Frank Zappa

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Peaches en Regalia 03:37 Tools
Bobby Brown 02:52 Tools
Don't Eat the Yellow Snow 03:35 Tools
Willie the Pimp 09:17 Tools
Cosmik Debris 04:15 Tools
Dirty Love 03:00 Tools
I'm the Slime 03:35 Tools
Trouble Every Day 05:54 Tools
Uncle Remus 02:50 Tools
Son of Mr. Green Genes 09:00 Tools
Dancin' Fool 06:17 Tools
Nanook Rubs It 04:38 Tools
Little Umbrellas 03:04 Tools
Muffin Man 03:55 Tools
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama 03:34 Tools
Joe's Garage 06:11 Tools
The Gumbo Variations 16:57 Tools
Hungry Freaks, Daddy 03:22 Tools
Disco Boy 03:52 Tools
Camarillo Brillo 03:59 Tools
It Must Be a Camel 05:17 Tools
Watermelon In Easter Hay 09:06 Tools
Excentrifugal Forz 01:33 Tools
San Ber'dino 05:57 Tools
I Ain't Got No Heart 00:00 Tools
Valley Girl 04:51 Tools
Father O'Blivion 02:19 Tools
Let's Make the Water Turn Black 00:00 Tools
You Didn't Try to Call Me 00:00 Tools
Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder 00:00 Tools
Fine Girl 00:00 Tools
Jewish Princess 00:00 Tools
Catholic Girls 00:00 Tools
Motherly Love 00:00 Tools
Broken Hearts Are For Assholes 03:46 Tools
Wowie Zowie 00:00 Tools
I'm Not Satisfied 02:39 Tools
St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast 01:51 Tools
Zoot Allures 04:16 Tools
Inca Roads 00:00 Tools
Who Are The Brain Police? 00:00 Tools
How Could I Be Such a Fool 00:00 Tools
Plastic People 00:00 Tools
Stink-Foot 06:38 Tools
Who Needs the Peace Corps? 00:00 Tools
You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here 00:00 Tools
I Have Been in You 00:00 Tools
Apostrophe' 05:49 Tools
Zomby Woof 05:10 Tools
What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? 01:07 Tools
Help, I'm A Rock 00:00 Tools
Baby Snakes 01:45 Tools
Are You Hung Up? 01:29 Tools
Tell Me You Love Me 00:00 Tools
Concentration Moon 02:17 Tools
Any Way The Wind Blows 00:00 Tools
Harry, You're A Beast 00:00 Tools
Flakes 06:40 Tools
Big Leg Emma 02:18 Tools
Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance 01:55 Tools
Call Any Vegetable 07:59 Tools
It Can't Happen Here 03:06 Tools
Bow Tie Daddy 04:39 Tools
Jones Crusher 02:49 Tools
I'm So Cute 04:27 Tools
Mom & Dad 00:00 Tools
The Torture Never Stops 09:49 Tools
Absolutely Free 00:29 Tools
Telephone Conversation 00:00 Tools
Flower Punk 03:03 Tools
The Idiot Bastard Son 00:00 Tools
Tryin' To Grow A Chin 00:00 Tools
Mother People 02:08 Tools
The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet 12:18 Tools
Lonely Little Girl 02:44 Tools
Crew Slut 06:32 Tools
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? 00:00 Tools
Black Napkins 00:00 Tools
The Duke of Prunes 04:20 Tools
Nasal Retentive Calliope Music 00:00 Tools
Dinah-Moe Humm 06:02 Tools
Amnesia Vivace 00:00 Tools
Brown Shoes Don't Make It 07:29 Tools
Be in My Video 00:00 Tools
Rat Tomago 05:14 Tools
Rubber Shirt 00:00 Tools
Wait A Minute 00:33 Tools
The Duke Regains His Chops 00:00 Tools
Status Back Baby 02:54 Tools
Florentine Pogen 07:11 Tools
Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up 00:00 Tools
City Of Tiny Lites 05:30 Tools
The Central Scrutinizer 03:28 Tools
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace 03:43 Tools
Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt 04:45 Tools
The Sheik Yerbouti Tango 03:55 Tools
America Drinks 04:52 Tools
Soft-Sell Conclusion 00:00 Tools
Sofa No. 1 02:50 Tools
Blessed Relief 07:59 Tools
Andy 05:51 Tools
Son Of Suzy Creamcheese 00:00 Tools
Wild Love 00:00 Tools
Stick It Out 00:00 Tools
The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny 00:00 Tools
America Drinks & Goes Home 00:00 Tools
Eat That Question 00:00 Tools
Can't Afford No Shoes 02:39 Tools
Fifty-Fifty 00:00 Tools
