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Lumpy Gravy (1968)Edit

1. Lumpy Gravy I
2. Lumpy Gravy II

Hot Rats (1969)Edit

1. Peaches En Regalia (instrumental)
2. Willie the Pimp
3. Son of Mr. Green Genes (instrumental)
4. Little Umbrellas (instrumental)
5. The Gumbo Variations (instrumental)
6. It Must Be a Camel (instrumental)

Chunga's Revenge (1970)Edit

1. Transylvania Boogie
2. Road Ladies
3. Twenty Small Cigars
4. The Nancy & Mary Music
5. Tell Me You Love Me
6. Would You Go All the Way?
7. Chunga's Revenge
8. The Clap
9. Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink
10. Sharleena

Fillmore East – June 1971 (1971)Edit

credited to The Mothers

1. Little House I Used to Live in
2. The Mud Shark
3. What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?
4. Bwana Dik
5. Latex Solar Beef
6. Willie the Pimp (Part One)
7. Willie the Pimp (Part Two) omitted from CD releases of this album
8. Do You Like My New Car?
9. Happy Together
10. Lonesome Electric Turkey
11. Peaches En Regalia
12. Tears Began to Fall

Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1971)Edit

1. Semi-Fraudulent/Direct-from-Hollywood Overture
2. Mystery Roach
3. Dance of the Rock & Roll Interviewers
4. This Town is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Prologue)
5. Tuna Fish Promenade
6. Dance of the Just Plain Folks
7. This Town is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Reprise)
8. The Sealed Tuna Bolero
9. Lonesome Cowboy Burt
10. Touring Can Make You Crazy
11. Would You Like a Snack?
12. Redneck Eats
13. Centerville
14. She Painted Up Her Face
15. Janet's Big Dance Number
16. Half a Dozen Provocative Squats
17. Mysterioso
18. Shove It Right In
19. Lucy's Seduction of a Bored Violinist & Postlude

1. I'm Stealing the Towels
2. Dental Hygiene Dilemma
3. Does This Kind of Life Look Interesting to You?
4. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
5. Penis Dimension
6. What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning
7. A Nun Suit Painted on Some Old Boxes
8. Magic Fingers
9. Motorhead's Midnight Ranch
10. Dew on the Newts We Got
11. The Lad Searches the Night for His Newts
12. The Girl Wants to Fix Him Some Broth
13. The Girl's Dream
14. Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce
15. Strictly Genteel (The Finale)

Just Another Band From L.A. (1972)Edit

credited to Las Mothers

1. Billy the Mountain
2. Call Any Vegetable
3. Eddie, Are You Kidding?
4. Magdalena
5. Dog Breath

Waka/Jawaka (1972)Edit

1. Big Swifty
2. Your Mouth
3. It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal
4. Waka/Jawaka

The Grand Wazoo (1972)Edit

1. The Grand Wazoo
2. For Calvin (and His Next Two Hitch-Hikers)
3. Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
4. Eat That Question
5. Blessed Relief

Over-Nite Sensation (1973)Edit

1. Camarillo Brillo
2. I'm the Slime
3. Dirty Love
4. Fifty-Fifty
5. Zomby Woof
6. Dinah-Moe Humm
7. Montana

Apostrophe (') (1974)Edit

1. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
2. Nanook Rubs It
3. St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
4. Father O'Blivion
5. Cosmik Debris
6. Excentrifugal Forz
7. Apostrophe' (instrumental)
8. Uncle Remus
9. Stink-Foot

Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)Edit

credited to Zappa/Mothers

1. Penguin in Bondage
2. Pygmy Twylyte
3. Dummy up
4. Village of the Sun
5. Echidna's Arf (of You)
6. Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?
7. Cheepnis
8. Son of Orange County
9. More Trouble Every Day
10. Be-Bop Tango (of the Old Jazzmen's Church)

One Size Fits All (1975)Edit

credited to Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention

1. Inca Roads
2. Can't Afford No Shoes
3. Sofa No. 1
4. Po-Jama People
5. Florentine Pogen
6. Evelyn, a Modified Dog
7. San Ber'dino
8. Andy
9. Sofa No. 2

Bongo Fury (1975) (with Captain Beefheart)Edit

1. Debra Kadabra
2. Carolina Hard-core Ecstasy
3. Sam With the Showing Scalp Flat Top
4. Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
5. 200 Years Old
6. Cucamonga
7. Advance Romance
8. Man with the Woman Head
9. Muffin Man

