I'll save all that deeper material for my other blog, which is somehow even more vapid and dumb than this one.Īt some point with Zappa's dense, labyrinthine catalog, you have to understand that studying each record's genesis is something best left to the experts. I see the good in most things, I hope for the best, but I'm also not a blind idealist. I can say some pretty harsh words about music, artists, and writers that I don't like, but these are rather trifling discussions about art and the various approaches to writing criticism.īelieve it or not, I am an optimist. Conan O'Brien was right, it is not an attractive characteristic to be had by anyone, and too much of it just as a listener and you'll find yourself falling victim to it. He's the reason I try to warn people to not be consumed by negativity and become cynical towards everyone and everything. He wasn't nuts about punk music, he was a staunch pseudo-Libertarian capitalist, he ran his bands like workhorses, and his attitude from about 1980 was a painfully bitter one. In fact, the more I learn about the guy, the more I'm glad I never had an inkling of a chance to meet him - he died when I was 6 going on 7 - because we would not have gotten along. In all unfairness, I am selecting an artist I tend to bias in favor of, no matter what sort of guy he was in real life.
I'm not just talking about the inherent biases I have - I'm well aware, thank you - but I'm wondering just how an album with less tracks will fare against something with, like an average Beatles album, maybe 14 tracks? I'm beginning to think my rating system might not be 100% accurate.
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