NEITHER do they consist of a series of jokes..." | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? @tvad:I can appreciate the unique capacity for comedy to unearth truths.@tuberist: "Hot Rats which is a terrific intro to Zappa's world"In fact, I began listening to "Hot Rats" last night. I enjoyed the instrumental portions but the vocals in "Wil... | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? That's an interesting question, tvad. I've never thought about that! I suspect I somehow manage to ignore that aspect to some degree. In any event, Fagan's delivery is still that of a "conventional" singer, delivering a "conventional" narrative. I... | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? @edgewear:I recently watched a documentary about FZ where he said something to the effect that, in his view, "the absurd" was the primary reality. No doubt, this was a major factor that determined the flavor of the vocals he felt were "necessary" ... | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? Well, I found "Yellow Snow" hilarious back in my stoned HS days but now it's just. . . irritating. | |
| Zappa Recommendations ? Thanks to all for your suggestions!!!I will check them out. |