The Yellow Shark

Released: November 1993

Tracklist:

  1. Intro
  2. Dog Breath Variations
  3. Uncle Meat
  4. Outrage At Valdez
  5. Times Beach II
  6. III Revisited
  7. The Girl In The Magnesium Dress
  8. Be-Bop Tango
  9. Ruth Is Sleeping
  10. None Of The Above
  11. Pentagon Afternoon
  12. Questi Cazzi Di Piccione
  13. Times Beach III
  14. Food Gathering In Post Undustrial America, 1992
  15. Welcome To The United States
  16. Pound For A Brown
  17. Exercise # 4
  18. Get Whitey
  19. G-Spot Tornado

Line-up
Frank Zappa (composer), The Ensemble Modern: Peter Rundel (conductor, violin), Dietmar Wiesner (flute), Catherine Milliken (oboe, english horn, didgeridoo), Roland Diry (clarinet), Wolfgang Stryi (bass clarinet, contrabass, clarinet, tenor saxophone), Veit Scholz (bassoon, contrabassoon), Frankck Ollu (horn), Stefan Dohr (horn), William Formann (trumpet, flügelhorn, piccolo trumpet, cornet), Michael Gross (trumpet, flügelhorn, piccolo trumpet, cornet), Uwe Dierksen (trombone, soprano trombone), Michael Svoboda (trombone, euphonium, didgeridoo, alphorn), Daryl Smith (tuba), Herman Kretzschmar (piano, harpsichord, celeste, dramatic reading), Ueli Wiget (piano, harpsichord, celeste, harp), Rainer Rsmer (percussion), Rumi Ogawa-Helferich (percussion, cymbalom), Andreas Böttger (percussion), Detlef Tewes (mandolin), Jürgen Ruck (guitar, banjo), Ellen Wegnere (harp), Mathias Tacke (violin), Claudia Sack (violin), Hilary Sturt (viola, dramatic reading), Friedemann Dähn (violoncello), Thomas Richter (contrabass, electrocontrabass)

Playground Psychotics

Released: 1992

Tracklist:

  1. Typical Day On The Road
  2. Here Comes The Gear Lads
  3. The Living Garbage Truck
  4. A Typical Sound Check
  5. “This Is Neat”
  6. The Motel Lobby
  7. Getting Stewed
  8. The Motel Room
  9. “Don’t Take Me Down”
  10. The Dressing Room
  11. Learning “Penis Dimension”
  12. “You there, with the hard on!”
  13. Zanti Serenade
  14. Divan
  15. Sleeping In A Jar
  16. “Don’t Eat There”
  17. Brixton Still Life
  18. Super Grease
  19. Wonderful Wino
  20. Sharleenah
  21. Cruisin’ For Burgers
  22. Diptheria Blues
  23. Well
  24. Say Please
  25. Aaawk
  26. Scumbag
  27. A Small Eternity With Yoko Ono
  28. A Typical Day On The Road Part Two
  29. Beer Shampoo
  30. Champagne Lecture
  31. Childish Perversions
  32. Playground Psychotics
  33. The Mudshark Interview
  34. “There’s No Lust In Jazz”
  35. Botulism On The Hoof
  36. You Got Your Armies
  37. The Spew King
  38. I’m Doomed
  39. Status Back Baby
  40. The London CabTape
  41. Concentration Moon, Part One
  42. The Sanzini Brothers
  43. “It’s A Good Thing We Get Paid To Do This”
  44. Concentration Moon, Part Two
  45. Mom & Dad
  46. Intro To Music For Low Budget Orchestra
  47. Billly The Mountain
  48. The True Story Of 200 Motels
  49. He’s Watching Us
  50. If You’re Not A Professional Actor
  51. He’s Right
  52. Going For The Money
  53. Jeff Quits
  54. A Bunch Of Adventures
  55. Martin Lickert’s Story
  56. A Great Guy
  57. Bad Acting
  58. The Worst Reviews
  59. A Version Of Himself
  60. I Could Be A Star Now

Halloween

Released: February 4 2003

Tracklist:

  1. NY Audience
  2. Ancient Armaments
  3. Dancin’ Fool
  4. Easy Meat
  5. Magic Fingers
  6. Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow
  7. Conehead
  8. “Zeets”
  9. Stink-Foot
  10. Dinah-Moe Humm
  11. Camarillo Brillo
  12. Muffin Man
  13. Black Napkins (interpolating The Deathless Horsie)

