And it's pretty much the apex of Jim Martin's guitar playing. All that crazy stuff he's doing in the background is brilliant, as is the harmony guitar solo right before that piano outro.

I thought it was awful. I couldn't even finish the bottle.

It's great. I listened to it as soon as I got the package in the mail and it was so great, I played it again for my wife when she got home an hour later.

I have a friend whose favorite FZ era is Flo and Eddie. I don't get it.

Stay away from Thing-Fish. It's even worse.

I'm not saying it's all bad. It's more that while the lyrics were probably never that important to him in the first place, they seemed more slapdash and crude later on. Also, it feels like there are fewer non-instrumental songs like Montana that are musically interesting and more like Cocaine Decisions which just…

And Don't Eat the Yellow Snow if you're a little older.

It's era-specific. I think that's probably true starting about 1976. Before that, there are plenty of songs with lyrics that are as good as the instrumentals. After Bongo Fury, not so much. Zoot Allures is where the shift in Zappa's social commentary moves from Trouble Every Day/I'm the Slime/What's the Ugliest Part…

The email from TM a few weeks ago said two per transaction.

No, discogs is not vinyl only, but that was an LP promo from the original scrapped 1987 release. If yours is the 1994 promo CD, the most one of those has gone for is about $80. If it's a CD promo from 1987, well, no one's entered that on the database yet.

Night Flight was the best. It was almost the only access I had to interesting music and film growing up in a small town in the 1980s. The local radio was basically one top-40 station, one kind of crappy rock station, and the rest was a mix of easy-listening, country, and AM stations with as much talking as music. The…

That happened to me at Bonnaroo. I was there with my brother and a bunch of our friends to see Radiohead and a lot of the third/fourth-stage performers. Petty was the opening night headliner. Somewhere around 3/4 of the way through, I turned to my brother and asked, "How the hell do I know every song in this set?"

By definition, they can be terminated, which as Battlecar Compactica desribes below, can be to one's benefit. However, most people who use them, in the music industry anyway, tend to do so not for sound legal reasons, but because they distrust the legal system and want to operate outside of it as much as possible.

What about White Devil? Are we taking that back, too? Because I can get behind that, honky.

People in my building would take it. There are a bunch of union guys who are upset that a contractor hired non-union people to work on a building across the street. They're out there for three hours every nice day with whistles, whistling away. The people in my office on that side of the building have been thinking up…

What about Phranc? OK, so three.

I was in a punk band that used to play this regularly. It was a hell of a lot of fun and would annoy about half the audience.

If you think that's wordy, you should check out some of Evil Twin's beer names. I had one yesterday called Christmas Eve in a New York City Hotel.

I would hope not. The new Low Cut Connie record is pretty great.

Frank's stupid lyrics got less fun as time went on. The political stuff and some of the earlier social commentary stuff (like, say, I'm the Slime) was quite good, though that got pretty mean spirited by the 1980s. His 80s output mostly ranges from mediocre to terrible with occasional flashes of brilliance. The writer…