Sleeping In A Jar 00:00 Tools
Why Don'tcha Do Me Right? 00:00 Tools
The Grand Wazoo 13:18 Tools
Invocation & Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin 07:00 Tools
What Ever Happened To All The Fun In The World 00:33 Tools
Po-Jama People 07:39 Tools
Mr. Green Genes 09:01 Tools
On The Bus 00:00 Tools
Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme 01:27 Tools
A Token Of My Extreme 05:30 Tools
Oh No 04:43 Tools
Big Swifty 00:00 Tools
Uncle Bernie's Farm 05:41 Tools
The Dog Breath Variations 00:00 Tools
You Are What You Is 04:23 Tools
Outside Now 07:49 Tools
Find Her Finer 04:21 Tools
Scrutinizer Postlude 01:35 Tools
G-Spot Tornado 00:00 Tools
Keep It Greasey 00:00 Tools
Apostrophe 00:00 Tools
Village Of The Sun 00:00 Tools
Evelyn, a Modified Dog 00:00 Tools
Night School 04:50 Tools
The Legend Of The Golden Arches 03:16 Tools
Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station 02:31 Tools
Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus 00:00 Tools
A Little Green Rosetta 02:49 Tools
Sharleena 04:34 Tools
Dong Work For Yuda 00:00 Tools
Sofa No. 2 00:00 Tools
Sy Borg 04:28 Tools
Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague 00:00 Tools
Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution 00:00 Tools
Yo' Mama 12:41 Tools
Montana (single version) 02:55 Tools
Zolar Czakl 00:00 Tools
What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
Pound For A Brown 20:40 Tools
Chunga's Revenge 06:16 Tools
Titties and Beer 07:50 Tools
Anyway the Wind Blows 02:55 Tools
Transylvania Boogie 05:01 Tools
Cheap Thrills 02:22 Tools
Electric Aunt Jemima 00:00 Tools
Our Bizarre Relationship 00:00 Tools
For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers) 00:00 Tools
WPLJ 01:31 Tools
Directly From My Heart To You 00:00 Tools
He Used To Cut The Grass 00:00 Tools
The Orange County Lumber Truck 10:41 Tools
Heavy Duty Judy 06:04 Tools
Packard Goose 00:00 Tools
Twenty Small Cigars 00:00 Tools
Titties & Beer 07:37 Tools
Wonderful Wino 03:40 Tools
The Uncle Meat Variations 00:00 Tools
A Pound For A Brown On The Bus 00:00 Tools
The Illinois Enema Bandit 08:46 Tools
Penguin In Bondage 00:00 Tools
Love of My Life 00:00 Tools
Ms. Pinky 00:00 Tools
Prelude To King Kong 00:00 Tools
Who Are the Brain Police 03:32 Tools
Road Ladies 04:11 Tools
It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal 00:00 Tools
The Air 00:00 Tools
The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue 09:19 Tools
Dumb All Over 05:43 Tools
Goblin Girl 00:00 Tools
We Can Shoot You 00:00 Tools
Toads Of The Short Forest 00:00 Tools
Pygmy Twylyte 00:00 Tools
Didja Get Any Onya? 00:00 Tools
Stairway To Heaven 09:20 Tools
Cruisin' for Burgers 00:00 Tools
Waka/Jawaka 36:10 Tools
I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth 03:55 Tools
Your Mouth 00:00 Tools
Five-Five-Five 00:00 Tools
He's So Gay 02:45 Tools
Cocaine Decisions 00:00 Tools
Friendly Little Finger 04:18 Tools
Punky's Whips 11:30 Tools
Echidna's Arf (Of You) 00:00 Tools
We Are Not Alone 00:00 Tools
Stinkfoot 07:39 Tools
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 03:11 Tools
The Beltway Bandits 00:00 Tools
Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula 00:00 Tools
Project X 00:00 Tools
Overture To A Holiday In Berlin 01:27 Tools
Filthy Habits 10:28 Tools
Aybe Sea 00:00 Tools
Ring of Fire 02:00 Tools
Jazz From Hell 03:00 Tools
RDNZL 08:15 Tools
Doreen 04:45 Tools
How Could I Be Such A Fool? 03:34 Tools
Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink 02:45 Tools
Uncle Meat 00:00 Tools
Advance Romance 00:00 Tools
Igor's Boogie, Phase One 00:00 Tools
Cheepnis 00:00 Tools
Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich 00:00 Tools
