The Mothers of Invention

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The Mothers of Invention

MUSIC

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Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Jimmy Carl Black Drummer 1-Feb-1938 1-Nov-2008 Original Mothers of Invention drummer

George Duke Jazz Musician 12-Jan-1946 Jazz/Funk keyboardist

Aynsley Dunbar Drummer 10-Jan-1946 Prolific drummer, ex-Zappa, Bowie, Journey

Howard Kaylan Singer 22-Jun-1947 The Turtles

Jean-Luc Ponty Jazz Musician 29-Sep-1942 Electric jazz violinist

Don Preston Musician 21-Sep-1932 Keyboard mad scientist, occasional monster

Arthur Dyer Tripp III Musician 10-Sep-1944 Percussionist for Zappa and Beefheart

Ian Underwood Musician 22-May-1939 Multi-instrumentalist for The Mothers of Invention

Ruth Underwood Drummer 23-May-1946 Whirlwind percussionist for Frank Zappa

Mark Volman Singer 19-Apr-1947 The Turtles

Frank Zappa Composer 21-Dec-1940 4-Dec-1993 Joe's Garage

DISCOGRAPHY

Freak Out! (1966, Verve/MGM)

1 Hungry Freaks, Daddy

2 I Ain't Got No Heart

3 Who Are The Brain Police?

4 Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder

5 Motherly Love

6 How Could I Be Such A Fool

8 Wowie Zowie

9 You Didn't Try To Call Me

10 Any Way The Wind Blows

11 I'm Not Satisfied

Disc 2

1 You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here

2 Trouble Every Day

3 Help, I'm A Rock

4 It Can't Happen Here

5 The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1987 and in a different digitally remastered version in 1995.

Absolutely Free (1967, Verve)

1 Plastic People

2 The Duke Of Prunes

3 Amnesia Vivace

4 The Duke Regains His Chops

5 Call Any Vegetable

6 Invocation And Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin

7 Soft-Sell Conclusion

8 America Drinks

9 Status Back Baby

10 Uncle Bernie's Farm

11 Son Of Suzy Creamcheese

12 Brown Shoes Don't Make It

13 America Drinks & Goes Home (with Terry Gilliam)

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1988 and in a different digitally remastered version in 1995 with the additional tracks Big Leg Emma and Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?.

We're Only In It For The Money (1968, Verve)

1 Are You Hung Up? (with Eric Clapton)

2 Who Needs The Peace Corps?

3 Concentration Moon

4 Mom & Dad

5 Telephone Conversation

6 Bow Tie Daddy

7 Harry, You're A Beast

8 What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?

9 Absolutely Free

10 Flower Punk

11 Hot Poop

12 Nasal Retentive Calliope Music (with Eric Clapton)

13 Let's Make The Water Turn Black

14 The Idiot Bastard Son

15 It's His Voice on the Radio

16 Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

17 What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (reprise)

18 Mother People

19 The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny

The original release of the album had certain parts censored; an even more thoroughly censored version was also briefly in circulation. Reissued in a digitally remastered, modified, uncensored and partially re-recorded version (new bass and drum tracks) on CD by Ryko in 1986, also combining the album with Lumpy Gravy. The 1995 CD edition used a digitally remastered version of the original vinyl release, with the track It's His Voice on the Radio re-named as Lonely Little Girl.

Cruising With Ruben & The Jets (1968, Bizarre/Verve)

1 Cheap Thrills

2 Love Of My Life

3 How Could I Be Such A Fool

4 Deseri

5 I'm Not Satisfied

6 Jelly Roll Gum Drop

7 Anything

8 Later That Night

9 You Didn't Try To Call Me

10 Fountain Of Love

11 "No. No. No."

12 Anyway The Wind Blows

13 Stuff Up The Cracks

Reissued in a digitally remastered and extensively modified version on CD by Ryko in 1987 and 1995.

Mothermania: The Best Of The Mothers (1969, Bizarre/Verve)

1 Brown Shoes Don't Make It

2 Mother People (alternate mono)

3 Duke Of Prunes

4 Call Any Vegetable (edit)

5 The Idiot Bastard Son (alternate mono)

6 It Can't Happen Here (alternate mix)

7 You Are Probably Wondering Why I'm Here (alternate mix)

8 Who Are The Brain Police? (alternate mix)

9 Plastic People

10 Hungry Freaks, Daddy (alternate mix)

11 America Drinks And Goes Home

The Spanish edition replaced the tracks Brown Shoes Don't Make It, Mother People and The Duke Of Prunes with Who Needs The Peace Corps? and Concentration Moon.

