the official zappa vs. beefheart thread
 

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You're kidding, right?

Beefheart by a billion miles.

zappa is so much better than beefheart it's ridiculous, of course beefheart will get 90% of this poll

Why is Zappa so much better? Just wondering why you think this, cause I've always found him kind of annoying.

you are correct, sir.

OK wait, I dnt even know if Zappa's better to be honest. Because I listen to a lot of Zappa, and I've only heard one Beefheart album (SAFE AS MILK y'all). So who knows. But I "prefer" Zappa at this point, because I listen to him.

ok...so he's kind of annoying, but he's written several hundred awesome songs,that counts for alot in my book

Several HUNDRED? I doubt that. Either way, he's written several hundred awful songs as well. He also has released more shitty albums than almost any artist I can think of -- 3 discs of nothing but guitar solos may just be so random, off-the-wall example, but I think it's a good indication of his quality control. Don't get me wrong, Zappa was brilliant -- but he's nowhere in the same league as Beefheart. Really, it's difficult to even compare the two.. I just think Zappa had more of a brilliance encompassing everything... album art, his movies, stage performances, etc. But when it comes down to JUST music, Beefheart is easily superior. Literally nothing sounded ANYTHING like Beefheart when he came out -- you could say the same for Zappa but I don't think he turned rock upside down like Beefheart. Beefheart is probably the most important musical composer (note that he calls his songs "compositions" and not songs) since Harry Partch.

Seriously, name a Zappa song half as brilliant as "Sheriff of Hong Kong", "1010th of the Human Totem Pole", "Suction Prints", "Steal Softly Thru Snow", "Ella Guru", "Electricity", etc etc etc etc etc... Beefheart is probably the only modern musician who is deservedly called a genius.

Either way, please don't make uninformed votes, everyone. If all you've heard is "Safe As Milk" or whatever, you don't even know what Beefheart is about.

yeah but the question is who do you "prefer", not who's better.

Sure, but wellcharge is the one throwing "Better" in the mix. But, yeah, sure, I prefer the better one; either way...

hahahaha

retarded poll

uh.

Stalker.

Nope, but for some reason I can remember pretty well what people say on message board. Some folk on a french site used to think I took notes of what people said

yikes.

I remember also.

On our way from Stockholm
Started to snow
And you said it was like Christmas
But you were wrong
It wasn't like Christmas at all

By the time we got to Oslo
Snow was gone
And we got lost
The beds were small
But we felt so young
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas

It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas
It was just like Christmas