Joe's Garage (single version) 00:00 Tools
Get A Little 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
Cruising for Burgers 00:00 Tools
Harder Than Your Husband 00:00 Tools
The Clap 00:00 Tools
In France 03:34 Tools
Hog Heaven 00:00 Tools
Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me? 00:00 Tools
Heavenly Bank Account 04:03 Tools
The Nancy & Mary Music 09:30 Tools
Sofa 00:00 Tools
Stink Foot 00:00 Tools
I'm A Beautiful Guy 00:00 Tools
Suicide Chump 02:49 Tools
Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar 00:00 Tools
Beauty Knows No Pain 00:00 Tools
Teen-Age Wind 00:00 Tools
SEX 00:00 Tools
While You Were Art II 00:00 Tools
Strictly Genteel 00:00 Tools
Society Pages 00:00 Tools
Mudd Club 02:53 Tools
Regyptian Strut 00:00 Tools
Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London) 00:00 Tools
Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask 00:00 Tools
Igor's Boogie, Phase Two 00:00 Tools
Charlie's Enormous Mouth 00:00 Tools
Tengo Na Minchia Tanta 00:00 Tools
King Kong 10:46 Tools
Holiday In Berlin, Full-Blown 00:00 Tools
Dupree's Paradise 00:00 Tools
Easy Meat 09:18 Tools
St. Etienne 00:00 Tools
Dummy Up 00:00 Tools
Weasels Ripped My Flesh 00:00 Tools
Treacherous Cretins 00:00 Tools
More Trouble Every Day 07:17 Tools
Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel 00:00 Tools
Damp Ankles 00:00 Tools
While You Were Out 00:00 Tools
Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? 00:00 Tools
Conehead 00:00 Tools
Fountain of Love 00:00 Tools
Manx Needs Women 00:00 Tools
Stevie's Spanking 00:00 Tools
Valarie 00:00 Tools
Envelopes 02:45 Tools
Massaggio Galore 00:00 Tools
Son of Orange County 00:00 Tools
Dog Breath Variations 00:00 Tools
The Deathless Horsie 06:21 Tools
We're Turning Again 00:00 Tools
Variations On The Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression 00:00 Tools
For The Young Sophisticate 00:00 Tools
Deseri 00:00 Tools
St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast 00:00 Tools
King Kong II 00:00 Tools
Don't Eat the Yellow Snow (single version) 18:36 Tools
King Kong V 00:00 Tools
Bolero 05:19 Tools
Jumbo Go Away 03:43 Tools
The Dangerous Kitchen 00:00 Tools
Black Page #2 00:00 Tools
Purple Haze 00:00 Tools
Happy Together 02:57 Tools
The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution 00:00 Tools
Soup 'N Old Clothes 00:00 Tools
Alien Orifice 00:00 Tools
Little House I Used To Live In 00:00 Tools
Sofa #1 02:50 Tools
Outrage At Valdez 00:00 Tools
Let's Move to Cleveland 00:00 Tools
King Kong III 00:00 Tools
Gee, I Like Your Pants 00:00 Tools
Theme From The 3rd Movement Of Sinister Footwear 00:00 Tools
God Bless America (live at the Whisky a Go Go) 01:11 Tools
Jelly Roll Gum Drop 00:00 Tools
Tinsel Town Rebellion 04:43 Tools
Ian Underwood Whips It Out (live on Stage in Copenhagen) 00:00 Tools
Drowning Witch 00:00 Tools
Spider Of Destiny 00:00 Tools
Anything 00:00 Tools
Debra Kadabra 00:00 Tools
Ship Ahoy 00:00 Tools
T'Mershi Duween 00:00 Tools
Naval Aviation In Art? 00:00 Tools
The Girl In The Magnesium Dress 00:00 Tools
Time Is Money 00:00 Tools
Pink Napkins 04:38 Tools
Sleep Dirt 00:00 Tools
I Could Be A Star Now 00:00 Tools
The Little House I Used to Live In 00:00 Tools
No Not Now 00:00 Tools
Later That Night 00:00 Tools
Any Downers? 00:00 Tools
Drafted Again 00:00 Tools
Magic Fingers 00:00 Tools
200 Years Old 00:00 Tools
Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part II 00:00 Tools
Sunshine of Your Love 00:00 Tools
Pedro's Dowry 00:00 Tools
The Black Page #2 00:00 Tools
Beat It With Your Fist 00:00 Tools
I Left My Heart In San Francisco 00:36 Tools
Stick Together 00:00 Tools
Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar Some More 00:00 Tools
