Nothing personal, but Zappa was loaded with humour. Surrealist, ridiculous punning of American consumerism, Montana & Teenage Wind are towering blends of pisstaking, whimsy & all out groove, relentlessly satirical all while continually cranking out gem after gem. Cunt could actually play too. His scales, time signatures & lyrical musings add another layer of jouissance to the mix. Yeah, I said jouissance. Surrounded by folks like George Duke & JL Ponty elevated the music even higher imho. Late 60’s to late 70’s cunt was on fire. He could be a hooligan in interviews by continually focusing a light on the hypocrisy at the heart of American life. No small thing & very few of his peers from that period could paradoxically attack both the establishment & the low-hanging countercultural fruit as succinctly as Dr Zappa.
Horses for courses. Yes art is subjective, but there are far more worthy targets to skewer. If you feel these are the musings of an inadequate, signalling an alliance with something bigger than my own relationship with art, so be it, but I hear a master who learned their chops inside out deeply enough to completely fuck around from lp to lp. Beware false idols & lambast false prophets by all means, but there are far far worse culprits outside (and beneath) such narrowly constructed margins.