Chunga's Revenge

Chunga's Revenge
Studio album by The Mothers of Invention
Publication (s)	Fall 1970
Label (s)	Bizarre Records
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Progressive rock
Title (number)	10
running time	40:22
occupation	Frank Zappa : guitar, vocals, drums and percussion Ian Underwood : organ, grand piano, piano, electric piano , rhythm guitar, alto saxophone Max Bennett : Bass Aynsley Dunbar : drums and tambourine Jeff Simmons : bass and vocals George Duke : organ, electric piano, trombone, vocals John Guerin : drums Don Sugarcane Harris : Organ Howard Kaylan : vocals Mark Volman : vocals, rhythm guitar
production	Frank Zappa
chronology Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970) Chunga's Revenge Fillmore East, June 1971 (1971)

Chunga's Revenge is a music album from the Mothers of Invention .

The album was released on October 23, 1970 on Bizarre Records and was recorded by an almost completely new line-up of the Mothers. With Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman , Zappa engaged the former singers of the successful pop group The Turtles . The content of the album is more focused on the life of a rock group and many of the pieces deal with aspects of sexuality. Formally, the tone becomes more satirical and less subtle. The album has been criticized as reactionary and misogynistic. In terms of content, some of the pieces already refer to the later film 200 Motels .

Publications and chart successes

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Chunga's Revenge   US 119 December 19, 1970 (14 weeks)

The long-playing record was released on October 23 or November 1970 in the US on Bizarre Records , and it was distributed worldwide by Reprise Records . It reached number 113 on the Billboard charts. After the album was long out of print, it was reissued on November 5, 1986 in the series The Old Masters by Barking Pumpkin Records . In 1990 the album was released on CD under the labels Rykodisc (USA), Zappa Records (Europe) and Vack (Asia). A new edition with a restored cover took place on May 2, 1995 on Rykodisc.

reception

Music critic Mike Fish described Chunga's Revenge as an outrageous but entertaining mess. Kelly Fisher Lowe sees the album, in contrast to many critics who described it as misogynous and reactionary, a "tame statement" that cultural criticism expresses, but no longer takes a position on the more politically weighty issues, such as the collapse of the student movement.

Track list

All tracks are composed by Frank Zappa.

1. Transylvania Boogie - 5:01
2. Road Ladies - 4:10
3. Twenty Small Cigars - 2:17
4. The Nancy & Mary Music - 9:27
5. Tell Me You Love Me - 2:33
6. Would you go all the way? - 2:29
7. Chunga's Revenge - 6:15
8. The Clap - 1:23
9. Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink - 2:44
10. Sharleena - 4:03

Web links

• Chunga's Revenge on zappa.com. Retrieved April 25, 2010. 
• Review on All Music Guide. Retrieved February 12, 2010 . 
• Román García Albertos: Texts and further information on globalia.net. Retrieved February 12, 2010 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Kelly Fisher Lowe: The Words and Music of Frank Zappa. With a new introduction by the author , University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln and London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-6005-4 , pp. 83-100.
2. ^ ^{A b} Román García Albertos: Chunga's Revenge on globalia.net. Retrieved February 12, 2010 . 
3. ↑ Charts US
4. ↑ Chunga's Revenge, The Frank Zappa Album Versions Guide, the zappa patio . Retrieved February 12, 2010 . 
5. ↑ Mike Fish, Ben Watson: Frank Zappa on Disk. Reprint of article from The Wire. Vol. 91, September 1991. In: Richard Kostelanetz, John Rocco (Ed.): The Frank Zappa companion: four decades of commentary. Schirmer Books, New York 1997, ISBN 0-02-864628-2 , p. 132.