Line-up:
Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals), Vinnie Colaiuta (drums), Arthur Barrow (bass), Patrick O’Hearn (bass), Tommy Mars (keyboards), Denny Walley (guitar, vocals), Peter Wolf (keyboards), Ed Mann (percussion), L. Shankar (special guest on electric violin)
Dweezil Zappa (producer), Joe Chicarelli (original remote engineer, 2002 stereo and multi-channel mix), Steve Genewick (second engineer), Bill Smith (third engineer), David Duncan (DTS encoding), Jeff Levison (DVD authoring production), Len Dell’Amico (“Suicide Chump” video director), Dave Wilson (“Dancin’ Fool” video director for Saturday Night Live)

FZ:OZ

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Released: August 16 2002

Tracklist
Disc One

  1. Hordern Intro (Incan Art Vamp)
  2. Stink-Foot
  3. The Poodle Lecture
  4. Dirty Love
  5. Filthy Habits
  6. How Could I Be Such A Fool?
  7. I Ain’t Got No Heart
  8. I’m Not Satisfied
  9. Black Napkins
  10. Advance Romance
  11. The Illinois Enema Bandit
  12. Wind Up Workin’ In A Gas Station
  13. The Torture Never Stops

Disc Two

  1. Canard Toujours
  2. Kaiser Rolls
  3. Find Her Finer
  4. Carolina Hard-core Ecstasy
  5. Lonely Little Girl
  6. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
  7. What’s The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?
  8. Chunga’s Revenge
  9. Zoot Allures
  10. Keep It Greasy
  11. Dinah-Moe Humm
  12. Camarillo Brillo
  13. Muffin Man
  14. Kaiser Rolls (Du Jour)

Line-up:
Frank Zappa (guitar, vocals), Terry Bozzio (drums, vocals), Napoleon Murphy Brock (tenor sax, vocals), Roy Estrada (bass, vocals), Andre Lewis (keyboards, vocals)

Make A Jazz Noise Here

Released: June 1991

Tracklist

  1. Stinkfoot
  2. When Yuppies Go To Hell
  3. Fire And Chains
  4. Let’s Make The Water Turn Black
  5. Harry, You’re A Beast
  6. The Orange County Lumber Truck
  7. Oh No
  8. Theme From Lumpy Gravy
  9. Eat That Question
  10. Black Napkins
  11. Big Swifty
  12. King Kong
  13. Starwars Won’t Work
  14. The Black Page (new age version)
  15. T’Mershi Duween
  16. Dupree’s Paradise
  17. City Of Tiny Lights
  18. Royal March From “L’Histoire Du Soldat”
  19. Theme From The Bartok Piano Concerto
  20. Sinister Footwear 2nd. Mvt.
  21. Stevie’s Spanking
  22. Alien Orifice
  23. Cruisin’ For Burgers
  24. Advance Romance
  25. Strictly Genteel

Line-up
Frank Zappa (lead guitar, synth, vocal), Ike Willis (rhythm guitar, synth, vocals), Mike Keneally (rhythm guitar, synth, vocals), Bobby Martin (keyboards, vocals), Ed Mann (vibes, marimba, electronic percussion), Walt Fowler (trumpet, flugel horn, synth), Bruce Fowler (trombone), Paul Carman (alto sax, soprano sax, baritone sax), Albert Wing (tenor sax), Kurt McGettrick (baritone sax, contrabass clarinet), Scott Thunes (electric bass, mini moog), Chad Wackerman (drums, electronic percussion)

The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life

Released: 1995

Tracklist

  1. Heavy Duty Judy
  2. Ring Of Fire
  3. Cosmik Debris
  4. Find Her Finer
  5. Who Needs The Peace Corps?
  6. I Left My Heart In San Francisco
  7. Zomby Woof
  8. Zoot Allures
  9. Mr. Green Genes
  10. Florentine Pogen
  11. Andy
  12. Inca Roads
  13. Sofa
  14. Purple Haze
  15. Sunshine Of Your Love
  16. Let’s Move To Cleveland
  17. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
  18. “Godfather Part II” Theme
  19. A Few Moments With Brother A. West
  20. The Torture Never Stops Part One
  21. Theme From “Bonanza”
  22. Lonesome Cowboy Burt (Swaggart Version)
  23. The Torture Never Stops Part Two
  24. More Trouble Every Day (Swaggart Version)
  25. Penguin In Bondage (Swaggart Version)
  26. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
  27. Stairway To Heaven

