Alphabetical Index
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"Fuckin' A! Now I know why I don't post in this hell-hole."
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C.R, alt.fan.frank-zappa, May 1999 |
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These are all the releases in the Weirdo Discography from A to Z.
If you know something about the albums that are not clickable yet, mail it here. And if you don't find what
you're looking for, use your browser to its fullest IT potential and do a text search for
a key word (not the full title, which you and I may have differently).
Titles that start with "The" are included under T, and
"Untitled" includes unclear titles of all kinds.
Items with Reasonably Clear Titles
0-9
- A Rykodisc 15th Anniversary Sampler (Ryko VRCD
9802)
- Advance CD (Ryko, 1995)
- ARFTS Weasels Ripped My Flesh
backed with Pearls Before Swine (American Forces Radio & TV Service RL 23-1,
P-12132/P-12133)
- AFRTS Chunga's Revenge backed with
Steve Davis (American
Forces Radio & TV Service RL 23-1, P-12317/P-12318)
- AFRTS Waka/Jawaka backed with The Kinks (American
Forces Radio & TV Service RL 15-3, P-13542/P-13541)
- AFRTS Bongo Fury backed with Todd
Rundgren (American
Forces Radio & TV Service RL 20-6, P-15643/P-15644)
- AFRTS Zoot Allures backed with the
Allman Brothers (American
Forces Radio & TV Service RL 52-6, P-16475/P-16476)
- Album Network Rock Tuneup #132
(containing Kill Ugly Radio)
- All Singing, All Talking, All
Rocking (Warner/Reprise PRO 573, 1973, double LP) (various artists)
- Alternatives (Warner Brothers WS
1873, Canada prior to 1972)
- Apostrophe ('), different cover
- April '88 Sampler (Barking Pumpkin
cassette, April 1988)
- Archives Volume 2 - Original
Recordings of Frank Zappa (Light Without Heat Records LWH 1001-02, 2001 - disc three in Steve Vai's Secret
Jewel Box)
- Arrogant Mop (working title of Joe's Garage. There's also a bootleg called Arrogant
Mop.)
- Art Laboe's Memories of El Monte
(Stars of Los Angeles Starla LPM 1960, 1960 (vinyl); Original Sound OSCD
1960, 1991 (CD and cassette))
- AUDIO (Greek) Magazine samplers
- Autumn Love / Teenage Bill of
Rights (by Burt Ward, unreleased)
- Fast Forward (Cambridge Corn
Exchange, UK, 2000)
- Fillmore East, June 1971 double album
(unreleased)
- For Collectors Only (Pure
Gold GO 905010, Europe, 2002)
- Four Generations of the Mothers (unreleased,
unclear)
- Frank Zappa - Interview Picture Disc (Baktabak
CBAK 4012 / 94012, UK) [also issued as a clock!]
