Non-US Releases
These are all-Zappa or some-Zappa compilations that came out in more or less exotic territories only. Regional versions of regular albums may be found in the Return of the Son of the alt.fan.frank-zappa Vinyl vs CDs FAQ, and original american compilations can be found in the Crummy Compilations section.
- The Now Sound: 14 Hits from the Underground (Warner Brothers WS 1874, Australia 1970 - one Mothers track included)
- Mother's Day (MGM 2626 002 and or 2354003/004 in Germany (1973?); Metro/MGM 2624 003 in New Zealand, 1972)
- Pop History Volume 6 (Polydor 2625 012, New Zealand, 1972, double LP (identical to the European Volume 7))
- Pop History Volume 7 (double LP in Germany (Verve/Polydor 2625 012), single/double LP in Australia (Polydor 2625 012, 1972) and Brazil (MGM 30 032 2, 1972, no gatefold cover)
- 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)
- Frank Zappa y The Mothers of Invention (12022-2345 018, Discos Karussell with permission from Polydor S.A., México, 1972)
- Superstarshine Volume 13: The Mothers of Invention (Metro Records 2356 090, only released in the Netherlands, 1972)
- Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention ("Boek en Plaat") (Reprise D 116/0, the Netherlands, 1971 or 1973)
- Pop Giants Volume 27: The Mothers of Invention Starring Frank Zappa (Brunswick Silber-Serie 2911 537, Germany 1973)
- Superstarshine Volume 26: Frank Zappa (Metro Records 2356 098, only released in the Netherlands - a re-issue of Lumpy Gravy, 1975)
- 2 Originals of The Mothers of Invention (Reprise REP 64 024, 1975 - Dutch & German double LP re-issue of Weasels Ripped My Flesh and Burnt Weeny Sandwich)
- Two Originals of Frank Zappa
- De LiteraLuisterplaat (Warner Brothers 26040, The Netherlands 1976, "released by" Muziekkrant OOR magazine)
- Supraphon cassette from Czechoslovakia (Supraphon 9 23 0234, 1976)
- Dolf Hartmann Präsentiert die Frank Zappa Story (Verve 2304 161, Germany, mid-70s?)
- Double Dynamite - Hot Rats coupled with Chunga's Revenge (Reprise RRD 11707, South Africa and/or Australia, mid-1970s)
- 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!
- Underground (Polydor 184 190/191, Germany (1975?) and Australia (1972) - a double LP, with the Mothers only on one side)
- Battle of Eric Burdon & the Animals and the Mothers of Invention (MGM MM 9072, Japan)
- Austria Schallplattenclub box of Hot Rats, Fillmore East, June 1971, One Size Fits All & Bongo Fury (Austria Schallplattenclub, record-club box)
- The Very Best of Frank Zappa (cassette, Audio Mast AM 9246, Indonesia, 1990s)
These releases are from Argentina, and you can see pictures of them on Marcelo Gasió's Zappa page:
- 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")
- Sound Monsters (JC Production 000 0408, Argentina - includes "Absolutely Free", "Flower Punk", and the Ruben version of "How Could I Be Such a Fool?")
- Rock Para Mis Amigos Vol. 3: Los Pesados, Por Supuesto (MusicHall 13.047, Argentina - a Warner Brothers compilation with a uniqe, edited 02.09 version of "Eat That Question"!)
- Rock of Ages (EMI 58403, Argentina - an EMI sampler featuring Zappa's "Whipping Post")
- Zappa en la Radio (Ryko CD 51516, Argentina, 1997 - withdrawn in 1999)
See also the Japanese "Christmas 1999" compilations.
Dutch Hot Rats / Burnt Weeny Sandwich Sampler
Unique material: None
1. Peaches en Regalia
2. Willie the Pimp
3. Son of Mr Green Genes4. Little House I Used to Live in
5. Valarie [Clarence Lewis / Bobby Robinson]
A "mega rare" Dutch book-club pressing, made in 500 copies.
