Frank Zappa- Sofa No. 2 (REACTION & REVIEW)
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Song Link: • Sofa No. 2
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The song is about God singing to his sofa. Zappa said in a concert that God speaks German when it's heavy business!
Roxy & Elsewhere is the holy grail as far as 70s period Zappa goes. Half live, half studio, it offers the best of both worlds with music performed by arguably Frank's best ever band.
Pretty sure it's all live? Otherwise, I quite agree: it's glorious.
@@airwindows Lot of overdubs on the album. This may be what is being referenced. There's footage available of some of the studio work which is later applied on top of the live recordings.
@@CliffordLake Indeed. And you can now also listen to the unedited performances on those sexy box sets that have been released. It's all great stuff.
@@SpaceCattttt May get to those one day. Have a copy of the Roxy movie on Blu-ray which is glorious.
Not just Roxy but You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol. 2 (Helsinki concert) and the holy cow grail, Läther.
Superb album. It was my first by him. I was 16 when I bought it on a weekend trip to London, and it changed my musical outlook. I bought it along with Close To the Edge and The six wives of Henry VIII by Rick Wakeman. The latter is often overlooked, but it is an excellent instrumental album.
Wakeman's excellent Criminal Record is often overlooked but Six Wives reached the Top 10 and Top 40 in the UK and US respectively, going Gold. Time named it one of The Year's Best. Overlooked by those who don't know, sure.
...as to where to go next in Zappa's catalogue, I'd recommend "The Grand Wazoo" or "Sheik Yerbouti" , off the top of my head.
Last track on one of my favourite 5 albums ever. Thank you for doing this one.
My introduction to Zappa was "You are what you is" and I undoubtedly recommend.
Frank Zappa could write a song all about the mating habits of the house fly, and make it a hit.
Hey, that's not a bad idea!
I always liked Zappa's Studio Tan album - side one has a cute little radio play called "Greggery Peccary".
Another vote for Greggery Peccary here, and anything else on that album, possibly my favorite music by Zappa...
I’ve enjoyed this album and I’m not a Zappa fan. Inca Roads and Andy made it to personal playlists and my kids like them, too! Thanks, Justin!
Jaybird, I won't be the first to say this , but being such an acquired taste , I a Zappa nut , recommend This album one size fir all , and, Overnite Sensation ,good albums to get how good FRANK actually is , has some awesome ax and humour ,Cheers bro , great that your kids are listening to Frank only 125 more to get .
Sofa was a track that was done live part of a set called Divan, which was partly a skit done when Flo and Eddie was part of the group. 1 of the 2( can't remember which one) portrayed a German guy in the skit, and the original lyrics were done by another member of the band at that time ( which was repeated in chorus with the other members).
Full version can be found on the Carnegie Hall set.
And if you fancy a break from Zappa, then the obvious choice would be 'Chaise Longue', by Wet Leg 🙂
Sofa #2 is the track you just played also .make an appearance on THEM OR US , The Track Ya Hozna , Has the lyrics of Sofa## in reverse , with A bit if Valley Girl sith Moon , he is sneaky , ZAAPPPAAA RARARA
The narrative of this song is about god and his sofa, you can learn more if you look at the version of sofa on "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Volume I" and the track before that
His German sounds quite good too. You might also want to check out Peter Gabriel's German albums. Spiele Ohne Grenzen(Games Without Frontiers) is one of my favorite German Peter Gabriel songs. Also, David Bowie's Heroes in French is also a classic.
Sofa #2 gives the gift of chills from beginning to end
Afternoon, Justin. Dave from London. A Zappa song in German? Das Ist Nicht Zu Fassen! To be honest, I preferred the musical content of this song to the singing and, Philistine that I am, that is my view of Zappa generally. That's why my favourite album of his is Hot Rats, as much of it is instrumental, like the brilliant Peaches En Regalia.
P.S. my song ref Das Ist Nicht Zu Fassen (means something like Can you believe it?) is a line from a German song by none other than Sparks. It's called Wunderbar and it's from their album Lil' Beethoven.
I would suggest "Over night sensation" an album closely related to "Apostrophe" with Tina Turner and the Ikettes as special guests.
Since the different versions of "Sofa" in the 70s, and, with the translation problems between Swedish/German/English of Sofa vs. Bench, I have been collecting pictures of Park benches, sofas etc. since then! Quite a lot of photos today!
“die-net’” Back in the day, many families had a table and two chairs in the kitchen (we did). For a quick meal or maybe breakfast of a donut and instant coffee. These furniture sets were stainless with a Formica table top. “Chrome dinettes” they were called.