- Frank Zappa on Compact
Disc (CID012)
- Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank
Zappa pre-release version
- Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention (1975)
- Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention (Boek en
Plaat) (Reprise D 116/0, the Netherlands, 1973)
- Frank Zappa y The
Mothers of Invention (12022-2345 018, Discos Karussell with permission
from Polydor S.A., México, 1972)
- Frank's Wildest Years! (Ryko / Hitch
Hyke ZOO EP13 (?) from ZOO
magazine, Greece, 1998)
- Freak Out! (but not really) Mexican LP (Karussell 12022, 1972)
- fulliedialedinn (1998; various artists)
- FZ25
- FZ25 - Zappaween (Ryko / Music Scene Inc. MSI
PROM-1, Japan 1988)
- Half a Dozen Provocative Squats
(Ryko VRCD 10513/10514, 1997)
- Happy Mother's Day (Ryko VRCD FZ 96,
(probably Mother's Day) 1996) [choccolate, not playable]
- HAPPY TOGETHER Soundtrack
(ROD5150, Hong Kong, January 1996)
- HEAD (The Monkees) (Colgems COSO-5008 LP, December 1 1968; Rhino
CD, 1994 - movie soundtrack album featuring dialogue snippet from
Zappa)
- Hard Goods (Warner/Reprise PRO-583,
1974, double LP) (various artists)s
- Here It Is, the Music (TDK/Ryko 1988)
- Hot Acid Rock Volume 4 (8-track,
Buccaneer something (?), 1979 or later)
- Hotel Dixie - an album in the unreleased History & Collected Improvisations of the
Mothers of Invention box
- Hot Rats III (working title for Sleep Dirt - Waka/Jawaka
was "Hot Rats II", because it says "HOT RATS" on the cover)
- How's Your Bird? (Italian 10" vinyl, Get
Back Records, 1998)
- October 10 1969
(Warner/Reprise PRO-351, October 10 1969, single LP) (various artists)
- One Size Fits All, unreleased quadraphonic version (Warner Brothers
BS4-2879 (CD4 format) and L9B-2879 (Q8 format), according to Mark Anderson's
Surround
Sound Discography)
- Our Man in Nirvana (unreleased, and
unclear)
- Original
Recordings of Frank Zappa (Light Without Heat Records LWH 1001-02, 2001 - disc three in Steve Vai's Secret
Jewel Box)
- Panta from Zunokeisatsu Meets Frank Zappa
(Ryko VACK 1175,
Japan, December 22 1999)
- Planet of Blood / Space Boy acetate
(1963)
- Play Fast Forward (Cambridge Corn Exchange,
1998)
- Pop Giants Volume 27: The Mothers of Invention
Starring Frank Zappa (Brunswick Silber-Serie 2911 537, Germany 1973)
- Pop History Volume 6 (Polydor 2625 012, New
Zealand, 1972, double LP (identical to the European Volume 6))
- Pop History Volume 7 (Verve/Polydor 2625 012 in
Germany, Polydor 2625 012 in Australia, 1972; double LP - also issued in Brazil)
- Pop History Volume 11 (Polydor 2335
024, Italy, 1972 (cover says 2625 012 S))
- Pop History Volume 14 (Polydor 23 35 054/055 in
Spain, 1972)
- Pop History Volume ? (German double LP - one disc
of the Velvet Underground, one disc of the Mothers)
- Pregnant (Verve 2356049 in the
US (double LP - details unknown (1972?)); MGM Metro Records 2356
049 in Germany, 1973; red Verve 2304 072 in Brazil, 1972; Blue Verve 2304072
in Colombia; Metro Records 2355032 in France; Metro Records 2356049 in New
Zeeland, Norway & Sweden)
- Presentati da Valentino Maggione (United
Artists PRG 2, Italy, various artists)
- (Promotional DJ Copy for) Rock Age Campaign
(Reprise PS-9, Japan)
- Radio Spots from Warner/Reprise: The Grand Wazoo (Warner/Reprise MS-2093, 5-inch
60-second 7.5 IPS reel-to-reel tape)
- Rare Beefheart Vintage Zappa (Pop
Almanac/Disky PACD 7009, 1991)
- Rare Meat (Del-Fi Records, LP (1983) & CD)
- Resolver + Brutality (unreleased
Synclavier recordings)
- Return of the Son of Kill Ugly Radio
(Ryko VRCD 0504)
- Revenge - a Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Gravity 682
550, various artists)
- Rock Age Campaign (Promotional DJ Copy for)
(Reprise PS-9, Japan)
- Rock Archive Series (LP, MGM, USA)
- Rock Flashbacks: Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention (Transparency) (Verve/Polydor 2352 057)
- Rock of Ages (EMI 58403, Argentina - an EMI sampler featuring Zappa's "Whipping
Post")
- Rock Para Mis Amigos Vol. 3: Los Pesados, Por Supuesto (MusicHall 13.047, Argentina - a
Warner Brothers compilation with a unique, edited 02.09 version of
"Eat That Question"!)