Informants: Hanz Bohlmeijer
Pop History
Unique material: None
- Volume 6
- Volume 7
- Volume 11
- Volume 14
- Volume ?
Volumes 6-7
From Collecting Frank Zappa in Australia - Part 1: The Early Years, an article by Stuart Penny in it - The Australian Record Collectors Magazine, Issue #14 June-July-August 1995 (provided by Henry Griggs, Sydney, Australia):
Polydor issued dozens of these German-designed monstrosities around the world during the early '70s, including several by MGM artists (Velvet Underground, Eric Burdon etc) whose back catalogue they had picked up in 1971. Zappa, of course, didn't escape the treatment and in 1972 the double set Pop History Vol. 6 (Polydor 2625 012) appeared in New Zealand. Featuring the same gruesome cover art common to the entire series, together with a crudely cut-out Mothermania front sleeve photo, this album has little to distinguish it from the European version - save for the designation (Vol. 6) and the fact that the records are inserted from the inside centre of the sleeve, an idiosyncrasy peculiar to New Zealand. In Australia however, the same LP was issued with the more familiar Pop History Vol. 7 title. This was, of course, just a single LP (albeit with the same catalogue number as the NZ double) utilizing sides one and four only. By the way, anyone ever seen a Mothers' Pop History which doesn't spell "Invocatian" incorrectly on the back sleeve? Ridiculously, in an attempt to emphasise what Polydor obviously saw as the Mothers', ahem, "wacky" image, the ersatz picture frame which borders the front cover was shown broken into several pieces! Hey, are these guys crazy, or what?
From Steve Jones, Australia:
The copy of my Pop History vol. 7 is a double album. I do not know anyone who has a single-album Aussie pressing.
Volume 7 (German Versions)
- Polydor 2625 012 (sleeve) / 2335 024 (disc 1) / 2335 025 (disc 2), Germany 1972
1. Help, I'm a Rock (08:37)
2. I'm Not Satisfied (02:37)
3. Motherly Love (02:45)
4. Plastic People (03:40)
5. The Idiot Bastard Son (03:27)6. Brown Shoes Don't Make It (07:26)
7. The Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny (06:30)
8. Anything (03:00) [Ray Collins]
9. You Didn't Try to Call Me (03:53)10. Duke of Prunes (05:09)
11. Hungry Freaks, Daddy (03:28)
12. Uncle Bernie's Farm (02:09)
13. Who Are the Brain Police? (03:22)
14. Who Needs the Peace Corps? (02:34)
15. Absolutely Free (03:26)16. Status Back Baby (02:52)
17. Invacation [sic] & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin (06:57)
18. Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder (03:31)
19. Flower Punk (03:57)
20. America Drinks & Goes Home (02:43)
This album has the same German liner notes as Pop Giants Volume 27, but it also has an "English" version:
For a long time the name of Frank Zappa was virtually synonymus with the concept "Underground". Then finally the concept of "Underground" firmly established itself in the U.S.A. "Underground" - a collective name for all music unconventional in form and with lyrics that were likely to shock. Today that famous poster of Frank Zappa relieving himself upon the legendary W.C. [a pirate poster, using that picture without Zappa's permission - Ed.] decorates the lavatory doors of many a commune. The Chief "Mother" remains today as ever "Old people's horror number one". The Mothers of Invention have become in fact a sign-post to the new "American way of life": The vital issues were no longer the war in Vietnam or racial conflict; critical dissection of a different sort had begun. The first of the "Mothers" aims was to reveal the illness of society. LPs such as Freak Out!, Absolutely Free and We're Only In It for the Money, recorded by the original Mothers Frank Zappa, Roy Estrada, Billy Mundy, Bunk Gardner, Jimmy Carl Black, Ray Collins and Don Preston - these LPs have now become the Classics of the "Underground". The music of the Mothers, an indefinable mixture of Jazz and Folklore, Rock and Classical together with a few sound effects, is in many ways a mixture as old as the hills, but is has nowadays become part of the stock-in-trade of every good progressive group. Their lyrics, cynical, critical and often brutal, have just about as much in common with the normal language of cabaret as a cow has with Venus. "The Mothers" form, in fact, one of the foundation stones in the development of the complicated, socially-critical "message" music of today's progressive scene, playing a much more crucial role in the revolutionising of musical tastes than have played for instance the "Happy-go-lucky" songs of Pop.
