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Weasels Ripped My Flesh (Import) (CD)

By: Frank Zappa

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Weasels Ripped My Flesh (Import) (CD) Album By Frank Zappa
1   Didja Get Any Onya  
2   Directly From My Heart To You  
3   Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask  
4   Toads Of The Short Forest  
5   Get A Little  
6   Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue  
7   Dwarf Nebula Processional March/Dwarf Nebula  
8   Oh No  
9   Orange County Lumber Truck  
10   Weasels Ripped My Flesh  
11   Charles Ives (CD)  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (10/1/70, p.42) - "...This random collection...finds the group peerless in the field of amalgamating satire, musical adventuresomeness, and flash..."
Q (8/95, pp.150-151) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - "...as diverse and dynamic as any Mothers' album. Not a dull moment..."
Entertainment Weekly (12/17/93, p.36) - "...the original Mothers' last gasp, WEASELS contains some of Zappa's looniest work in a free jazz vein..."
Goldmine - Highly Recommended

Product note

Full performer name: Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention.
The Mothers Of Invention: Frank Zappa (vocals, guitar); Roy Estrada (vocals, bass); Ian Underwood (alto saxophone); Bunk Gardner (tenor saxophone); Motorhead Sherwood (baritone saxophone); Buzz Gardner (trumpet, flugelhorn); Don Preston (piano, organ); Jimmy Carl Black, Arthur Dyer Tripp III (drums).
Additional personnel: Ray Collins (vocals); Lowell George (guitar, background vocals); Don "Sugar Cane" Harris (electric violin, background vocals).
WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH is a collection of live and studio tracks representing different aspects of The Mothers Of Invention's work from 1967-1969.
Digitally remastered in 1989.
Once attracted by the irresistibly sinister Neon Park album cover illustration, the new owner has to play it. And once again, unless you are already familiar with this wacky genius, the results can be challenging. From the perplexing Germanic interlude of the opener, 'Didja Get Any Onya?', to the complex xylophone changes of 'The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue', Zappa's music should always have been played loud. As background music at a normal volume it serves only to irritate, except for almost normal rock tracks, such as the interpretation of Little Richard's 'Directly From My Heart To You'. It ends with some brilliant free-form something or other. All this was 25 years before Pat Metheny's Zero Tolerence For Silence.

Album Description

After getting over the colourful, disconcerting Neon Parks album cover illustration on WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH, the listener is faced with following the whiplash-inducing, genre-jumping gymnastics inside. A mix of live tracks with studio cuts made with the original Mothers of Invention, WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH is one of Frank Zappa's most eclectic, varied, and experimental early releases.
From the perplexing Germanic interlude of the opener, "Didja Get Any Onya?" to the complex xylophone changes of "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue", Zappa combines avant garde music, jazz, R&B, novelty elements, and plenty of flippant rock attitude. Interestingly, there are some straight-up rock tracks too, such as the interpretation of Little Richard's "Directly From My Heart To You", and the guitar-led attack of "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama", balancing highbrow conceptualism with unpretentious directness in Zappa's inimitable fashion.

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