Tracklist
| Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme | 1:54 | ||
| The Voice Of Cheese | 0:27 | ||
| 400 Days Of The Year | 5:56 | ||
| Zolar Czakl | 0:57 | ||
| Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague | 5:51 | ||
| The Legend Of The Golden Arches | 1:24 | ||
| The Mothers Play Louie Louie At The Royal Albert Hall In London | 2:28 | ||
| The Dog Breath Variations | 1:36 | ||
| Sleeping In A Jar | 0:49 | ||
| Our Bizarre Relationship | 1:05 | ||
| The Uncle Meat Variations | 4:40 | ||
| Electric Aunt Jemima | 1:53 | ||
| Prelude To King Kong | 3:24 | ||
| God Bless America (Live At The Whisky A Go Go) | 1:22 | ||
| A Pound For A Brown On The Bus | 1:29 | ||
| Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live On Stage In Copenhagen) | 5:08 | ||
| Mr. Green Genes | 3:10 | ||
| We Can Shoot You | 1:48 | ||
| "If We'd All Been Living In California . . . " | 1:29 | ||
| The Air | 2:57 | ||
| Project X | 4:47 | ||
| Cruising For Burgers | 2:19 | ||
| King Kong Itself (As Played By The Mothers In A Studio) | 0:53 | ||
| King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild) | 1:15 | ||
| King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It) | 1:44 | ||
| King Kong (The Gardner Varieties) | 6:17 | ||
| King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks) | 0:29 | ||
| King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival . . . The Underwood Ramifications) | 7:22 |
Credits (22)
Cal SchenkelDesign [Package Designed By]
Artie (With The Green Mustache) Tripp*Drums [Cheerful Outlook & Specific Enquiries], Timpani, Vibraphone, Marimba, Xylophone, Wood Block, Bells, Chimes [Small]
Jimmy Carl BlackDrums [Droll Humor, Poverty]
Billy (The Oozer) Mundi*Drums [Some Tracks]
Jerry HansenEffects [Percussion Effects]
Roy EstradaElectric Bass
Notes
Official Release #6
Early issues in US (& some countries) have a band name & book sticker on cover. Early US issues and some later ones were auto-coupled. Early sleeves/labels show the A3 title as "400 Days Of The Year" where later versions show "9 Types Of Industrial Pollution". On the 1st CD issues extra tracks were also added as FZ progressed his concept for Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat (The Mothers Of Invention Movie).
The title of this album also relates to 'uncle meat', a nickname bestowed upon Sandy Hurvitz by the band when she worked with them at The Garrick, above the Cal Schenkel.
Zappa states on this release:
"The words to the songs on this album were scientifically prepared from a random series of syllables, dreams, neuroses & private jokes that nobody except of the band ever laugh at, and other irrelevant material. They are all 'very serious' & loaded with secret underground candy-rock psychedelic profundities. (Basically, this is an instrumental album.)"
"The music on this album was recorded over a period of about 5 months, from October 1967 to February 1968. Things that sound like a full orchestra were carefully assembled, track by track, through a procedure known as overdubbing.
The weird middle section of "Dog Breath" (after the line, "Ready to attack") has forty tracks built into it. Things that sound like trumpets are actually clarinets played through an electric device made by 'Maestro' with a setting labeled 'Oboe D'Amore' and sped up a minor third with a 'V.S.O.' [variable speed oscillator]. Other peculiar sounds were made on a 'Kalamazoo' electric organ.
The only equipment at our disposal for the modification of these primary sounds was a pair of 'Pultec Filters', two 'Lang Equalizers', and three 'Melchor Compressors' built into the board at Apostolic Studios in New York. The board itself is exceptionally quiet and efficient (the only thing that allowed us to pile up so many tracks) and is the product of Mr. Lou Lindauer's imagination & workmanship.
The material was recorded on a prototype 'Scully 12-track' machine at 30ips. The whole project was engineered by Richard Kunc, or Dynamite Dick, as he is known in the trade. Special engineering credits go to Jerry Hansen for the percussion effects added later at Sunset Sound in L.A., and to our friend 'Mike' in Copenhagen for the tapes he sent us."
Early issues in US (& some countries) have a band name & book sticker on cover. Early US issues and some later ones were auto-coupled. Early sleeves/labels show the A3 title as "400 Days Of The Year" where later versions show "9 Types Of Industrial Pollution". On the 1st CD issues extra tracks were also added as FZ progressed his concept for Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat (The Mothers Of Invention Movie).
The title of this album also relates to 'uncle meat', a nickname bestowed upon Sandy Hurvitz by the band when she worked with them at The Garrick, above the Cal Schenkel.
