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WD_447/ 2008
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Drawings 5 | | Medium: | oilstick on paper | | Size (inches): | 40.2 x 25.2 | | Size (mm): | 1020 x 640 | | Catalog #: | WD_0447 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
Uncle Meat -
Uncle Meat, released in 1969, is the soundtrack to The Mothers of Invention's long-delayed film of the same name; the front cover, designed by Cal Schenkel, included the words "(Most of the Music from the Mother's [sic] Movie of the Same Name Which We Haven't Got Enough Money to Finish Yet)". The film was released straight to video in 1987.
Uncle Meat marked an evolution in frontman Frank Zappa's career, moving further into jazz and classical musicas Zappa saw them. It also contains half-mocking, half-homage elements of doo-wop, blues, rock and roll, and sound clips from the movie. The album is united by its dreamy melodies, stream of consciousness lyrics (many about places and events in suburban LA teenagers' lives), and a set of musical themes and subthemes and variations idiomatic of film soundtracks. It also features Suzy Creamcheese.
The CD version was released in 1987, and contained a new song, "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" (meaning "I've Got a Big Cock" in Sicilian), sung in Italian by Massimo Bassoli, and nearly 40 minutes' worth of sound-bites from the movie. However, many fans have resented these additions, since "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" was recorded in an entirely different time period, and the movie soundbites are considered by some to be superfluous to the listening tracks. Additionally, their additions force the reissue to use two discs, when the album in its original form could fit on just one disc. Many fans refer to these so-called bonuses as "penalty tracks."
Track listing:
All tracks by Frank Zappa, except where noted.
Vinyl release
Side one
1. "Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme" 1:56
2. "The Voice of Cheese" 0:26
3. "Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" 6:00
4. "Zolar Czakl" 0:54
5. "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague" 3:59
6. "The Legend of the Golden Arches" 3:28
7. "Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)" (Richard Berry) 2:19
8. "The Dog Breath Variations" 1:48
Side two
1. "Sleeping in a Jar" 0:50
2. "Our Bizarre Relationship" 1:05
3. "The Uncle Meat Variations" 4:46
4. "Electric Aunt Jemima" 1:46
5. "Prelude to King Kong" 3:38
6. "God Bless America" (Irving Berlin) 1:10
7. "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" 1:29
8. "Ian Underwood Whips It Out" 5:05
Side three
1. "Mr. Green Genes" 3:14
2. "We Can Shoot You" 2:03
3. "If We'd All Been Living in California..." 1:14
4. "The Air" 2:57
5. "Project X" 4:48
6. "Cruisin' for Burgers" 2:18
Side four
1. "King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio)" 0:49
2. "King Kong II (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)" 1:21
3. "King Kong III (as Motorhead explains it)" 1:44
4. "King Kong IV (the Gardner Varieties)" 6:17
5. "King Kong V (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks)" 0:34
6. "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 release
Disc one
1. "Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme" 1:56
2. "The Voice of Cheese" 0:26
3. "Nine Types of Industrial Pollution" 6:00
4. "Zolar Czakl" 0:54
5. "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague" 3:59
6. "The Legend of the Golden Arches" 3:28
7. "Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)" (Richard Berry) 2:19
8. "The Dog Breath Variations" 1:48
9. "Sleeping in a Jar" 0:50
10. "Our Bizarre Relationship" 1:05
11. "The Uncle Meat Variations" 4:46
12. "Electric Aunt Jemima" 1:46
13. "Prelude to King Kong" 3:38
14. "God Bless America" (Irving Berlin) 1:10
15. "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" 1:29
16. "Ian Underwood Whips It Out" 5:05
17. "Mr. Green Genes" 3:14
18. "We Can Shoot You" 2:03
19. "If We'd All Been Living in California..." 1:14
20. "The Air" 2:57
21. "Project X" 4:48
22. "Cruisin' for Burgers" 2:18
Disc two
1. "Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 1" 37:34
2. "Tengo Na Minchia Tanta" 3:46
3. "Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 2" 3:50
4. "King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio)" 0:49
5. "King Kong II (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)" 1:21
6. "King Kong III (as Motorhead explains it)" 1:44
7. "King Kong IV (the Gardner Varieties)" 6:17
8. "King Kong V (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks)" 0:34
9. "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
Personnel -
Musicians:
* Frank Zappa guitar, percussion, vocals
* Jimmy Carl Black percussion, drums, poverty
* Ray Collins vocals
* Roy Estrada bass guitar, vocals
* Bunk Gardner clarinet, flute, bass clarinet, piccolo, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
* Ruth Komanoff marimba, vibes
* Billy Mundi drums
* Don Preston electric piano
* Euclid James Sherwood tenor saxophone, tambourine, voices, choreography
* Art Tripp percussion, chimes, drums, marimba, xylophone, bells, tympani, vibraphone, wood block
* Ian Underwood clarinet, flute, piano, celeste, harpsichord, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, wind, electronic organ
* Nelcy Walker soprano vocals
* Pamela Zarubica as Suzy Creamcheese
Production:
* Frank Zappa producer
* Jesper Hansen engineer
* Euclid James Sherwood equipment technician
* Art Tripp advisor
* Cal Schenkel package design
* Euclid James Sherwood choreographer
* Roy Estrada prop design
* Ian Underwood copyist, public relations, special assistance
-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Meat
Excerpt from Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part I, Filmed in Hollywood, California, 1970 and 1982.
