Frank Zappa Discography

Released: October 15 1969

Tracklist

1. Peaches En Regalia
2. Willie the Pimp
3. Son Of Mr. Green Genes
4. Little Umbrellas
5. The Gumbo Variations
6. It Must Be A Camel

Line-up
Captain Beefheart (vocals), Sugar Cane Harris (violin), Jean-Luc Ponty (violin), John Guerin (drums), Paul Humphrey (drums), Ron Selico (drums), Max Bennett (bass), Shuggy Otis (bass), Ian Underwood (keyboards, clarinets, saxes) and of course FZ (guitar, ocave base, percussion)

Released: March 1969

Tracklist

1. Main Title Theme
2. The Voice Of Cheese
3. 9 Types Of Industrial Pollution
4. Zolar Czakl
5. Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
6. The Legend Of The Golden Arches
7. Louie Louie (live at Royal Albert Hall)
8. The Dog Breath Variations
9. Sleeping In A Jar
10. Our Bizarre Relationship
11. The Uncle Meat Variations
12. Electric Aunt Jemima
13. Prelude To King Kong
14. God Bless America
15. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
16. Ian Underwood Whips It Out
17. Mr. Green Genes
18. We Can Shoot You
19. If We’d All Been Living In California…
20. The Air
21. Project X
22. Cruising For Burgers
23. Uncle Meat Film Excerpts I & II
24. Tengo Na Minchia Tanta
25. King Kong Itself
26. King Kong II
27. King Kong III
28. King Kong IV
29. King Kong V
30. King Kong VI

Line-up
Frank Zappa (guitar, low grade vocals, percussion), Ray Collins (swell vocals), Jimmy Carl Black (drums, droll humor, poverty), Roy Estrada (electric bass, chesseburgers, Pachuco falsetto), Don (Dom De Wild) Preston (electric piano, tarot cards, brown rice), Billy (The Oozer) (Mundi drums), Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner (piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon), Ian Underwood (electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax, special assistance, copyist, industrial relations & teen appeal), Artie (With the Green Mustache) (Tripp drums, timpani, vibes, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small chimes, cheerful outlook & specific enquiries), Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood (pop star, frenetic tenor sax stylings, tambourine, choreography, obstinance & equipment setter-upper when he’s not hustling local groupies)

Released: November 1968

Tracklist

1. Cheap Thrills
2. Love Of My Life
3. How Could I Be Such A Fool
4. Deseri
5. I’m Not Satisfied
6. Jerry Roll Gum Drop
7. Anything
8. Later That Night
9. You Didn’t Try To Call Me
10. Fountain Of Love
11. “No. No. No.”
12. Anyway The Wind Blows
13. Stuff Up The Cracks

Line-up
Frank Zappa (low grumbles, oo-wah and lead guitar), Ray Collins (lead vocals), Roy Estrada (high weazlings, dwaedy-doop & electric bass), Jimmy Carl Black and/or Arthur Dyer Tripp III (lewd pulsating rhythm), Ian Underwood or Don Preston (redundant piano triplets), Motorhead Sherwood (baritone sax & tambourine), Bunk Gardner & Ian Underwood (tenor & alto sax) + Jay Anderson (1984 mix new string bass tracks), Arthur Barrow (1984 mix new bass tracks), Chad Wackerman (1984 mix new drum tracks)

Released: September 1968

Tracklist

1. Are You Hung Up?
2. Who Needs The Peace Corps?
3. Concentration Moon
4. Mom & Dad
5. Telephone Conversation
6. Bow Tie Daddy
7. Harry You’re A Beast
8. What’s the Ugliest Part Of Your Body?
9. Absolutely Free
10. Flower Punk
11. Hot Poop
12. Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
13. Let’s Make The Water Turn Black
14. The Idiot Bastard Son
15. Lonely Little Girl
16. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
17. What’s The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (reprise)
18. Mother People
19. The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny

Line-up
Frank Zappa, Billy Mundi, Bunk Gardner, Roy Estrada, Don Preston, Jimmy Carl Black, Ian Underwood, Jim Sherwood, Suzy Creamcheese

Released: December 1967

Tracklist

1. The Way I See It, Barry
2. Duodenum
3. Oh No
4. Bit Of Nostalgia
5. It’s From Kansas
6. Bored Out 90 Over
7. Almost Chinese
8. Switching Girls
9. Oh No Again
10. At The Gas Station
11. Another Pickup
12. I Don’t Know If I Can Go Through This Again
13. Very Distraughtening
14. White Ugliness
15. Amen
16. Just One More Time
17. A Vicious Circle
18. King Kong
19. Drums Are Too Noisy
20. Kangaroos
21. Envelops The Bath Tub
22. Take Your Clothes Off

Line-up
Paul Smith, Mike Lang, Lincoln Mayorga, Pete Jolly (keyboards of all sorts), Emil Richards, Gene Estes, Alan Estes, Victor Feldman (percussional insanity), Ted Nash, Jules Jacob, John Rotella, Bunk Gardner, Don Christlieb, Gene Cipriano (woodwinds), Arthur Maebe, Vincent De Rosa, Richard Parisi, Jimmy Zito, Kenneth Shroyer (french horns, trumpet, trombones), Jim Haynes, Tommy Tedesco, Tony Rizzi, Al Viola, Dennis Budimer (guitars) Bob West, John Balkin, Jimmy Bond, Lyle Ritts, Chuck Berghofer (bass) and an incredibly big truckload of violinists.

Released: April 1967

Tracklist

1. Plastic People
2. The Duke Of Prunes
3. Amnesia Vivace
4. The Duke Regains His Chops
5. Call Any Vegetable
6. Invocation & Ritual Dance Of the Young Pumpkin
7. Soft-Sell Conclusion
8. Big Leg Emma
9. Why Don’tcha Do Me Right
10. America Drinks
11. Status Back Baby
12. Uncle Bernie’s Farm
13. Son Of Suzie Creamcheeze
14. Brown Shoes Don’t Make It
15. America Drinks & Goes Home

Line-up
Frank Zappa, Ray Collins, Jim Black, Roy Estrada, Billy Mundi, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Jim Sherwood

Released: July 1966

Tracklist

1. Hungry Freaks Daddy
2. I Ain’t Got No Heart
3. Who Are The Brain Police?
4. Go Cry on Somebody Else’s Shoulder
5. Motherly Love
6. How Could I Be Such A Fool
7. Wowie Zowie
8. You Didn’t Try To Call Me
9. Any Way The Wind Blows
10. I’m Not Satisfied
11. You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here
12. Trouble Every Day
13. Help, I’m A Rock
14. It Can’t Happen Here
15. The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet

Line-up
Ray Collins, Jimmy Carl Black, Roy Estrada, Elliot Ingber and many more (please do not hold it against them…)