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Uncle Meat (Music)
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Uncle Meat is a 1969 double album released by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. It's generally considered to be one of his masterpieces and is most remembered for the fan favorites "Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme", "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague", "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus", "Mr. Green Genes", "Cruisin' for Burgers" and "King Kong".Zappa originally intended Uncle Meat to be the Cult Soundtrack for a film "for which we haven't got enough money to make yet", as announced on the album cover. He did include the script, The Story of Uncle Meat, in the album liner notes but was never able to financially secure a movie adaptation. Instead he released a home video in 1987 called Uncle Meat, which was only available through mail order from his own company. This film had nothing whatsoever to do with the script of Zappa's album and is basically him and some friends clowning around in front of the camera, intercut with far more interesting footage from the legendary 1968 concert at the Royal Albert Hall (where the track "Louie Louie (at the Royal Albert Hall in London)" was performed). The scenes with Don Preston turning into a monster while Phyllis Altenhaus gets aroused by him and eventually eat hamburgers under the shower were filmed in 1971. The footage where Zappa interplays with Massimo Bassoli was recorded in 1987.The dialogues from the 1987 Uncle Meat movie would later be added as Bonus Material on the CD re-release of the Uncle Meat album and are generally considered to be Album Filler (to the point where fans dubbed them "penalty tracks"). These bonus tracks would remain standard on all CD releases until the 2016 Meat Light entry in the Project/Object series of "audio documentaries," the first disc of which contained the original 1969 tracklist on CD for the first time. Most of the 1968 Royal Albert Hall concert performance would eventually be released on CD in 1993 as Ahead of Their Time.TracklistDisc OneSide One "Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme" (1:55) "The Voice of Cheese" (0:26) "Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" (6:00) "Zolar Czakl" (0:55) "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague" (3:59) "The Legend of the Golden Arches" (3:27) "Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)" (2:19) "The Dog Breath Variations" (1:48)Side Two "Sleeping in a Jar" (0:51) "Our Bizarre Relationship" (1:05) "The Uncle Meat Variations" (4:46) "Electric Aunt Jemima" (1:46) "Prelude to King Kong" (3:38) "God Bless America (Live at the Whisky a Go Go)" (1:11) "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" (1:29) "Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on Stage in Copenhagen)" (5:05)Disc TwoSide Three "Mr. Green Genes" (3:14) - Remix "We Can Shoot You" (2:03) "If We'd All Been Living in California..." (1:14) "The Air" (2:57) "Project X" (4:49) "Cruising for Burgers" (2:18) Side Four "Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part I" (37:34)* "Tengo na minchia tanta" (3:46)* "Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part II" (3:51)* "King Kong Itself (as Played by the Mothers in a Studio)" (0:51) "King Kong II (Its Magnificence as Interpreted by Don DeWild)" (1:19) "King Kong III (as Motorhead Explains It)" (1:45) "King Kong IV (The Gardner Varieties)" (6:18) "King Kong V (as Played by 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks)" (0:34) "King Kong VI (Live on a Flat Bed Diesel in the Middle of a Race Track at a Miami Pop Festival...The Underwood Ramifications)" (7:25)*Penalty track on CD releases (pre-Meat Light)Personnel Frank Zappa: vocals, guitar, percussion Ray Collins: vocals Roy Estrada: vocals, electric bass Don Preston: electric piano Jimmy Carl Black: drums Billy Mundi: drums Bunk Gardner: piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon Artie Tripp: drums, timpani, vibes, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small chimes Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood: baritone sax, tambourine Ian Underwood: electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax Ruth Komanoff, aka Ruth Underwood: marimba, vibes Nelcy Walker: soprano voice Pamela Zarubica: vocals (as Suzy Creamcheese) Cal Schenkel: album cover design | |
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Cover Identity Anomaly | |
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Cover Identity Anomaly: "Cruisin' for Burgers" about the joy of having a fake ID. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The movie script for Uncle Meat can be read in the liner notes. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Suzy Creamcheese returns during "The Voice of Cheese". | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: "Mr. Green Genes" advices the listener to eat the garbage truck driver and his gloves. | |
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Cult Soundtrack | |
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Cult Soundtrack: To a movie script that remained in Development Hell forever. | |
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Patriotic Fervor | |
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"God Bless America", a Patriotic Fervor song by Irving Berlin sung in the most ridiculous way possible. | |
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Alliterative Title | |
