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5 days ago · The track "Baby Snakes" is the studio recording which appears on Sheik Yerbouti, but omits the opening riff (instead starting at the first verse). All other tracks are live recordings, unique to this album and the film. Like the Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar set, this LP was originally offered for sale only as a mail order item through Columbia ...
1 day ago · This is a list of albums by Frank Zappa, including all those credited to the Mothers of Invention.During his lifetime, Zappa released 62 albums. Since 1994, the Zappa Family Trust has released 66 posthumous albums as of June 2024, making a total of 128 albums/album sets.
2 days ago · “As we were pitching this film, the two films that I mentioned a lot in order for people try to comprehend artistically what I’m trying to do were [The Rolling Stones’ 1983 concert film] Let’s Spend The Night Together mixed with [The Sex Pistols’ 1980 ‘mockumentary’] The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle. There is a sense of an origin story, but it’s very much a story that takes place during an evening.
6 days ago · Zappa stated regarding the album's lyrics, "I detest 'love lyrics'." [7] He intentionally wrote lyrics he described as "sub-Mongoloid" to satirize the genre. [7] The music of Cruising with Ruben & the Jets was the most straightforward genre work the Mothers of Invention had performed yet, attempting to faithfully reproduce the sound of 1950s doo-wop and rock and roll . [2]
2 days ago · Reflecting upon the recording in a radio interview before 1990’s Knebworth concerts, Gilmour told Jim Ladd that “No More Lonely Nights” was the last thing McCartney recorded for the film (late 1983/early 1984), and that he told McCartney to give his session fee to a charity of his choice.
1 day ago · According to Nigey Lennon, author of the memoir Being Frank: My Time with Frank Zappa, Zappa himself indulged in Joe’s appliance fetishism, cavorting in private much as he does in a notorious 1971 documentary where he applies a vacuum cleaner to Lucy Offerall’s breasts and genitals.
4 days ago · The irony here is that Boisset’s film, Le Prix du Danger, actually feels more like an adaptation of King’s The Running Man than the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Its action takes place across a wider location (in this case, Paris); its protagonist becomes unexpectedly popular with the public, as Ben does in the book; and it all builds to a downbeat conclusion – albeit far less shocking than King’s.
