Frank Zappa was the first to call CNN fake news 30 years ago.

[the other mike]

If he thought they were bad in 1989, he's surely rolling in his grave at how bad they are now.
@ 5:25


Rest in peace
Frank Zappa - Wikipedia

 

[MarathonMike]

Frank Zappa was a BOSS.

 

[Marion Morrison]

I never like that guy. He was good, a musical genius, I never liked that guy.
This is about the best I've ever seen/heard from the guy ever!

Motherfucker! He's looking good in today's degenerate society, dammit!

No man, his songs are gross.

 

[BlindBoo]

Hey, he was calling out the fake new before there was cable news.

 

[S.J.]

Frank may have been a guitar genius but he was a political idiot.

 

[the other mike]

a musical genius

He was a devoted songwriter with a good imagination and great stage presence and leadership, but a little overrated as a guitarist - he was repetitive and improvised too much. I loved his political outspokenness and cocky attitude toward the establishment --sometimes it seemed like he was just being a nonconformist , but he managed to knock some sense into people or at least get their brains moving.

 

[Marion Morrison]

The relevant stuff starts @ 5:30. He is right..about most things.

Ronald Reagan mansion, no. Other than that, yes.

 

[S.J.]

He was a prick, all he did was make fun of people and he couldn't sing worth a shit.

 

[Marion Morrison]

He was a prick, all he did was make fun of people and he couldn't sing worth a shit.

His singing is not what makes him a musical genius. Songwriting, yes.

 

[the other mike]

He was a prick, all he did was make fun of people and he couldn't sing worth a shit.

His singing is not what makes him a musical genius. Songwriting, yes.

The list goes on forever.
List of all Songs of Frank Zappa

 

[Marion Morrison]

Just thinking about 1 of his songs I listened to makes me gag. Gross!

 

[Marion Morrison]

Geez, smh.

 

[Pogo]

If he thought they were bad in 1989, he's surely rolling in his grave at how bad they are now.
@ 5:25


Rest in peace
Frank Zappa - Wikipedia

Actually he calls it "right wing hogwash".

This would be a critique of commercial news, of which CNN was the only national outlet at the time (Fox Noise would gurgle up seven years later). It still applies. Isn't about "fake" news, it's about "fluffed" news.

 

[Pogo]

He was a prick, all he did was make fun of people and he couldn't sing worth a shit.

Frank did not tolerate pretentiousness. That's what he satirized.
The singing voice? Who cares. This is Zappa, not Sinatra. Speaking of pretentiousness.

 

[S.J.]

His singing is not what makes him a musical genius.

That's for sure.

 

[Pogo]

Frank Zappa was a BOSS.

That he was. Just look at how long his fingers are.

FZ was always above all HONEST. Always true to his art.

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[S.J.]

He was a prick, all he did was make fun of people and he couldn't sing worth a shit.

Frank did not tolerate pretentiousness. That's what he satirized.
The singing voice? Who cares. This is Zappa, not Sinatra. Speaking of pretentiousness.

He talked down to everybody like he was the only person who knew anything. Pretentiousness? He named his kids ridiculous names, then got pissed off whenever somebody made fun of the names. He liked to make fun of other people but couldn't handle it when other people made fun of him.

 

[Pogo]

He was a prick, all he did was make fun of people and he couldn't sing worth a shit.

Frank did not tolerate pretentiousness. That's what he satirized.
The singing voice? Who cares. This is Zappa, not Sinatra. Speaking of pretentiousness.

He talked down to everybody like he was the only person who knew anything. Pretentiousness? He named his kids ridiculous names, then got pissed off whenever somebody made fun of the names. He liked to laugh at other people but couldn't handle it when other people laughed at him.

Nope, never saw it.

 

[anynameyouwish]

If he thought they were bad in 1989, he's surely rolling in his grave at how bad they are now.
@ 5:25


Rest in peace
Frank Zappa - Wikipedia

and rational people know that FOX news and CONSERVATIVE media are even worse!

 

[iceberg]

Frank may have been a guitar genius but he was a political idiot.

most "entertainment" people to me are politically stupid, emotionally loud.