As is often the case, there are also many references to previous Zappa material which a first-time listener might not catch.

Do you advocate for specific changes that might make a concert hall experience more inviting for first-time listeners?

Even first-time listeners can rap along.

Even a lavish program book was not enough to guide a first-time listener through this murky labyrinth.

Thought has been given to making the songs grateful to the voice and easily conveyed to the first-time listener.

A first-time listener quickly realizes that Mr. Dirksen is right: change-ringing is weird music.

In any event, it presents no surface difficulties to the first-time listener.

So how do you construct a program that makes sense for both the first-time listener and the sophisticated listener?

And if all the gold- and platinum-selling sets are any indication, record companies have figured out how to please both first-time listeners and dedicated collectors.

Goosebumps are de rigueur for first-time listeners.