quarta-feira, 28 de novembro de 2007

Frank Zappa - Does Humor Belong In Music (86)

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As Frank Zappa was focusing more on his computer and orchestral music in 1985-1986, he put together an album and a video of live material from his then-last tour from 1984.
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Does Humor Belong in Music? was released in January 1986, in Europe and Japan only.
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In 1995, Ryko issued it for the first time in the U.S. (a reissue for the rest of the world) with a thorough remix, new cover artwork, and a different edit of "Let's Move to Cleveland" (adding one extra minute). Asking the title question is answering it, at least when Zappa is concerned.
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It expresses a way for him to get back at music critics who despised his stage antics and scatological humor in the early '80s — from a man who was trying to affirm himself as a "serious" composer.
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The CD documented the 1984 band (Ray White, Ike Willis, Bobby Martin, Alan Zavod, Scott Thunes, and Chad Wackerman) for the first time.
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Old songs from the '60s and '70s like "Trouble Every Day" and "Penguin in Bondage" are given a harder edge, while "Let's Move to Cleveland," "Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel," and the concert version of "What's New in Baltimore" got their premiere recording.
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Because of Wackerman's electronic drums, the razor-edged guitar sound Zappa used at the time and his fiddling with digital recording techniques, the album sounds oddly lifeless, almost clinical.
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It has its moments but is by no means an essential item.
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The video and CD present different track lists.
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