album (1969)

The Mothers Of Invention
Frank Zappa - guitar, low grade vocals, percussion
Ray Collins: swell vocals
Jimmy Carl Black: drums, droll humor, poverty
Roy Estrada: electric bass, chesseburgers, Pachuco falsetto
Don (Dom De Wild) Preston: electric piano, tarot cards, brown rice
Billy (The Oozer) Mundi: drums on some pieces before he quit to join RHINOCEROS
Bunk (Sweetpants) Gardner: piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon (all of these electric and/or non-electric depending)
Ian Underwood: electric organ, piano, harpsichord, celeste, flute, clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax, special assistance, copyist, industrial relations & teen appeal
Artie (With the Green Mustache) Tripp: drums, timpani, vibes, marimba, xylophone, wood blocks, bells, small chimes, cheerful outlook & specific enquiries
Euclid James (Motorhead/Motorishi) Sherwood: pop star, frenetic tenor sax stylings, tambourine, choreography, obstinance & equipment setter-upper when he's not hustling local groupies
 

CD I.
1. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme 1:55
2. The Voice Of Cheese 0:26
3. Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution 6:00
4. Zolar Czakl 0:54
5. Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague 3:59
6. The Legend Of The Golden Arches 3:27
7. Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London) (Berry) 2:18
8. The Dog Breath Variations 1:48
9. Sleeping In A Jar 0:50
10. Our Bizarre Relationship 1:05
11. The Uncle Meat Variations 4:46
12. Electric Aunt Jemima 1:46
13. Prelude To King Kong 3:38
14. God Bless America (Live at the Whisky A Go Go) (Berlin) 1:10
15. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus 1:29
16. Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen) 5:05
17. Mr. Green Genes 3:14
18. We Can Shoot You 2:03
19. “If We'd All Been Living In California...” 1:14
20. The Air 2:57
21. Project X 4:48
22. Cruising For Burgers 2:18

CD II.
1. Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part I 37:34
2. Tengo Na Minchia Tanta 3:46
3. Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part II 3:51
4. King Kong Itself (as played by the Mothers in a studio) 0:51
5. King Kong (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild) 1:19
6. King Kong (as Motorhead explains it) 1:45
7. King Kong (the Gardner Varieties) 6:17
8. King Kong (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks) 0:33
9. King Kong (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival... the Underwood ramifications) 7:25