Category Archives: Pop Cult

Pan flutes! Orchestra hits! James Brown Grunts!

“Famous sounds“: sounds that have been created or used by somebody, liked and then copied by many others, and thus earned a “classic” status. I’d like to open this section of Synth Mania utilizing as a starting point portions of … Continue reading

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Everybody I Shot Is Dead

That was the subject of an email I received just now. Thinking I was about to engage in a conversation with a serial killer, I started reading: I am writing to you because you are affiliated with and/or a fan … Continue reading

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Social Experiment

I wonder what would happen if Zappa fans all over the world went out and did something like this.

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Nude Britney Spears Giving Birth

After a female statue posted earlier, here’s another one – of Britney Spears.

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Smurfian Communism

The Theory of Smurfian Communism. I’m speechless. (Found while googling The Outcast Smurf)

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Ban It, Burn It, Play It

Ha, brilliant: 10 banned albums, burned and then played.

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F*ck

Fuck, the Movie that dare not speak its name.

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Tuh Morruh!

If you’re about my age you’ll remember an early 80s musical called Annie. It featured a song which stuck in your head like a piece of chewing gum wrapped in double sided duct tape — aaah, Tomorrow! Anyway, to brighten … Continue reading

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Chef!

Isaac Hayes to quit South Park: “There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins,” the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist … Continue reading

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Meet The Press

TV interviews gone awry (including of course Zappa on Crossfire). I’d read about Tom Cruise’s looney bin performance on Oprah but hadn’t seen the actual footage until now — what can I say, the guy frightens me.

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Gag Me With A List Of Catch Phrases

Here’s a massive list of catch phrases to waste some time on, including “Gag me with a spoon!”, “Yowza, Yowza, Yowza!” and “Hi-ho Silver!” yet sadly missing “Great Googly Moogly!”. (And yes, I probably need to get out more.)

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Drinking The Kool-Aid

Time for our bi-monthly linguistic minute. “Drinking the Kool-Aid” — now there’s an expression I didn’t know the origins of! Wikipedia to the rescue: The idiomatic expression drinking the Kool-Aid is a reference to the 1978 cult mass-suicide in Jonestown, … Continue reading

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Idolspize

Do you idolspize?

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Camp

The most outrageous (and queerest) record label of the 60s: Camp Records. An amusing characteristic of the records they issued was the “label numbers” they gave them. Almost all of them are tongue-in-cheek gay references, if the letters and numbers … Continue reading

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Odds ‘n Ends

With the weekend finally in sight (hallelujah!), may I suggest you spend some time perusing Chas Radio — a deluge of wacky, hard-to-find audio stuff up for download is awaiting you there. The guy had a post about FZ some … Continue reading

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