- Roxy & Elsewhere quadraphonic
version
- Rustic Protrusion - an album in the unreleased History & Collected Improvisations of the
Mothers of Invention box
- Rykodisc 1996 Sampler (Ryko
RSCD 1996, EEC 1996)
- Rykodisc Spring Loaded '96 (Ryko,
spring 1996)
- "San Ber'dino" CD from Total
Guitar magazine (1996)
- Sandy's Album Is Here at Last! by Sandy Hurvitz
(In-Discreet LP, 1967; Demon Records and Edsel Records EDCD399 CDs, 1994 - Zappa
appears on the cover)
- See & Hear / Fast Forward (Cambridge Corn
Exchange, UK, 1999)
- Several Boogie - an album in the unreleased History & Collected Improvisations of the
Mothers of Invention box
- "Sharleena" Flexi-Disc (Stage
version (from the sampler), issued with Guitar Player
Magazine in 1987)
- Sharleena / Bognor Regis single
(unreleased)
- Shimoyama J, Ex-the Roosters, Meets Frank Zappa
(Ryko VACK
1178, Japan, December 22 1999)
- Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar different track order
(unreleased)
- Show & Tell - an album in the unreleased History & Collected Improvisations of the
Mothers of Invention box
- Sink Trap / Gypsy Airs single (unreleased)
- Songs from the Sacred Napkin (Ryko
RCD PRO 9001)
- Sonic Winter (Ryko PRD 97/16,
Australia 1997)
- Sonora #4 (a Zappa tribute CD that came with an Italian magazine,
and contains part of a lecture by Zappa) [external
link]
- Soup & Old Clothes - an album in the unreleased History & Collected Improvisations of the
Mothers of Invention box
- Sound Monsters (JC Production 000 0408, Argentina - includes "Absolutely
Free", "Flower Punk", and the Ruben version of "How
Could I Be
- Space Boy / Planet of Blood acetate
(1963)
- Specialized Digital Audio
Gratification (EMI 1111, 1988)
- Steal This Disc (Ryko RCD 00056, 1987)
- Steal This Disc 2 (Ryko RCD 00076, 1988)
- Steal This Disc 3 (Ryko RCD 00205, 1991)
- Strictly Halloween (Ryko VRAC 40500,
(probably Halloween) 1995)
- Studio Tan remix (unreleased)
- Sugizo meets Frank Zappa (Ryko VACK 1180, Japan, December 22 1999)
- Super Stars Live (3 LP, WEA 68
008, Germany, 1974; promo copy reported)
- Supernatural Fairy Tales: The Progressive Rock Era
(Rhino CD 72451; various artists)
- Superstarshine Volume 13: The Mothers of
Invention (Metro Records 2356 090, only released in the Netherlands)
- Superstarshine Volume 26: Frank Zappa (Metro
Records 2356 098, only released in the Netherlands - a re-issue of Lumpy Gravy)
T (Including "The")
- Tanaka A. from Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra meets Frank Zappa
(Ryko VACK 1179,
Japan, December 22 1999)
- Teenage Bill of Rights / Autumn
Love (by Burt Ward, unreleased)
- The **** of the Mothers (Verve V6
5074X, July 1969)
- The 1969
Warner-Reprise Record Show (Son of Songbook) (Warner/Reprise PRO-336,
1969, double LP) (various artists)
- The 1969 Warner-Reprise
Songbook (Warner/Reprise PRO-331 (s39483), 1969 - double LP with
"internal booklet") (various artists)
- The Big Ball (Warner/Reprise
PRO-358, 1970, double LP)
- "The Black Page #1" 8" flexi-disc (Synclavier version,
issued with Keyboard Magazine, probably in 1986)
- The Compact Sonora 4/94 (Materiali Sonori, CD 0593,
Italy, April 1994)
- The Cucamonga Era - an album in the unreleased History & Collected Improvisations of the
Mothers of Invention box
- The Doo-Wop Box II (Rhino Rhino R2 72507
CD/cassette box, October 1 1996) (various artists)
- The Dust Blows Forward (an
Anthology) (Rhino 75863 (2 CD-box), 1999) (Captain Beefheart & the
Magic Band)
- The Force (Warner Brothers)