In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky 02:49 Tools
Which One Is It? 00:00 Tools
Bamboozled By Love 00:00 Tools
Be-Bop Tango (Of The Old Jazzmen's Church) 16:39 Tools
The Closer You Are 02:56 Tools
King Kong VI 00:00 Tools
Canarsie 00:00 Tools
Stuff Up The Cracks 00:00 Tools
Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy 00:00 Tools
Lemme Take You To The Beach 00:00 Tools
Moggio 02:37 Tools
Why Does It Hurt When I Pee 00:00 Tools
If Only She Woulda 00:00 Tools
What's New In Baltimore? 00:00 Tools
King Kong IV 00:00 Tools
Republicans 05:07 Tools
Dinah Moe Humm 00:00 Tools
If We'd All Been Living in California... 00:00 Tools
The Mud Shark 05:22 Tools
The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary 00:00 Tools
Pinocchio's Furniture 02:05 Tools
City Of Tiny Lights 08:01 Tools
Be-Bop Tango 03:43 Tools
Do Not Pass Go 00:00 Tools
Return Of The Son Of Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar 00:00 Tools
Cucamonga 00:00 Tools
Why Johnny Can't Read 04:35 Tools
Dickie's Such An Asshole 00:00 Tools
Tink Walks Amok 03:39 Tools
Dog Breath 00:00 Tools
Elvis Has Just Left The Building 02:24 Tools
Latex Solar Beef 00:00 Tools
Ya Hozna 06:27 Tools
Flambay 00:00 Tools
Intro Rap 00:00 Tools
That's Not Really Reggae 00:00 Tools
Bwana Dik 00:00 Tools
50/50 00:00 Tools
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling 00:00 Tools
Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part I 00:00 Tools
Stucco Homes 00:00 Tools
Tears Began to Fall 00:00 Tools
I Come From Nowhere 00:00 Tools
Teen-age Prostitute 00:00 Tools
The Mudshark Interview 00:00 Tools
Yo Cats 00:00 Tools
The Jazz Discharge Party Hats 00:00 Tools
Prologue 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Electric Turkey 02:32 Tools
Times Beach II 00:00 Tools
Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" (Single version) 00:00 Tools
III Revised 00:00 Tools
Truck Driver Divorce 00:00 Tools
Canard Du Jour 00:00 Tools
Shove It Right In 00:00 Tools
The Radio Is Broken 00:00 Tools
Dinah-Moe-Hum 00:00 Tools
Billy The Mountain 00:00 Tools
When No One Was No One 00:00 Tools
Chalk Pie 00:00 Tools
Duke Of Prunes 00:00 Tools
Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk 09:15 Tools
Approximate 00:00 Tools
Planet Of The Baritone Women 00:00 Tools
Part One 00:00 Tools
Dance Contest 00:00 Tools
The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou 00:00 Tools
Man With The Woman Head 00:00 Tools
A Few Moments With Brother A. West 00:00 Tools
The Black Page Drum Solo/Black Page #1 00:00 Tools
Keep it Greasy 00:00 Tools
Jim & Tammy's Upper Room 03:11 Tools
Whippin' Post 00:00 Tools
None Of The Above 00:00 Tools
That Ol' G Minor Thing Again 00:00 Tools
Baby, Take Your Teeth Out 00:00 Tools
Were We Ever Really Safe In San Antonio? 00:00 Tools
Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top 00:00 Tools
Peaches III 00:00 Tools
Any Kind Of Pain 00:00 Tools
Panty Rap 00:00 Tools
Ruth Is Sleeping 00:00 Tools
Promiscuous 00:00 Tools
Pentagon Afternoon 00:00 Tools
Would You Go All the Way 00:00 Tools
Hotel Atlanta Incidentals 00:00 Tools
Theme From Lumpy Gravy 00:00 Tools
Mystery Roach 00:00 Tools
Questi Cazzi Di Piccione 00:00 Tools
Down In De Dew 00:00 Tools
Exercise #4 00:00 Tools
I Don't Even Care 00:00 Tools
The Florida Airport Tape 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Cowboy Burt (Swaggart Version) 04:54 Tools
Murder By Numbers 00:00 Tools
King Kong Itself 00:00 Tools
That's Not Really A Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Sunrise Redeemer 00:00 Tools
The Blue Light 00:00 Tools
Bacon Fat 04:59 Tools
What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are? 00:00 Tools
The Purple Lagoon/Approximate 00:00 Tools
Orrin Hatch On Skis 00:00 Tools