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Alliterative Title: "King Kong", "Mr. Green Genes" | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Pamela Zarubica as Suzy Creamcheese during "The Voice of Cheese" and the London Philharmonic Orchestra during "Louie Louie", recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Ruth Underwood has an early appearance playing marimba and vibes on "many of the tracks" and would later reappear on "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" (1969) too, but would only become a full member of Zappa's band from 200 Motels (1971) on. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: "Tengo na minchia tanta", Italian for "I've Got a Big Bunch of Dick". The lyrics continue with the line: "I'm using the chicken to measure it!". The song is sung by Italian rock journalist Massimo Bassoli, who wrote a 1982 book about Zappa called Zappa (e' piu' duro di tuo marito) note Which translates to "Harder Than Your Husband", a Zappa song . | |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting | |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: "God Bless America", a Patriotic Fervor song by Irving Berlin sung in the most ridiculous way possible. Zappa described the instrumental track "King Kong" once in 1967 before an audience in Stockholm, Sweden with the following introduction: | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: The script for the unfinished movie of which Uncle Meat was supposed to be the Cult Soundtrack is about an evil scientist called Uncle Meat, planning to rule the universe with an army of mutant monsters. | |
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Starving Artist | |
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Starving Artist: "If We'd All Been Living in California" | |
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Brainwashed | |
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Brainwashed and Mind Manipulation: Uncle Meat does this to his victims in The Story of Uncle Meat. | |
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Never Accepted in His Hometown | |
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Never Accepted In His Home Town: "The Voice of Cheese" | |
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Stock Sound Effects | |
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Stock Sound Effects: Laughter, grunting, car horn sounds,... appear at unexpected moments during the instrumentals. | |
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Credits Gag | |
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Credits Gag: Apart from naming the musicians' real musical contributions the album liner notes also add who are more comedic. Zappa is credited for "low grade" vocals, Jimmy Carl Black for "droll humor" and "poverty", Roy Estrada "cheeseburgers" and "Pachuco falsetto", Don Preston "tarot cards" and brown rice", Billy Mundi "drums on some pieces before he quit to join Rhinoceros, Bunk Gardner "bassoon (all of these electric and/or non-electric depending)", Ian Underwood "industrial relations" and "teen appeal", Artie Trupp "cheerful outlook" and "specific enquiries" and Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood with "obstinance & equipment setter-upper when he's not hustling local groupies". | |
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Green Aesop | |
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Green Aesop: As seen below under Real Life Writes the Plot, "Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" received its title because industrial pollution wasn't taken seriously at the time. | |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out | |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out: After the first epic rocking of "King Kong" comes to a close the piece starts again in a different variation. | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: In "Mr. Green Genes" the protagonist is eating greens, beans, celery, sauerkraut, a grape, a fig, a crumpet, but then goes on to more bizarre stuff like shoes (strings and all!), socks, the shoe box, a garbage truck, its driver and his gloves. | |
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The Pig-Pen | |
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The Pig-Pen: "Our Bizarre Relationship" tells an anecdote about someone who owned a cat with fleas and people with crabs, which they "proceeded to give to everybody in Laurel Canyon". | |
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Evil Laugh | |
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Evil Laugh: According to The Story of Uncle Meat, Uncle Meat laughs when his diabolical plan gets into motion. | |
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Evil Uncle | |
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Evil Uncle: Uncle Meat, who plans on ruling the world with an army of mutant monsters. | |
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Fake Band | |
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Fake Band: Ruben and the Jets in The Story of Uncle Meat. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: "Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" which takes six minutes and "King Kong" which runs for over eighteen minutes and takes up the entire final side of the original vinyl release. | |
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Instrumentals | |
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Instrumentals: "Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme", "Nine Types of Industrial Pollution", "Zolar Czakl", "The Legend of the Golden Arches", "The Dog Breath Variations", "Prelude to King Kong", "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus", "Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on Stage in Copenhagen)", "We Can Shoot You", "Project X" and "King Kong". | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: "Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" was thought of by Zappa after driving through New Jersey. As he recalled during an 1988 interview with Bob Marshall: Zappa explained the anecdote behind "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" in London in 1969: | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague" The second voice during "The Air" also mentions he is "wasted": | |