Line-up
Frank Zappa (lead guitar, computer-synth, vocal), Ike Willis (rhythm guitar, synth, vocal), Mike Keneally (rhythm guitar, synth, vocal), Bobby Martin (keyboards, vocal), Ed Mann (vibes, marimba, electronic percussion), Walt Fowler (trumpet, flugel horn, synth), Bruce Fowler (trombone), Paul Carman (alto sax, soprano sax, baritone sax), Albert Wing (tenor sax), Kurt McGettrick (baritone sax, bass sax, contrabass clarinet), Scott Thunes (electric bass, mini-moog), Chat Wackerman (drums, electronic percussion)

Broadway The Hard Way

Released: November 1988

Tracklist

  1. Elvis Has Just Left The Building
  2. Planet Of The Baritone Women
  3. Any Kind Of Pain
  4. Dickie’s Such An Asshole
  5. When The Lie’s So Big
  6. Rhymin’ Man
  7. Promiscuous
  8. The Untouchables
  9. Why Don’t You Like Me
  10. Bacon Fat
  11. Stolen Moments
  12. Murder By Numbers
  13. Jezebel Boy
  14. Outside Now
  15. Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel
  16. What Kind Of Girl?
  17. Jesus Thinks You’re A Jerk

Line-up
Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocal), Ike Willis (guitar, vocal), Mike Keneally (guitar, synth, vocal), Bobby Martin (keyboards, vocal), Ed Mann (percussion), Walt Fowler (trumpet), Bruce Fowler (trombone), Paul Carman (alto sax), Albert Wing (tenor sax), Kurt McGettrick (baritone sax), Scott Thunes (bass), Chad Wackerman (drums), Eric Buxton (guest vocalist)

You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 6

YCDTOSA 6 – DISC ONE

  1. The M.O.I Anti-Smut Loyalty Oath
  2. The Poodle Lecture
  3. Dirty Love
  4. Magic Fingers
  5. The Madison Panty-Sniffing Festival
  6. Honey, Don’t You Want A Man Like Me?
  7. Father O’Blivion
  8. Is That Guy Kidding Or What?
  9. I’m So Cute
  10. White Person
  11. Lonely Person Devices
  12. Ms. Pinky
  13. Shove It Right In
  14. Wind Up Working In A Gas Station
  15. Make A Sex Noise
  16. Tracy Is A Snob
  17. I Have Been In You
  18. Emperor Of Ohio
  19. Dinah-Moe Humm
  20. He’s So Gay
  21. Camarillo Brillo
  22. Muffin Man

YCDTOSA 6 – DISC TWO

  1. NYC Halloween Audience
  2. The Illinois Enema Bandit
  3. Thirteen
  4. Lobster Girl
  5. Black Napkins
  6. We’re Turning Again
  7. Alien Orifice
  8. Catholic Girls
  9. Crew Slut
  10. Tryin’ To Grow A Chin
  11. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
  12. Lisa’s Life Story
  13. Lonesome Cowboy Nando
  14. 200 Motels Finale
  15. Strictly Genteel

You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 5

YCTOSA 5 – DISC ONE

  1. The Downtown Talent Scout
  2. Charles Ives
  3. Here Lies Love
  4. Piano/Drum Duet
  5. Mozart Ballet
  6. Chocolate Halvah
  7. JCB & Kansas On The Bus # 1
  8. Run Home Slow: Main Title Theme
  9. The Little March
  10. Right There
  11. Where Is Johnny Velvet?
  12. Return Of The Hunch-Back Duke
  13. Trouble Every Day
  14. Proto-Minimalism
  15. JCB & Kansas On The Bus # 2
  16. My Head?
  17. Meow
  18. Baked-Bean Boogie
  19. Where’s Our Equipment?
  20. FZ/JCB Drum Duet
  21. No Waiting For The Peanuts To Dissolve
  22. A Game Of Cards
  23. Underground Freak-Out Music
  24. German Lunch
  25. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama

YCDTOSA 5 – DISC TWO

  1. Easy Meat
  2. Dead Girls Of London
  3. Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously?
  4. What’s New In Baltimore
  5. Moggio
  6. Dancin’ Fool
  7. RDNZL
  8. Advance Romance
  9. City Of Tiny Lites
  10. A Pound For A Brown (On The Bus)
  11. Doreen
  12. The Black Page # 2
  13. Geneva Farewell