Luigi & The Wise Guys 00:00 Tools
More Trouble Every Day (Swaggart Version) 05:28 Tools
Move It Or Park It 00:00 Tools
But Who Was Fulcanelli? 00:00 Tools
Who Needs the Peace Corps 02:40 Tools
For Duane 00:00 Tools
Dead Girls Of London 00:00 Tools
Outside Now (Original Solo) 00:00 Tools
Once Again, Without The Net 00:00 Tools
Brown Moses 00:00 Tools
Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead 00:00 Tools
Duck Duck Goose 00:00 Tools
Get Whitey 07:00 Tools
Times Beach III 00:00 Tools
Sinister Footwear II 08:40 Tools
Do You Like My New Car? 07:08 Tools
Once Upon A Time 00:00 Tools
When The Lie's So Big 00:00 Tools
Dance of the Rock & Roll Interviewers 00:00 Tools
Magdalena 00:00 Tools
Cock-Suckers' Ball 00:00 Tools
Kung Fu 00:00 Tools
Bobby Brown Goes Down [Live] 00:00 Tools
Bogus Pomp 00:00 Tools
Stolen Moments 00:00 Tools
Rhymin' Man 00:00 Tools
Frogs With Dirty Little Lips 02:46 Tools
GOA 00:00 Tools
Welcome To The United States 00:00 Tools
Joe's Garage" (Single version) 00:00 Tools
The Mammy Anthem 00:00 Tools
Penis Dimension 04:37 Tools
When Yuppies Go To Hell 00:00 Tools
The Untouchables 00:00 Tools
Planet Of My Dreams 00:00 Tools
Systems Of Edges 00:00 Tools
Tuna Fish Promenade 00:00 Tools
Dancing Fool 00:00 Tools
Do Not Try This At Home 00:00 Tools
This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (prologue) 00:00 Tools
Eddie, Are You Kidding? 00:00 Tools
Pick Me, I'm Clean 06:24 Tools
Swans? What Swans? 00:00 Tools
Fire And Chains 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Cowboy Burt 04:54 Tools
Them Or Us 00:00 Tools
Things That Look Like Meat 00:00 Tools
Canadian Customs 00:00 Tools
Variations On Sinister #3 00:00 Tools
Yo Mama 00:00 Tools
Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America, 1992 00:00 Tools
Charva 00:00 Tools
The Poodle Lecture 00:00 Tools
Jezebel Boy 00:00 Tools
No No No 02:15 Tools
Revised Music For Guitar & Low Budget Orchestra 00:00 Tools
The Black Page #1 00:00 Tools
Diseases Of The Band 00:00 Tools
The Torture Never Stops Part One 00:00 Tools
Is That All There Is? 00:00 Tools
Run Home Slow Theme 00:00 Tools
Dance of the Just Plain Folks 04:40 Tools
The Sealed Tuna Bolero 00:00 Tools
What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body (reprise) 00:00 Tools
Penguin In Bondage (Swaggart Version) 00:00 Tools
Naval Aviation In Art 00:00 Tools
Ruthie-Ruthie 00:00 Tools
Part Two 00:00 Tools
Too Ugly For Show Business 00:00 Tools
One Man, One Vote 00:00 Tools
She Painted Up Her Face 00:00 Tools
Winos Do Not March 00:00 Tools
I Don't Wanna Get Drafted 00:00 Tools
The Big Squeeze 00:00 Tools
Rollo 00:00 Tools
This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (reprise) 00:00 Tools
Star Wars Won't Work 00:00 Tools
Valley Girl" (Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa) 00:00 Tools
What Kind Of Girl? 00:00 Tools
Room Service 00:00 Tools
Mysterioso 00:00 Tools
The Groupie Routine 00:00 Tools
Sleazette 00:00 Tools
Janet's Big Dance Number 00:00 Tools
Touring Can Make You Crazy 00:00 Tools
The Purple Lagoon 00:00 Tools
Aerobics In Bondage 00:00 Tools
The Mammy Nuns 00:00 Tools
Little Beige Sambo 00:00 Tools
Half A Dozen Provocative Squats 00:00 Tools
Redneck Eats 00:00 Tools
Why Don't You Like Me? 00:00 Tools
The Torture Never Stops Part Two 00:00 Tools
Centerville 00:00 Tools
Sofa #2 03:04 Tools
Tush Tush Tush (A Token of My Extreme) 00:00 Tools
I'm Stealing the Towels 00:00 Tools
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow - Single Version 00:00 Tools
This Is Phaze III 00:00 Tools
Sweet Leilani 00:00 Tools
Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Necessarily The Saint James Infirmary 00:00 Tools
The Perfect Stranger 00:00 Tools
