Frank Zappa - Florentine Pogen (Reaction)
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Vocals by Napoleon Murphy Brock
And sax
It’s difficult to understand Zappa with one listen. It’s like drinking scotch for the first time. You don’t really like it. But every taste/listen makes it tastier.
And once you acquire the taste for scotch....
truth as a fan of both Zappa and single malts( mostly Islay) i can whole-heartedly confirm that once you do acquire the taste (for both) its a beautiful love affair!
Zappa kind of growing on me .Wasn't sure at first but I'm getting there! Its just so different to anything else 😊👌
It takes a while and you really have to explore his VAST discography. You find many songs that most likely will be your favorite songs EVER
Great song from a perfect album
Real music always puts a smile on your face.
So glad you got around to this one - one of his best "songs" imo
Just want to say that today I was watching my usual FZ clips and came across your reactions. Watched a bunch of your Zappa ones, was really cool to see a new Zappa fan discovering and appreciating his music. Have loved FZ since I was 13 years old.... 29 now ! keep spreading the FZ love
You gotta do “Inca Roads” from this same album!!!
One of those Zappa songs you try to sing along with and realize how hard it is to do what they are doing until you've heard it enough times to know it.
Please consider doing reactions on "Advance Romance" or "Carolina Hardcore Ecstacy" from Zappa's "Bongo Fury" album. which was a collaboration with his childhood friend, Captain Beefheart, AKA Don Van Vliet. Trust me on this one. I think you will find either one highly entertaining.
Bongo Fury, top shelf all the way and beyond, does not really get better than that!
I got two in your queue that will will catch you off guard again Teez. And while it sounds improvisational, only parts are, the main structure is intricate song writing and arranging....he was not just a great musician, his editing skills were amazing too.
you gotta watch the live performance to really see the greatness of napoleon murphy brock, any footage from live at the roxy or a token of his extreme is a must watch. maybe the most underrated front man in rock history
From one of the best album.
I have met Napoleon here in Sweden after a consert 2003.
Yes....Zappa grows each time you listen to him.......he still does after 50 years.
A recommendation from me is side two of the double live record Roxy and Elsewhere from 1974. Starts with "Village of the Sun" and then "Echidna's Art of You" and ends with "Do You Ever Wash That Thing"........here is the two first songs played by his son Dweezil with Zappa Plays Zappa and it is incredible close to the original. Of course I have the DVD of this concert.
And you can't go thru life without seen this........"Echidna's Art of You" is one of my favorite Zappa songs.
ruclips.net/video/uMV5AYRUJ28/видео.html
Ya gotta say one thing for Frank, he dared to be different, and so he was free to produce truly original music like this, derivative of no other music you've heard before. Yes it has its influences from other music, but it follows no prescribed patterns or expectations and thus is a treasure trove of creative originality, a rare thing to find and a wonderment to behold.
i love the floating coach..
"chester's gorilla" she goes MOOOOOOO! Teez, you're the best accepting the maestro's music.
a pogen is a cookie! A delightful cookie
Going to keep Plugging the entire "Were only in it for the MONEY" Groundbreaking FZ album....! All songs must be played in order and together.
the legendary Napoleon Murphy Brock on vocals... i had the honor of meeting him after a show he played with a zappa cover band called project object. they put on amazing shows as does dweezil and the other zappa cover bands (not saying dweezil is just another zappa cover band lol)
there is a pretty good live version of this song with video on one of the zappa DVD's... Token of my Extreme, i believe
another one of his "love" songs. lol
love it man keep up the zappa lmao i will always come back for the zappa
Zappa wasn't much of a fan of lyrics, so he often played with them, oftentimes just throwing in disjointed words and statements, kind or surreal and dadaesque. As a matter of fact, he began writing orchestrated music at fourteen and didn't get into rock music and all that lyrical stuff for seven years or so. He just loved composing with sound, any kind of sound, human, instrumental, found objects, etc. He was one of a kind, and the world misses him dearly.
One of the most interesting, intelligent, diverse arranging and composing individuals ever to exist, a true one-of-a-kind genius. Miss him, indeed.
He did pay attention to his lyrics.
He did write 'em because he thought instrumental music was irrelevant for rock audiences of the 60s, 70s etc so he wrote songs with lyrics.
A lot of his lyrics were about something, a lot of social commentary, new articles he'd read like the Illinois Enema Bandit.
His lyrics should always be entertaining, first and foremost to himself.
Often with obscure references, inside jokes like the stuff about Chester's gorilla, that's his drummer Chester Thompson.
Zappa was the greatest lyricist in music HISTORY!
