Zappa has blown it again. He's probably shattered all his respectability with his new album Frank Zappa vs. the Mothers of Prevention – mainly because of a track on it called "Porn Wars," a musique concrète number that features as guest artists no less than Senators John Danforth (R-MO), Albert Gore, Jr. (D-TN), Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-SC), Paula Hawkins (R-FL), James Exon (D-NE), Paul Trible (R-VA), Slade Gorton (R-WA), and Jeff Ling, a minister and consultant to the Parents' Music Resource Center. (read more)

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SPIN: Is education really out of touch now in this country? Are we twenty years away, a whole generation away, from repairing education in this country?

Zappa: No, we’re further than that. Because in a way, I would agree with George Bush in that education in America needs to be reinvented, but certainly not in the way he would imagine it. Because the biggest problem we’re facing right now is that education needs to imparted to a postliterate generation. People who have no feeling whatsoever for a book or any data on a printed page, which should be worrisome to anyone who publishes a magazine. (read more)

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SPIN: You have the best taste in music of anyone I know. Next to me. How has your taste in music changed over the years?
Groening: I grew up listening to Top 40 radio in Portland, Oregon, and one night I got bored with that. I had a little transistor radio and I accidentally tuned into a station and caught a two-piano version of Igor Stravinsky’s Rites of Spring. I couldn’t believe that was rhythmically possible on piano. About the same time, I went to a Fred Meyers grocery store and found a weird album in one of the bins – Freak Out! by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. I took it home and listened to this dark, creepy music with songs like “Who Are the Brain Police?” and then memorized the whole album.
SPIN: Zappa was our Elvis. How has his aesthetic influenced yours?
Groening: Zappa is really antiglamour. He hasn’t taken a stance against it, but he has no use for it. I’m the same way. I don’t care about being slick or sexy or presenting that look in my work. A lot of people in music videos, films, and novels express themselves with a kind of sullen sexiness. I’m much more interested in making people laugh. I have that in common with Zappa. Humor and –
SPIN: Satire.
Groening: But there’s not much satire or irony in either of us. We're pretty straightforward. The culture is so skewed to the right these days that you have to hit things on the head with a sledge-hammer just to get people’s attention.

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SPIN: And what makes life worth living?
Groening: Sex, love, Vietnamese spring rolls, Apu trilogy by Satyajit Ray, the next Zappa CD, Les Noces by Stravinsky, Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies. 

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Frank Zappa remembered and kissed goodbye.

Most of this 25th anniversary issue is a long list of "100 Moments That Rocked The World". Under #9 is placed Zappa's PMRC story.