Uncle Meat (1969, Bizarre (US), Trans-Atlantic (UK))

Disc 1

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 (At the Royal Albert Hall in London) (Richard Berry cover)

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 (live at the Whisky A Go Go) (Irving Berlin cover)

15 A Pound For A Brown On The Bus

16 Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen)

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 Cruising For Burgers

7 King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio)

8 King Kong (II) (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)

9 King Kong (III) (as Motorhead explains it)

10 King Kong (IV) (the Gardner Varieties)

11 King Kong (V) (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks)

12 King Kong (VI) (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival... the Underwood ramifications)

Reissued in a digitally remastered version as a double CD by Ryko in 1987 and in 1995 with the additional tracks Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Part I, Tengo Na Minchia Tanta and Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Part II and with a remixed version of Mr. Green Genes.

The **** Of The Mothers (1969, Verve)

1 Status Back Baby

2 Wowie Zowie

3 You Didn't Try To Call Me

4 Invocation & Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin

5 Soft-Sell Conclusions

6 Bow-Tie Daddy

7 Uncle Bernie's Farm

8 Concentration Moon

9 Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder

10 Flower Punk

11 Motherly Love

A compilation album.

Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970, Bizarre (US), Reprise (UK))

1 WPLJ (The Four Deuces cover)

2 Igor's Boogie, Phase One

3 Overture To A Holiday In Berlin

4 Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich

5 Igor's Boogie, Phase Two

6 Holiday In Berlin, Full-Blown

7 Aybe Sea

8 The Little House I Used To Live In

9 Valarie (Jackie and the Starlites cover)

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Barking Pumpkin in 1991 and by Ryko in 1995.

The Mothers Of Invention (1970, MGM)

1 Mother People

2 Who Needs The Peace Corps?

3 Flower Punk

4 I Ain't Got No Heart

5 Concentration Moon

6 Wowie Zowie

7 America Drinks & Goes Home

8 Call Any Vegetable

9 Son Of Suzy Creamcheese

10 Absolutely Free

A compilation album.

Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970, Bizarre (US), Reprise (UK))

1 Didja Get Any Onya?

2 Directly From My Heart To You (Little Richard cover)

3 Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask

4 Toads Of The Short Forest

5 Get A Little

6 The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue

7 Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula

8 My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama

9 Oh No

10 The Orange County Lumber Truck

11 Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1990 and in 1995.

Chunga's Revenge (1970, Bizarre (US), Reprise (UK))

1 Transylvania Boogie

2 Road Ladies

3 Twenty Small Cigars

4 The Nancy & Mary Music (parts 1, 2 & 3)

5 Tell Me You Love Me

6 Would You Go All The Way?

7 Chunga's Revenge

8 The Clap

9 Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink

10 Sharleena

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1990 and in 1995.

The Worst Of The Mothers (1971, MGM)

1 Help, I'm A Rock

2 Anyway The Wind Blows

3 Flower Punk

4 You Didn't Try To Call Me

5 Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

6 Motherly Love

7 Mom & Dad

8 Mother People

9 Wowie Zowie

10 Status Back Baby

A compilation album.

Fillmore East, June 1971 (live) (1971)

1 Little House I Used To Live In

2 The Mud Shark

3 What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?

4 Bwana Dik

5 Latex Solar Beef

6 Willie The Pimp Part One/

7 Willie The Pimp, Part Two

8 Do You Like My New Car?

9 Happy Together (The Turtles cover)

10 Lonesome Electric Turkey (with Don Preston)

11 Peaches En Regalia

12 Tears Began To Fall

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1990 and in 1995, but lacking the track Willie The Pimp, Part Two.

Just Another Band From L.A. (live) (1972, Bizarre (US), Reprise (UK))

1 Billy The Mountain

2 Call Any Vegetable

3 Eddie, Are You Kidding?

4 Magdalena

5 Dog Breath

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1990 and in 1995.

