![]() ![]() ![]() This suite doesn’t really comprise of a story as such, but it does flow as one musical piece, flitting between funky Zappa and complex Zappa, sometimes managing to be both at once. The blinded trapper then heads to St Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast, where a man engages in all manner if illicit shenanigans, before employee Father O’Blivion makes way for a leprechaun who is masturbating into a sock and mutters about “sleazy pancakes”. Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow tells the story of eskimo Nanook, listening to his mother’s warnings to “watch out where the huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow”, and the next three tracks all blend seamlessly into this – Nanook Rubs It sees Nanook confronting a fur trapper who is clubbing his favourite baby seal, rubbing the urine-soaked snow into his eyes and blinding him. Side one is mostly taken up with the Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow suite, a collection of four tracks that have a loose conceptual theme about eskimos and fur trappers. One of FZ’s most important albums, it’s also perhaps one of his most accessible to the newcomer, without at any point compromising on the unique Zappa sound. Zappa '88: The Last U.S.Looking back at Frank Zappa’s magnum opus from 1974.įrank Zappa’s highest charting album – somehow managing to get to number 10 in the US charts in 1974 – Apostrophe (‘) gets a welcome 40th anniversary vinyl re-release in a newly remastered edition. Zappa - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Halloween 81 (Highlights From The Palladium, New York City) Halloween 81 (6-CD box set) (recorded live at The Palladium, NYC, October 31 & November 1, 1981) The Mothers 1970 (4-CD box set) (a collection of live and studio session recordings from the 1970 Mothers line-up) The Hot Rats Sessions (6-CD box set) (A collection of studio session recordings from the Hot Rats album on its 50th anniversary) Orchestral Favorites 40th Anniversary (Deluxe edition) (3-CD box set) Zappa in New York 40th Anniversary (Deluxe edition) (5-CD box set) The Roxy Performances (7-CD box set) (all four public shows from December 9–10, 1973 at the Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood, California) Meat Light Uncle Meat Project/Object Audio Documentary The Crux Of The Biscuit A FZ Audio Documentary Road Tapes, Venue 3 (with The Mothers of Invention) Roxy The Soundtrack (Roxy The Movie DVD/CD or BD/CD, CD soundtrack not sold separately) Road Tapes, Venue 2 (with The Mothers of Invention)Ģ00 Motels: The Suites (LA Philharmonic-Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen) Road Tapes, Venue 1 (with The Mothers of Invention)īaby Snakes: The Complete Soundtrack (Download Only) Lumpy Money Project/Object (3-CD set) A FZ Audio DocumentaryĬarnegie Hall (with The Mothers of Invention) The MOFO Project/Object (2-CD set) A FZ Audio Documentary The MOFO Project/Object (4-CD set) A FZ Audio Documentary Joe's Corsage (with The Mothers of Invention) Posthumous official albums Released įrank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute Playground Psychotics (with The Mothers of Invention)Īhead of Their Time (with The Mothers of Invention) The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witchīoulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Strangerįrank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar One Size Fits All (with The Mothers of Invention)īongo Fury (with Captain Beefheart and The Mothers of Invention) Roxy & Elsewhere (with The Mothers of Invention) Over-Nite Sensation (with The Mothers of Invention) The Grand Wazoo (with The Mothers of Invention) Weasels Ripped My Flesh (with The Mothers of Invention)įillmore East – June 1971 (with The Mothers of Invention)Ģ00 Motels (with The Mothers of Invention) Uncle Meat (with The Mothers of Invention)īurnt Weeny Sandwich (with The Mothers of Invention) Mothermania (with The Mothers of Invention) We're Only in It for the Money (with The Mothers of Invention)Ĭruising with Ruben & the Jets (with The Mothers of Invention) Lumpy Gravy (with Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra) Ī list of albums of Zappa's music by other artists is also included here.įreak Out! (with The Mothers of Invention)Ībsolutely Free (with The Mothers of Invention) In June 2022 the Zappa Trust announced that it had sold Zappa's entire catalog to Universal Music, including master tapes, song copyrights and trademarks. In 2012 the distribution of Zappa's recorded output moved to Universal Music Enterprises. Since 1994, the Zappa Family Trust has released 63 posthumous albums as of March 2023, making a total of 125 albums/album sets. During his lifetime, Zappa released 62 albums. This is a list of albums by Frank Zappa, including all those credited to the Mothers of Invention. Zappa performing in Ekeberghallen, Oslo, on January 16, 1977. ![]()
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