Agency Man 00:00 Tools
The Black Page (New Age Version) 00:00 Tools
Holiday In Berlin 00:00 Tools
Satumaa (Finnish Tango) 00:00 Tools
What's New in Baltimore 00:00 Tools
Ride My Face To Chicago 04:22 Tools
Does This Kind of Life Look Interesting To You? 02:59 Tools
Put A Motor In Yourself 00:00 Tools
Bob In Dacron, First Movement 00:00 Tools
Dental Hygiene Dilemma 00:00 Tools
Revised Music For Guitar And Low-Budget Orchestra 00:00 Tools
Mom and Dad 00:00 Tools
Montana (Whipping Floss) 00:00 Tools
King Kong I 00:00 Tools
King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It) 00:00 Tools
The Legend Of The Illinois Enema Bandit 12:43 Tools
Dancin Fool 00:00 Tools
Babbette 00:00 Tools
Lucy's Seduction of A Bored Violinist & Postlude 00:00 Tools
What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning 00:00 Tools
Porn Wars 00:00 Tools
The Girl's Dream 00:00 Tools
The Lad Searches The Night For His Newts 00:00 Tools
Night School - Arr. E. Lievonen 00:00 Tools
Motorhead's Midnight Ranch 00:00 Tools
A Nun Suit Painted On Some Old Boxes 00:00 Tools
Dew On The Newts We Got 00:00 Tools
Titties 'n' Beer 05:23 Tools
Building a Girl 00:00 Tools
The Girl Wants To Fix Him Some Broth 00:00 Tools
Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce 00:00 Tools
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy 00:00 Tools
Hungry Freaks Daddy 00:00 Tools
Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously? 00:00 Tools
The Central Scruinizer 00:00 Tools
That Evil Prince 00:00 Tools
Clowns On Velvet 01:51 Tools
Mozart Piano Sonata in B-flat 00:00 Tools
They Made Me Eat It 00:00 Tools
Love Story 00:00 Tools
King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio) 00:00 Tools
Nig Biz 00:00 Tools
Carol, you fool 00:00 Tools
What Ever Happend To All The Fun In The World 00:00 Tools
Läther 00:00 Tools
Progress? 00:00 Tools
San Berdino 14:57 Tools
Amnerika 03:01 Tools
Chana In De Bushwop 00:00 Tools
Duke Of Orchestral Prunes 00:00 Tools
Little Rubber Girl 00:00 Tools
The Jimmy Carl Black Philosophy Lesson 00:00 Tools
Like It Or Not 00:00 Tools
What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are 00:00 Tools
Alley Cat 00:00 Tools
Outside Now Again 00:00 Tools
Here Comes The Gear, Lads 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Debris 00:00 Tools
Handsome Cabin Boy 00:00 Tools
Artificial Rhonda 00:00 Tools
Reagan At Bitburg 00:00 Tools
Navanax 00:00 Tools
Theme From The Bartok Piano Concerto #3 00:43 Tools
"No. No. No." 00:00 Tools
Harry-As-A-Boy 00:00 Tools
Lost In A Whirlpool 00:00 Tools
Don't You Ever Wash That Thing 00:00 Tools
Kenny's Booger Story 00:00 Tools
Marqueson's Chicken 00:00 Tools
The Evil Prince 00:00 Tools
Cops & Buns 00:00 Tools
Buffalo Voice 00:00 Tools
H.R. 2911 00:00 Tools
Jonestown 00:00 Tools
Would You Like A Snack? 00:00 Tools
Hands With A Hammer 00:00 Tools
The Crab-Grass Baby 00:00 Tools
The Madison Panty-Sniffing Festival 00:00 Tools
Whipping Post 00:00 Tools
Thirteen 00:00 Tools
Holding The Group Back 00:00 Tools
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow (Sin 00:00 Tools
The Rejected Mexican Pope Leaves The Stage 00:00 Tools
The Massive Improve'lence 00:00 Tools
Don't Eat the Yellow Snow [Single Version] 00:00 Tools
What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? - Reprise 00:00 Tools
The Walking Zombie Music 00:00 Tools
The White Boy Troubles 00:00 Tools
Tinsel-Town Rebellion 04:24 Tools
Xmas Values 00:00 Tools
NYC Halloween Audience 00:00 Tools
Tinseltown Rebellion 03:43 Tools
Now You See It Now You Don't 00:00 Tools
Letter From Jeepers 00:00 Tools
Broken Hearts Are for Assholes [live] 00:00 Tools
I Have Been in You [live] 00:00 Tools
Dear Jeepers 00:00 Tools
Religious Superstition 00:43 Tools