You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 4

YCDTOSA 4 – DISC ONE

  1. Little Rubber Girl
  2. Stick Together
  3. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama
  4. Willie The Pimp
  5. Montana
  6. Brown Moses
  7. The Evil Prince
  8. Approximate
  9. Love Of My Life Mudd Club Version
  10. Let’s Move To Cleveland Solos (1984)
  11. You Call That Music?
  12. Pound For A Brown Solos (1978)
  13. The Black Page (1984)
  14. Take Me Out To The Ball Game
  15. Filthy Habits
  16. The Torture Never Stops Original Version

YCDTOSA 4 – DISC TWO

  1. Church Chat
  2. Stevie’s Spanking
  3. Outside Now
  4. Disco Boy
  5. Teen-Age Wind
  6. Truck Driver Divorce
  7. Florentine Pogen
  8. Tiny Sick Tears
  9. Smell My Beard
  10. The Booger Man
  11. Carolina Hard Core Ecstasy
  12. Are You Upset?
  13. Little Girl Of Mine
  14. The Closer You Are
  15. Johnny Darling
  16. No, No Cherry
  17. The Man From Utopia
  18. Mary Lou

You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 3

YCDTOSA 3 – DISC ONE

  1. Sharleena
  2. Bamboozled By Love
  3. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
  4. Advance Romance
  5. Bobby Brown Goes Down
  6. Keep It Greasy
  7. Honey Don’t You Want A Man Like Me?
  8. In France
  9. Drowning Witch
  10. Ride My Face To Chicago
  11. Carol, You Fool
  12. Chana In De Bushwop
  13. Joe’s Garage
  14. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?

YCDTOSA 3 – DISC TWO

  1. Dickie’s Such An Asshole
  2. Hands With A Hammer
  3. Zoot Allures
  4. Society Pages
  5. I’m A Beautiful Guy
  6. Beauty Knows No Pain
  7. Charlie’s Enormous Mouth
  8. Cocaine Decisions
  9. Nig Biz
  10. King Kong
  11. Cosmik Debris

You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 2

YCTOSA 2 – DISC ONE

  1. Tush Tush Tush (A Token Of My Extreme)
  2. Stinkfoot
  3. Inca Roads
  4. RDNZL
  5. Village Of The Sun
  6. Echidna’s Arf (Of You)
  7. Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?
  8. Pygmy Twylyte
  9. Room Service
  10. The Idiot Bastard Son
  11. Cheepnis

YCDTOSA 2 – DISC TWO

  1. Approximate
  2. Dupree’s Paradise
  3. Satumaa (Finnish Tango)
  4. T’Mershi Duween
  5. The Dog Breath Variations
  6. Uncle Meat
  7. Building A Girl
  8. Montana (Whipping Floss)
  9. Big Swifty

You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 1

YCDTOSA 1 – DISC ONE

  1. The Florida Airport Tape
  2. Once Upon A Time
  3. Sofa # 1
  4. The Mammy Anthems
  5. You Didn’t Try To Call Me
  6. Diseases Of The Band
  7. Tryin’ To Grow A Chin
  8. Let’s Make The Water Turn Black – Harry You’re A Beast – The Orange
    County Lumber Truck
  9. The Groupie Routine
  10. Ruthie-Ruthie
  11. Babbette
  12. I’m The Slime
  13. Big Swifty
  14. Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow

YCDTOSA 1 – DISC TWO

  1. Plastic People
  2. The Torture Never Stops
  3. Fine Girl
  4. Zomby Woof
  5. Sweet Leilani
  6. Oh No
  7. Be In My Video
  8. The Deathless Horsie
  9. The Dangerous Kitchen
  10. Dumb All Over
  11. Heavenly Bank Account
  12. Suicide Chump
  13. Tell Me You Love Me
  14. Sofa # 2

Guitar

Released: April 1988

Tracklist

  1. Sexual Harassment In The Workplace
  2. Which One Is It?
  3. Republicans
  4. Do Not Pass Go
  5. Challk Pie
  6. In-A-Gadda-Stravinski
  7. That’s Not Really Reggae
  8. When No One Was No One
  9. Once Again, Without The Net
  10. Outside Now (Original solo)
  11. Jim & Tammy’s Upper Room
  12. Were We Ever Really Safe In San Antonio?
  13. That Ol’ G Minor Thing Again
  14. Hotel Atlanta Incidentals
  15. That’s Not Really A Shuffle
  16. Move It Or Park It
  17. Sunrise Redeemer
  18. Varations on Sinister #3
  19. Orrin Hatch On Skis
  20. But Who Was Fulcanelli?
  21. For Duane
  22. GOA
  23. Winos Do Not March
  24. Swans? What Swans?
  25. Too Ugly For Show Business
  26. Systems Of Edges
  27. Do Not Try This At Home
  28. Things That Look Like Meat
  29. Watermelon In Easter Hay
  30. Canadian Customs
  31. Is That All There Is?
  32. It Ain’t Necessarily The Saint James Infirmary

