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You MUST get upset. NOW!

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It's like this, Pol...
If you are a real, actual, full-blooded, dyed-in-the-wool, legitimate Zappa fan, then you have to buy all his albums, plus all related releases, no matter how tenuous the connection may be. This means, if The Gail Gang release a sampler/compilation/collection...anything with previously released material, you MUST buy it. There is no choice for you. A faux fan, or poser Zappanatic, can pass on rehashed tunery, but not a loyal listener who "gets it" and can spot an eyebrow at 100 feet. Just ask anytrendmonger.
So, by releasing Understanding America, they are forcing those with a finely-honed musical understanding to spend their hard-earned money to buy something they don't really need to have.
And, this blatant manipulation of our dedicated mental obeisance pisses us off!

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Stay with me flagrantly and we'll have ecstasy for all eternity.

...and the reason it pisses us off is that we will do it over and over again.

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If we're dumb . . .
Then God is dumb . . .
(An' maybe even a little bit ugly on the side)

I own 131 Frank Zappa albums when I do not own even 30 of any other artist. Yet, I do not own any copies of FZ Plays The Music Of FZ, FZ:OZ, Halloween, Joe's Corsage, Joe' Domage, Joe's XMASage, Joe's Menage, Quaudiophiliac, the 4 CD MOFO, Cheap Thrills, Son Of Cheep Thrills, Strictly Genteel, or Old Masters Box One or Three.

Anyone who thinks that makes me a faux fan or poser Zappanatic is fucked in the head.

I'm pretty sure that was Doug being very sarcastic ... I'm also pretty sure he wasn't aiming that at you ...

My point is about the official catalogue. Ryko fizzled. An alternative had to be found. It's pretty obvious that with a new firm there would be a new set up and they wouldn't just rehash the old arrangement. Gail's between a rock and a hard place.

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

Well, I was being pretty sarcastic my damn self.

I agree with you mostly. Understanding America is a one off. No need to get so exercised about it. Given the recent output, it's hardly worth complaining about.

I'm sure you noticed as well as me all the bitching about FZ's catalogue disappearing from the shelves over the last few years. Now it's coming back ... guess what ... more bitching.

As far as I'm concerned it's not about existing fans, surely if we give a shit we've got this sussed out by now. It's mostly about having Zappa's catalogue back on the shelves to be discovered by new fans. I personally was happy the catalogue was coming back and that was it for me. I wasn't planning to buy any (who was I kidding?). The fact that Chunga's Revenge has turned out to be remastered from the original vinyl mix is a dream come true for me - I'm loving it. And, I'm a fan of the vocal Sleep Dirt, but, none the less, the vinyl remaster is fantastic as that is how I listened to it for 12 years before discovering the CD.

A valid complaint I believe is directed at Music Today. We should all unite behind a genuine complaint about a real physical problem. They charge ridiculous amounts for international postage, using outdated methods. I've paid double the value for Road Tapes #1, it dispatched on Nov 6th and still hasn't got here an entire month later. That's a real problem which can be easily contrasted with almost every other online seller.

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

Definitely with you on that; it's pretty incredible 2bh, as you illustrate.

Dude, you're missing some good shit!


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Enjoy "The Enigma Of David's Toe" by Vincent Cannata:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Enigma-Davids ... ap_title_0

Some people might argue that this is a somewhat controversial position.

[edit to include the word 'a']

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Some people might argue that this man possesses taste in great execution of obtuse vocal structure!

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This is a compilation compiled by Frank Zappa. I fail to see the problem in it.

Agreed. I may buy it when I can bundle it to save postage.

It is perhaps a bit surprising that there were nobody who knew about this compilation until now. Most of other unreleased projects were well known (Trance Fusion, Dance Me This, et al).

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There was the glimpse of the digital master in that documentary, but FZ never talked about it and it wasn't on the list of finished projects at the end of his life.

We didn't know about Finer Moments either until now.

.. .porn wars deluxe 25:51

includes parts of
• bow tie daddy
  it can't happen here
  brown shoes don't make it
  what's the ugliest part of your body?
  who are the brain police?
  sex
  outside now

porn wars pretty much defined the mothers of prevention album when it came out, to get a double-wide version of porn wars buried in a 2-cd sampler put together by zappa isn't a must have right away, but it's a must have nonetheless, and could re-define m.o.p.

a sampler has it's place on the shelf, cheep thrills were good for a quick fix if you didn't know what to play, itoons makes a 'sampler' obsolete; 3 people asked me to send them a 10 to 12 track sampler list which they proceeded to purchase for their i-apps ... a young guitarist totally intimidated by 800+ tracks available almost overnite; a pop fan who never heard of fz; & a gangsta looking for zappa's skankiest numbers

the guitarist may circle back for a closer look, the other 2 unlikely, but now they have a dozen or so tracks to think about

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soundwise, it's problem, I suppose.

The ending of Who Are The Brain Police? is 9 bars longer than on Freak Out!, and 5 bars longer than on Mothermania ... and it seems that a multiband compresser was used to produce this mix.

Also, along with Finer Moments, $14.88 at Walmart.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/22153775

Must not contain the F word or make fun of Walmart's gun department.

Remember that Best Buy will match the price.

Did an online search for finer moments at wal-mart and had no luck.

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“The power of pop music to corrupt and putrify the minds of world youth are virtually limitless."

Walmart will make your grandchildren have syphilis - stay away!

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I fully agree, I wish it and McD's would be obliterated, just trying to clarify information. And How can I get BestBuy to price match if the info is not true?

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“The power of pop music to corrupt and putrify the minds of world youth are virtually limitless."

The UA link above still works for me. Call 1-888-BEST-BUY about getting a price match, and get one for Finer Moments, too.

One reason to buy Understanding America CD from Amazon: in the USA, Amazon loads most UA tracks to your Amazon Cloud Player for free. No Porn War Deluxe or Finer Moments yet, but more of my Amazon CD purchases show up everyday.

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Or listen to the entire catalog including Finer Moments on Spotify for free!!!!