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Straight Man | |
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Straight Man: Ian Underwood introduces himself as such on "Ian Underwood Whips It Out". | |
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Made a Slave | |
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Made a Slave: Bimbo the Mexican Slave of Uncle Meat in The Story of Uncle Meat. | |
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Studio Chatter | |
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Studio Chatter: Several small pieces of dialogue are scattered throughout the album. | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
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Spoken Word in Music: "The Voice of Cheese" "Louie Louie (at the Royal Albert Hall in London)" Near the end of "The Legend of the Golden Arches" "Our Bizarre Relationship" The intro to "Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on Stage in Copenhagen)" "If We'd All Been Living in California..." "Prelude to King Kong" | |
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Three-Way Sex | |
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Threeway Sex: "Our Bizarre Relationship" | |
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LampShading | |
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Lampshading: The imbecilic lyrics of "Mr. Green Genes" are lampshaded near the end: | |
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Doo-wop | |
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One of the tracks was recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in London where Don Preston climbed the ancient pipe organ of the concert hall and performed the Doo Wop/rock 'n' roll song "Louie Louie" on it. The audience went berserk of such hilarious musical blasphemy. | |
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Doo-wop | |
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The line "My ship of love is ready to attack" in "Dog Breath" refers to "Ship of Love", the most famous hit by the Doo-wop band the Nutmegs. | |
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Mooning | |
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Mooning: "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" (see Real Life Writes the Plot) | |
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Get Out! | |
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Get Out!: Near the end of "The Legend of the Golden Arches" Pamela Zarubica tells an anecdote where the sound of the amplifiers was too loud, causing people in the audience to boo them to get off stage. | |
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Silly Love Songs | |
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Silly Love Songs: "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague" and "Electric Aunt Jemima" are surreal love songs. | |
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Speech Bubbles | |
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Speech Bubbles: Used inside the album sleeve in the photographs. | |
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Eating Shoes | |
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Eating Shoes: "Mr. Green Genes" | |
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Loners Are Freaks | |
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Loners Are Freaks: Both figuratively and literally in "The Voice of Cheese", where Suzy Creamcheese claims she couldn't make it in the beatnik set, the surfin' set, or the groupie set, so she joined Zappa's freak movement instead. | |
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Distinct Double Album | |
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Distinct Double Album: Both the LP and the CD. | |
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Leave the Camera Running | |
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Leave the Camera Running: "If We'd All Been Living in California": Zappa had the habit of secretly recording stuff. One of those recordings can be heard on the album where band member Jimmy Carl Black complains about the desperate need for money. "We Can Shoot You" has a small interlude between Ian Underwood and Bunk Gardner before they start playing: | |
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Alien Geometries | |
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Alien Geometries: "Sleeping in a Jar" | |
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Toilet Humour | |
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Toilet Humour: The origin story behind "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus". | |
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The Bet | |
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The Bet: "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus", about a very odd bet. (See Real Life Writes the Plot) | |
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Cycle of Revenge | |
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Cycle of Revenge: In The Story of Uncle Meat it is implied that Uncle Meat the Mad Scientist plots revenge. | |
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An Odd Place to Sleep | |
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An Odd Place to Sleep: "Sleeping in a Jar" in which we are informed that mummy and daddy are sleeping in a jar and that the jar "is under the bed." | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: "Our Bizarre Relationship": "The Voice of Cheese": | |
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Depraved Dwarf | |
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Depraved Dwarf: Bimbo the Mexican slave of Uncle Meat in the movie script found in the liner notes. | |