Informant: Kristian Kier
Volume 7 (Brazilian Version)
- MGM 30 032, 1972
1. Help, I'm a Rock
2. I'm Not Satisfied
3. Motherly Love
4. Plastic People
5. The Idiot Bastard Son
6. Status Back Baby
7. Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin [misspelled as "Invacation" on both cover and label]
8. Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder
9. Flower Punk
10. America Drinks & Goes Home
From Mikael Agardsson:
This, like the Australian, is a single LP (no fold-out cover) - other versions of Pop History Volume 7 are double LPs. I don't know if the Australian version has the same track list, but I think it's likely. The back cover has the introduction to the Mothers of Invention in Portuguese:
Por longo tempo o nome Frank Zappa foi virtualmente sinônimo do conceito de "Underground". Depois, e finalmente, esse conceito - "Underground" - estabelecu-se de maneira firme nos Estados Unidos. É um nome que abrange toda música de forma não convencional e com versos destinados a chocar. Hoje o famoso poster de Frank Zappa usando o vaso sanitário decora as portas de banheiro de numerosas comunas. O cabeça do grupo "Mother" continua, hoje como sempre, "O Horror Número Um das Pessoas Mais Velhas". The Mothers of Invention se tornou de fato sinal e marco do novo "American Way of Life": os pontas vitais já não eram mais a guerra no Vietnam ou o conflito racial.
Começara uma análise critica de espécie diferente O primeiro entre os objetivos de The Mothers era revelar as enfermidades da sociedade. LPs como "Freak Out", "Absolutely Free" e "We're Only in it for the Money", gravados pelos "Mothers" originais, Frank Zappa, Roy Estrada, Billy Mundi, Bunk Gardner, Jimmy Carl Black, Ray Collins e Don Preston - esses LPs tornaram-se agora os clássico, juntamente com alguns efeitos sonoros, é, sob muitos aspectos, mistura bastante antiga, mas hoje em dia se tornou parte do habitual de todo bom grupo de "progressive music". Seus versos, cínicos, críticos e não raro brutais, têm tanto em comum com a linguagem normal de cabaré quanto uma vaca tem com Vênus. "The Mothers" formam, de fato, uma das pedras fundamentais na evulção da complicada música de "mesagem" de hoje em dia, de crítica social, e exercem um papel muito mais crucial na revolução dos gostos musicais do que exerceram, por exemplo, as canções pop do tipo "Happy-go-lucky".
Volume 11
1. Help, I'm a Rock
2. I'm Not Satisfied
3. Motherly Love
4. Plastic People
5. The Idiot Bastard Son6. Brown Shoes Don't Make It
7. The Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny
8. Anything [Ray Collins]
9. You Didn't Try to Call Me10. Duke of Prunes
11. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
12. Uncle Bernie's Farm
13. Who Are the Brain Police? [no question mark]
14. Who Needs the Peace Corps? [no question mark]
15. Absolutely Free16. Status Back Baby
17. Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin [spelled "invacation" on both cover and label, as always with the Pop History series]
18. Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder
19. Flower Punk
20. America Drinks & Goes Home
From Mikael Agardsson:
As far as I know, this was an Italian issue only. I've never seen a Volume 11 from any other country. So it's not to be confused with other non-Italian Pop History albums. On the left of the fold-out cover you can read a bit about the Mothers [the same English text as on the German version of Volume 7, see above]. This text is also given in Italian. On the right are reproduced the covers of 14 other Italian Pop History albums, which contain:
Volume 1: Cream
Volume 2: Jimi Hendrix
Volume 3: James Brown
Volume 4: The Who
Volume 5: Eric Clapton
Volume 6: Ginger Baker
Volume 7: Taste (as almost everyone knows, the non-Italian Pop History series have the Mothers on volume 7 [see above])
Volume 8: John Mayall
Volume 9: Jack Bruce
Volume 10: MountainVolume 12: Booker T & the MGs
Volume 13: The Grateful Dead
Volume 14: Medicine Head
Volume 15: Lovin' Spoonful featuring John SebastianI don't know if there were more volumes ... maybe someone else does?
