What Are You Listening To Right Now?
Aug 13, 2012 at 1:12 AM Post #34,591 of 136,087
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Amazing album bot in music quality and recording quality. One of my favorites of theirs. I'll say it again...I don't know what people have against this one.
 

I don't either.  People just like to hate I guess?  Well, I mean, there is the new drummer, but I hardly see that as being a deal breaker 
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Aug 13, 2012 at 1:50 AM Post #34,594 of 136,087
Just thought I'd mention, the Legacy Edition of At Folsom Prison seems to be pretty accurate to older editions - the DR score is still 12 for the album, with tracks ranging from 9 to 14. The 1999 version scores very similarly, though it has *much* less on it. Sounds just grand.
 
Aug 13, 2012 at 1:09 PM Post #34,598 of 136,087

 
Aug 13, 2012 at 1:38 PM Post #34,600 of 136,087
Frank Zappa, "Strictly Commercial"
 
On the European CD, "Tell Me You Love Me" was replaced by "Bobby Brown Goes Down," which was Zappa's biggest hit in Europe, but extremely controversial in the United States, and never aired on the radio. A version released in Australia and New Zealand was identical to the US CD, but included the track "Elvis Has Just Left the Building" on a separate disc. The song describes a wealthy, misogynist student named Bobby Brown, "the cutest boy in town", whose life is the archetypical American Dream until a traumatic sexual encounter with "Freddie", a lesbian involved in the women's liberation movement, leaves him questioning his sexuality. He eventually turns gay and by the end of the song is a self-described "sexual spastic" involved in golden showers and S&M, for which he thanks Fred.
 

 
I finally figured this out, Bobby Brown Goes Down is actually labeled Tell Me You Love Me on this album, sneaky!
 
 
Hey there, people, I'm Bobby Brown
They say I'm the cutest boy in town
My car is fast, my teeth is shiny
I tell all the girls they can kiss my heinie
Here I am at a famous school
I'm dressing sharp and I'm
Actin cool
I got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper
Let her do all the work and maybe later I'll rape her

Oh God I am the American dream
I do not think I'm too extreme
An I'm a handsome sonofa[gun]
I'm gonna get a good job and be real rich

(get a good
Get a good
Get a good
Get a good job)

Women's liberation
Came creeping across the nation
I tell you people I was not ready
When I [screwed] this dyke by the name of Freddie
She made a little speech then,
Aw, she tried to make me say when
She had my balls in a vice, but she left the [male sexual organ]
I guess it's still hooked on, but now it shoots too quick

Oh God I am the American dream
But now I smell like Vaseline
An I'm a miserable sonofa[gun]
Am I a boy or a lady...i don't know which

(I wonder wonder
Wonder wonder)

So I went out and bought me a leisure suit
I jingle my change, but I'm still kinda cute
Got a job doing radio promo
An none of the jocks can even tell I'm a homo
Eventually me and a friend
Sorta drifted along into s&m
I can take about an hour on the tower of power
Long as I gets a little golden shower

Oh God I am the American dream
With a spindle up my butt till it makes me scream
An I'll do anything to get ahead
I lay awake nights saying, thank you, Fred!
Oh God, oh God, I'm so fantastic!
Thanks to Freddie, I'm a sexual spastic
And my name is Bobby Brown
Watch me now, I'm going down,
And my name is Bobby Brown
Watch me now, I'm going down, etc.
 
 
[cleaned up for Head-fi]
 
Aug 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM Post #34,601 of 136,087
"But now I smell like Vaseline" 
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A pile of great tracks on that album.
Yellow Snow
Joe's Garage
Cosmik Debris
Montana
 
All pure classics!
It just needed Catholic Girls and Jewish Princess, to be as Nanook would put it "Strictly from Commercial".
 
Zappa was a genius.
 
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Aug 13, 2012 at 4:10 PM Post #34,604 of 136,087
Were-Wolves
 
Album - Excitable Boy 
(1978)
 
Warren Zevon
 

 

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