Over-Nite Sensation (1973, DiscReet)

1 Camarillo Brillo

2 I'm The Slime (with Tina Turner & The Ikettes)

3 Dirty Love (with Tina Turner & The Ikettes)

4 Fifty-Fifty (with Ricky Lancelotti)

5 Zomby Woof (with Ricky Lancelotti and Tina Turner & The Ikettes)

6 Dinah-Moe Humm (with Tina Turner & The Ikettes)

7 Montana (with Tina Turner & The Ikettes)

The Spanish edition replaced Dinah-Moe Humm with Eat That Question. Combined with Apostrophe (') and reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1986; reissued again as a separate CD in 1995.

Roxy & Elsewhere (live) (1974, DiscReet)

1 Penguin In Bondage

2 Pygmy Twylyte

3 Dummy Up

4 Village Of The Sun

5 Echidna's Arf (Of You)

6 Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?

7 Cheepnis

8 Son Of Orange County

9 More Trouble Every Day

10 Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church)

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Barking Pumpkin in 1992 with a remixed version of Cheepnis; this edition was reissued again in 1995 by Ryko.

One Size Fits All (1975, DiscReet)

1 Inca Roads

2 Can't Afford No Shoes

3 Sofa No. 1

4 Po-Jama People

5 Florentine Pogen

6 Evelyn, A Modified Dog

7 San Ber'dino

8 Andy

9 Sofa No. 2

Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1988 and in 1995.

Bongo Fury (1975, DiscReet)

1 Debra Kadabra

2 Carolina Hard-core Ecstasy

3 Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top

4 Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead

5 200 Years Old

6 Cucamonga

7 Advance Romance

8 Man With The Woman Head

9 Muffin Man

A collaboration between Zappa/The Mothers and Captain Beefheart. Reissued in a digitally remastered version on CD by Ryko in 1989 and in 1995.

Playground Psychotics (1992, Barking Pumpkin (US), Zappa (UK))

Disc 1

1 Here Comes The Gear, Lads

2 The Living Garbage Truck

3 A Typical Sound Check

4 "This Is Neat"

5 The Motel Lobby

6 Getting Stewed

7 The Motel Room

8 "Don't Take Me Down"

9 The Dressing Room

10 Learning "Penis Dimension"

11 "You There, With The Hard On!"

12 Zanti Serenade

13 Divan

14 Sleeping In A Jar

15 "Don't Eat There"

16 Brixton Still Life

17 Super Grease

18 Wonderful Wino

19 Sharleena

20 Cruisin' For Burgers

21 Diptheria Blues

22 Well (Walter Ward cover, with John Lennon and Yoko Ono)

23 Say Please (with John Lennon and Yoko Ono)

24 Aaawk (with John Lennon and Yoko Ono)

25 Scumbag (with John Lennon and Yoko Ono)

26 A Small Eternity With Yoko Ono (with John Lennon and Yoko Ono)

Disc 2

1 Beer Shampoo

2 Champagne Lecture

3 Childish Perversion

4 Playground Psychotics

5 The Mudshark Interview

6 "There's No Lust In Jazz"

7 Botulism On The Hoof

8 You Got Your Armies

9 The Spew King

10 I'm Doomed

11 Status Back Baby

12 The London Cab Tape

13 Concentration Moon, Part One

14 The Sanzini Brothers

15 "It's A Good Thing We Get Paid To Do This"

16 Concentration Moon, Part Two

17 Mom & Dad

18 Intro To Music For Low Budget Orchestra

19 Billy The Mountain

20 He's Watching Us

21 If You're Not A Professional Actor

22 He's Right

23 Going For The Money

24 Jeff Quits

25 A Bunch Of Adventures

26 Martin Lickert's Story

27 A Great Guy

28 Bad Acting

29 The Worst Reviews

30 A Version Of Himself

31 I Could Be A Star Now

Reissued in 1995 by Ryko.

Ahead Of Their Time (live) (1993, Barking Pumpkin (US), Zappa (UK))

1 Prologue

2 Progress?

3 Like It Or Not

4 The Jimmy Carl Black Philosophy Lesson

5 Holding The Group Back

6 Holiday In Berlin

7 The Rejected Mexican Pope Leaves The Stage

8 Undaunted, The Band Plays On

9 Agency Man

10 Epilogue

11 King Kong

12 Help, I'm A Rock

13 Transylvania Boogie

14 Pound For A Brown

15 Sleeping In A Jar

16 Let's Make The Water Turn Black

17 Harry, You're A Beast

18 The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part I)

19 Oh No

20 The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part II)

Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London on October 25, 1968 with members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Reissued in 1995 by Ryko.

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