Volume 14
1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
2. Uncle Bernie's Farm
3. Who Are the Brain Police?
4. Who Needs the Peace Corps?
5. Absolutely Free
6. Status Back, Baby
7. Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin
8. Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder
9. Flower Punk
10. America Drinks & Goes Home
11. Concentration Moon
12. Return of the Son of Monster Magnet
13. Plastic People
14. The Idiot Bastard Son
15. Motherly Love
16. I'm Not Satisfied
17. The Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny
18. Anything
19. You Didn't Try to Call Me
From Román García Albertos:
The front cover photo of this compilation from the first three Mothers albums is the same as on the Mothermania cover (but with the Pop History collection paraphernalia, that is a baroque frame and big letters), released in Spain two years later.
Frank Zappa y The Mothers of Invention
Unique material: None
1. Azotados Habrientos, Papi (Hungry Freaks, Daddy)
2. ¿Como Podria Ser Tan Tonto? (How Could I Be Such a Fool?)
3. El Rancho de Tio Bernie (Uncle Bernie's Farm)
4. El Hijo de Suzy Quesocrema (Son of Suzy Creamcheese)
5. Amor de Mi Vida (Love of My Life)6. Gente Madre (Mother People)
7. Gomitas (Jelly Roll Gum Drop) [!]
8. ¿Quien Es el Cerebro de la Tira? (Who Are the Brain Police?)
9. No Tengo Corazon (I Ain't Got No Heart)
10. Hay Problemas Todos los Dias (Trouble Comin' Every Day)
The front cover is the picture from the Freak Out! cover, but on a yellow background, and with the Mothers logo from Absolutely Freeabove it, and the back cover is the Absolutely Free cover in black & white. Evertything is written in Spanish. Incidentally, the track list is the same as for the Pregnant single LP, minus the final tracks on each side of Pregnant.
Informants: Román García Albertos, his friend Joe Rocker from México, Mikael Agardsson
Pop Giants Volume 27: The Mothers of Invention Starring Frank Zappa
Unique material: None
1. Hungrey [sic] Freaks, Daddy (03:30)
2. Wowie Zowie (02:51)
3. Motherly Love (02:46)
4. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here (03:39)
5. You Didn't Try to Call Me (03:40)
6. Stuff up the Cracks (03:57)7. Plastic People (03:41)
8. Brown Shoes Don't Make It (06:56)
9. Who Needs the Peace Corps? (02:29)
10. Concentration Moon (02:27)
11. Mom & Dad (02:13)
12. Call Any Vegetable (02:14)
This album has the same German liner notes as Pop History Volume 7, which also had an "English" version:
For a long time the name of Frank Zappa was virtually synonymus with the concept "Underground". Then finally the concept of "Underground" firmly established itself in the U.S.A. "Underground" - a collective name for all music unconventional in form and with lyrics that were likely to shock. Today that famous poster of Frank Zappa relieving himself upon the legendary W.C. [a pirate poster, using that picture without Zappa's permission - Ed.] decorates the lavatory doors of many a commune. The Chief "Mother" remains today as ever "Old people's horror number one". The Mothers of Invention have become in fact a sign-post to the new "American way of life": The vital issues were no longer the war in Vietnam or racial conflict; critical dissection of a different sort had begun. The first of the "Mothers" aims was to reveal the illness of society. LPs such as Freak Out!, Absolutely Free and We're Only In It for the Money, recorded by the original Mothers Frank Zappa, Roy Estrada, Billy Mundy, Bunk Gardner, Jimmy Carl Black, Ray Collins and Don Preston - these LPs have now become the Classics of the "Underground". The music of the Mothers, an indefinable mixture of Jazz and Folklore, Rock and Classical together with a few sound effects, is in many ways a mixture as old as the hills, but is has nowadays become part of the stock-in-trade of every good progressive group. Their lyrics, cynical, critical and often brutal, have just about as much in common with the normal language of cabaret as a cow has with Venus. "The Mothers" form, in fact, one of the foundation stones in the development of the complicated, socially-critical "message" music of today's progressive scene, playing a much more crucial role in the revolutionising of musical tastes than have played for instance the "Happy-go-lucky" songs of Pop.