Zoot Allures (1976)Edit

1. Wind up Workin' in a Gas Station
2. Black Napkins
3. The Torture Never Stops
4. Ms Pinky
5. Find Her Finer
6. Friendly Little Finger
7. Wonderful Wino
8. Zoot Allures
9. Disco Boy

Zappa in New York (1978)Edit

1. Titties & Beer
2. Cruisin' For Burgers
3. I Promise Not to Come in Your Mouth
4. Punky's Whips
5. Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?
6. The Illinois Enema Bandit

1. I'm the Slime
2. Pound for a Brown
3. Manx Needs Women
4. The Black Page Drum Solo/Black Page #1
5. Big Leg Emma
6. Sofa
7. Black Page #2
8. The Torture Never Stops
9. The Purple Lagoon/Approximate

Studio Tan (1978)Edit

1. The Adventures of Greggery Peccary
2. Revised Music for Guitar and Low-Budget Orchestra
3. Lemme Take You to the Beach
4. RDNZL

Sleep Dirt (1979)Edit

1. Filthy Habits
2. Flambay
3. Spider of Destiny
4. Regyptian Strut
5. Time is Money
6. Sleep Dirt
7. The Ocean is the Ultimate Solution

Sheik Yerbouti (1979)Edit

1. I Have Been in You
2. Flakes
3. Broken Hearts are for Assholes
4. I'm so Cute
5. Jones Crusher
6. What Ever Happened to all the Fun in the World
7. Rat Tomago
8. We Gotta Get Into Something Real (aka Wait a Minute)
9. Bobby Brown
10. Rubber Shirt
11. The Sheik Yerbouti Tango
12. Baby Snakes
13. Tryin' to Grow a Chin
14. City of Tiny Lites
15. Dancin' Fool
16. Jewish Princess
17. Wild Love
18. Yo Mama

Orchestral Favorites (1979)Edit

1. Strictly Genteel
2. Pedro's Dowry
3. Naval Aviation In Art?
4. Duke Of Prunes
5. Bogus Pomp

Joe's Garage (1979)Edit

1. The Central Scrutinizer
2. Joe's Garage
3. Catholic Girls
4. Crew Slut
5. Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt (aka Wet T-Shirt Nite)
6. On The Bus (Aka Toad-O Line)
7. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
8. Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
9. Scrutinizer Postlude
10. A Token Of My Extreme
11. Stick It Out
12. Sy Borg

1. Dong Work For Yuda
2. Keep It Greasey
3. Outside Now
4. He Used To Cut The Grass
5. Packard Goose
6. Watermelon In Easter Hay
7. A Little Green Rosetta

Tinseltown Rebellion (1981)Edit

1. Fine Girl
2. Easy Meat
3. For the Young Sophisticate
4. Love of My Life
5. I Ain't Got No Heart
6. Panty Rap
7. Tell Me You Love Me
8. Now You See It – Now You Don't
9. Dance Contest
10. The Blue Light
11. Tinseltown Rebellion
12. Pick Me, I'm Clean
13. Bamboozled by Love
14. Brown Shoes Don't Make It
15. Peaches III

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (1981)Edit

1. five-five-FIVE
2. Hog Heaven
3. Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
4. While You Were Out
5. Treacherous Cretins
6. Heavy Duty Judy
7. Soup 'n Old Clothes

1. Variations on the Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression
2. Gee, I Like Your Pants
3. Canarsie
4. Ship Ahoy
5. The Deathless Horsie
6. Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More
7. Pink Napkins

1. Beat It With Your Fist
2. Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
3. Pinocchio's Furniture
4. Why Johnny Can't Read
5. Stucco Homes
6. Canard du Jour

You Are What You Is (1981)Edit

1. Teen-age Wind
2. Harder Than Your Husband
3. Doreen
4. Goblin Girl
5. Theme from the 3rd Mvmt of "Sinister Footwear"
6. Society Pages
7. I'm a Beautiful Guy
8. Beauty Knows No Pain
9. Charlie's Enormous Mouth
10. Any Downers?
11. Conehead
12. You Are What You Is
13. Mudd Club
14. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
15. Dumb All Over
16. Heavenly Bank Account
17. Suicide Chump
18. Jumbo Go Away
19. If Only She Woulda
20. Drafted Again

Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (1982)Edit

1. No Not Now
2. Valley Girl
3. I Come from Nowhere
4. Drowning Witch
5. Envelopes
6. Teen-age Prostitute

The Man from Utopia (1983)Edit

1. Cocaine Decisions
2. SEX
3. Tink Walks Amok
4. The Radio Is Broken
5. We Are Not Alone
6. The Dangerous Kitchen
7. The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou
8. Stick Together
9. The Jazz Discharge Party Hats
10. Luigi & the Wise Guys
11. Moggio

Them or Us (1984)Edit

1. The Closer You Are
2. In France
3. Ya Hozna
4. Sharleena
5. Sinister Footwear II
6. Truck Driver Divorce
7. Stevie's Spanking
8. Baby, Take Your Teeth Out
9. Marqueson's Chicken
10. Planet of My Dreams
11. Be in My Video
12. Them or Us
13. Frogs with Dirty Little Lips
14. Whipping Post

Thing-Fish (1984)Edit

1. Prologue
2. The Mammy Nuns
3. Harry & Rhonda
4. Galoot Up-Date
5. The 'Torchum' Never Stops
6. That Evil Prince
7. You Are What You Is
8. Mudd Club
9. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
10. Clowns on Velvet
11. Harry-as-a-Boy
12. He's so Gay

1. The Massive Improve'lence
2. Artificial Rhonda
3. The Crab-Grass Baby
4. The White Boy Troubles
5. No Not Now
6. Briefcase Boogie
7. Brown Moses
8. Wistful with a Fist-Full
9. Drop Dead
10. Won Ton On

Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention (1985)Edit

1. I Don't Even Care
2. One Man, One Vote
3. Little Beige Sambo
4. Aerobics in Bondage
5. We're Turning Again
6. Alien Orifice
7. Yo Cats
8. What's New in Baltimore?
9. Porn Wars
10. H.R. 2911

Does Humor Belong In Music? (1986)Edit

1. Zoot Allures
2. Tinseltown Rebellion
3. Trouble Every Day
4. Penguin in Bondage
5. Hot-Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
6. What's New in Baltimore?
7. Cock-Suckers' Ball
8. WPLJ
9. Let's Move to Cleveland
10. Whippin' Post

Jazz from Hell (1986)Edit

1. Night School
2. The Beltway Bandits
3. While You Were Art II
4. Jazz from Hell
5. G-Spot Tornado
6. Damp Ankles
7. St. Etienne
8. Massaggio Galore

Guitar (1988)Edit

1. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
2. Which One Is It?
3. Republicans
4. Do Not Pass Go
5. Chalk Pie
6. In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky
7. That's Not Really Reggae
8. When No One Was No One
9. Once Again, Without the Net
10. Outside Now (Original Solo)
11. Jim & Tammy's Upper Room
12. Were We Ever Really Safe in San Antonio?
13. That Ol' G Minor Thing Again
14. Hotel Atlanta Incidentals
15. That's Not Really a Shuffle
16. Move It or Park It
17. Sunrise Redeemer

1. Variations On Sinister # 3
2. Orrin Hatch on Skis
3. But Who Was Fulcanelli?
4. For Duane
5. GOA
6. Winos Do Not March
7. Swans? What Swans?
8. Too Ugly for Show Business
9. Systems of Edges
10. Do Not Try This at Home
11. Things That Look Like Meat
12. Watermelon in Easter Hay
13. Canadian Customs
14. Is That All There Is?
15. It Ain't Necessarily the Saint James Infirmary

Broadway The Hard Way (1988)Edit

1. Elvis Has Just Left the Building
2. Planet of the Baritone Women
3. Any Kind of Pain
4. Dickie's Such an Asshole
5. When the Lie's so Big
6. Rhymin' Man
7. Promiscuous
8. The Untouchables
9. Why Don't You Like Me?
10. Bacon Fat
11. Stolen Moments
12. Murder by Numbers
13. Jezebel Boy
14. Outside Now
15. Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
16. What Kind of Girl?
17. Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk

The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life (1991)Edit

1. Heavy Duty Judy
2. Ring of Fire
3. Cosmik Debris
4. Find Her Finer
5. Who Needs the Peace Corps?
6. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
7. Zomby Woof
8. Bolero
9. Zoot Allures
10. Mr. Green Genes
11. Florentine Pogen
12. Andy
13. Inca Roads
14. Sofa # 1