The Dinett (sounds Deanett) was a little rolling service table (service tray), coffee or tea table, a rolling tablet, by the german brand Bremshey, sounds like "bremshigh". They also manufactured the well known "Knirps" (Knirps = a little young boy or girl), a collapsible umbrella. 🇩🇪😁
@@forrest_lump Knirps for moisture!
You can see the dinette above the sofa next to the spinning planet
I am here, and you are my sofa. One of his best lines ever.
The later track "Ya Hozna" uses a lot of this song backwards.
Zappa's best album! Andy is my favourite Zappa song of all time. And one of the few semi-serious songs he wrote, I think. The drumming and percussin in Andy are simply astounding. Chester Thompson and Ruth Underwood give a master class.
Next Zappa (actually Zappa/Beefheart) album you should consider reacting to is Bongo Fury. Beautiful, beautiful live record!
JGW voices too ☺ ♥
Frank , Zappa was always choping and changing , the muffin man for instance, has a preamble , part from Joe's Garage ,Little green Rosetta, changes it then goes into a studio recorded Muffin Man, and finishes it with the Good nite Austin Texas where ever you are sounds live brilliant, like sofa #2 , is Ya Hozna on THEM OR US album , only the offering is backwards , with a bit of Valley girl etc , it's different , like you must listen to Been to Kansas City in A minor , it's amazing , goes for 10 mins , it's got awesome Sax trumpet, Guitar ,drums , you would not this amazing instrumental was Zappa , and so much more , Black Napkins ,
Well done for completing One Size Fits All. I would recommend my favourite album which contains Zappa's best ensemble of musicians playing complicated but wonderful music - Roxy and Elsewhere.
Frank explains the piece, then known as Divan, on the Carnegie Hall release.
Hey JP. SOFA was also played on the album 'Zappa in New York' - totally instrumental with lots of wind- and brass instruments and a exquisite arrangement. Probably the best version of the three.
Worth a listen, my friend!
Greetings from Holland. Still hanging on with your channel. The best.
German is the language used whenever it's heavy business.
He wrote this song as a suite with the song “stick it out” on joes garage. You gotta check it out
I also heard Franks say that he liked the sound of the German language coming out of his throat as it was pleasing to his vocal cords.
Sofa, so good, just lounging around. But how do I couch my reply Mr. Chesterfield? English, German. Swahili, I could listen to Zappa, all day on a settee! French, Mandarin, Catalan, I could listen all night from a divan! Enough opining, as I sit reclining, let's hope the coming Winter is not a replay of "The Shining"! I wish you Peace, in your coming tempest, while I quit my whining.
For your next Zappa treat, I suggest the jazzy big band wonders of 'The Grand Wazoo'. OK, there's at least one that is skippable (Calvin and his next two Hitchhikers)... but most of the rest is solid gold.
Ok it’s pretty easy, ‘I am the chrome dinette and you are my sofa’ that is about love…
SOFA = OSFA (One Size Fits All)
Would love to hear you react to Cleetus Awreetus Awrightus from the album The Grand Wazoo. It is instrumental and the arrangement/composition of it is sheer genius and audio bliss to these ears.
He should do the whole album.
It’s the Peaches that never caught on.
Or Blessed Relief :) that little melody…
@@airwindows Blessed Relief is an absolute essential track. I’m surprised he hasn’t hit it yet.
@@marlon-jl4ge the music community at large disagrees.
Sofa was originally done during the 1970/71 band. It is part of a skit that basically suggests that God is a maroon sofa floating/hovering in space. Which is what you see on the cover of One Size Fits All. My favorite version of the song is the instrumental played on the live album Zappa In New York. Mike Brecker on sax makes this version stand out. You should definitely check that one out.
I think it might be a little dig at ... and as I was about to type the word, you said it: Magma. (Kobaian being a "Germanic" language).
I think the sofa might be some kind of reference to *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* too. (It's up in Space, somewhere near Saturn, as per the cover of the record, and the Guide has a passage where at some point a whale transforms into a sofa and vase of flowers somewhere on the way down, during a plummet toward some planet. The details are a bit more intricate, so I'll have to leave it at that.)
Nice and cryptic.
Sand in the cracks. Sounds like a reference to a visit to the beach? Maybe it's many things all at once.
That would be nice.
Let me see if RUclips has some Hitchhikers Guide movie clips. ... moment mal, bitte ...
(Not a good idea to say that the other way round, i.e. bitte, moment mal ... might be taken as impolite.)
And yes there is, but so far it doesn't look like the whale is implicated. ruclips.net/video/bVLk9-YpRi0/видео.html
(There is a sofa. I still need to find out whether there's any sofa-whale connection.)