2 Originals of the Mothers of Invention
Unique material: none
This is a Dutch and German double issue of the Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Weasels Ripped My Flesh albums, housed in a fold-out cover (by a "Patrick von Spreckelsen") depicting a pistol shooting toothpaste. The inner spread replicates the Burnt Weeny and Weasels covers, left and right, but the Burnt Weeny cover has been modified: the word "STEREO" has been stricken out with white paint, and the title is printed in red instead of black.
Superstarshine Volume 13: The Mothers of Invention
Superstarshine Volume 26: Frank Zappa
Unique material: none
Superstarshine seems to have been a weird series from the Netherlands. Volumes 13 and 26 were devoted to Zappa / the Mothers: Volume 13 was a compilation of material from the first three Mothers albums, and Volume 26 was a re-issue of Lumpy Gravy.
Superstarshine Volume 13: The Mothers of Invention
1. Hungry Freaks, Daddy [back cover spells "Hungrey"]
2. Wowie Zowie
3. Motherly love
4. Deseri
5. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
6. You Didn't Try to Call Me
7. Stuff Up the Cracks8. Plastic People
9. Brown Shoes Don't Make It
10. Who Needs the Peace Corps? [listed without question mark]
11. Concentration Moon
12. Mom & Dad
13. Call Any Vegetable
14. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? [listed without question mark]
On "Concentration Moon", only half the Velvet Underground line is cut (the "shitty" part).
The back cover says the following about the Mothers of Invention (in a curious brand of English):
If affluence and power is the Great American Dream, Frank Zappa is the Great American Nightmare, somebody once said about the mother-Mother. It's probably the attempt to describe the phenomenon Zappa - Mothers of Invention that came closest. Who really needs a rock & roll band engaged in musical satire in a country where there's about a million things not going quite right, or going quite wrong as you wish. Can you imagine now what their first album freak out! [sic] must have meant to the American establishment in 1966. Unvarnished social satire and plain eroticism - meant to shock, on the first rock album ever, that was recorded as if it were a single piece of music. And shocked everybody surely was.
The broadcasters, that refused to play one single cut of any Mothers album. The numerous women's associations sending in petitions to the Congress to stop these filthy Mothers from playing their town. And theatre managers that banned them from their halls. On stage in the old days the Mothers were wild, playing louder than anybody. Making use of weird theatrics, pre-recorded tapes and of course an uncanny musical sophistication. Musically those Mothers could not be beat, blending their nostalgia for fifties' rock & roll, cynical interpretations of situations and unlimited improvisations into Mothers-music, exactly the way Frank wanted it of course. For those who want to relive that early Mothers-days excitement, this Superstarshine album is the sure way.
The front cover has a colour photo of the Mothers.
Superstarshine Volume 26: Frank Zappa
This is simply a re-issue of Lumpy Gravy, in a different cover. The front cover has a colour picture of Zappa playing guitar, and the back cover says (in a curious brand of English):
Frank is eighteen when he hops on a Greyhound headed for Los Angeles to seek his fortune.
He gets a job selling records, he practises the guitar and through a friend producing films he becomes the youngest person ever to score a motion picture. A few more years of writing filmscores, when at 22 the idea of forming a band started taking shape in his head.
