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August 06, 2005
Joe's Garage
Every couple of months I relisten to Joe's Garage, that long and silly album Frank Zappa did on the theme of a guy going downhill into appliance fetishism, getting thrown into prison for sexual vandalism about the time music becomes illegal. The whole album remains very accessible for one by Frank Zappa, because he keeps a tight rein on excursions into music to which you must listen carefully, and you can get a lot of smiles out of the surface humor before you do start listening more carefully.
On the other hand, Joe's Garage brings together some "pretty good musicians," who go from one amazing song after another. Having the MP3 player means I could listen to that in the headphones while doing something fairly mindless. That's the first time I've been able to listen to Joe's Garage in headphones in a while. A feast for the ears.
Of course if my mind were prehensile I wouldn't be reviewing Joe's Garage, but since it isn't, I guess that's okay.
Posted by Mark at August 6, 2005 02:52 PM