So sad that he wasted his tremendous talent on songs that are little more than novelties. Sort of like if Shakespeare spent his life writing knock-knock jokes.

Way to go Bill, love the commentary that you added to this song (RE internet viewing). So very true.

Let's hear it for FZ!

So sad that he wasted his tremendous talent on songs that are little more than novelties. Sort of like if Shakespeare spent his life writing knock-knock jokes.

Frank Zappa, R.I.P. by ~DeppyLegs
Sophie Corrigan   ©2008-2010 ~DeppyLegs

A portrait of Frank Zappa I surprised myself with and completed in one afternoon!
The scan turned out a bit... iffy

MORE ZAPPA BILL!

How about Penguins in Bondage or Moving To Montana  or Catholic Girls or etc...?

He must be singing about MSNBC, CNN, CBS & ABC.

Seems to be a "censored" album cover pictured. IIRC, my copy had at least one corn cob on it. Am I thinking of another Zappa album cover?

By design.

He must be singing about MSNBC, CNN, CBS & ABC.

Just plain awful, creepy voice and chorus.

Just plain awful, creepy voice and chorus.

He must be singing about MSNBC, CNN, CBS & ABC.

!!!!! these are for you —> !!!!!  you seem to like them!

what a sacastic snobbish twat.
Your dazzling sarcasm sure has me convinced !  
Your put downs sure show your true colors as well !!!!! these are for you —> !!!!!  you seem to like them! 
     "there are lots of decent musicians they could be paying attention to instead" ?? 
really?   are you sure ?

thanks for letting us know..  because you see perhaps there is some place on the web to locate perhaps even listen to these "lots of" as you put it - decent musicians...  a place perhaps that is like a radio station ,  only on the web... and perhaps these Zappa fans might be there already..... it would be someplace that plays eclectic music on the web and it would be like paradise....  I would tell you where it is but i don't want to envite you to the party ..  You sound like too much fun !!!!!!!! 
I'm nobody, who are you? Are you nobody too?
(I wrote that myself.)  (did you really?)  (how dazzling!) ( dhurrrr )

Well, your dazzling rhetorical jabs, such as "such a load" and "his music was so underground" sure have me convinced!

And no, I'm not taking it personally at all, although it does irk me when people insist on worshipping a tin god like Zappa even though there are lots of decent musicians they could be paying attention to instead. Sorry, but since Zappa died, his stock has done nothing but fall, for good reason. It will continue to fall, and soon enough he'll be on the scrap heap with all the other overrated, self-proclaimed geniuses. Lucky for him he had a family who continue to pimp his reputation, because otherwise no one would remember him as anything other than the guy whose weirdly-named daughter sang the novelty song "Valley Girl."

Check out the lyrics to "Jewish Princess."

And just to spare us both a lot of pointless arguing: I don't accept that the lyrics were just satire, and I don't know that Zappa himself ever said they were. If he wrote a similar song about black people, he would have been ostracized from the music industry and people would have publicly burned his albums.