He started with a highschoolband in the fifties and by the time when the English invasion was in full force he had a pretty weird group that was called Captain Glasspack and his Magic Mufflers. Quite a few musicians came and went before they became an important influence on rock music. In spite of their outlaw position with deejays, record chain owners, and theatre-managers, their first album Freak out! [sic], which is probably the freakiest of them all, became a chart success. One of Frank's musical experiments that are now generally considered as rock & roll masterpieces is certainly the ballet Lumpy Gravy. Some of the Mothers and a huge orchestra made up of America's best session men, became the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Frank conducting Lumpy Gravy part 1 and 2. It is this album, that is released as Superstarshine vol. 26, that every Mothers-fan should turn on to.
Informants: Mikael Agardsson
Double Dynamite
Unique material: None
There was a coupling of Hot Rats and Chunga's Revenge in Australia and/or South Africa called Double Dynamite. From Mikael Agardsson:
It doesn't say that it was pressed in South Africa, but I've had it confirmed from various sources. Year of release unknown, probably in the mid-1970s. The front cover is Hot Rats with the words "DOUBLE DYNAMITE / 2 ORIGINALS", and the back cover is Chunga's Revenge. The gatefold cover has the Hot Rats back cover on the left and the Chunga's Revenge back cover on the right.
From Kristian Kier:
There's only a little hint on the labels and cover saying "Manufactured and distributed by WEA Records (Pty) Ltd. Is that Australian? ... this "(Pty)" reminded me of Australian companies.
Boek en Plaat
Unique material: none
The first time this was reported, it was called "Boek en Plaat". It's a Dutch-only special from a book-and-record club.
1. Peaches en Regalia
2. Willie the Pimp
3. Son of Mr Green Genes [listed as "Son of Mr Genes" on the label]4. [The] Little House I Used to Live In
5. Valarie [Clarence Lewis / Bobby Robinson]
From Kristian Kier, 1999:
A so called "club pressing". It has material from Burnt Weeny on side one and Hot Rats stuff on side two. A Dutch pressing with the cattle-log number D 116/0 by Reprise, but I haven't seen this in my life. Runs for 51.60 DM in my price guide.
From Mikael Agardsson, 1999:
If you want a MINT copy, you'll have to pay three to five times more.
Additional informants: the guy Mikael Agardsson bought his copy from, who said it was from 1973; vins, who said 1971; and Patrick Neve
Mother's Day
Unique material: none
1. Fountain of Love
2. Brown Shoes Don't Make It
3. Concentration Moon
4. Nasal Retentive Caliope Music
5. Let's Make the Water Turn Black
6. Stuff Up the Cracks7. America Drinks
8. Cheap Thrills
9. You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
10. The Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny
11. No No No
12. Plastic People13. Are You Hung Up?
14. Help, I'm a Rock (Suite in Three Movements): 1st Movement: Okay to Tap Dance / 2nd Movement: In Memoriam, Edgar Varèse / 3rd Movement: It Can't Happen Here
15. Bow Tie Daddy
16. Harry, You're a Beast
17. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?
18. Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin19. Later That Night
20. The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet (Unfinished Ballet in Two Tableaus): 1. Ritual Dance of the Child Killers / 2. Nullis Pretii
21. Wowie Zowie
22. Call Any Vegetable
On "Concentration Moon", only half the Velvet Underground line is cut (the "shitty" part).
German version - from W.E. "Doc" Kuster / Jared Gordin:
Black vinyl double album set. Made in Germany. Distributed by MGM Records. Album cover has an oval cutout photo of Zappa on the crapper ("Phi Zappa Krappa") bordered on top and sides by maroon ribbon with bows on top left and right corner, and a bouquet of red roses below the picture. The back cover has a high-school yearbook picture on the left and a short bio of the Mothers on the right. It has a fold out cover which lists song titles, and also a picture of the early original Mothers. It also houses a caractiture of Zappa holding a bouquet and a greeting card with a small puppy (not poodle) hanging on leg. All words are written in fancy script. Sound quality is excellent.