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One-Woman Song | |
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One-Woman Song: "Electric Aunt Jemima". | |
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Electronic Speech Impediment | |
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Electronic Speech Impediment: Several voices and instruments have been sped up on this album, creating an often bizarre, but unique sound. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The line "My ship of love is ready to attack" in "Dog Breath" refers to "Ship of Love", the most famous hit by the Doo-wop band the Nutmegs. "Zolar Czakl" is the name of a rock-climbing route in Boulder Canyon, Colorado. "King Kong", a reference to King Kong (1933). "The Legend of the Golden Arches" has been interpreted as a reference to McDonalds M sign. "Electric Aunt Jemima" references Aunt Jemima, the mascot of the Aunt Jemima pancakes, flour, syrup and other breakfast items. Though Zappa also nicknamed his guitar amplifier under that name. As he explained in a 1969 "International Times" interview: In the photos inside the liner notes the phrase "Fast 'n' bulbous" can be read, which is a nod to Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart, an album produced by Zappa. "Sleeping in a Jar" was sampled by hip hop duo Madvillain (consisting of MF Doom and Madlib) on the track "Meat Grinder" from the album "Madvillainy" (2004) and later too by hip hop artist Tyler, The Creator from OFWGKTA on his track "Fuck This Election" | |
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No Title | |
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No Title: "Project X". | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: "Louie Louie" by Richard Berry and "God Bless America" by Irving Berlin. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: One of the tracks was recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in London where Don Preston climbed the ancient pipe organ of the concert hall and performed the Doo Wop/rock 'n' roll song "Louie Louie" on it. The audience went berserk of such hilarious musical blasphemy. "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" is an instrumental track, inspired by two of Zappa's band members engaging in a "truth or dare" game for money. Bunk Gardner bet that Jimmy Carl Black wouldn't dare to show his behind on the tour bus. Before his words were cold, Jimmy has already taken his pants off and done it, thus winning the bet. | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss | |
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Slap-Slap-Kiss: "The Air" | |
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Live Album | |
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Live Album: Three tracks are live: "Louie Louie (at the Royal Albert Hall in London)". "God Bless America (Live at the Whisky a Go Go)". "Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on Stage in Copenhagen)" | |
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Last Chorus Slow-Down | |
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Last Chorus Slow-Down: "King Kong Part I-IV" starts slowing down near the end through clever tape manipulation mimicking the introduction notes. | |
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Creator Provincialism | |
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Creator Provincialism: Even though Zappa had already built up a fanbase in Europe at this point Suzy Creamcheese still addresses only "teenage America" during "The Voice of Cheese". | |
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Immortality Seeker | |
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Immortality Seeker: In The Story of Uncle Meat Uncle Meat drinks a potion that will making him immortal. | |
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Album Title Drop | |
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Album Title Drop: The first track is named "Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme", but it's an instrumental composition. The name is never said by anyone on the album. | |
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Album Filler | |
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Album Filler: The original LP was a double album praised by every self-respecting Zappa fan. The CD release, however, had not enough tracks to make it a full double album. To compensate for that Zappa added several minutes of dialogue and a musical track, "Tengo na minchia tanta", from his low-budget film Uncle Meat (1987) to fill up CD 2 of the album. While "Tengo na minchia tanta" is enjoyable to play more than once the dialogue track isn't. | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: Many of the songs of the album have surreal and incomprehensible lyrics. The only ones that make a little sense are "The Air" and "Cruisin' for Burgers". Zappa said most of the lyrics on the album were in-jokes with his band members. | |
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Killer Gorilla | |
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Killer Gorilla: "King Kong". | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: As with most of Zappa's albums from this period, most of the songs fade into one another. Apart from LP side divisions, there aren't too many complete fade-outs. | |
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Fourth Wall Greeting | |
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Fourth Wall Greeting: "The Voice of Cheese". | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: Near the end of "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" someone says "Fade!" The spoken word introduction of "Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on Stage in Copenhagen)" has Underwood tell an anecdote with the following line: | |
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