Tiger Roach 00:00 Tools
Easy Meat - Live In Chicago/1978 09:26 Tools
Re-gyptian Strut 04:36 Tools
White Person 00:00 Tools
The 'Torchum' Never Stops 00:00 Tools
Basement Music #1 00:00 Tools
If We'd All Been Living In California 00:00 Tools
Secular Humanism 00:00 Tools
Flambe 00:00 Tools
Lobster Girl 00:00 Tools
Strictly Genteel (the finale) 00:00 Tools
Wedding Dress Song 00:00 Tools
Make A Sex Noise 00:00 Tools
Epilogue 00:00 Tools
Briefcase Boogie 00:00 Tools
Undaunted, The Band Plays On 00:00 Tools
The Living Garbage Truck 00:00 Tools
The Black Page (1984) 00:00 Tools
Lil' Clanton Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Get A Life 00:00 Tools
The Dick Kunc Story 00:00 Tools
The Old Curiosity Shoppe 00:00 Tools
I'm A Band Leader 01:14 Tools
200 Motels Finale 00:00 Tools
Black Napkins [Live] 00:00 Tools
Redunzl 00:00 Tools
Ronnie's Booger Story 00:00 Tools
World's Greatest Sinner 00:00 Tools
Peaches in Regalia 00:00 Tools
Flakes [Live] 00:00 Tools
Won Ton On 00:00 Tools
Lonely Person Devices 00:00 Tools
Dont Eat The Yellow Snow (Sing 00:00 Tools
Take Me Out To The Ball Game 00:00 Tools
A Very Nice Body 00:00 Tools
Drop Dead 00:00 Tools
Dancin' Fool [Live] 00:00 Tools
The Downtown Talent Scout 00:00 Tools
Wedding Dress Song/Handsome Cabin Boy 00:00 Tools
King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild) 00:00 Tools
You Call That Music? 00:00 Tools
Emperor Of Ohio 00:00 Tools
A Typical Sound Check 00:00 Tools
"Godfather Part II" Theme 00:31 Tools
Church Chat 00:00 Tools
Theme From Run Home Slow 00:00 Tools
Ronnie Sings? 00:00 Tools
Lumpy Gravy Part One 00:00 Tools
The Orange County Lumber Truck (Part I) 00:00 Tools
Advance Romance (1984) 00:00 Tools
Here Lies Love 00:00 Tools
Any Downers 00:00 Tools
St. Aphonzo's Pancake Breakfast 00:00 Tools
Baby Snakes [Live] 00:00 Tools
Fuck Yourself 08:25 Tools
The Little March 00:00 Tools
The Black Page 00:00 Tools
A Pig With Wings 02:52 Tools
Wind Up Working In A Gas Station 00:00 Tools
I Was in a Drum 00:00 Tools
Wistful Wit A Fist-Full 00:00 Tools
Johnny Darling 00:00 Tools
Tracy Is A Snob 00:00 Tools
Teenage Wind 00:00 Tools
Charles Ives 00:00 Tools
You Never Know Who Your Friends Are 02:20 Tools
Lonesome Cowboy Nando 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Of Mine 00:00 Tools
The Motel Lobby 00:00 Tools
Mary Lou 00:00 Tools
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Frank Vincent Zappa (born December 21, 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States – December 4, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was an American composer, guitarist, singer, bandleader and producer. He was one of the most prolific musicians of his time, releasing over fifty albums of original material spanning over a thirty-five year career. Zappa's earliest influences were 1950s pop and rock (such as doo-wop and rhythm and blues), and 20th-century classical composers including Igor Stravinsky and Edgard Varèse. His output was divided between adventurous instrumental compositions and succinct, catchy rock songs with ribald, satirical, or comically absurd lyrics. On stage he demanded virtuosity and spontaneity from his musicians, and employed many performers who would later go on to achieve fame in their own rights. He directed and released a number of films featuring himself, his musicians and entourage, including 200 Motels and Baby Snakes. His career started in 1955. His earliest recordings date from the mid-1960s, and include collaborations with his school friend Captain Beefheart. In 1965 he joined a bar-band called The Soul Giants, quickly dominating its musical direction and rechristening it The Mothers. Their first release (as The Mothers of Invention; the name alteration