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I think this is potentially the most beautiful composition in Zappa's repetoire. I always turn to it when I need to get happy.

Potentially?

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Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

Yes it is vey beautiful.

I also think "I Promise Not to Cum in Your Mouth" is one of his most beautiful.
Also "Alien Orifices" is drop dead gorgeous!

Oh No...... Now you've done it, thats one hell of a statement right there, which will now require the research to continue, this will be my new go to excuse when questioned about the amount of FZ I listen to. Thank you!

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Thanks for the music Frank.

Well I'm about to get sick from watching my TV

It is up there for me, but in particular the studio version that appeared on Weasel's.

Edit, oh yes and the instrumental version from Lumpy

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

I agree...

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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

This is no three chord knock off, this is no mere swoon, it's a great song. It may have started life as an instrumental but as a song it came into its own. Zappa put the word song back on the table as a serious form for any composer worth his salt to attempt. I love playing and singing this thing. It was a big step in my education.

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

FZs most beautiful? I think you're probably out to lunch...

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god, what a cheap bubble machine!!!

If you're like Oh No out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful, I just want to tell you somethin'—there's more of us ugly mother-fucker FZ Songs than you are, hey-y, so watch out.

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Don't Be Stupid Unless You Want To

I agree great song good version on the first ZPZ dvd.

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Confusion will be my epitaph

Inventionis Mater - Lumpy Gravy (Frank Zappa)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yka89mV8OQ0

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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

You're totally right about "I Promise Not to Cum in Your Mouth." For such a profane name (which is equally as awesome) it's really just so dreamy, and sophisticated too actually. Great song!

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With your love you can change: all of the fools, all of the hate.

Is Joe the Muffin Man?!

i think you should check it again.

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I can't tell when you're telling the truth.
>I'm not.
How do I know anything you've said to me is...
>You don't.

With your love you can change
All of the fools
All of the hate

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With your love you can change: all of the fools, all of the hate.

Is Joe the Muffin Man?!

the thing I like about this song is,, (from Weasels), Ray croons it up like a Dean Martin or somebody, and Frank's lyrics kick the shit out of it,,,,

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if you knew suzie, like I know suzie, oh, oh, oh what a creamcheese,,,,

Haha, exactly. It's like, they contradict each other in a sense.

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With your love you can change: all of the fools, all of the hate.

Is Joe the Muffin Man?!

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uh,, yeah,, that's exactly what I was thinking,,,,

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if you knew suzie, like I know suzie, oh, oh, oh what a creamcheese,,,,

Are you reading to much into this, I know I am...

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Thanks for the music Frank.

Well I'm about to get sick from watching my TV

I'm sure DZ understands this very well, how do you think he came to understand his dads compositions?

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Confusion will be my epitaph

Okay I decided "What's New in Baltimore?" from Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention is definitely in the running of most gorgeous song ever.

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With your love you can change: all of the fools, all of the hate.

Is Joe the Muffin Man?!

Ruth Underwood certainly agrees it's a beautiful song.

And yeah, it's interesting how you can construct a different phrase out of the first phrase just by changing the rhythms of the notes! Sometimes FZ could exhibit real cleverness of making the most out of a limited amount of notes, whilst his usual wont was complexity splattering all over the page. However, no doubt he did most of the time have a method to his madness.

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Lies are like quicksand, soft and comfortable, but they will swallow us. Truth is like bedrock, hard and uncomfortable, but we can always stand on it

Music is not to be underood, music is to be felt - Hermeto Pascoal

Oh No is beautiful music.

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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

Yes indeed!

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With your love you can change: all of the fools, all of the hate.

Is Joe the Muffin Man?!

Another take on it:

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture" (or something along these lines) - Frank Zappa [?] Evils Costello?

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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