Word: albums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best songs on their just released Warner Bros, album are all informed with this uninsistent but tenacious simplicity. They are haunted by memories of divided families (Hammond Song), faithless loves (Pretty and High) and tentative, thwarted personal encounters (The Train...
Yerbouti, a double album, is Zappa's 25th official release. In his nearly 15 years of recording and performing, Zappa has been the most persistent of rock's "enfants terribles." And yet, at the same time, his ingenuity has contributed much to the music. If he doesn't do drugs or Mister Rodgers imitations, he does have a knack for social satire that betrays an electric intelligence...
...emperor's genitals than about his lack of apparel. Always fond of extended "comedy show" tunes, Zappa has recorded rock's kinkiest scenarios on wax with nary a batting of his beady eyes. (Those of unsalvageable purient interest may refer to the Live at the Fillmore East "white album," or the equally memorable Overnight Sensation classic, "Dinah-Moe-Humm.") Believe it or not, parts of Yerbouti shock the sensibilities as never before. As for romance, there's "Broken Hearts Are for Assholes." No explanations needed. But unlike similar efforts on other albums, these songs lack the intelligent insight needed...
...similarly vitriolic comment on the subverted chicness of punk, "I'm So Cute" emulates the "beat-it-into-their-heads" method: stupid words, short lines, and screaming repetition. Many of the other songs on this album, although not deliberately mimicking punk, are painfully consistent with this style. And they're boring. Zappa lets his compositions ramble in a way that shames his genius as an arranger. Usually a clever and inventive songwriter, Zappa here contrives disappointingly sparse and uncreative lyrics. Only his provoking cynicism remains...
...Ochs had to contend with Dylan, the king of the folk scene. Throughout the book Eliot creates the book's pathos by contrasting Ochs' career with Dylan's. The first album, All the News That's Fit to Sing. sold 40,000 copies. It came out at the same time, Eliot notes, as Dylan's gold album, Bringing It All Back Home...