Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:I love this song. It's weird, it's off-the-cuff, it's got a cool groove by Jack and Jeff. Perfect album closer for Vitalogy.

It's a great introductory experiment for Jack-era PJ...

and, yeah... this soundscape is right where it belongs. It's not hurting anyone, it's creative, it's interesting, it's curious, and it's fun to hear at the end of the masterpiece that IS Vitalogy!

The great thing is, for all you naysayers, you can just hit the 'stop' button and not miss a thing. Everyone wins

Kevin Davis wrote:I would be curious to see a list of long wanky tracks like this on albums preceding Vitalogy:

The Beatles - "Revolution 9"
Grateful Dead - "What's Become of the Baby"

Honestly "Stupid Mop" doesn't feel too terribly far removed from tracks like "Endless Nameless" and "Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol..." -- sonically different perhaps, but functionally similar (i.e. "long, weird, noisy album enders with indistinct song structures").

NY's "Arc" was probably inspiration for "Stupid Mop" at some point as well, I'd imagine:

What others are out there?

Side Four of Frank Zappa & The Mothers' "Freak Out" which was released unfinished because the record company wouldn't give them any more money.

Same group: "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" from the album of the same name which was a response to an uninterested audience. Both of these examples can be forgiven when taken in context.

One side of a Love album is a long boring jam.

The Rolling Stones' "Goin' Home", which goes absolutely nowhere, and closes the US version of "Aftermath".

I guess this kind of thing was commonplace in the 60's when bands needed to fill space.

Though it could be argued that "Revolution 9" actually serves an artistic purpose compared to most of this other stuff.

To add to the list:

Neil Young - Trans and Arc

joostone wrote:Found on reddit:

Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me (A.K.A. Stupidmop) original video found

A bunch of people said that the voices in Foxy were from Frontline and an episode called A Matter of the Mind, but no one appeared to have actually digitized the episode. I have found the episode and I can confirm that is true and I have uploaded it unlisted on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R18bky9RRXs

At approximately 29:10 is when the Foxy lyrics start for example. Also at 38:25 she says "hey foxymophandlemama, that's me".
If the episode has already been discovered and digitized then I'm sorry, as far as I knew people have still been searching for the episode online.

Wow!