Uncle Meat
Uncle Meat | ||||
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Studio album by The Mothers of Invention | ||||
Publication |
April 21, 1969 |
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Label (s) |
Bizarre Records Reprise Records Zappa Records (CD) Barking Pumpkin Records (CD) Rykodisc (CD) VideoArts Music (CD) |
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Format (s) |
LP vinyl , CD |
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Progressive rock , jazz rock , avant-garde , musique concrète |
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Title (number) |
31 |
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running time |
75:57 (LP) 120: 25 (CD) |
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Studio (s) |
Apostolic Studios, New York |
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Uncle Meat is an album by Frank Zappa's band The Mothers of Invention . It was released in 1969 as a vinyl double LP on the Bizarre label and can be assigned to both the progressive rock genre and the emerging jazz rock . It was released as the supposed soundtrack of a film of the same name, which, however, did not even exist. It wasn't until 1987 that a video with this title appeared, according to the Internet Movie Database a documentary about an unfinished film.
staff
occupation
- Frank Zappa - electric guitar , percussion , vocals
- Jimmy Carl Black - percussion, drums
- Ray Collins - vocals
- Aynsley Dunbar - drums
- Roy Estrada - electric bass , vocals
- Bunk Gardner - clarinets , flutes , saxophones
- Ruth Komanoff - marimbaphone , vibraphone
- Billy Mundi - drums
- Don Preston - electric piano
- Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood - tenor saxophone , tambourine , vocals
- Art Tripp - percussion, chimes, drums, marimbaphone, xylophone , bells , timpani , vibraphone, block of wood
- Ian Underwood - clarinet, flute, piano , celeste, harpsichord , saxophones , woodwind instruments , electric organ
- Nelcy Walker - soprano vocals
- Pamela Zarubica as Suzy Creamcheese
production
- Producer: Frank Zappa
- Sound engineer: Richard Kunc, Jerry Hansen
- Cover design: Cal Schenkel
music
Uncle Meat is the sixth album by the Mothers of Invention. The album shows a further development of Zappa's music towards jazz and art music - as Zappa saw it. It also contains half caricaturing, half homage elements from doo wop , blues and rock 'n' roll as well as sound fragments from the film. The album is held together by dreamy melodies, stream-of-consciousness texts (often about places and incidents from everyday teenage life in the suburbs of Los Angeles) and film-music-like themes with recurring variations and repetitions. The six-part piece “King Kong” with its jazz improvisations resembles Zappa's follow-up album Hot Rats , on which with “Son of Mr. Green Genes” the theme of the Uncle Meat piece “Mr. Green Genes ”will be resumed.
Criticism
“It's exciting to hear one of the most creatively fertile minds of rock pushing restlessly into new territory, even if he doesn't always know exactly where it's going. ... Although some may miss the gleeful satire of Zappa's previous work with the Mothers, Uncle Meats' uninterrupted abundance of musical ideas makes it one of his most intriguing works. ”
"Masterpiece alarm!"
CD version
In 1987 Uncle Meat was released as a double CD containing additional material:
- a new piece of Tengo Na Minchia Tanta (Sicilian for “I have a big penis”) sung in Italian by Massimo Bassoli
- about 40 minutes of sound from the film.
These additions are sometimes not welcomed by fans and critics and are referred to as “penalty tracks”, because Tengo Na Minchia Tanta comes from a completely different period in Zappa's career and the film sound clips are viewed as superfluous. In addition, due to the large volume, the publication as a double CD was necessary. The additional material was inserted between the last track on side 3 of the original LP and the first track on LP side 4.
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Track list
All titles were composed by Frank Zappa, unless otherwise mentioned (*).
vinyl record
page 1
- Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme - 1:56
- The Voice of Cheese - 0:26
- Nine Types of Industrial Pollution - 6:00
- Zolar Czakl - 0:54
- Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague - 3:59
- The Legend of the Golden Arches - 3:28
- Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London) (* Richard Berry ) - 2:19
- The Dog Breath Variations - 1:48
Page 2
- Sleeping in a Jar - 0:50
- Our Bizarre Relationship - 1:05
- The Uncle Meat Variations - 4:46
- Electric Aunt Jemima - 1:46
- Prelude to King Kong - 3:38
- God Bless America (* Irving Berlin ) - 1:10
- A Pound for a Brown on the Bus - 1:29
- Ian Underwood Whips It Out - 5:05
Page 3
- Mr. Green Genes - 3:14
- We Can Shoot You - 2:03
- If We'd All Been Living in California… - 1:14
- The Air - 2:57
- Project X - 4:48
- Cruisin 'for Burgers - 2:18
page 4
- King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio) - 0:49
- King Kong II (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild) - 1:21
- King Kong III (as Motorhead explains it) - 1:44
- King Kong IV (the Gardner Varieties) - 6:17
- King Kong V (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks) - 0:34
- King Kong VI (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival … the Underwood ramifications) - 7:24
CD
CD 1
- Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme - 1:56
- The Voice of Cheese - 0:26
- Nine Types of Industrial Pollution - 6:00
- Zolar Czakl - 0:54
- Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague - 3:59
- The Legend of the Golden Arches - 3:28
- Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London) (* Richard Berry ) - 2:19
- The Dog Breath Variations - 1:48
- Sleeping in a Jar - 0:50
- Our Bizarre Relationship - 1:05
- The Uncle Meat Variations - 4:46
- Electric Aunt Jemima - 1:46
- Prelude to King Kong - 3:38
- God Bless America (* Irving Berlin ) - 1:10
- A Pound for a Brown on the Bus - 1:29
- Ian Underwood Whips It Out - 5:05
- Mr. Green Genes - 3:14
- We Can Shoot You - 2:03
- If We'd All Been Living in California… - 1:14
- The Air - 2:57
- Project X - 4:48
- Cruisin 'for Burgers - 2:18
CD 2
- Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 1 - 37:34
- Tengo Na Minchia Tanta - 3:46
- Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 2 - 3:50
- King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio) - 0:49
- King Kong II (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild) - 1:21
- King Kong III (as Motorhead explains it) - 1:44
- King Kong IV (the Gardner Varieties) - 6:17
- King Kong V (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks) - 0:34
- King Kong VI (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival… the Underwood ramifications) - 7:24
Web links
- Reviews of Uncle Meat on the baby blue pages
- Album information and texts (English)
- Album versions (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b review on www.allmusic.com (English, with sound examples - as of February 2007)
- ↑ a b c d e Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Frank Zappa: Uncle Meat: Review - detailed review (as of February 2007)
- ↑ The film Uncle Meat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Uncle Meat in the English language Wikipedia
- ↑ "massimo bassoli" on www.united-mutations.com
- ↑ Reviews on www.progarchives.com
- ↑ Charts US