Medium Cool

Tonight, at 23:50 GMT, BBC2 is broadcasting Medium Cool (’69), a movie which may ring a bell with FZ-fans as it features quite a few Zappa songs (Oh No, Are You Hung Up, Who Needs The Peace Corps, to name but a few). Patrick Neve had this to say about it: “Admittedly, the plot thins as the action kicks in, but this is the best blurring of genres I’ve ever seen. Add to all of this a soundtrack with heavy doses of Mothers music. I seem to remember a scene with some people getting the shit kicked out of them in the street and you hear Zappa’s ‘I will love the police and they kick the shit out of me in the street…'”