I think the composer of *So Long and Thanks for all the Fish* might have been a Frank Zappa fan.
ruclips.net/video/N_dUmDBfp6k/видео.html
(I would recommend reading the books - or at least the first of the five books in the trilogy - before watching the movie, if you haven't done this already.)
(You haven't lived until you've been to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, at a minimum. Ask someone whose opinion is not completely ridiculous and they'll tell you the exact same thing - perhaps even with the exact same words.)
Interesting thought, but One Size Fits All came out in 1975 and the Hitchhiker's Guide radio series premiered in 1978. If there is any connection, it's Adams referencing Zappa, and not the other way round.
@@DiscountDeity Good point. There's a fair chance that Adams could've referenced Zappa, then, I reckon. Frank Zappa would be exactly Douglas Adams kind of musician, I would guess.
I believe Frank said that the lyrics were written in English, translated into German, and then the music composed to the German lyrics (which were then partially sung in English).
Why? Well...why not?
Next album would be Joe's Garage. Good idea to do either the album before or after One Size Fits All.
He did another song in German on "Joe's Garage":
"Stick it out" - ruclips.net/video/XPzvr9S34pc/видео.html
Here he provides the English translation in the second half.
... and his German has improved significantly. 😉
Devil speak in german, the language of the philosophy.
The charachter singing this song...is God.
I love this track. Greetings from Frankfurt Germany. :)
Thanks Perro! Sending you some sunshine from FL! ☀️
Thanks! I hope this turns someone into a Zappa fan.
One of the cool things about this is, we KNOW that Zappa would have enjoyed JustJP thinking and talking about his work like this. Because there's a writer, Ben Watson, who undertook to write an entire book doing just this sort of analysis and more, and in Zappa's last days he let Ben interview him and be his guest, and was delighted to know someone was studying his themes so attentively.
Zappa probably wouldn't be as big a fan of youtube react videos playing the music, but to him it would matter a great deal that JP is thinking about the work and criticising, deconstructing it. It's sometimes a bit hilarious as with the Ramones analysis (Joey probably would've liked the thoughtful approach, Johnny and Dee Dee and Tommy would've made fun of it) but with Zappa it is definitely what the man wants you to do with his art :)
Haha oh man I can imagine! Ty for that air
" I am here, and you are my sofa!" The German lyrics mostly make sense in a grammatical way, but other than that are really weird 🙂
All of their songs are good, so listen to Godspeed you black emperor
A fun and brilliant end to a brilliant album. Other than Live At Fillmore East and 200 Motels, I previously had little exposure to Zappa. I heard lot about him but never really listened to him.
Sounds very nice😊 indeed music to take a seat in
Congratulations on hitting 25k!
Ty ty! 🐙
By the way, I hope you finish the Thomas Dolby reaction to The Flat Earth soon! I adore that record!
Working on it :)
@@JustJP WOOHOO!!!
Love me some ZAPPA! ❗
Beautiful !!
Lyrics are mostly cannon fodder for the music....a throwaway
All these music journalist dont get it..German langue hava surten melodik attack...he used in it many tracks.
listen to it a couple of times and you understand what it brings to table...of course its layerd.
Zappa is the king of IT
Haven't watched yet, just wanted to say best wishes on hurricane Ian. For everybody, looks like Tampa is more it's target. But stay safe.
Ty so much Kroc. Listening to the wind and rain beating on the windows atm :)
I’m German but I can barely understand the pronunciation, possibly because they all sing in a somewhat operatic fashion. I read somewhere that Frank’s idea was that god got bored with people and decided to produce a pornographic movie. Consider the big cigar on the cover. There is a version in which god ordered his celestial corps of engineers to construct the sofa. More fun
Just hearing you speak German is hilarious.
Danke!
Think one song was good, the rest irritated me as wasted musicianshit. I like his albums to be mostly, 80- 90% instrumental.
A friend had this album, played this album, I tuned it out cuz I didn’t remember hardly any of it and now I will forget it again.
My albums:
Studio Tan
Sleep Dirt
Zoot Allures
Waka Jawaka
Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar
I prefer his instrumentals too, David. Hot Rats for me.
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Of course I’ve heard and love Peaches but haven’t heard all of HR… will soon! Thx Dave.
4:20 Once Upon a Time gives some context: ruclips.net/video/QxN48IY_pIE/видео.html
I Am. It is god. I am the everything. I am god, and you are my sofa.. Zappa felt that if god was real, he was probably German--you know, like WW2 German. Decent with the mathematics, but not so decent in the humanity part of it.
p.s. just because the main character that is singing is God... do not infer that this is a religious or spiritual song... at this moment in Frank's story... He (God) is filming a porno movie with a girl and a magical pig on that sofa floating in "GOD'S" space.So... nope... not religious...so to speak.
Pretty typical Zappa buffoonery.