New Zealand version - from Steve Jones:
I just got a copy from New Zealand. The back cover is different. The track list for record 1 is on the left and record 2 is on the right and some flowers in the middle of the writing of the tracks. On the front cover it has the Metro Records label but the records are on the MGM LABEL. Very weird.
The New Zealand release had a different (somehow) back cover. It was a double LP set in a single sleeve.
De LiteraLuisterplaat
Unique material: none
Zappa material: "Camarillo Brillo"
1. Randy Newman: "Political Science"
2. Van Morrisson: "Redwood Tree"
3. Jim Buckley: "Sefronia: After Asklepiades, After Kafka, The King's Chain" [!? :) ]
4. Bonnie Raitt: "Nothing Seems to Matter"
5. Captin Beefheart: "Grow Fins"
6. Frank Zappa: "Camarillo Brillo"7. The Beach Boys: "The Trader"
8. Al Jarreau: "Lock All the Gates"
9. Little Feat: "Dixie Chicken"
10. Jesse Winchester: "Pharaoh's Army"
11. John Cale: "Graham Greene"
The cover (fold-out, I think) shows a cross between a typewriter and a piano. Track list and lyrics on back cover. Black on white background.
Informants: Robert Cloos, Apfelschnitt, Harry de Swart
Supraphon Cassette from Czechoslovakia
Unique material: None
Vybral a sestavil Petr Doruzka
1 Inca Roads (Silnice Inku)
2 Can't Afford No Shoes (Nemuzu si dovolit boty)
3 Po-Jama People (Lide Po-Jama)
4 Evelyn, a Modified Dog (Evelyn, modifikovaný pes)
5 San Ber'dino
6 Andy
7 Sofa No. 2 (Pohovka c.2)8 Peaches en Regalia (Broskve po královsku)
9 Willie the Pimp (Pásacek Willie)
10 Little Umbrellas (Destnícky)
11 Gumbo Variations (Variace na Gumbo)Hudbu slozil a zpívá
FRANK ZAPPA/Nahrávky Warner Bros. Records, Inc., v licenci WEA/
- Go to a Central-European page where you can read the Czech writing on this cassette with correct diacritics (requires Central-European language support for your web browser)
Informant: István Fekete (his first Zappa tape!)
Dolf Hartmann Präsentiert die Frank Zappa Story
Unique material: None
1. The Return of the Son of the Monster Magnet (Unfinished Ballet in Two Tableaux):
1.I. Ritual Dance of the Child-Killers
1.II. Nullis Pretii
2. Plastic People
3. Call Any Vegetable [Mothermania edit]
4. Brown Shoes Don't Make It5. Nasal-Retentive Calliope Music
6. Harry, You're a Beast
7. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?
8. Flower Punk
9. Hot Poop
10. Take the Clothes Off When You Dance
11. What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Reprise)
12. Mother People
13. The Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny [misspelled as "Magaphone" on both cover and label]
- Track 3 is the edited version that appeared on the Mothermania compilation.
A very hard-to-find German compilation from the 1970s. It has a fold-out cover where Dolf Hartmann tells the "Frank Zappa Story" in German (mentioning the year 1973, which places this release in 1973 or later). The cover (showing an open book with the album title on one page, in hard-core '70s type, and a picture of Zappa in a leather jacket on the opposite page) is credited to "Fessel/Lipp" and the photos to Heinz Thate. In 1987, this record was valued to £60.