Zappa states on this release:
"The words to the songs on this album were scientifically prepared from a random series of syllables, dreams, neuroses & private jokes that nobody except of the band ever laugh at, and other irrelevant material. They are all 'very serious' & loaded with secret underground candy-rock psychedelic profundities. (Basically, this is an instrumental album.)"
"The music on this album was recorded over a period of about 5 months, from October 1967 to February 1968. Things that sound like a full orchestra were carefully assembled, track by track, through a procedure known as overdubbing.
The weird middle section of "Dog Breath" (after the line, "Ready to attack") has forty tracks built into it. Things that sound like trumpets are actually clarinets played through an electric device made by 'Maestro' with a setting labeled 'Oboe D'Amore' and sped up a minor third with a 'V.S.O.' [variable speed oscillator]. Other peculiar sounds were made on a 'Kalamazoo' electric organ.
The only equipment at our disposal for the modification of these primary sounds was a pair of 'Pultec Filters', two 'Lang Equalizers', and three 'Melchor Compressors' built into the board at Apostolic Studios in New York. The board itself is exceptionally quiet and efficient (the only thing that allowed us to pile up so many tracks) and is the product of Mr. Lou Lindauer's imagination & workmanship.
The material was recorded on a prototype 'Scully 12-track' machine at 30ips. The whole project was engineered by Richard Kunc, or Dynamite Dick, as he is known in the trade. Special engineering credits go to Jerry Hansen for the percussion effects added later at Sunset Sound in L.A., and to our friend 'Mike' in Copenhagen for the tapes he sent us."
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Bizarre Records – 2MS 2024 | US | 1969 | US — 1969 |
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Playtape – 3585 | 1969 | 1969 |
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Recommendations
Reviews
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referencing Uncle Meat (Cassette, Album, Stereo) J5 2024
The 1969 release (if in fact it was release on cassette at the time) would have been an Ampex tape in a snap box. Warner/Kinney didn't start using the plastic cases with the tape sliding in on the side until about 1972. -
Edited 2 months agoBy far, this is the best sounding record I have over all my remasters and heavyweight vinyl. I can’t imagine how much better a special edition would sound over this. Despite how annoying it is to have side I and IV on disc 1 and sides II and III on disc 2, it was still well worth the $33.33 I paid for it! -
WTF... This pressing is sooo perfect. I can't imagine to be better than this. All is perfectly separated, detailed, with great relief, dynamic, clear... I'm dreaming all the reissue are like this. -
referencing Uncle Meat (2×LP, Album, Reissue) REP 64 005
This reissue has a great soundstage and a very clear sound. Cover print is bright and marvellous. Recommended. -
This is the original mix from 1969, on heavyweight vinyl (180g ?). Top sound, just the way you want it. A clear recommendation to buy!
Sturdy gatefold cover, including a booklet, just like the original 1969 pressing. -
Edited one year agoreferencing Uncle Meat (2×LP, Album, Promo, Stereo, Press kit, Santa Maria Pressing, Auto-Coupled) 2MS 2024
no balloons with my copy, they are not pictured on discogs either… -
Compared with an original, how is the mix? The sound quality?
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my pressing has two labels pressed on the 1st side of the record, one in the center where it's supposed to be and one off center covering 2 of the last tracks on that side. This creates a hiss and scratch sound. not what i expected from a Frank Zappa production. Very disappointing. -
The most psychedelic record of all times !
The take of sound is sometimes patchy. The pressing is correct. -
UNCLE MEAT - 12" VINYL RECORD 2 LP SET - THIS IS THE VERY FIRST WITHDRAWN PRESSING WITH MISTAKES THAT WHEN SEEN BY FRANK SENT HIM INTO A PETULANT FRENZY AND VISIT TO THE RECORD COMPANY OFFICES - FIRST OF ALL, THIS WAS THE FIRST MOTHERS ALBUM RELEASED BY WARNER / REPRISE AFTER FRANK GAVE VERVE RECORDS THE SHAFT. BUT HERE, JUST AS WAS THE ISSUE WITH CENSORSHIP WITH VERVE, IS "400 DAYS OF THE YEAR" REPLACING THE CORRECT SONG TITLE OF "9 TYPES OF INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION", BECAUSE SOME RECORD COMPANY EXECUTIVES THOUGHT THAT FRANK'S TITLE WOULD CREATE IRREPARABLE HARM ON THE MINDS OF FOOLISH CONSUMERS - - THE SONG ELECTRIC AUNT JEMIMA WAS PRINTED CORRECTLY AS THE TITLE OF THE SONG ABOVE THE LYRICS. HOWEVER, FURTHER DOWN IT WAS SPELLED "JEMINA" AND ALSO ON THE RECORD LABEL - ANYWAY, THIS VERSION WAS WITHDRAWN.
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