I'm familiar with many of these bands and remember this era, but I don't think I've ever heard it called dance punk. Was that a thing people were calling it in 2004? I do not recall that at all.

Amazing chorus, especially the 'ma-king ma-ple sy-rup for the pan-cakes-of-our-land' bit. Do you have any idea what that can do to a man?

OK, you win. Frank Zappa is awful.

Looking at the way it was originally released on LP (I've only ever heard it on CD, so the 'sides' are largely irrelevant), you could basically cut out side 2 — Society Pages to Conehead — and improve the album quite a bit. The only thing is, I really like the guitar interplay in Charlie's Enormous Mouth, especially…

Yeah but so what? Lots of great musicians aren't successful.

Sloppy tight is spot-on. For a guy who ran his bands like a slave driver and made sure everything was note-perfect, his guitar solos were so free and, yeah, sloppy. He called them 'air sculptures', which is a really great description.

Yeah, I actually really like a lot of the You Are What You Is album, but Suicide Chump/Jumbo Go Away is about as offensive as he ever got.

Thanks for that link. Great piece.

Well, he was a true conservative or at least that's what he called himself. He just wanted everyone out of everyone else's business.

Having just listened to the Charlie Manson's Hollywood series on the You Must Remember This podcast, Zappa was 100 per cent right about the evil bullshit that the hippie movement were inculcating.

He will forever be a hero just for that. He went to battle (along with Dee Snyder and John Denver, seemingly the only other musicians who bothered to stand up for their art) defending music he personally hated because he saw the perniciousness at play. There's actually this pretty bad TV-movie called Warning: Parental…

Did that Alex Winters film actually come out? I haven't seen anything about it for ages. You're right about people wanting to nail FZ down when he defies categorisation purely because of how prolific he was. You listen to a song like Village of the Sun and you think he's this sweet, sincere dude and then you hear,…

People don't like Bongo Fury?

There was a man

Ike Willis is legit amazing though, so even the really bad songs from that era are worth listening to for his work. I think if he'd been given better material, we'd revere him on the Napoleon Murphy Brock level.

Jesus.

Oh man, where he's all bloated and grey. Heartbreaking.

How do us theatre nerds petition Anonymous?

Is this open to the public? And that is a very ridiculous rule.

OK, so I now have a new wish for what I want hackers to leak onto the interwebs.