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Frank Zappa - Have I Offended Someone
Music : Other : Lossless
Artist...............: Frank Zappa
Album................: Have I Offended Someone
Year.................: 1997
Tracklisting
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1. (00:02:43) Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown Goes Down [remixed]
2. (00:04:23) Frank Zappa - Disco Boy [reconstructed & remixed]
3. (00:04:19) Frank Zappa - Goblin Girl [VSO'd to slower speed]
4. (00:03:31) Frank Zappa - In France [remixed]
5. (00:02:45) Frank Zappa - He's So Gay
6. (00:03:44) Frank Zappa - SEX
7. (00:04:37) Frank Zappa - Titties 'n Beer [different edit]
8. (00:04:57) Frank Zappa - We're Turning Again [remixed]
9. (00:05:44) Frank Zappa - Dumb All Over [previously unreleased live version]
10. (00:03:52) Frank Zappa - Catholic Girls
11. (00:07:14) Frank Zappa - Dinah-Moe Humm [reconstructed & remixed]
12. (00:04:24) Frank Zappa - Tinsel Town Rebellion [previously unreleased live version]
13. (00:04:51) Frank Zappa - Valley Girl
14. (00:03:15) Frank Zappa - Jewish Princess
15. (00:03:33) Frank Zappa - Yo Cats [remixed]
Frank Zappa, Have I Offended Someone?- Bill Holmes
(Rykodisc)
To say that Zappa pushed the envelope would be an understatement. Before
it was in vogue to do so, Frank thrilled audiences with theatrical rock shows in
residence and issued concept albums. His perfectionist nature led him to
discover, nurture, and support talented musicians like Lowell George, Steve
Vai and Terry Bozzio. His music encompassed orchestral movements, rock,
jazz, and featured everything from classical strings to funky horn sections.
When label support would be unavailable (as it usually was from Warner
Brothers) Zappa would finance his own tours, usually at a loss, to present his
music in a form he felt it deserved. And, politically he suffered no fools, as
evidenced by his long time campaign against the PMRC and their proposed
rating system - again, at his own expense and for the issue, not the glory.
During his 1988 tour - a phenomenal series of performances that has still not
been fully documented - he made arrangements with the League Of Women
Voters in each city to set up a booth to register voters. For all his
idiosyncrasies (and truth be known they were mostly perceived), Zappa was
a brilliant and prolific musician and orator with a biting wit and a generous
heart. He never told people what to think - he merely asked them to think for
themselves.
Yet to many, Zappa was a man feeding toilet humor to the masses in place of
music, a crass and disgusting artist who made fun of gays, blacks, Jews,
Catholics...oh hell, everybody. Crass? Well...maybe. Zappa used his satire to
pop the balloons of many targets, but never with hatred. What Frank did so
well was to take matters like homophobia, racism, sexual prohibition and
especially intellectual repression, and let them bask in their own hypocritical
bright light.
Have I Offended Someone? brings together most of the songs that got under
the skin of the politically correct set, those who unfortunately missed the
humor and sarcasm. Of course, you also have the closet hypocrites, too.
(You can spot them in a second - they're the ones who laughed at "Jewish
Princess" but got pissed when "Catholic Girls" came out a couple of years
later.) Zappa was offended too, but by phony televangelists, slimy record
executives, two-faced politicians, drug-addled air heads, and especially
apathetic whiners. But rather than sit back and complain, or - worse - do
nothing, Zappa stood up for what he believed in, in song, and in deed.
These witticisms were only a small fragment of a recording career which
comprises hundreds of hours of music that spanned the full spectrum of
music. But for those new to the Zappa world looking to get a clue to his
satirical side, this is as good a place to start as any. Although each of the
fifteen pieces on Offended is available in some form on previous releases,
eight are remixed or reconstructed and two are previously unavailable live
versions - "Tinsel Town Rebellion" and "Dumb All Over", the latter featuring
some stunning guitar work. Other highlights include the driving "Disco Boy"
and the hilarious "We're Turning Again", Frank's dead on shot at aging
hippies: 'Now I see 'em tightnin' up their headbands / On the weekend and
they get loaded when they came to town / They walk around in Greenwich
Village buying posters they can hang up / In those smelly little secret black
light bedrooms on Long Island / Singing JIMI COME BACK!...'
There are enough extras here to please even the Zappa completists, and as
usual, Rykodisc has done their usual stellar job with sound quality and
packaging. Fittingly, the cover art is from outlaw artist Ralph Steadman and
the liner notes from ex-Fug honcho Ed Sanders, both of whom know
something about artistic repression.
Frank Zappa was the Curt Flood of rock and roll, the man who took one for
the team and said out loud what many others did not have the courage to
voice. When he took on the Senate Committee and the PMRC equipped with
only wit, intellect and the Bill Of Rights, it was a slaughter. The suits never
stood a chance.
"Have I Offended Someone?" God, I hope so.
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