Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat

180-gram gatefold double LP

Cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention released this double album in 1969 which was originally developed as "No Commercial Potential" a project which spawned three other albums sharing a conceptual connection: We're Only In It For the Money, Lumpy Gravy and Cruising With Ruben & The Jets. The album was to serve as a soundtrack to a science fiction film which never was completed due to the lack of funding. Zappa did release a film containing test footage from the project in 1987.

The album cover actually shows the title as Uncle Meat (Most of the Music From the Mother's Movie of the Same Name Which We Haven't Got Enough Money To Finish Yet). The album contains a diverse style of music with influences of jazz, orchestral, blues and rock music. Uncle Meat has been praised for its innovative recording and editing techniques including experiments in tape speed and overdubbing, and diverse sound. This version is pressed on 180-gram vinyl. It was cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman mastering.

1. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme

2. The Voice Of Cheese

3. Nine 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 (At The Royal Albert Hall In London) [Live]

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 (Live At The Whisky A Go Go)

15. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus

16. Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen)

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 Excerpt Part I,

24. Tengo Na Minchia Tanta

25. Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part II

26. King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio)

27. King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild)

28. King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It)

29. King Kong (The Gardner Varieties)

30. King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks)

31. King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival...The Underwood Remifications)

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