What about the Legends?

[winoman]

For Dusken:

The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams.
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams.
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
As silence drowns the screams.

Between the iron gates of fate,
The seeds of time were sown,
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known;
Knowledge is a deadly friend
When no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools.

Confusion will be my epitaph.
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back
and laugh.
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying,
Yes I fear tomorrow I'll be crying.


and of course:

Cat's foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Blood rack barbed wire
Politicians' funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Death seed blind man's greed
Poets' starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.

(Fripp-McDonald-Lake-Giles-Sinfield) - both of the aove

[dusken]

That is a great album.

[winoman]

That is a great album.

True - It is...however I've alwasy been partial to Red and Starless and Bible Black

So what Zappa are you into (most)? - if you do differentiate...eras/bands/albums/styles etc - for me - Burnt Weeny Sandwhich is the classic...also heavily into Waka Jawaka & Grand Wazoo....and absolutly love one size fits all....love it all though...all...in fact I have over 40hrs of Frank on video alone!

[dusken]

I appreciate most of Zappa's releases equally save for only a select few like "Jazz From Hell" which, though it has some interesting ideas, gets boring and is not as good as his earlier stuff.

The Red era is too different from the Court era for me to say I like one over the other. They were both revolutions. As a matter of fact, everytime King Crimson broke up and reformed, they made a revolutionary musical statement.

[varo]

That's because good music doesn't "sound" like the music of that particular era. It has a sound that transcends time. I dare say Rush and Floyd could fit into todays music world just fine, because it doesn't "sound like 70's music", it has a unique style and sound to it, so it can fit into any era.

Completly true!
Just listen to Jimi Hendix's "Are u experienced". It blows me away every time i put it on. Every time i can hear new things.
An other thing is that record companies copy the style and the sound of bands that have had succes and re-produce the musicsound. Listen to todays rock music and what do you hear?