Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Studio album by The Mothers of Invention

Publication
(s)

August 10, 1970

Label (s) Bizarre Records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Progressive rock , jazz rock

Title (number)

11

running time

43:03

occupation
  • Lowell George : Rhythm Guitar and Vocals on Didja Get Any Onya?

production

Frank Zappa

chronology
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
(1970) 		Weasels Ripped My Flesh Chunga's Revenge
(1970)

Weasels Ripped My Flesh is a music album from the Mothers of Invention .

The album was released in 1970 on Bizarre Records and, like the previous album Burnt Weeny Sandwich , consists of recordings from previous years. At the time of publication, Zappa had almost completely swapped the cast of the Mothers of Invention. The album is a collection of symphonic and avant-garde pieces, rounded off with several blues and rock singles . The pieces are partly acoustic experiments, the title The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue is “close to hardcore jazz”.

Track list

All tracks are composed by Frank Zappa.

  1. Didja Get Any Onya? - 6:51
  2. Directly From My Heart To You (Penniman) - 5:16
  3. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask - 3:48
  4. Toads of the Short Forest - 4:48
  5. Get a Little - 2:31
  6. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue - 6:52
  7. Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula - 2:12
  8. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama - 3:32
  9. Oh No - 1:45
  10. The Orange County Lumber Truck - 3:21
  11. Weasels Ripped My Flesh - 2:08

Publications and chart successes

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
  US 189 10/03/1970 (3 weeks)

The long-playing record was released on September 10, 1970 in the USA on Bizarre Records , and it was distributed worldwide by Reprise Records . It reached number 189 on the Billboard charts.

In Germany the album was also released as a double album in combination with Burnt Weeny Sandwich . After the album was long out of print, it was reissued on November 4, 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 followed in 1995 on Rykodisc.

reception

Music critic Mike Fish sees Weasel's Ripped My Flesh as " nothing more than the waste and loose ends of Zappa's workbench from the past three years". The music covers the ludicrous and most serious aspects of the Mothers of Invention, often in “hair-raising juxtaposition”. He closes with “It rocks!” The English scholar Kelly Fisher Lowe rates the album as one that rewards repeated and careful listening. It is, together with Burnt Weeny Sandwich, the swan song of the original Mothers line-up and is therefore also loved by many fans in the retrospective. For a long time, Zappa's albums represented the most extensive and experimental work.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Román García Albertos: Weasels Ripped My Flesh on globalia.net. Retrieved February 12, 2010 .
  2. ↑ a b c Kelly Fisher Lowe: The Words and Music of Frank Zappa. With a new introduction by the author. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln / London 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-6005-4 , pp. 77-83.
  3. ↑ Charts US
  4. ↑ Weasels Ripped My Flesh, The Frank Zappa Album Versions Guide, the zappa patio . Retrieved February 12, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Mike Fish and Ben Watson: Frank Zappa on Disk, reprint of the 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.