Weasels Ripped My Flesh by Frank Zappa (CD, May-1995, Ryko Distribution)

Album Features
UPC:	014431051029
Artist:	Frank Zappa
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1995
Record Label:	Ryko Distribution
Genre:	Art Rock, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Didja Get Any Onya?
2. Directly From My Heart to You
3. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask
4. Toads of the Short Forest
5. Get a Little
6. Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue, The
7. Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula
8. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
9. Oh No
10. Orange County Lumber Truck, The
11. Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Details
Playing Time:	43 min.
Contributing Artists:	Lowell George, Don "Sugarcane" Harris
Producer:	Frank Zappa
Distributor:	Ryko Distribution
Recording Type:	Mixed
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	AAD

Album Notes
Personnel: Frank Zappa, Lowell George (vocals, guitar); Don "Sugarcane" Harris (vocals, electric violin); Roy Estrada (vocals, bass instrument); Ray Collins (vocals); Ian Underwood (alto saxophone); Bunk Gardner (tenor saxophone, trumpet, flugelhorn); Motorhead Sherwood (baritone saxophone); Don Preston (piano, organ); Art Tripp, Jimmy Carl Black (drums).After getting over the colorful, disconcerting Neon Parks album cover illustration on WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH, the listener is faced with following the whiplash-inducing, genre-jumping gymnastics inside. A mix of live tracks with studio cuts made with the original Mothers of Invention, WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH is one of Frank Zappa's most eclectic, varied, and experimental early releases.From the perplexing Germanic interlude of the opener, "Didja Get Any Onya?" to the complex xylophone changes of "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue," Zappa combines avant garde music, jazz, R&B, novelty elements, and plenty of flippant rock attitude. Interestingly, there are some straight-up rock tracks too, such as the interpretation of Little Richard's "Directly From My Heart To You," and the guitar-led attack of "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama," balancing highbrow conceptualism with unpretentious directness in Zappa's inimitable fashion.

Editorial Reviews
Goldmine Highly Recommended

5 Stars - Indispensable - ...as diverse and dynamic as any Mothers' album. Not a dull moment...
Q (19950801)

...the original Mothers' last gasp, WEASELS contains some of Zappa's looniest work in a free jazz vein...
Entertainment Weekly (19931217)

...This random collection...finds the group peerless in the field of amalgamating satire, musical adventuresomeness, and flash...
Rolling Stone (19701001)