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Title: Collage of Zappa's world view
Review: I think this is one of the true classics from FZ. He has produced many great works, but this is one of the few discs that shed some light on Zappa's world view, as opposed to his criticism of other world views and politics. The basics here lie in some of the 'incomprehensible dialogue', as well as FZ's juxtaposition of Varesian music and more 'pop-oriented' stuff. The key segment is the piece of dialogue where Motorhead Sherwood tells about the 'Big Note'. This is Zappa's cosmology, as explained in interviews in The Frank Zappa Companion. His concept of time is essential too, the 'when' question as he calls it, clarifies a lot for us human beings. And these two things, the time concept and the big note concept are the keys to this magnificent disc. It is quite difficult, of course, but nonetheless essential. But some digging in Frank's mind/worldview is needed to more or less understand what is going on...Buy this!!
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