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"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."
– Frank Zappa in the Chicago Tribune, 1978

The quotation is especially applicable to people who have the balls to call themselves "critics" — self-prepossessed sociopaths who apparently are actually proud of the fact that they spend their time criticizing people who do things they could never do themselves. Evidently they are unaware that any humanoid with any shred of common decency regards them as insufferable twits who bring the ignoble pastime of puerile parasitism to new lows.

Not that I am bitter.

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Well, based on the summary of the last chapter, I admit that I'm not especially motivated to read it. The description sounds way too impressed with its own sense of self-importance.

Statements like "...the utilisation of news values and ideologies that create our collective memory of zappa’s legacy" raise a red flag for me. It sounds like a statement designed to let the author use words that make him sound "smart"...at the expense of actually making sense and communicating.

I distrust such jargonistic gobbledy- gook. If the author actually has something meaningful to say, and if his purpose is to communicate rather than impress others with his pseudo-erudition, he'd be better off saying it in plain English...at least, if he wants me to read it.

Meanwhile, here's a book that is definitely a fun read:

Slime, are you kidding? I just read the latest introduction to the next chapter....it's like a high school student trying to impress a college board or something. "Whilst we take the exemplar of the analyses"...blech.

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Bingo!

$99.95 boy, give 'er a try

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No.

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I've found an exellent history of this quote:

Quote investigator - Rock Journalism is...

Excellent work!

balint:

What a great resource! Thanks for posting that.

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It reads like an insurance manual I had to learn. I'm saving my money for an amp, since I never did get that check.

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I have the book "Doctor Who - The Unfolding Text". It does for Doctor Who, what the above book does for Zappa's music..
I closed my eyes, opened the book at a random page, and here is the scan. (The whole book is like this!)

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

The inner trappings of your post preclude any machinations toward a settlement of arcane jargon while not wholly grasping the journalistic tripe that is foreboding with any whoop there it it judging it for it's basic meaning.

For instance, let's take the song "I'm So Cute." Within the shouting schadenfreude of Terry Bozzio's guttural cadence, there is trapped a certain purveyance of egoism that FV Zappa later gave thought to in his systemic and monotheistic tone poem "I'm A Beautiful Guy", suggesting an antidisestablishmentarianismic disassociation that Jung only hinted at in his thesis "Me-me-me: Mental Acrobatics for Self Aggrandizement."

But none of that really matters, the thrust of said analysis of the background of the sonic landscape is to venture forth that I'm some kind of really smart guy, who can use big words and give meaning to stuff that the modern day composer might say to me after perusing said thesis, "Wake up and smell your own shit."

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These authors take themselves way too seriously. Who are they writing to impress?

Did ya hear? Ass Hat Magazine printed a list of the top 100 guitarists with hats. And Buckethead didn't make the list; because, technically, a bucket isn't a hat.

This sparked furious debate in the hatted guitarist community. Now there's an upswell of support for counting Robert Smith's wig as a hat.

Ass Hat Magazine's circulation has increased by 14%...

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