Jazz From Hell

Released: November 1986

Tracklist

  1. Night School
  2. The Beltway Bandits
  3. While You Were Art II
  4. Jazz From Hell
  5. G-Spot Tornado
  6. Damp Ankles
  7. St. Etienne
  8. Massaggio Galore

Line-up
All compositions executed by Frank Zappa on the Synclavier DMS with the exception of “St. Etienne”.
“St. Etienne”: Frank Zappa (lead guitar), Steve Vai (rhythm guitar), Ray White (rhythm guitar), Tommy Mars (keyboards), bobby Martin (keyboards), Ed Mann (percussion), Scott Thunes (bass), Chad Wackerman (drums)

Does Humor Belong In Music?

Released: January 1986

Tracklist

  1. Zoot Allures
  2. Tinsel-Town Rebellion
  3. Trouble Every Day
  4. Penguin In Bondage
  5. Hot-Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel
  6. What’s New In Baltimore?
  7. Cock-Sucker’s Ball
  8. WPLJ
  9. Let’s Move To Cleveland
  10. Whippin’ Post

Line-up
Frank Zappa (lead guitar & vocal), Ike Willis (rhythm guitar & vocal), Bobby Martin (keyboards, sax, vocal), Alan Zavod (keyboard solo on “Cleveland”), Scott Thunes (bass), Chad Wackerman (drums solo on “Cleveland”), Dweezil Zappa (guitar solo on “Whippin’ Post”)

Meets The Mothers Of Prevention

Released: November 1985

Tracklist

  1. Porn Wars
  2. We’re Turning Again
  3. Alien Orifice
  4. Aerobics In Bondage
  5. I Don’t Even Care
  6. Little Beige Sambo
  7. What’s New In Baltimore
  8. One Man, One Vote
  9. H.R. 2911
  10. Yo Cats

Line-up
Frank Zappa, Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, Ike Willis, Ray White, Bobby Martin, Moon, Dweezil, Senator Danforth (R-Missouri), Senator Hollings (D-South Carolina), Senator Trible (R-Virginia), Senator Hawkins (R-Florida), Senator Exon (D-Nebraska), Senator Gorton (R-Washington), Senator Gore (D-Tennessee), Tipper Gore, Reverend Jeff Ling, Spider Barbour, All Nite John, unknown girl in piano (voices); Frank Zappa, Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, Steve Vai, Ray White, Ike Willis (guitars); Tommy Mars, Bobby Martin (keyboards); Scott Thunes (bass), Chad Wackerman (drums), Ed Mann (percussion), Frank Zappa (synclavier).

The Old Masters Box I, II & III

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Volume I

Released April 1985. 6 vinyls and bonus disc “The Mystery Disc”

Consists of the following albums:
Freak Out!
Absolutely Free
We’re Only In It For The Money
Lumpy Gravy
Cruising With Ruben & The Jets
The Mystery Disc

Volume II

Released November 1986. 8 vinyls and bonus disc “The Mystery Disc”

Consists of the following albums:
Uncle Meat
Hot Rats
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Chunga’s Revenge
Fillmore East June 1971
Just Another Band From LA
The Mystery Disc

Volume III

Released December 1987. 8 vinyl case.

Consists of the following albums:
Waka/Jawaka
The Grand Wazoo
Over-Nite Sensation
Apostrophe
Roxy & Elsewhere
One Size Fits All
Bongo Fury
Zoot Allures

Francesco Zappa

Released: November 1984

Tracklist

OPUS I

  1. No. 1 1st Movement ANDANTE
  2. 2nd Movement ALLEGRO CON BRIO
  3. No. 2 1st Movement ANDANTINO
  4. 2nd Movement MINUETTO GRAZIOSO
  5. No. 3 1st Movement ANDANTINO
  6. 2nd Movement PRESTO
  7. No. 4 1st Movement ANDANTE
  8. 2nd Movement ALLEGRO
  9. No. 5 2nd Movement MINUETTO GRAZIOSO
  10. No. 6 1st Movement LARGO
  11. 2nd Movement MINUET