Starring:
Phyllis Smith (a.k.a. Phyllis Altenhaus)
Don Preston
Frank Zappa
17:39
Phyllis: It used to be very, it was really nice and quiet in this place, that's why I came here, because of the feeling like, like a place to get away from things, and now what's going on, it's like all noise and . . . I don't know, it doesn't . . . wherever you go nowadays it's the same thing, all these guys they're so disgusting, I can't stand it . . .
Don: Look, anybody . . . anybody sitting here?
Phyllis: No! Go right ahead, sit down!
Don: Thanks. Anybody drinking this beer in here?
Phyllis: No, I don't know what the bartender . . . he just left it there, I don't know what's going on . . .
Don: My name is Biff Debris.
Phyllis: Oh, hi! Sheba Flieschman.
Don: How d'you do?
Phyllis: So and uh, your name is Biff Debris.
Don: Yeah.
Phyllis: You know, funny thing, if we got married my name would be Sheba DeBiff.
Don: My name is Biff Debris, not Debris DeBiff.
Phyllis: Debris?
Don: Yeah.
Phyllis: Biff Debris . . . well, I'll tell you something, I once knew someone whose name was Dubois. It, it sort of sounds like Debris, you know what I mean? Like, is that French, or what?
Don: Well, actually I'm part Mohawk and part Norwegian.
Phyllis: Excuse me. Is the hamburger ready yet?
Don: What sign are you?
Phyllis: Uh, I'm Aquarius with Venus rising on my past.
Don: Really?
Phyllis: Yeah. It's really good sign because it's the Aquarian age now, you know? And like, it's all coming together. You know what I mean by coming together?
Don: Yeah.
Phyllis: I think since I came from New York, you know, I'm really . . .
Don: Are you from New York?
Phyllis: Yeah, you can't tell! Huh?
Don: No . . .
Phyllis: I tell you something, so it really means that I'm losing my accent, you know, because the other day I was talking to someone and they couldn't guess either, well, I asked them, I said to them, "Where do you think I'm from?" And you know they said, they said, "New Jersey," you know, so, and New Jersey accent is really completely different, you know? Like, it depends so, if you come from Patterson, it's different from Trenton and Orange County, but you know, I say "Orange" like this, "Orange," 'cause that's in California they say, "Orange," you know?
Don: What's the, what's the matter with uh, Debris?
Phyllis: That's one thing I stayed away from.
Don: Alright, you're free . . .
Phyllis: I think that you can really be high on your own intellectual stratification.
Don: Hamburgers.
Phyllis: Don't say hamburgers, it gets me so hot . . .
Don: But you don't know what gets me hot, you see . . .
Phyllis: I know what gets you hot!
Don: No, no . . .
Phyllis: I saw it in the pool hall.
Don: You saw that?
Phyllis: Yeah!
Don: That isn't what does it, you see. It really isn't.
Phyllis: Well, well, what is it? You know, like if it's not that, then what is it?
Don: Well . . .
Phyllis: Well, don't be embarrassed! You can tell me, you know? Like I'm . . .
Don: Showers.
Phyllis: Showers?
Don: Showers.
Phyllis: Well, okay, you know, I can go see that, I can see, I can understand showers.
Don: Not, not nude showers.
Phyllis: What you mean not nude showers?
Don: It's gotta be a special shower, you know.
Phyllis: What kind of shower?
Don: With these special clothes on it.
Phyllis: You mean, you wear clothes when you . . . ?
Don: These clothes! These are the clothes . . .
Phyllis: These are the clothes that you . . . ?
Don: Right here . . .
Phyllis: There are clothes in there for me for the shower?
Note:
All compositions by Frank Zappa except as noted
Site maintained by Romαn Garcνa Albertos.
http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/
Lyrics from the album booklet
with corrections and additions from St. Alphonzo's Pancake Homepage
and Arf: Notes & Comments
Uncle Meat Film Excerpts transcribed by Romαn with lots of corrections by Barry Davis
Most Italian transcriptions by Francesco Gentile with additions and corrections by Luca Bimbi
Further corrections and additions by Chris Holden, Patrick Neve, Charles Ulrich, Romαn, Thrust Pigmy, Joefor Sotcaa, djabortion and Hal Charles
-globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/Uncle_Meat.html
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