Music of Zappa, Hendrix taken to its complicated heights

When you listen to a lot of complex, demanding music over a protracted period of time, it starts to change your expectations. We might be told, and often, that the best a song can hope for is to be catchy, sit at a nice brisk tempo, and appeal to a common denominator of listenership. But then there's the other stuff. The music that doesn't bow down to overtly court the listener, doesn't condescend to some anti-intellectual standard, but rather, demands that the listener rise to meet it at its ow...

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