Frank Zappa - Semi-Fraudulent / Direct-From-Hollywood Overture Lyrics






[Theodore Bikel:]
Ladies and gentlemen!

[Chorus:]
200 motels

[Theodore Bikel:]
200 motels... Life on the road!

[Theodore Bikel:]
Ladies and gentlemen! and here is...

[Chorus:]
Who?

[Theodore Bikel:]
Larry the dwarf!
Larry likes to dress up funny
Tonight he's dressed up like Frank Zappa
Let's ask him "What's the deal?"

Say!





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  1. g.... ....

    I wonder how telling this is to have one comment on this glorious composition. Zappa was a very capable and knowledgeable composer. Kral's statement is quite good. I would only add that this is what Zappa's music was all about, a direct and indirect reply to the institutions of popular music with insane parody and satire. Love it.

  2. K.... K....

    FZ is deliberately reaming all the hacks who wrote music for films and tv and did nothing more than rip off Russian and French composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
    Pardon me for belaboring the obvious, but I think it's relevant in light of the fact that all we get now is more of the same - or it's faux-romantic lard (Zimmer/Interstellar) with a cloying garnish of digeridoos and throat-singers.
    Maybe they think they're invoking that Kubrick/Ligeti vibe.
    As FZ would say, *it ain't working.*
    We need to resurrect Samuel Barber, (insert your favorite modern composer here) and FZ.
    They'd take these punks to school.
    Rock On.
    ps.  Don't even think of mentioning that Elfman guy.
    If you thought of him, you might want to hear more FZ.
    pps.  Frank Lloyd Wright said "Less is more only when more isn't working."
    -K.

    K.... K....

    Calling out people who blindly ripped off the work of old, dead dudes and calling for the return of old, dead dudes. There's a blatant contradiction here, if we could only find it... Zimmerman is working in the minimalist tradition, not previously exploited in Hollywood. It's new in that respect. If and when he's ripping, it's from the likes of Reich and Philip Glass. It's _blatantly_ obvious in Interstellar, I had to physically restrain myself in order to avoid screaming Ko-ya-na-qatsi in the theatre. Honestly, I think it works quite well, all things considering.

    K.... K....

    True.  We have musicians/composers today but so many of the movies now have hip-hop or rap …"artists" sampling other people's works and tossing in some rhymes to call it their own. At this point, I'd settle for using old Tangerine Dream tracks if no one could come up with anything new and original.