@@digitaldollarsocialismishe9091 i agree completely
@@digitaldollarsocialismishe9091 The lyrics to "Dumb all Over "are some of the most profound real lyrics I've ever heard...Tom MacDonald not withstanding! 😎
All u need in life is Zappa man!
'Once Size Fits All' is probably one of my favorite Zappa albums - tho I always introduce neophytes to Zappa through the albums "Apostrophe" and "Overnight Sensation" they are a great place to start IMO. once you 'get" Zappa you can really appreciate how intricate his art truly is. also recommend watching as many interviews with him as possible truly a genius well ahead of his time. his discography is immense. enjoy the Zappa rabbit hole!
I know you're a hard working man. Appreciated, thanks. This is a live version with overdubs. And Napoleon was the best singer/performer in Zappa's band
I was.sitting.with.Napoleaon Murphy-Brock and Ike Willis and heard the story of this song. I will never tell publicly but it is pretty Zappa!!!
A little trivia: Apparently a "Florentine Pogen" is a type of cookie, The brand being Pogens, the type of cookie being Florentine. I have no idea what it would taste like. They made a lot of other types, like chocolate, ginger snaps, etc. Anyway, I just find it neat that it sounds so legit in that lyric!
Sounds like Teez has been watching Trouble with the Curve
This is the album version, which is, of course, incredible, but look for the Dub Room Special live performance. Just to see the musicianship really is astounding.
Awesome reaction! Definitely check out San Berdino by Zappa ⚡️
Give Teez a hand for taking on all this Zappa and not 'freaking out' (in a bad way I mean)
You gotta watch the videos for this and Inca Roads! You're hearing live performances!
To say that there is hundreds of hours of Frank music is not much of an exaggeration. Check out The Grand Wazoo.
A first listen is tough, play it a few more times, catch the flow and it turns into a great listen. Evelyn, A Modified Dog and Harder Than Your Husband will give you two more sides of Frank.
You must see the live video of this...it's on RUclips. A gorilla attacks Chester Thompson in the end. So Cool!
Nice dude one if my favorites from him! Check out 'daddy dont live in that new york city no more' by steely dan PLEASE!
Edit: a florentine pogen is a now discontinued cookie that used to be sold in southern california
Edit 2: napoleon murphy brock is lead vocals here with george duke background, mostly lol
I had always wondered what a Florentine pogen was, it sounded like Italian royalty. Then I was working in a grocery store and we received a shipment of Florentine pogen cookies and my question was answered. I always loved Frank's sense of humor.
@@robertoser297 i had to look it up lol
They were originally a Swedish brand, but also manufactured and sold in America for a while.
@@donaldb1 knowledge is power!
Some useless info - behind the seemingly random references to cookies and electric organs, is a song about "married musicians' mistresses". We'll probably never know who was the real "Chester's Gorilla" (though Frank once tried to pin that label on Ruth, at the Edinburgh '77 gig), and the references to liaisons with Marty Perellis (or, in the first few performances, "the porter") seem out-of-place, but most of the song is caricaturing Frank's Australian-born on-off partner Jennifer Brown. (That's all-but officially confirmed by a couple of comments in the sleevenotes of FZ:OZ - see also the mentions of her in the Butcher/Lennon books). Draw your own conclusions, then, about all those body-parts metaphors as the song progresses.
Vocals here are Napoleon Murphy Brock.
Frank has a few different styles of music. There's his classical stuff, his guitar stuff, and then stuff like this and Dyna Moe Hum. They're all great.
FZ never considered himself to be a good singer. He always hired the best singers to sing what he could not. Coincidentally, I just checked out your George Duke reaction. You’ve actually heard him many times in several of the FZ songs you’ve listened to. Inca Roads being your first.
Yet I haven't seen anybody do a reaction to Billy the Mountain yet..........25 min masterpiece from Just Another Band From L.A..........do you have the guts?
napoleon murphy brock on the vocals
Anyone else's youtube just change?
think Edgar Allen Poe-gun
Die zappa trolle, haben höchstwahrscheinlich eine gehirnwäsche gekriegt, hahahaha
he never said "Freedom & Weed"
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Love Zappa but most seem to hover around his comedy stuff or his mid 70s stuff. Come on, where's the love for Brown Shoes Don't Make It? Who Needs the Peace Corp? Uncle Meat? Holiday in Berlin? Those early Mothers albums are what cemented and created Zappa legacy.
Absolutely not improvised, pretty much every single note was carefully composed and precisely played as written.
The best sense I can make of the lyrics is that they make no sense.