If you're familiar with this at all you know that it's very much not for everyone, but this is a breathtakingly weird must see for anyone who loves outsider art or underground filmmaking.
Some have argued for this being a go-for-broke surrealist film, but my personal take is that (as with many low-budget films of this era) the surrealism is largely unintentional
For the music nerds in the house: I would be remiss if I did not point out that "World's Greatest Sinner" has an early soundtrack by Frank Zappa. He said this was the world's worst movie, but was willing to put his name on his work (unlike Edgar G. Ulmer who worked on the cinematography under a pseudonym).
In the still from the original post here, the band in the background is the Johnny Otis show (name can be seen on the drum set).
Ça m'aurait fait marrer quand j'étais jeune, il y a... (prescription)
Mais aujourd'hui, voire des mecs se foutre de la gueule de Yoko sur une grosse scène, devant un gros public, lui mettre la tête dans un sac en chantant "Scumbag" (littéralement sac à merde, sac à ordures)...
Je trouve ça juste dégueulasse.
En plus elle est super punk Yoko dans sa façon de chanter.
1/ T'as pas vu la vidéo donc tu supposes dans le vide.
2/ C'est sympa de défendre les bro mais on connait un peu le schéma (#notAllMen)
3/ #Zappa, désolé pour ses fans, n'était pas vraiment féministe (et même pas du tout).
C'était un incontinent sexuel notoire, et quand il critiquait l'ordre moral, l'establishment, il défendait surtout SA liberté d'expression à lui, c'est à dire en version moderne : "on peut plus rien dire".
Un film de science-fiction porno, ça te dis ?
Bon j’ai pas les images, il va falloir que tu les imagines.
Ce ne sera pas très facile vu que ça commence en allemand, mais tu pourras peut-être te rattraper vu que les mêmes paroles sont ensuite chantées en anglais et la musique est là pour ça.
Il est question d’une baise sauvage sur un sofa (qu’il ne faut pas salir...) avec un robot doté d’un sexe en forme de tire-bouchon...
Mais qui a bien pu écrire un truc pareil ? 🤔 😆 ⤵️
Je continue au cas où tu t’intéresses de près à l’œuvre du moustachu.
Ce morceau était déjà joué en 1971, il était la 4eme partie de la suite Sofa.
Il a été modifié pour être intégré à Joe’s Garage en 1979.
Il est donc une bonne illustration de la Continuité Conceptuelle, d’autant plus qu’il fait des allusions à 5 autres morceaux disséminés de 1968 à 1981.
Zappa and the Mothers - Stick it out - 1971 Carnegie Hall
"I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out."
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'Completely Independent Thinker, Kind of Like Zappa': Steve Vai on Why Devin Townsend Was Dissatisfied While Working for Him
'Once Devin discovered his legs and started to run, he may have very much resented that thumb on him, because he's not that kind of person.'
#NowPlaying - decent audience-recorded #bootleg of the flo & eddie era mothers' hometown debut at santa monica civic, august 1970, misdated as el monte '71. totally dig kaylan/volman as front-mothers, increasingly less into the mud shark skit sequence, here in early draft, a premonition of my least favorite #zappa. stunning & fun kornyfone art. @vinylrecords
Frank Zappa - 'Waka/Jawaka' (1972) (1988 remaster)
#FrankZappa's switch to some sort of jazzfusion. Complex time signatures, awesome soloing, brass, modular moog, #guitar, hallucinations, other weird stuff: another most enjoyable #Zappa album.
Ça c'est bien pour un lundi matin, c'est frais, ça va te donner envie de sautiller, de faire la bise à tes collègues et d'envoyer paître ton chef grognon.
#NowPlaying - staving off monday by listening to more cartoons. appealing #zappa mono audience tape (on plum red vinyl) of 7 march 1970 in LA, one of 2 circulating shows by the hot rats band, his 1st combo after breaking up the original mothers. small group, no skits/spiels, hot electric violin by sugarcane harris. @vinylrecords
#NowPlaying - japanese underground #noise heroes, one of the only official albums released while they were active (in the '90s, 20 years after it was recorded). the blown-out live cuts don't grab me here, though i love them elsewhere. the studio side from '69 gets way more play in this house, dreamy/folky psych that i don't think the band ever embraced again. great liner notes too, pointing at the kazoo parts as evidence of mizutani's fondness for #zappa. https://lesrallizesdenudes.bandcamp.com/album/67-69-studio-et-live@vinylrecords
#NowPlaying - celebrating mothers' day in march & kinda just (once again) in love with the sound of late '60s/early '70s #zappa albums, the electric/acoustic mix, the stereo drums, earthy woodwinds, open-wah cartoon guitar tone, pre-synth fusion, all of it. @vinylrecords
There's unfortunately no video record of a fabled exchange between Joe Pyne (talk show host) and Frank Zappa.
According to Pyne lore, he invited his audience to “Say hello to a musician—and I use that term loosely—representing a rock ’n’ roll band known as the Mothers of Invention.”
Zappa, 24, nodded to the booing crowd.
Pyne looked him over and said, “I guess your long hair makes you a woman.”
Zappa shrugged. “I guess your wooden leg makes you a table.”
"Eat your shoes
Don't forget the strings
And sox
Even eat the box
Your bought 'em in
You can eat the truck
That brought 'em in
Garbage truck
Eat the truck & driver
And his gloves
Nutritiousness
Deliciousness
Worthlessness"
Via a reddit post, I just discovered a site called Life On The Road, which is a deep dive into every live recording of Frank Zappa (currently through 1977).
Like many of you, I have been missing the old web, full of niche sites built out slowly by one or two experts on some nerdy topic. This Zappa site reminds me of what we used to find online back in the late '90s (albeit with a modern look).