>"The bulk of his music is neither good enough nor bad enough to warrant all this discussion. It's nerdy and self-conscious but hardly highbrow. He's a competent guitarist who typically had an atrocious sound and didn't play a single memorable lick. His band didn't make mistakes but were similarly insipid in tone and have no moments of genuine power."
>"It's like rock music devoid of rock, plus a few pages of music school exercises in odd-meter timekeeping. I can't understand how anybody could either like it or dislike it."
>"I mean, it's not as bad as the Eagles, but also not as good as the Eagles.''
Actually 100% correct. Only naïve, beginner musicians are impressed by his antics.
Hunter Thompson
albini is a faggot nerd and was probably bullied by chads like zappa
Jack Jenkins
Sheik Yerbouti [Zappa, 1979] If this be social "satire," how come its sole targets are ordinary citizens whose weirdnesses happen to diverge from those of the retentive gent at the control board? Or are we to read his new fixation on buggery as an indication of approval? Makes you wonder whether his primo guitar solo on "Yo' Mama" and those as-unique-as-they-used-to-be rhythms and textures are as arid spiritually as he is. As if there were any question after all these years. C
he has a point for some periods of Zappa's career (see below), but Zappa had a great guitar sound in the early 70's and many memorable licks - even if he would recycle the same licks
this is good commentary. Sheik Yerbouti is clearly a point where the quality of Zappa's album is already plummeting and instead of being funny or clever, he basically became a mean asshole
Evan Rogers
>In 2010, he revealed that he is not an avid consumer of media and watches a lot of cat videos on YouTube, while avoiding feature films.[18] holy kek, he's the gusic poster
Bentley Johnson
very based gun gigger gun
Ayden Robinson
He didn't say anything. Love this shit, Steve truly knows how to waste people's time.
Nathan Morales
I like zappa but he spent too much time on the peepee poopoo comedy music
Wyatt Flores
same except for the cat videos, even tho I do have cats now I will forever fear about getting married
Tyler Allen
Don't really get these kinds of threads
Of COURSE Steve Albini wouldn't like Zappa, you've heard his music right? And all his favorite bands are punk or punk adjacent too.
Dominic Hernandez
toasted
Mason Jackson
That rambling can be summarized with: >I can't understand how anybody could either like it or dislike it. Seems like he got asked about it and just wanted to waste the time of whoever asked that question. Because he could easily have replied with "I don't mind him".
Jaxson Myers
He's just obviously a punk orientated person
All of his records can have the punk tag on them
If he was a musician with a super varied output then I could see him being more into Zappa. Like Mark Kozelek for example, he has a very varied output and even parodies Zappa briefly on one of his songs to a good comedic effect.
Josiah Myers
Zappa has released a lot of stuff that was neither here nor there, and his writing in jazz fusion suffered from alot of bloat.
But Albini is the rick rubin of indeh so he has no right to speak
Eli Ross
The "niggering everything in sight" pasta is better than any of the music's he's had a hand in creating/producing/recording
Benjamin Rivera
Probably because its true
Logan Williams
>>In 2010, he revealed that he is not an avid consumer of media redpilled and based. >and watches a lot of cat videos on YouTube to each its own but based anyways. >while avoiding feature films.[18] redpilled about °°°hollywood°°°
incredible human bean.
Henry Hill
>"I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse. I think it plays to the most superficial, most insecure parts of human nature. I hope GQ as a magazine fails. I hope that all of these people who make a living by looking pretty are eventually made destitute or forced to do something of substance. At least pornography has a function."
the picture proves him wrong, but at least he's got a good grasp of the kind of people his fans are
Aiden Thompson
out
Dylan Watson
post that pasta pls
Jacob Richardson
/fa/ utterly bodied.
Hudson Collins
good songs but sounds like shit tbqh seems like Albini just hanged a couple of malfunctioning mics above the room
Thomas Lopez
Albini is the single most based guy on this planet, even more so than Scaruffi
Nolan Gomez
and created the sound of a whole generation, and the decades that would come.
Easton Clark
>>"I mean, it's not as bad as the Eagles, but also not as good as the Eagles.'' bodied tbqh
Christian Adams
It’s actually pretty on point
Charles Carter
extremely based.
Anthony Smith
Steve's hot takes are always entertaining regardless if I agree with them or not.
Elijah Collins
absolute virgin
Jaxson Cook
He's not the producer, user.
Michael Flores
Unironically true. Zappa was proto-sporkcore and was jealous of actual avant garde rock.