OPUS IV

    No. 1 1st Movement ANDANTINO
  1. 2nd Movement ALLEGRO ASSAI
  2. No. 2 2nd Movement ALLEGRO ASSAI
  3. No. 3 1st Movement ANDANTE
  4. 2nd Movement TEMPO DI MINUETTO
  5. No. 4 1st Movement MENUTETTO

Line-up
Performed by the Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort (Frank Zappa, Conductor)

ThingFish

Released: November 1984

Tracklist
DISC ONE

  1. Prologue
  2. The Mammy Nuns
  3. Harry & Rhonda
  4. Galoot Up-Date
  5. The “Torchum” Never Stops
  6. That Evil Prince
  7. You Are What You Is
  8. Mudd Club
  9. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
  10. Clowns On Velvet
  11. Harry As A Boy
  12. He’s So Gay
  13. The Massive Improve’lence
  14. Artificial Rhonda

DISC TWO

  1. The Crab-Grass Baby
  2. The White Boy Troubles
  3. No Not Now
  4. Briefcase Boogie
  5. Brown Moses
  6. Wistful Wit A Fist-Full
  7. Drop Dead
  8. Won Ton On

Line-Up
Frank Zappa (guitar, synclavier), Steve Vai (guitar), Ray White (guitar), Tommy Mars (keyboards), Chuck Wild (broadway piano), Arthur Barrow (bass), Scott Thunes (bass), Jay Anderson (string bass), Ed Mann (percussion), Chad Wackerman (drums), Steve De Furia (synclavier programmer), David Ocker (synclavier programmer)

Thing Fish: Ike Willis
Harry: Terry Bozzio
Rhonda: Dale Bozzio
Evil Prince: Napoleon Murphy Brock
Harry-as–boy: Bob Harris
Brown Moses: Johnny “Guitar” Watson
Owl-Gonkwin-Jane Cowhoon: Ray White

Them Or Us

Released: October 1984

Tracklist

  1. The Closer You Are
  2. In France
  3. Ya Hozna
  4. Sharleena
  5. Sinister Footwear II
  6. Truck Driver Divorce
  7. Stevie’s Spanking
  8. Baby, Take Your Teeth Out
  9. Marque-son’s Chicken
  10. Planet Of My Dreams
  11. Be In My Video
  12. Them Or Us
  13. Frogs With Dirty Little Lips
  14. Whipping Post

Line-Up
Frank Zappa (guitar & vocals), Ray White, Ike Willis, Napoleon Murphy Brock, George Duke, Bobby Martin, Roy Estrada (vocals, harmony), Tommy Mars (keyboards), Arthur Barrow (bass), Chad Wackerman (drums), Scott Thunes (bass), Ed Mann (percussion), Steve Vai (guitar), Ray White (rhythm guitar), Bobby Martin (harmonica), Dweezil Zappa (guitar solo on “Sharleena”), Patrick O’Hearn (bass on “Planet Of My Dreams”), Thana Harris (harmony on “Planet Of My Dreams”), George Duke (piano on “Planet Of My Dreams”)

The Perfect Stranger

Released: August 23 1984

Tracklist

  1. The Perfect Stranger
  2. Naval Aviation In Art?
  3. the Girl In The Magnesium Dress
  4. Dupree’s Paradise
  5. Love Story
  6. Outside Now Again
  7. Jonestown

Line-Up
Tracks 1, 2, 4: Ensemble InterContemporain conducted by/direction: Pierre Boulez (recorded January 10 & 11 1984 at Ircam, Paris)
Tracks 3, 5, 6, 7: The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort

London Symphony Orchestra Vol. I, II

Released: Vol. I June 1983 – Vol. II September 1987

Tracklist
DISC ONE

  1. Bob In Dacron: First Movement
  2. Bob In Dacron: Second Movement
  3. Sad Jane: Third Movement
  4. Mo ‘N Herb’s Vacation: First Movement
  5. Mo ‘N Herb’s Vacation: Second Movement
  6. Mo ‘N Herb’s Vacation: Third Movement

DISC TWO

  1. Envelopes
  2. Pedro’s Dowry
  3. Bogus Pomp
  4. Strictly Genteel

Line-Up
The London Symphony Orchestra (conductor: Kent Nagano), David Ocker (solo clarinet), Chad Wackerman (drums), Ed Mann (featured percussionist)