requested by their record company) was the 1966 double album Freak Out!. The line-up of the Mothers gradually expanded to accommodate Zappa's increasingly ambitious and avant-garde music, but by 1969 he decided to work outside the band structure, focusing on his solo career, and effectively disbanding the Mothers in 1971. The beginnings of his solo career in the late sixties and early seventies was characterised by a strong free jazz influence, with albums containing little, if any, lyrical content, such as Hot Rats, Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo. Towards the mid-seventies his albums became more rock-orientated, with a combination of Jazz Fusion instrumentation and Rock song structures. This more accessible sound bore reasonable mainstream appeal, especially with the release of the well-advertised albums Over-Nite Sensation and Apostrophe (') (which both went Gold), but Zappa's unpredictably eclectic output never led to solid mainstream recognition. He received uniformly lukewarm reviews from popular music publications such as Rolling Stone throughout his career. In his late seventies' output, the gulf between his humorous songs and more lengthy, complex instrumental music widened, and albums, such as Zappa in New York, Joe's Garage: Acts I, II & III, and Sleep Dirt displayed, by track, both sides firmly segregated. Zappa saw a second run of success in the early eighties with the release of many albums with predominantly comedic rock songs, but later continued to experiment with virtually every style of music through the eighties, and was productive as ever until his death. His output in this later-career period included two albums of strikingly original classical music with the London Symphony Orchestra, an electronic take on 18th-century chamber music (written by the obscure Italian composer 'Francesco Zappa', no relation), an album of Synclavier compositions (misleadingly titled Jazz From Hell which garnered a Grammy award), a double-CD release of electric guitar instrumental music (the laconically titled Guitar) and a plenitude of official live releases, revisiting fan-favourites as well as showcasing Zappa's talent for reinventing the music of others; his version of Stairway to Heaven becoming a word-of-mouth favourite. Zappa produced almost all of his own albums, spending many hours in the studio recording and manipulating tracks, and was always at the forefront of emerging technologies; from tape editing, collage, multitrack and overdubbing in the sixties to digital recording, electronic instruments and sampling in the eighties. Conversely, Zappa was also a obsessive self-archivist, recording virtually every one of his live performances, and often using live recordings of new material without needing to enter the studio. The archive of tapes at his family home in Los Angeles continues to be a source of posthumous releases for the Zappa Family Trust. He was also noted as a spotter of talent and his shifting line-up of musicians included Lowell George, Jean-Luc Ponty, Terry Bozzio, Chad Wackerman, George Duke, Mike Keneally, Adrian Belew and Steve Vai, as well as giving Alice Cooper his first break in music and working again with his old collaborator Captain Beefheart when his career was in decline. In the late 1980s he became active in politics, campaigning against the PMRC's music censorship scheme and acting as culture and trade representative for Czechoslovakia in 1989; and considered running as an independent candidate for president of the US. His death in Los Angeles, California, on 4th December 1993 came three years after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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