1. Purple Haze
2. Sunshine of Your Love
3. Let's Move to Cleveland
4. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
5. "Godfather Part II" Theme
6. A Few Moments With Brother A. West
7. The Torture Never Stops Part One
8. Theme from "Bonanza"
9. Lonesome Cowboy Burt (Swaggart Version)
10. The Torture Never Stops Part Two
11. More Trouble Every Day (Swaggart Version)
12. Penguin in Bondage (Swaggart Version)
13. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
14. Stairway to Heaven

Playground Psychotics (1992)Edit

credited to Zappa/Mothers

1. Here Comes the Gear, Lads
2. The Living Garbage Truck
3. A Typical Sound Check
4. This Is Neat
5. The Motel Lobby
6. Getting Stewed
7. The Motel Room
8. Don't Take Me Down
9. The Dressing Room
10. Learning "Penis Dimension"
11. You There, With the Hard On!
12. Zanti Serenade
13. Divan
14. Sleeping in a Jar
15. Don't Eat There
16. Brixton Still Life
17. Super Grease
18. Wonderful Wino
19. Sharleena
20. Cruisin' for Burgers
21. Diptheria Blues
22. Well
23. Say Please
24. Aaawk
25. Scum Bag
26. A Small Eternity with Yoko Ono

1. Beer Shampoo
2. Champagne Lecture
3. Childish Perversions
4. Playground Psychotics
5. The Mudshark Interview
6. There's No Lust in Jazz
7. Botulism on the Hoof
8. You Got Your Armies
9. The Spew King
10. I'm Doomed
11. Status Back Baby
12. The London Cab Tape
13. Concentration Moon, Part One
14. The Sanzini Brothers
15. It's a Good Thing We Get Paid to Do This
16. Concentration Moon, Part Two
17. Mom & Dad
18. Intro to Music for Low Budget Orchestra
19. Billy the Mountain
20. He's Watching Us
21. If You're Not a Professional Actor
22. He's Right
23. Going for the Money
24. Jeff Quits
25. A Bunch of Adventures
26. Martin Lickert's Story
27. A Great Guy
28. Bad Acting
29. The Worst Reviews
30. A Version of Himself
31. I Could Be a Star Now

The Yellow Shark (1993)Edit

1. Intro
2. Dog Breath Variations
3. Uncle Meat
4. Outrage At Valdez
5. Times Beach II
6. III Revised
7. The Girl In The Magnesium Dress
8. Be-Bop Tango
9. Ruth Is Sleeping
10. None Of The Above
11. Pentagon Afternoon
12. Questi Cazzi Di Piccione
13. Times Beach III
14. Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America, 1992
15. Welcome To The United States
16. Pound For A Brown
17. Exercise #4
18. Get Whitey
19. G-Spot Tornado

Civilization Phaze III (1994)Edit

1. This Is Phaze III
2. Put a Motor in Yourself
3. Oh-Umm
4. They Made Me Eat It
5. Reagan at Bitburg
6. A Very Nice Body
7. Navanax
8. How the Pigs' Music Works
9. Xmas Values
10. Dark Water!
11. Amnerika
12. Have You Heard Their Band?
13. Religious Superstition
14. Saliva Can Only Take So Much
15. Buffalo Voice
16. Someplace Else Right Now
17. Get a Life
18. A Kayak (on Snow)
19. N-Lite

1. I Wish Motorhead Would Come Back
2. Secular Humanism
3. Attack! Attack! Attack!
4. I Was in a Drum
5. A Different Octave
6. This Ain't CNN
7. The Pigs' Music
8. A Pig with Wings
9. This Is All Wrong
10. Hot & Putrid
11. Flowing Inside-Out
12. I Had a Dream About That
13. Gross Man
14. A Tunnel Into Muck
15. Why Not?
16. Put a Little Motor in 'Em
17. You're Just Insultin' Me, Aren't You!
18. Cold Light Generation
19. Dio Fa
20. That Would Be the End of That
21. Beat the Reaper
22. Waffenspiel

EIHN - Everything Is Healing Nicely (1999)Edit

1. Library Card
2. This Is A Test
3. Jolly Good Fellow
4. Roland's Big Event/Strat Vindaloo
5. Master Ringo
6. T'Mershi Duween
7. Nap Time
8. 9/8 Objects
9. Naked City
10. Whitey (Prototype)
11. Amnerika Goes Home
12. None Of The Above (Revised & Previsited)
13. Wonderful Tattoo!

