• Flying SquidOPM
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    81 year ago

    I would say that Zappa didn’t really fit criterion 3 like Al does.

    Not to take anything away from his genius. But not every musical genius needs to be a Mozart.

    • @VubDapple
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      71 year ago

      I think he does fit. Consider the genre spanning records he did in the 80s like Joe’s Garage with every song from a different style. Consider how he found talent in unusual places and incorporated it, for instance Ruth playing the marimba in Inca Roads. But point also taken. No one mocks like All mocks

      • Flying SquidOPM
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        51 year ago

        I guess in a way I feel like Zappa was in a class all his own.

        • @VubDapple
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          21 year ago

          He’s not everyone’s cup of tea but he was one for the ages. I think it a quite reasonable comparison to speak of Zapps in the same breath as Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, etc.