And this is a double album from the looks of it. Nope. Just extra tracks for the CD reissue. Deep joy. I may stop at 12 tracks. That's all they had to suffer in the 60s and they had LSD readily available to distract them.
Okay, then: on with the unbiased, no preconceptions, artistic assassination.
It took a couple of tries to get thru this, I admit. The first track is a pretty reasonable effort based on a very simple pentatonic riff with some standard variations to break the monotony but then, even though the next few tracks all have different tempos, the instrumentation and vocal style is similar enough to get tiresome.
The singer sounds a lot like the guy from Creedance Clearwater Revival but lower and lacking the variation in texture. Without that, it's just like laryngitis-man playing a broken kazoo. After 4 tracks it's not even cute any more. The sheer lack of invention in the guitar work coupled with this persistent abuse of the gravel effect just makes you more sensitive to its imperfections.
Even songs that start with a promising riff you come to recognise as false hope. The so-called song "Electricity" is a perfect example of a mediocre, but workable idea placed in the flipper hands of a musical dilettante. The atmospheric noises and such like are just a cacophonous camouflage over the tortured sound of a song being run into the ground that wasn't even very good to start with.
"The following tone is a reference tone, recorded at our operating level."
Well, that was interesting. Tuneful, short and concise. Why can't they all be like that? I'll give it one star for that, although this is, of course, just an introduction to another steaming pile of blue turds.
Where There's Woman could have been a good song I think if the personnel were completely swapped out, including the engineer.
I just read some of the Wikipedia page on this idiot and aside from the word "experimental", I really can't reconcile any of what they're saying with this dog shit.
The most positive thing I can say about this is that Zappa made 100 albums and this guy only made 13.
Oh. And they're both dead, of course.
It took a couple of tries to get thru this, I admit. The first track is a pretty reasonable effort based on a very simple pentatonic riff with some standard variations to break the monotony but then, even though the next few tracks all have different tempos, the instrumentation and vocal style is similar enough to get tiresome.
The singer sounds a lot like the guy from Creedance Clearwater Revival but lower and lacking the variation in texture. Without that, it's just like laryngitis-man playing a broken kazoo. After 4 tracks it's not even cute any more. The sheer lack of invention in the guitar work coupled with this persistent abuse of the gravel effect just makes you more sensitive to its imperfections.
Even songs that start with a promising riff you come to recognise as false hope. The so-called song "Electricity" is a perfect example of a mediocre, but workable idea placed in the flipper hands of a musical dilettante. The atmospheric noises and such like are just a cacophonous camouflage over the tortured sound of a song being run into the ground that wasn't even very good to start with.
"The following tone is a reference tone, recorded at our operating level."
Well, that was interesting. Tuneful, short and concise. Why can't they all be like that? I'll give it one star for that, although this is, of course, just an introduction to another steaming pile of blue turds.
Where There's Woman could have been a good song I think if the personnel were completely swapped out, including the engineer.
I just read some of the Wikipedia page on this idiot and aside from the word "experimental", I really can't reconcile any of what they're saying with this dog shit.
The most positive thing I can say about this is that Zappa made 100 albums and this guy only made 13.
Oh. And they're both dead, of course.
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