Frank Zappa - Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus

Frank Zappa (December 21, 1940 December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.

In his teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Varèse and 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands—he later switched to electric guitar. He was a self-taught composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often impossible to categorize. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was one of rock, jazz or classical. He wrote the lyrics to all his songs, which—often humorously—reflected his iconoclastic view of established social and political processes, structures and movements. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and organized religion, and a forthright and passionate advocate for freedom of speech and the abolition of censorship.

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[FunkyHonkyCDXX]

If I had a personal theme song half as awesome as this I'd be set for life.

[galeliyalevi]

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[hobit1138]

im 14 and i love this shit

[dalejosef]

@johnhaleOconnor2012 Actually, Madonna, Hair Metal, Reagan, Huey Lewis and the News were, relatively speaking, the high points. Fortunately, the real suckage has been largely forgotten; as it deserves to be.

Zappa was totally non-eighties; totally non-any era. Zappa was Zappa; unparalleled and unprecedented. He stood alone, unchallenged then, just as he does now.

[mariolunato]

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[Timzurita020196]

@RakyMaky

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[Julaweric]

3 minutes of your life, that does not at all feel like 3 minutes :D

[probrojeffro]

This is my cartoon themed life music.

[ekolke]

One word: great!

[garyfarmer1000]

say what u want aout 80s lifes wicked

[loislombardo]

great stuff zffz

[johnhaleOconnor2012]

@fntaa0 Zappa spent most of the 80s talking about how much the 80s sucked, and he was probably right. Hell i think culture in general was probably worse in the 80s than it is today, Madonna, hair Metal, Reagan, huey lewis and the news, yuck.