The Man from Utopia

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The Man from Utopia
Studio album by Frank Zappa

Publication
(s)

March 28, 1983

Label (s) Barking Pumpkin Records , CBS ,
EMI , Rykodisc (CD)

Format (s)

LP vinyl , CD

Genre (s)

Pop music , rock music

Title (number)

6th

running time

34:18

occupation
  • Steve Vai - guitar ("Impossible Guitar Parts" - German unplayable guitar parts)
  • Bob Harris - vocals
  • Vinnie Colaiuta - drums on Dangerous Kitchen and Jazz Discharge Party Hats

Studio (s)

Utility Muffin Research Kitchen

chronology
Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
(1982) 		The Man from Utopia Baby Snakes
(1983)

The Man from Utopia (dt. The Man from Utopia ) is a pop-rock album of Frank Zappa , the 1983 on vinyl appeared. The album was produced in Zappa's own studio, Utility Muffin Research Kitchen , and some tracks were very painstakingly reworked. In The Dangerous Kitchen, for example, Zappa hada monologue-like spoken chant (referred to as "Meltdown" by Zappa)transcribedby Steve Vai and played overdub as a guitaraccompaniment. In terms of content, the pieces deal with serious topics such as drug use by decision-makers ( Cocaine Decisions ), solidarity against unions ( Stick Together ), but there are also humorous nonsense texts, for example in The Dangerous Kitchen , in which the dangers of spoiled food are listed. The album cover wasillustratedby the Italian comic artist Tanino Liberatore , who became known for his comic figure Ranxerox .

Track list

Original album

page 1

  1. Cocaine Decisions - 2:56
  2. The Dangerous Kitchen - 2:51
  3. Tink Walks Amok - 3:40
  4. The Radio Is Broken - 5:52
  5. Moggio - 3:05

Page 2

  1. The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou (Donald and Doris Woods, Obie Jessie) - 3:19
  2. Stick Together - 3:50
  3. SEX - 3:00
  4. The Jazz Discharge Party Hats - 4:30
  5. We Are Not Alone - 3:31

CD edition

  1. Cocaine Decisions - 3:53
  2. Sex - 3:44
  3. Tink Walks Amok - 3:39
  4. The Radio Is Broken - 5:51
  5. We Are Not Alone - 3:18
  6. The Dangerous Kitchen - 2:51
  7. The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou - 3:22
  8. Stick Together - 3:14
  9. The Jazz Discharge Party Hats - 4:29
  10. Luigi and the Wise Guys - 3:25
  11. Moggio - 2:35

reception

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Man from Utopia
  US 153 05/07/1983 (5 weeks)

Kelly Fisher Lowe sees The Man from Utopia , which reached number 153 on the Billboard Charts , as Zappa's “probably most underrated album”. It was “well received, insightful and playful” and contained some of the most precise and catchy instrumental pieces that have ever been recorded on record.

literature

  • Kelly Fisher Lowe: The Words and Music of Frank Zappa . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-6005-4 , Chapter 6, Section The Man from Utopia and Them or Us , pp. 180-184 .
  • Ben Watson: Frank Zappa. The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play . Quarted Books Ltd., London 1996, ISBN 0-7043-0242-X , Chapter 8, Section The Man from Utopia , p. 401-408 .
  • Frank Wonneberg : Grand Zappa - International Frank Zappa Discology . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-581-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Frank Zappa Album Versions Guide. The Man from Utopia . Retrieved June 23, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Frank Zappa. Texts and background information on The Man from Utopia on globalia.net. Retrieved June 24, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Charts US
  4. ↑ Kelly Fisher Lowe: The Words and Music of Frank Zappa . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-6005-4 , Chapter 6, Section The Man from Utopia and Them or Us , pp. 180-184 .