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Originally Posted by eraser.time206
The British Invasion had artists getting getting recognition they didn't deserve. Frank Zappa should have been as famous as the Beatles.
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Frank Zappa is only famous because he sang songs about eating Husky pee tainted snow. Buy a best of from Best Buy, and realize it's a compilation of some of his worst work. I mean songs like "Fine Girl" which are definitive sarcastic B-sides that you could only imagine your 85 year old sexist uncle listening to.
Zappa's whole appeal was his abrasiveness. He hated love songs, he hated politeness, he hated easy lyrics, he was 100% sarcastic prick, arrogant, overachieving. Daringly self centered in his approach to music. THAT is why he's a genius. He wrote his thing, his way, and still somehow made a fantastic living off of it. If he had to cater to be as famous as the Beatles, he'd never achieve like he did as a technical songwriter.
If he has too stand, and smile, and spew out mindless hippy love garbage he wouldn't be Zappa. However, that doesn't mean he got the shaft, he IS a household name.