Favorite works of sound

Geek The Girl should be higher (#9 or so), and i am eagerly anticipating the next Newsom release, and the My Bloody Valentine release??? which was supposed to have been released by now???

Uncle Meat has never really been on my radar (and that goes back before scaruffi when i started to go to the library and check out every album i could; i never fell in love with it), nor has Freak Out! They are both very good, but i rarely play either and do not ever think to play them, whereas the others i play on a consistent basis; you should also add Burnt Weeny Sandwich (basically Little House... is the only great part of it, but it makes the album), Hot Rats, one of the You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore live albums, and possibly Jazz in Hell to the list of good/great Zappa albums.

thanks, it is somewhat legible, that is all care about for now; i will try to improve it, and then move on to a few more, probably not all the bold...i just noticed some grammatical errors - my calling card. ;-) there you go, that is a bit better.

yeah i have never been able to get enough of that and Highway 61, now lets see how long it will last.

if you have access to a 5.1 DVD surround sound system you may want to pick up the reissues of both remastered for it.

for awhile i thought The Modern Dance was conceptually perfect (or close to it), but most seem to think (notably Thomas himself) that Dub Housing is the masterpiece by the band, so i will have to give that a hard scratch and see what i can find that i may have missed before.

It is both brilliant and terrible, it lies outside our realm of spacetime and is entirely beautiful while being a monstrosity. It is.

A man stands naked in front of a mirror, holding a bowl of soup; he is a fool.

yeah, undecided is a fair word. i only listen to the album once every month or two, and i can put it anywhere on my favorites list and it would make sense to me. so, i put it in gray and unnumbered for now - it is still great, but i am unsure how great i think it is.!.?.?.

he is my favorite. i relistened to Desire and it is pretty good, about the same as Blood On The Tracks. i prefer the live track of "Isis" on the Rolling Thunder Revue bootleg series, and of course "Hurricane" is great...alas, not essential - some throw away tracks like "Mozambique". Time Out Of Mind is a better album.

Watch out, Feif, you got a clinger...

there are a couple of those compilations of Mbaqanga music and other obscure music compilations that are fun listens out there, but a masterpiece? i will give it another solid listen, because it is so fun to listen to...i still like Ice Cream & Suckers MUCH MUCH MORE! which is not a masterpiece, but i cherish it with the best albums.

my jazz list: haha, i actually have it done, i think, but i have type it all up. if i didn't have to type up things, which takes so much more time than it seems like, every, single, time, i, type, a, new, list, but it takes minutes and then hours - because i will want to relisten to something, or listen to something new that has great reviews from people i trust...and then time goes by and i forget about it. i will try to get something up, but you should not hold your breath over what i will post because it will have most of the regulars - most jazz lists are very similar.

i was in love with Joanna until the end of last year--something clicked off??? not that important--but more so when i saw her live, and afterward in the hallway and even later in the parking lot. i should have gone up to her and her band and just talked to them for a few minutes. she is the 3rd greatest person i have ever experienced in the flesh behind (1) my great grandmother (the nicest person i ever met), (2) my late favorite teacher professor (the smartest person i ever met), and then (3) Joanna (the most majestic person i have, not met, but have seen in the flesh up close). i am not in love with her, i really would love to talk to her for 5 minutes, and it could just be about the weather. i am so enamored with the way she carries herself physically with her body, and how she carries her voice in a conversation. i am composing material for her, that i want her to steal from me, which i am sure she will never hear unless i get some fame...some way i have yet to figure out how to get...her presence for those few minutes here and there were that powerful. if i saw Dylan, i may say hi to him; if i saw Joanna, i could be asphyxiating at the moment and she still may be able to put a smile on my face and relax my muscles. i know i went too far, i always do, but it was to make a point that i put her above all other living people. and i would give time of my life away, years, to sit down with all 3 of them and just have a conversation about lilacs - and i know nothing about flowers or pollination, i loved hearing the other 2 just talk, and she is now in that category. i do not want an autograph, or a picture, or a tribute, or anything tangible, i would accept a hello which would keep my flame burning for a decade!

the doors: i don't mean to throw the covers away: they are some of the greatest covers of all time! i wish they had, and everyone else would, put original compositions on their album, which in their case would have made more sense thematically and artistically. the covers could have been B-sides to other singles from the album, and they could be tacked on as extras to the album. for future notice, i always prefer good originals that flow better for the album than great covers. i could write pages on what i think about cover songs and their place in the artistic popular culture, but i will stop here.

i hope to meet Joanna before i die! and i would absolutely love for her to steal the music i compose for her - they will be songs that she would theoretically compose, considering her past compositions and where i think she might be headed sonically, thematically, and lyrically (among any other criteria i or you can think of later). i have a few songs ready to flesh out, but i barely have time to write this post, and eat, sleep, and yes READ FOR SCHOOL, which takes up most of my time. i hate school. i love Joanna Newsom.