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TopicThe Frank Zappa Appreciation Topic! Part 10.2
Mr Lasastryke
12/21/18 9:37:25 AM
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Hey, nice to see you here, Aborn! I actually mentioned you a long time ago in one of these topics. I remembered when you did your top 100 albums project, your highest ranked Zappa album was Absolutely Free, which is kind of an unusual choice for best Zappa album (not a bad choice, mind you; it is a fantastic album).

You're right about Civilization Phaze III, I did bring that one up on Raetsel_Lapin's music topic not too long ago.

As for writeups, the Tumblr actually doesn't have any writeups. I used to do the writeups with SmartMuffin in these topics and obviously the old topics have all purged (I have 90% of the writeups saved on my PC and my external hard drive, though). GMUN's site has a few of the old topics saved, however. You can check out the previous topic here, for instance:

https:/l ogfaqs.com/topic.php?id=75986584&db=0 - remove the space

Also, you can check out writeups for Zappa songs I've done in order of release on Information Is Not Knowledge, my Frank Zappa board I linked to in the opening post. I was planning on doing the entire catalog but I didn't make it further than "Pygmy Twylyte" from Roxy & Elsewhere. I do still plan on finishing that project eventually, though. Unlike the Song of the Day writeups, these writeups were meant to be purely informative, so I didn't insert my own opinions into them. They were less "OMG this guitar solo is awesome!" and more "this guitar solo is over two chords."

I will say that if you want to learn stuff about music theory, the SotD and IINK writeups don't have much to offer, though. I did get a bit more into the technical stuff in IINK than I usually did in SotD, but I'm far from a music expert. While it's not Zappa-related, if you want to read writeups that teach you stuff about music theory (particularly time signatures), I recommend MycroProcessor's Odd Time VGM of the Day Tumblr. Great, highly informative writeups. Here's the link: http://vgm-in-irregular-time-of-the-day.tumblr.com/

Also, for a long time, I've been toying with the idea of creating a website where I list the entire Zappa catalog and post all the SotD writeups Muffin and I have done over the years, as well as YouTube links to all the songs (if they are available). It would be a MASSIVE undertaking (Muffn and I started doing this in 2013) ^_^; I think it would be really cool, though. It would also be helpful in determining which songs Muffin and I have discussed and which ones we've never touched on - it's become bit difficult to see the forest through the trees after all these years and so many writeups. Unfortunately, when I tried to create an HTML website years ago, it didn't work - there was a problem with my proxy server or something. Well, we'll see if I end up doing something with this idea.
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