- The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa (Barking
Pumpkin GW002, June 1987)
- The Helsinki Tapes 1974 (working title of You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore
Volume 2 - The Helsinki Concert - it's not a single, complete concert,
it's edited together from at least two shows in Helsinki, so the working title was more
honest)
- The Heavy Business Record - an album in the unreleased History & Collected Improvisations of the
Mothers of Invention box
- The History & Collected Improvisations
of the Mothers of Invention (unreleased)
- The Hit List: Terrific 2-Record Set - 22 of
1982's Best Hits (K-Tel TU-3040, various artists)
- THE ICE STORM Soundtrack (Velvel Records VEL-79713,
October 21, 1997 or February 19 1998)
- The Interview (CID012)
- The Interviews Volume 2 (Baktabak CBAK
4074, 1996, UK)
- The Man from Utopia Sampler (Barking Pumpkin
A 1594, USA 1983)
- The Merely Entertaining Mothers of Invention Record - an album in the unreleased History & Collected Improvisations of the
Mothers of Invention box
- ... The Month's Best Music - August
1999 (CD, August 1999)
- The Mothers Live at the Whiskey
(unreleased)
- The Mothers of Invention (MGM Golden Archive
Series GAS 112 (1970? 1971 in Canada); Metro 2355 025 in Australia, 1973)
- The Nova Convention (Giorno Poetry Systems
GPS 014-015, 1979)
- The Now Sound: 14 Hits from the Underground (Warner Brothers WS 1874, Australia
1970 - one Mothers track included)
- The Official Mothers of
Invention Bootleg Album (unreleased)
- The Old Masters Box I Sampler (Barking Pumpkin
BPR-7X4-1, April 1985)
- The Old Masters Box II Sampler (Barking Pumpkin
BPR 8888X, November 1986)
- The
Rage & the Fury: The Music of Edgar Varèse (unreleased; external link)
- The Rock Generation Flexi-Disc
(Eva-Tone Soundsheets 101075AX, 1976 - issued with a book called Rock
Generation; contains one interview with Zappa)
- The Rock Years - Portrait of an Era
(Westwood One L 3537, 1980)
- The Rykodisc Fall '95 Mixer (Ryko, fall 1995)
- The Ryko Disc (Ryko PRD 96/98, Australia 1996 - 16-track promo
with Läther version of "For the Young Sophisticate")
- The Secret Jewel Box (Steve Vai release, Light
Without Heat Records, 2001)
- The Supplement Tape (Siësta Productions SPZ10,
1990)
- The Very Best of Frank Zappa
(cassette, Audio Mast AM 9246, Indonesia, 1990s)
- The Works (Warner/Reprise PRO-610,
1975, double LP) (various artists)
- The Worst of the Mothers (MGM SE
4754, 1971 (Canadian version also reported))
- The **** of the Mothers (Verve V6
5074X, July 1969)
- Thing-Fish pre-release version (unreleased)
- Thing-Fish/Them or Us promo (Barking Pumpkin
SPR 09261, USA 1984)
- Together Again (MusicHall 12.915, mono, Argentina - a Warner Brothers sampler including
"Peaches en Regalia", "WPLJ", "Little Umbrellas" and the
single version of "Dog Breath")
- Top Pop Secret (Music Hall 12.854, mono, Argentina - a Warner Brothers sampler
including the single version of "My Guitar")
- Trance-Fusion
(unreleased; external link)
- "Transparency" (Rock Flashbacks:
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Verve/Polydor 2352 057)
- Underground (Polydor 184 190/191, Germany (1975?) and Australia (1972) - a double
LP, with the Mothers only on one side)
- US Radio LP: Dr Demento (Westwood One, double LP, shows 88-06/88-07) - pressed for use
as complete radio shows, with adverts and programme introductions. These shows were
co-hosted by Zappa.
- US Radio LP: King Biscuit Flower Hour (double LP,
WG June 28 1981, DIR (?))
