{"id":819,"date":"2012-03-27T18:39:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T18:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=819"},"modified":"2012-03-27T18:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T18:40:50","slug":"record-of-the-issue-tlv-152-by-joe-doolittle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/record-of-the-issue-tlv-152-by-joe-doolittle\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Of The Issue (TLV #152, by Joe Doolittle)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Whenever I enter a record store, the first I thing I do is check out the Frank Zappa selection. I do it for two reasons: (1. I love Frank Zappa, and (2. it serves as something of a litmus test for the store. If they have a good Frank Zappa selection, then I know they\u2019re the real deal and I\u2019m not wasting my time. Last week I visited Oxford\u2019s new record store, The End of All Music<\/strong>. Is it the real deal? Well, I walked away with my favorite Zappa album, One Size Fits All<\/em>. You do the math.<\/p>\n

\"\"As for the music itself, it hit me at a time when I was in desperate need of something different, something really different. I had spent all of high school flooding my ear canals with the same eleven songs my local classic rock radio station played on rotation, day-in and day-out. Then came One Size Fits All<\/em>. It\u2019s an exhibition of everything that made Zappa great: off-the-wall musical arrangements, surrealist humor, and, yes, a devastating guitar solo here and there.<\/p>\n

Now, is it his finest offering? God, I don\u2019t know. The man released oodles of material in his lifetime, and though I\u2019ve been an ardent fan for the past five years, I feel I\u2019ve only scratched the hairy surface of the Frank Zappa iceberg. But it certainly spoke to 18-year-old me. One minute into \u201cInca Roads,\u201d the first song on the album, and you realize this is the music he wanted to hear, not what a cigar-puffing record executive wanted. There\u2019s an undeniable passion and conviction to Frank Zappa\u2019s music. He genuinely believed in his work, in spite of the shrugged shoulders, raised eyebrows, and looks of \u201cI don\u2019t know..\u201d it caused over the years. Forget Robert Frost, man, that\u2019s the inspiration you need leaving high school. And hey, it doesn\u2019t hurt that it\u2019s set against the backdrop of great, great music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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