Have I offended someone?

Have I offended someone?

This is a great cd! Most of the tracks have either been remixed, remastered, edited or totally reconstructed by FZ himself. Dumb All Over is a live never before released gem with a great FZ guitar solo! The sound is fabulous. Zappa perfected a genre that could be called song-stos or short stories in song, using the rhapsodic techniques he had developed. The interest of the listener is kept through myriad changes in the drum meters, riffs, fills, background vocals, special effects, unusual chord sequences, swift tranformations in mood and tone, and the like. It's a powerful genre, and Zappa's researches point out a new direction for American operatic form. There is something in this collection to offend everyone - ..., Jewishes princesses, feminists, Christains, satanists, record executives, the Musicians union, young women from the San Fernando Valley, partisans of the Parisian toilet kiosk, insecure young men who like to dance in clubs, Jimi Hendrix fans, and punkers with chops, to mention a few. Satirical anthropology, pure and simple.  Frank Zappa was the Howard Stern of music before there was a Howard Stern. Many years later, after giving this material another listen, it's either that I'm mostly desensitized to these adolescent provocations of societies B.S. or I just grew up. At least Zappa's tauntings always done with humor and without self importance. Now Playboys seem tame and harmless comparatively, as does Frank Zappa. So if you want to occasionally regress to a time in your life when all you could do is hang out with friends and joke and brag about sex because none of you were getting any. This album has it's place.