AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head
Cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering
While his earlier albums were more satirical, on Uncle Meat, Zappa let his serious compositional chops guide the action—made possible of course by the deadly skilled, very serious Mothers of Invention musicians, even as his 'wack pack' characters like Suzy Creamcheese and other obsessions sprinkle the sonic landscape." - analogplanet, Music 9/11, Sound 9/11
100 Recommended All-Analog ressues Worth Owning - Michael Fremer Analogplanet
Just three years into their recording career, the Mothers of Invention released their second double album, Uncle Meat, which began life as the largely instrumental soundtrack to an unfinished film. It's essentially a transitional work, but it's a fascinating one, showcasing Frank Zappa's ever-increasing compositional dexterity and the Mothers' emerging instrumental prowess. It was potentially easy to overlook Zappa's melodic gifts on albums past, but on Uncle Meat, he thrusts them firmly into the spotlight; what few lyrics there are, Zappa says in the liner notes, are in-jokes relevant only to the band. Thus, Uncle Meat became the point at which Zappa began to establish himself as a composer and he would return to many of these pieces repeatedly over the course of his career.
1. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
2. The Voice Of Cheese
3. Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution
4. Zolar Czakl
5. Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
6. The Legend Of The Golden Arches
7. Louie Louie
8. The Dog Breath Variations
9. Sleeping In A Jar
10. Our Bizarre Relationship
11. The Uncle Meat Variations
12. Electric Aunt Jemima
13. Prelude To King Kong
14. God Bless America
15. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
16. Ian Underwood Whips It Out
Disc: 2
1. Mr. Green Genes
2. We Can Shoot You
3. If We'd All Been Living In California
4. The Air
5. Project X
6. Cruisin' For Burgers
7. King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio)
8. King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild)
9. King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It)
10. King Kong (The Gardner Varieties)
11. King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks)
12. King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival...The Underwood Remifications)
