Mothers of Invention Uncle Meat 2LP Aust 1971
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Mothers of Invention Uncle Meat 2LP Aust 1971

 

Australian pressing in gatefold sleeve on Reprise Records, 1971

 

Uncle Meat, released in 1969, is the supposed "soundtrack" to a proposed film by The Mothers of Invention, part of which was eventually completed and included in a 1987 film of the same name. The front cover, designed by Cal Schenkel, included the words "(Most of the Music from the Mother's [sic] Movie of the Same Name Which We Haven't Got Enough Money to Finish Yet)". The album was Zappa's first on his own Bizarre Records label, distributed by Warner Bros. Records. It was reissued in 1973 by another Warner affiliated label, Reprise Records.

Uncle Meat marked an evolution in Frank Zappa's career, moving further into jazz and classical music. It also contains half-mocking, half-homage elements of doo-wop, blues, rock and roll, and sound clips from the movie. The album is united by its dreamy melodies, stream of consciousness lyrics (many about places and events in suburban LA teenagers' lives), and a set of musical themes and sub-themes and variations idiomatic of film soundtracks. It also features the character of Suzy Creamcheese.

A CD version of the album was released in 1987, and contained a new song, "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" (meaning "I've Got a Big Bunch Of Cock" in Sicilian), sung in Italian by Massimo Bassoli, and over 40 minutes' worth of sound-bites from the eventual film (Primarily actors rehearsing their lines.) However, many fans have resented these additions, since "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" was recorded in 1982, in an entirely different time period, and the movie soundbites are considered by some to be superfluous to the listening tracks. The CD cover and labels alter the titles of 'King Kong' and the first CD edition removed some of the artwork and printed much of it in black and white.

 

 

Side one

  1. "Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme" – 1:56
  2. "The Voice of Cheese" – 0:26
  3. "Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" – 6:00
    • On LP, cassette and 8-track labels this song was mistitled "400 Days of the Year."
  4. "Zolar Czakl" – 0:54
  5. "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague" – 3:59
  6. "The Legend of the Golden Arches" – 3:28
  7. "Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)" (Richard Berry) – 2:19
  8. "The Dog Breath Variations" – 1:48

Side two

  1. "Sleeping in a Jar" – 0:50
  2. "Our Bizarre Relationship" – 1:05
  3. "The Uncle Meat Variations" – 4:46
  4. "Electric Aunt Jemima" – 1:46
  5. "Prelude to King Kong" – 3:38
  6. "God Bless America (Live at the Whisky A Go Go)" (Irving Berlin) – 1:10
  7. "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" – 1:29
  8. "Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen)" – 5:05

Side three

  1. "Mr. Green Genes" – 3:14
  2. "We Can Shoot You" – 2:03
  3. "If We'd All Been Living in California..." – 1:14
  4. "The Air" – 2:57
  5. "Project X" – 4:48
  6. "Cruising for Burgers" – 2:18

Side four

  1. "King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio)" – 0:49
  2. "King Kong (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)" – 1:21
  3. "King Kong (as Motorhead explains it)" – 1:44
  4. "King Kong (the Gardner Varieties)" – 6:17
  5. "King Kong (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks)" – 0:34
  6. "King Kong (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival . . . the Underwood ramifications)" – 7:24

 

 

CONDITION:

 

GATEFOLD SLEEVE:  VG+ to EX—

 

RECORDS:  EX—  A couple of very minor marks, no spindle trails, clean vinyl and labels; records play clear and sharp with almost no surface noise.

 

   


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