… I bought a fresh digital copy of “Over-Nite Sensation” to replace the one I had in college.
No, not the bigger-and-better, new-and-improved version. The original, you slime. Do I look like I’m wearing a Sears poncho?
Don’t worry — I got a little something for you, too: Daniel Felsenthal’s look back at Zappa and that album over at The Atlantic.
Felsenthal calls “Over-Nite Sensation” Zappa’s “most inviting listen, forging a muscular, funk-inflected sound that couches the denseness of his more avant-garde music in pop hooks. … The album’s lyrics made a cutting statement about the flimsy values of its time — and the songs themselves were a tightly wound coil of Zappa’s musical ideas.”
You gotta love anyone who posits that Zappa’s long hair and beard resembled a fermata. No, it doesn’t have anything to do with dirty love, you preverts — it’s a symbol of musical notation.
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PO’G y Amigos: Just gotta say that when I read “Felsenthal calls “Over-Nite Sensation” Zappa’s “most inviting listen, forging a muscular, funk-inflected sound that couches the denseness of his more avant-garde music in pop hooks. … The album’s lyrics made a cutting statement about the flimsy values of its time — and the songs themselves were a tightly wound coil of Zappa’s musical ideas.” I had to reach for a Thesaurus and wonder if journalism has gone to word count and obfuscation. ?????
Almost sounded, to me, like a dilettante higher academe BS session or someone who never rode a bike of any kind. 🙂
Well, JD, he is a self-confessed “critic, fiction writer, and poet” who lives in New York City. Some of those folks will go on at length. Especially the poets.
It is the Atlantic magazine after all, and he was writing to that audience. But, I know what you mean JD, it was hard to read. There must be a happy place from that wordy stuff and a technical manual written by a “The Elements of Style” aficionado.
Now, concerning Zappadan, once again I only have two words, “Road Ladies.” Zappa’s meaning there is crystal clear. And the guitar and drum work is magic.
My girlfriend and I were just discussing fermata last night when we were peeling the potatoes in the old sack.
Yeah right!