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Variety is the hardest to carry off. I fucking hate that Zorn/ Zappa/ Patton wanking off over 'how many genres can we do in one album?' Really makes me very angry. Ground Zero's 'plays standards' is one of my favourite albums because there's not much chaff there, and it's a fairly broad selection. The proper pop trick of 'let's do a Spanish number!' annoys me for similar reasons.
A bit of fiddling about/ trying new things is fine, and necessary, but not too much, or you become jack of all trades. Jandek does so very little different, when he does a slight change of tempo it seems revelational. That's the way to do it (but then Jandek is a pretty special case).
*Edit - of course, I'm talking in musical terms, lyrical themes are a different matter.
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