FZ:OZ (2002)Edit

1. Hordern Intro (Incan Art Vamp)
2. Stink-Foot
3. The Poodle Lecture
4. Dirty Love
5. Filthy Habits
6. How Could I Be Such A Fool?
7. I Ain't Got No Heart
8. I'm Not Satisfied
9. Black Napkins
10. Advance Romance
11. The Illinois Enema Bandit
12. Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station
13. The Torture Never Stops

1. Canard Toujours
2. Kaiser Rolls
3. Find Her Finer
4. Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy
5. Lonely Little Girl
6. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
7. What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?
8. Chunga's Revenge
9. Zoot Allures
10. Keep It Greasy
11. Dinah-Moe Humm
12. Camarillo Brillo
13. Muffin Man
14. Kaiser Rolls (Du Jour)

Joe's Corsage (2004)Edit

1. Pretty Pat
2. Motherly Love
3. Plastic People
4. Anyway the Wind Blows
5. I Ain't Got No Heart
6. The Phone Call/My Babe
7. Wedding Dress Song/Handsome Cabin Boy
8. Hitch Hike
9. I'm So Happy I Could Cry
10. Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder
11. How Could I Be Such a Fool?
12. We Made Our Reputation Doing It That Way...

You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore SeriesEdit

• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 1 (1988)
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2 (1988) – The Helsinki Concert
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3 (1989)
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4 (1991)
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5 (1992)
• You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6 (1992)

CompilationsEdit

• The Lost Episodes (1996)
• Cheap Thrills (1998)
• Cucamonga (1998)

Bootlegs And Other SongsEdit

1. Ancient Armaments from the DVD "Halloween"
2. Black Napkins (The Deathless Horsie) from the DVD "Halloween"
3. Drooling Midrange Accountants On Easter Hay from the DVD "QuAUDIOPHILIAc"
4. Love Story from the album "Boulez Conducts Zappa:The Perfect Stranger (1984)"
5. Sleeping In A Jar from the bootleg-album "Freaks & Motherfu*%!!@ (1991)"
6. Venusian Time Bandits from the DVD "QuAUDIOPHILIAc"
7. When It's Perfect... from the album "Joe's Domage"
8. When It Feels Natural... from the album "Joe's Domage"
9. Volare

Other SongsEdit

The songs listed below should be split into albums. Please remove this section once this has been done. (more information)

1. Dead Girls Of London
2. Flowing Inside-Out
3. Harry, You're A Beast
4. Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
5. Hungry Freaks, Daddy
6. Jcb & Kansas On The Bus 1
7. Jcb & Kansas On The Bus 2
8. King Kong (YCDTOSA)
9. Louie Louie
10. Madison Panty-Sniffing Festival
11. Porn Wars Deluxe
12. Soup 'N Old Clothes
13. World's Greatest Sinners

Additional information

Band members: (selection) bass Jeff Simmons (1970-1974) Jim Pons (1971-1972) Tom Fowler (1973-1975) Roy Estrada (1976-1984) Patrick O’Hearn (1977-1984) Arthur Barrow (1979-1984) Scott Thunes (1982-1989) drums Aynsley Dunbar (1970-1972) Ralph Humphrey (1973-1974) Chester Thompson (1974-1975) Terry Bozio (1975-1979, 1984) Vinnie Colaiuta (1979-1983) Chad Wackermann (1982-1989) keyboards, organ, piano Ian Underwood (1969-1974) George Duke (1970-1975, 1984) Bob Harris (1971-1972, 1981-1984) Tommy Mars (1979-1986) Peter Wolf (1979-1981) Bobby Martin (1982-1986) percussion Ruth Underwood (1973-1977) Ed Mann (1977-1989) rhythm guitar Tony Duran (1973-1974) Denny Walley (1975, 1981) Ray White (1977-1986) Ike Willis (1981-1989) Steve Vai (1981-1986) Warren Cucurullo (1979-1981) winds Ian Underwood (1969-1974) Sal Marquez (1972-1974) Bruce Fowler (1973-1975, 1989) Napoleon Murphy Brock (1973-1979) Related artists: The Mothers Of Invention Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band Steve Vai Jean-Luc Ponty

Genres: Progressive Rock Avant-garde Rock Record labels: Verve Records Bizarre DiscReet Records Zappa Records Barkin Pumpkin Records

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