Album of the Day

Roxy and Elsewhere, by Frank Zappa (1974): When I found out about George Carlin's death this morning, I thought it appropriate that I was just about to embark on the final stretch of the A to Z, the Zappa stretch. If there were ever two 20th Century iconoclasts who made their livings poking a stick in the eye of the establishment, it was George and Frank. But more than that, they were both incredibly talented artists who transcended their own niches and influenced a lot of lives. And, sadly, both left us well before their time. Plus, George would have loved Frank's intro to "Penguin in Bondage," in which he had to "circumlocute" the actual subject of the song to "get this text on television."