*Jonestown*, by Frank Zappa.





Frank Zappa composed “Jonestown” to express his feelings on the massacre of that religious community we all know today. It is a powerful composition worth hearing for all those minds who think religion is a good thing in life. No, religion is dangerous, it means the obliteration of your mind, your choices, your ideas, your individuality. 

In the Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa, by Neil Slaven, we read:

Frank called ‘Jonestown’ “a boring, ugly dance evoking the essential nature of all religions.” It referred to the 1978 ‘Jonestown massacre’ perpetrated by a charismatic preacher … ‘Jonestown’ establishes a bleak aural landscape of tremulous sustained chords that imply paranoia. Percussion effects cut through the stereo but the principal elements are raw, gouging metallic sounds that increase during the middle section of the seven-minute piece, accompanied by siren-like ascending notes. The effect is other-worldly and threatening, maintaining an absence of hope that underscores the tragedy of the real event and Frank’s own opinion of the perniciousness of all forms of religion.”






Listen to Santayana, or listen to Zappa.















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