The Mothers Of Invention - Instumental Stuff

 
Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
The Voice Of Cheese
Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution
Zolar Czakl
Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
The Legend Of The Golden Arches
Louie Louie (At The Royal Albert Hall
--- In London)
The Dog Breath Variations
Sleeping In A Jar
Our Bizarre Relationship
The Uncle Meat Variations
Electric Aunt Jemima
Prelude To King Kong		 God Bless America (Live At The Whiskey A Go Go)
A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live On Stage In
--- Copenhagen)
Mr Green Genes
We Can Shoot You
"If We'd All Been Living In California..."
The Air
Project X
Cruising For Burgers
Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part I
Tengo Na Minchia Tanta
Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part II
King Kong Itself
Rumor Has It that the bulk of this album was recorded by the mothers in one room while
Frank was in another room scribbling down the next parts to be recorded (but you know
how rumors go).

Uncle Meat marks the beginning of Frank truly stretching the boundaries of rock music experimentation. Although, the recording from the Mount St. Maries concert found on The Lost Episodes attests to the fact that, years before this album was released, Frank was composing pretty adventurous stuff for orchestra, I think that it must have taken a while to work a rock band into this type of material.

Released as a soundtrack for a movie* that there wasn't enough money to finish, this album runs the gamut between the vocal offerings found on the first three Mothers' albums and the dense, often atonal works found on much later albums such as Jazz From Hell and Civilization Phase III.

* I hope that the Zappa Family Trust gets it's shit together and re-releases Frank's video catalog. This is one I'd like to see.

 

 
Igor's Boogie, Phase One
Overture to A Holiday In Berlin
Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Igor's Boogie, Phase Two
Holiday In Berlin, Full-Blown
Aybe Sea
The Little House I Used To Live In
Valerie
This album is one of my personal favorites.

The soundtrack to a film short of the same name, Burnt Weeny Sandwich is centered around a couple of musical motifs that have a tendency to re-emerge on other albums such as Ahead Of Their Time, 200 Motels, Fillmore East and London Symphony Orchestra.

Franks solo on Holiday In Berlin is required listening for any fan, as well as the first time we get to hear him really step out on electric guitar. His tone is starting to develop nicely at this point and is probably one of the fullest distorted lead tones to be found during this period in rock history.

The quarter tone harmonies and out of tune sax lines will drive your neighbors crazy!

 

 
Didja Get Any Onya?
Directly From My Heart To You
Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask
Toads Of The Short Forest
Get A Little
The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
Oh No
The Orange County Lumber Truck
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
This one takes some real "getting used to". The title, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, couldn't be more appropriate.

"At this very moment on stage," Frank says toward the end of Toads Of The Short Forest, "We have drummer A playing in 7/8, drummer B playing in 3/4, the bass playing in 3/4, the organ playing in 5/8, the tambourine playing in 3/4 and the alto sax blowing his nose." Aptly put!

Don't let the pure "dissonance and abstraction" that comprises the bulk of this album dissuade you from checking out the pure soul-blues of Directly From My Heart To You or The all time Zappa classic, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama.

I can only imagine the audience confronted with the title track, 2:08 of pure "wall of noise", sitting there with blank stares and mouths hanging open.

WOW!