"The opening night was very crowded and Zappa and members of the Mothers of Invention showed up to show their support. (...) Nico's delivery of her material was very flat, deadpan, and expressionless, and she played as though all of her songs were dirges. She seemed as though she was trying to resurrect the ennui and decadence of Weimar, pre-Hitler Germany. Her icy, Nordic image also added to the detachment of her delivery. (...) The audience was on her side, as she was in her element and the Warhol contingent was very prominent that night. However, what happened next is what sticks in my mind the most from that night. In between sets, Frank Zappa got up from his seat and walked up on the stage and sat behind the keyboard of Nico's B-3 organ. He proceeded to place his hands indiscriminately on the keyboard in a total, atonal fashion and screamed at the top of his lungs, doing a caricature of Nico's set, the one he had just seen. The words to his impromptu song were the names of vegetables like broccolli, cabbage, asparagus... This "song" kept going for about a minute or so and then suddenly stopped. He walked off the stage and the show moved on. It was one of the greatest pieces of rock 'n roll theater that I have ever seen."
Landon Collins
based Zappa, shitting on the proto-hipster scene
Lincoln Allen
Totally agree. Humor doesnt belong in music.
Jason Ward
kek, what a jealous faggot.
Jackson Morris
Wow what the fuck albini.
I know this is just a subjective opinion but I almost feel the need to ask for a source because there’s no way Steve is that retarded.
Zappa isn’t for everyone, but his discography warrants a fuckton of discussion and he’s one of the most criminally Underrated, underdiscussed musicians out there.
You can tell how stupid Steve’s statement is because he’s chalking a majority of Zappa’s work up to rock. Which is silly. Zappa detested rock many times. Zappa’s rock work isn’t even 1/4th of his catalogue. And while it’s not conventional, it’s definitely uniquely Zappa’s, and plenty of its hard hitting.
Albini is just a pleb who can’t seem to handle Zappa basically BTFO every single alternative/experimental future artist and did pretty much everything there is to do in music decades before they even thought about it.
>MUH I CAN BE THE ONLY INTERESTING EXPERIMENTAL ARTIST fuck off steve
>I mean, it's not as bad as the Eagles, but also not as good as the Eagles Scaruffi wishes he wrote a single sentence like this in all his mountains of shitty reviews
Adrian White
PROVOCATIVE SQUATS
GUM ME LONGUH
Adrian Perez
are you serious? that sentence sounds like something cuckgau would write
James Sanders
ya but it illustrates his point perfectly while insulting zappa by putting him below a lame band
scaruffi is never that effective, it's always just direct nerd statements where he's trying to convince himself he's talking from a position of superiority.
effective at what? writing snappy one-liners for zoomers to gobble up?
There's a lot of flaws to zappa's music, but don't justify bad writing
Dylan King
>OMG I LOVE BEING CONTRARIAN AND POSTING MSPAINT MEMES
Hudson Thompson
>contrarian what
Leo Thompson
Personally it doesn't irritate me I just never inclined to relisten to his comedy albums
Isaac Edwards
Liking Zappa's shitty music is being a contrarian.
Ayden Lee
>Was he right?
The only Zappa stuff I ever owned was the two Joe's Garage albums and the Valley Girl single. End of story. I LOVED the first Joe's Garage album. It's stellar. But the second one (Acts II & III) was as bad as the first was good. So, I cooled it with continuing to be a fan of his.
Having said all that, I think Albini is a little too hard on Zappa. If nothing else, he was one of the early pioneers in jazz-rock fusion, and he should be remembered positively for that contribution.
Jacob Wright
It’s more than a one liner, it illustrates perfectly the problem with Zappas music, which is that it thinks it can use careful discrimination and self awareness to compensate for the lack of any real creativeness. Even something as kitsch as the eagles is more transcendent than Zappa
Landon Collins
I dont get this meme,whenever Albini is involved with anything some dude comes and said he fucked his gf
Dylan Peterson
no see, what you just wrote, that was a good description that one liner is just snappy (and that's a good thing) tier trash
Josiah Bell
poopoo peepee xd
Adam Ward
Now she hates me
Charles Morgan
Shellac couldn't play a Zappa song if their lives depended on it.
This.
Jayden Price
wow i had no idea he even had a hand in the album i bet he did absolutely nothing half the time
Ryan Rivera
Albini turned her out
Jordan Hernandez
>He's a competent guitarist who typically had an atrocious sound and didn't play a single memorable lick. imagine being this mad and wrongabout the guitar on the track Apostraphe
Carson Cruz
that describes albini himself just as much if not better
Jeremiah Perez
I thought you were joking, but GQ still have the article up. It's its closing line. How based do you have to be to talk with an interviewer for half an hour and then casually drop that you hate everything they stand for?
