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Name some songs you love.........but just about everyone else does not:

Here are some of mine:

Mother Earth Crass
Monkey Hips and Rice Dub Narcotic Sound System
Flip Your Face Contortions
A Modern Lesson Aksak Maboul
Discipline Red Crayola
Pinheads on the Move Tuxedo Moon
Silent Command Caberet Voltaire
Ringing On My Train Nikki Sudden

I don't hate or love these songs. I've never heard them.

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I LOVE Tuxedomoon and particularly "Pinheads on the move", though I think the live version from Berlin from "10 years in one night" is best (but then I'm biased - I was at the concert). In fact, most people I've played Tuxedomoon to seem quite easy to convert (check' em out Cal!)
I recently went through a John Fahey phase and although he seemed absolutely accessible to me, nobody I know likes anything of his.

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my favorite song of all time is Marquee Moon by Television...I've listened to that over and over and over...that and Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"....I don't even know why, but I guess thats the point.

you have great taste in music.

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

Beltway Bandits...

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

Drum,

Another great cut by Television is song Friction on that same album.

Ze Japan Ninjanovas

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phink it's an interpretation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, appleblossomtime, you go me gigantically on all me nerves ... actually it's oh cherí, myshell sans serif. Shall i call a sheriff? you what? tell it to straw-stead, in one of your heads. ..that one with the hAir-brush

thank you! and youre on a Frank Zappa forum so i could say the same for you

indeed Marquee Moon is a masterpiece in its entirety..I wish they had made more music than just 3 albums =/ obviously I dont have this problem with Frank

I love the recording of Oh No with Collins that was put on Weasels Ripped my Flesh. I find it beautiful in fact. Everything from his voice, to the words, the sound of the bass and short bit of sax towards the end.

Others however have been revolted by it and were almost violently sick thinking that I must have been insane for liking something so shit by someone who couldn't even sing....!

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"drums are too noisy, 'n you've got no corners to hide in"

I don't know how anyone could feel that way about the glorious Ray Collins... The same people who think Bobby Martin is a great singer?

One song that I really like that hasn't been mentioned here, is Television's Little Johnny Jewel. And of Zappa's less popular tunes, I quite like I Don't Even Care and H. R. 2911 from the European version of Meets The Mothers of Prevention.

Kevin Coyne's collaboration with Dagmar Krause is probably not very popular either, but I liked those songs the last time I heard them, about 30 years ago

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We make a special art in an environment hostile to dreamers. Frank Zappa, 1971

Son of Orange County gives me goosebumps every time I listen

I'm so with you, on another skin of scale. The first song that got sung along and me completely.

And ow, You probably have understood.

Trouble everyday? would love one.....

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Ga na het werk and wirk
bring a thing into effect tha' is
Leave madchic to hau' cuisine
HyFlyRadio alongside chap

Blame It On The Rain by Milli Vanilli. People that say it doesn't rock are just jealous.

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OK. This probably isn't quite what you mean but I'll choose 10CC's "I'm Not In Love". I think most people do get this but I've come across a few people that totally miss the point (usually women). The people that don't get it think it is an assertion that they indeed "are not in love". Most people, I think, do realize that the singer really is in love and that he is in denial.

Yup, that's exactly it! He's only keeping a picture of this girl to cover a spot on the wall. Suuuure.... I've always loved the song, but when it came out ('74?), I was in junior high and the part when the woman says, "Be quiet, big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry, etc...", made many girls cluck their tongues and say how DUMB it was. Ah phooey. It added more to the song, maybe a memory from the guy's past. Mysterious and lovely.

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One two, buckle my shoe!

great song by a great, underrated band.

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

They are good. I like everything I have by them.

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You gotta give the people something good to read, on a Sunday

Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns by Mother Love Bone

Two songs on the soundtrack from The Sting (the movie)
both written by Marvin Hamlisch.

"The Glove" and "Little Girl".

Check them out.

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"I'll do the stupid thing first and then you shy people follow..."

Shield for Your Eyes, A Beast in the Well on Your Hand Melt Banana

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Take a penny... give a shit.

I really like Money Changes Everything by Cyndi Lauper. She did make a couple of good songs.

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YES! have you by any chance heard the live version of Little Johnny Jewel on The Blow Up? love it

Day Of The Baphomets-The Mars Volta
Five Stop Mother Superior Rain-Flaming Lips
The Final Voyage Of The Liquid Sky-Primus
Pretty much anything by the Butthole Surfers

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