Informants: Mikael Agardsson, Patrick Neve, Gang Green
Zappa en la Radio
Unique
material: none
1. Camarillo Brillo
2. Variations on the Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression
3. Hungry Freaks
4. Road Ladies
5. Harder Than Your Hsuband
6. He's So Gay [Stage #6 version]
7. Alien Orifice
8. Bobby Brown
9. Toads of the Short Forest
10. Cocaine Decisons
11. Sleeping in a jar
12. Zomby Woof
13. WPLJ
14. Apostrophe (')
15. Big Leg Emma
16. Promiscuous
17. Sharleena
18. Son of Mr. Green Genes
Digipak fold-out sleeve, embossed cover with cartoon drawings of Zappa. Pop-out CD container with inner sleeve. Booklet notes in Spanish by Alfredo Rosso & Mario Daniel Pergolini. This was the first official Zappa CD to be compiled outside the United States; it was made in Argentina by DBN, the local distributor for Rykodisc. Compiled by Alfredo Rosso & Marcelo Gasió.
In July 1999, a John R reported that a mysterious Zappa CD, Zappa on the Road, was listed on rock.com with a 1999 release date from DBN Records and "it's on backorder". However, it was a mislisting:
JOHN SEMAN:[It] is most likely the Argentinean (?) performer also named Zappa who I find quite often in import bins here in the US. DBN records is based in Buenos Aires, so it is unlikely they are concerned with Frank.
MARCELO GASIÓ: Regarding the "mystery" Zappa on the Road CD (DBN) it is actually the Zappa on the RADIO CD compilation I made for Argentina. Someone misspelled it. You can read all about this CD on my page. The record is now withdrawn because of some legal problems, since DBN was not supposed to export it.
Informants: Tony Burke, Marcelo Gasió
Battle of Eric Burdon & the Animals and the Mothers of Invention
Unique material: probably not
1. Trouble Comin' Every Day (05:51)
2. Who Are the Brain Police? (03:22)
3. You're Probably Wonderin' Why I'm Here (03:38)
4. Wowie Zowie (02:50)
5. Motherly Love (02:46)
6. Hungry Freaks, Daddy (03:28)7. Help, I'm a Rock (08:37)
8. The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet (12:17)
This was released in Japan under the title "Battle of Eric Burdon & the Animals and the Mothers of Invention". What Eric Burdon & the Animals had to do with it is not clear; probably it was a double, one Animals LP and one Mothers LP. (In that case, what we have is the track list for the Mothers LP.) All the tracks seem to be from Freak Out! and the cover shows Mark Volman, Ian Underwood, Frank Zappa and Jeff Simmons on an outdoor stage. From Matti Alakulju:
This Japanese compilation called Battle of Eric Burdon & the Animals and the Mothers of Invention was sold today (24 December 2001) in a web auction for (now hold your balls) $3,050!!! The Mothers' side includes tracks from Freak Out!, so there is no unique material here ... Why should somebody want to pay so much for this? Well, I suppose it makes a nice Christmas gift.
Additional informants: Isamu Shimizu
The Very Best of Frank Zappa
Unique material: none
This cassette from Indonesia was reported here by Harry de Swart (and to him by a friend of his). It has an interesting selection of material. The colour cover features the well-known "bowler hat" photo of Zappa. The price is listed as "Rp. 2750,-".
1. Be in My Video
2. Frogs with Dirty Little Lips [Frank/Ahmet Zappa]
3. Night School
4. We're Turning Again
5. Alien Orifice
6. Sleep Dirt
7. Stevie's Spanking
8. Whippin' Post [Allman]
9. Yo Cats [Zappa/Mariano]
10. The Gumbo Variations
11. Baby Snakes
12. Tryin' to Grow a Chin [listed as "Try to Grow a Chin"]
13. Sad Jane
14. Ms. Pinky
15. Time Is Money
16. In France
17. St Etienne
18. Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station
19. Black Napkins
20. The Torture [Never Stops]
21. SHARLEENA
Further sleeve info:
Licence no 1350/PRIND IK/0023/A/83
P.O. BOX 4832 JAKARTA 10001 INDONESIA
MEMBERS OF A.P.N.I. NO: 41
(Audio Mast records also had a Very Best of New Order cassette.)
Additional Informants
- Robert Cloos
- Mikael Agardsson