- Waka/Jawaka backed with The Kinks (American
Forces Radio & TV Service RL 15-3, P-13542/P-13541)
- Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Sounds For All Seasons (1975 promo,
includes "200 Years Old")Warner/Reprise Display Case (2 LP,
Warner Bros PRO 503, 1971; various artists)
- Warner/Reprise Display Case Volume 5 (Warner Bros; various artists)
- What's It All About? (7" radio promo,
1978 or 1979, in four versions: MA 1755 (program #418) with Zappa and Dolly Parton, MA
1157 with Zappa and Firefall, and MA 1824 and 2903 with Zappa and David Bowie)
- Warts & All (unreleased)
- We Are the Mothers And This Is What We Sound
Like! (unreleased) (Columbia test pressing 6477 - possibly also known as No
Commercial Potential)
- We're Only In It for the Money
Box (unreleased)
- We're Only In It for the Money
demos (unreleased)
- Welcome to Joe's Garage (Zappa Records MK
107)
- What Does It All Mean - an album in the unreleased History & Collected Improvisations of the
Mothers of Invention box
- "Who Needs the
Peace Corps?" / "Electricity" CD from Uncut Magazine, UK, July 1999
- Zappa en la Radio (Ryko CD 51516, Argentina,
1997)
- Zappéd (Warner/Reprise/Bizarre
PRO-368, February 1970 (single LP, two or three variants); Reprise RS 5270
in Australia (1972) (NOTE: the Australian version was not a Loss Leader))
(various artists)
- Zoot Allures backed with the Allman
Brothers (American
Forces Radio & TV Service RL 52-6, P-16475/P-16476)
- Zoot Allures double album (unreleased)
Items with No Titles or Unclear Titles
- 7" EP from Thailand with Zappa on the cover
- An interview LP on the Baktabak label (BAK 2019)
- American Dentistry Association public-service 33-RMP
7" (1982)
- Amnesty International / Them or Us Picture Single
(Zappa appears only on the cover)
- Austria Schallplattenclub box of Hot Rats, Fillmore East, June
1971, One Size Fits All & Bongo Fury
(Austria Schallplattenclub, record-club box)
- Barking Pumpkin AS 1569
- Brazilian promo box (Gravadora Eldorado, Brazil
1999)
- Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention (Boek en
Plaat) (Reprise D 116/0, the Netherlands, 1973)
- Dr Demento radio tribute (1994?)
- Dutch ECI issue with the Chunga's Revenge cover, coupling one side of Uncle
Meat and one side of Burnt Weeny Sandwich - HA HA
HA! HA HA HA!
- Goldmine Classic Rock Digest CD (from Goldmine's
25th anniversary puplication, 1998)
- Greek "New Rock CD" including "Titties & Beer"
(various artists - Zappa is on the cover, with an umbrella)
- Greek "freebie CD" including "Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown" (1995,
various artists)
- Greek "freebie CD" including "Duke of Orchestral Prunes" (1996,
various artists)
- Greek "freebie CD" including "Sofa #1" (1996, various
artists)
- Interview CD in the
Conversation Disc series (ABCD 016, UK)
- Picture CD re-issue of Incredibly Frank (Roxy
XS-LP 105, on CD in a pink 12" box)
- Picture Disc Clock LP (German limited edition - may or may not be related to the interview CD issued as a clock)
- Radio Spots from Warner/Reprise: The Grand Wazoo (Warner/Reprise MS-2093, 5-inch
60-second 7.5 IPS reel-to-reel tape)
- Robert Kennedy assasination documentary album
(DiscReet DSK 2293, 1979?)
- Shut Up & Play Yer Guitar 3-track promo (1982)
- Supraphon cassette from Czechoslovakia (Supraphon
9 23 0234, 1976)
- Thing-Fish/Them or Us promo (Barking Pumpkin
SPR 09261, USA 1984)
- US Radio LP in the Profiles in Rock series
- Zappa Records MK 129 (or 126, 1979)
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