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@oldgeezer68 Look, I'm not saying Zappa was a racist white supremacist or anything. That's crazy. All I'm saying is---par for the course with him---he's not really concerned with being PC. And that this song, written shortly after the Watts Riots, clearly sympathizes with the white victims of the...

where's this beat from?

I think that it was an amazing choice to use this as a live track. After an album that uses autotune throughout, to hear his voice crack and break all over the place is ridiculously painful, and then to hear the audience cheer as he's telling them how fake he has to be, how much he has to deny hi...

@fab186

You know, I found thinking of it like this to help---focus on one part of a single song, like a guitar part. Hear how it repeats itself with subtle changes again and again. Repeat this with another instrument; you start to realize that what might have sounded cacophonous is actually jus...

wow. this was actually really sad.

AYO STACEY!!!

@starchildstrider

Since I was 12, actually. I think that I hero-worshipped him quite a bit when I was younger, so I'm trying to take a more critical look at things. Race is an important subject to me, so maybe I'm being a little oversensitive---while I definitely agree that Zappa isn't an out &...

this is going to sound weird, but the first time I hit play the song hadn't fully loaded so it cut off the same way dilla breaks the beat. awesome.

how on earth did I get here from Busoni's Fantasia Contrapuntistica?

It's an incredibly powerful moment, but what exactly is the significance of 'there never was a hat'? Is it George realizing that what he makes, because it has no correlative with reality, will always be considered frivolous compared to what he 'should' be doing (taking care of Dot)? Or what?

@LOGIC42369

The sample of 'there'll be mash!' is off his Tinsel Town Rebellion album.

so the evil girls just KNOW Shawn won't show up for his valentine date. How do they prove it? Kidnap him, okay. but what's their lure? Telling him that his valentine date has changed location? Doesn't that assume he'd show up? So why do it?

....and we're all watching this on youtube. Solid, us.

for all the hipsters who are talking about Kanye straight jacking this song, if you can't appreciate just how much Kanye added / changed the track, and it's emotional resonance in context of his album and even outside it....maybe you're not as good listeners as you think you are? Bon Iver was on ...

wait, they did TWO SEPERATE RAPS for the movie?

wait it's not in the movie?

wow, a much better singer than I ever knew he was. He still doesn't do this song all that well, but some truly amazing singers that had much more experience than he did have done it in the past---so it's tough competition.

what's funny is the video. what's sad is that even if this was real he wouldn't be the worst king ever.

what's weird is he actually isn't a *Terrible* father

So I'm not black, am young enough to say I got into The Last Poets through Madlib and Zappa, and was born into what is basically a privileged life in times that are really tough. So I feel, basically, in my heart of hearts, that this music is not *for* me. Yet there's something basically human in...

Somehow this video made the whole thing less 'hilarious' and more 'introspective examination of a loveless marriage, revealing immense hopelessness in mundane situations'.

well, it's still hilarious, but still.

who made the beat, madlib or dilla? it sounds like a madlib thing, but I'm stupid sometimes.

Kid, that's the last time a pretty blonde is going to hug you for knowing what the capital of Hungary is.

STEVE YOU CAN'T TAKE ALL OF THOSE CLASSES THEY DON'T GO TOWARDS YOUR MAJOR

isn't it just so convenient that the mother in both families is the rational, reasonable one in opposition to the ridiculous, entertaining father? Viva la realite....

I don't really like it, but it's still really awesome that someone as mainstream as Drake would do this. It really shows that mainstream hip hop is about 100x more adventurous than mainstream rock or pop---well, anyway. Dilla's track will live forever, there's no danger or harm in what Drake has ...

I love the Rabelais namedrop. Oh Tish, if you'd just read his chapter on "How Gargantua Determined The Best Way To Wipe One's Bottom", you'd know how silly being mature really is!

(seriously, just further proof, in case anyone needed it, of how well written this show was.)

hahaha, that's awesome.

that first album IS really weird. Not in a good way---I mean, some of the songs are okay, but most of it is really bad experimentation--kind of fun, but still--just knowing ZAPPA couldn't get it, awesome.

I wonder how many of the lines the older actors got?

guys, come on. That Bassist is hot. Let's focus on the undeniable good.

The original Rachel Black effect, but a million more times interesting and genuine, I think. (Does Rachel Black count as outsider music?)

ugh, but Zappa's using this for advertising too! He's my hero, but still. He does this ALL THE TIME

can you imagine that schoenberg was actually on prime time television? Weird stuff, man. Zappa's a saint. (err, of sorts.)

It's probably worth noting that Zappa DID like The Velvets, though he seemed to prefer their poppier stuff: he played "All Tomorrow's Parties" on a radio show where he played stuff he liked.

There's a million reasons why Reed didn't like Zappa, most ideological & political. In the end, I don't ...

@0Linkpwned0

wait, dude, you think that moving on past grief in your life is worse than suicide?

Only David Lynch could make an Ad where people have to discuss it's meaning.

@ShockPole

That's the joke, yeah :-)