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Throughout his life, Zappa's music was both eclectic and uneven. At his worst he could be amateurish, as in the early Return of the Son of Monster Magnet. On guitar Zappa was no Eric Clapton, and as a band the Mothers were no match for Lou Reed's raw Velvet Underground, with whom they shared an in-your- face aesthetic that guaranteed zero radio play. At his best, however, Zappa fused two seemingly irreconcilable 20th century musical strains; his masterpiece, Absolutely Free (1967), is a dazzling merger of Stravinsky and Varese with rock and rhythm and blues. Who else...
Students who dine at the Freshman Union say first-years get a raw deal--customer service or no customer service...
...Library of some of the hundreds of phone calls Johnson made to power brokers and political friends as he sought to steady the government and reassure the country in the days following the Kennedy assassination. They reveal, like few things before, this tumultuous man who responded to duty, this raw and rough-riding man of power who gloried in authority and drama even while being sensitive to tragedy...
ABLAZE! Enthusiastic and sometimes venomous scribes from Leeds (England) whose tastes intersect with mine only every so often, but who are so much fun to read that I don't much mind: thick heaps of raw information about (largely) noisy records from all over the globe, with bizarre slogans Jenny Holzer would kill to have coined liberally "mixed in" (in the ice-cream sense of the phrase "mixed in"). Nirvana and Sonic Youth were in here early on; the latest issue has the most articulate, most convincing (pro-) "Riot Grrrl" think-piece/manifesto I've seen, plus interviews with Moonshake...
...used the word nigger and contained the line "Immigrants and faggots/ They make no sense to me." On their new album, however, Axl Rose and his bandmates present a collection of tributes to the '70s punk rock that inspired them -- from the Sex Pistols' Black Leather to the Stooges' Raw Power -- and in doing so they find a way not only to display superb musicianship but also to express anger without their characteristic crassness. Interestingly, if Guns N' Roses on its own albums has sometimes seemed to lose control over its lyrics, its music on "The Spaghetti Incident?" displays more...