The History and Collected Improvisations of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

Release by Frank Zappa

Track list

12" Vinyl 1: Ultra-Modern Stringbean - (dark blue label)

=> 1 Exercise Four (1:12)
=> 2 Dog Breath (1:08)
=> 3 Dog Breath Variations (2:25)
=> 4 Uncle Meat (2:18)
=> 5 Montana (6:29)
=> 6 Fifty-Fifty (8:05)
=> 7 [Mudshark intro] (1:42)
=> 8 Mudshark (11:39)
=> 9 Farther Oblivion (10:50)

12" Vinyl 2: Nifty - (Sky blue label)

=> 1 Be-Bop Tango Preamble / Pygmy Twylyte (10:56)
=> 2 Dupree's Paradise Story / Be-Bop Tango (8:06)
=> 3 Dog Breath / Uncle Meat (4:23)
=> 4 Don't Eat the Yellow Snow / Nanook Rubs It / St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast / Mar-juh-rene (13:15)
=> 5 Penguin in Bondage (5:17)
=> 6 T'Mershi Duween (1:54)

12" Vinyl 3: Ein Monster In Der Musikhalle - (Orange label)

=> 1 Tush Tush Tush (A Token of My Extreme) (3:04)
=> 2 The Hook (2:48)
=> 3 Dupree's Paradise (20:44)
=> 4 I'm the Slime (4:02)
=> 5 Pygmy Twylyte / [Room Service] (18:50)

12" Vinyl 4: If You Have a Haedache - (pink label)

=> 1 Intro (3:46)
=> 2 Apostrophe (') (5:30)
=> 3 Stinkfoot (5:28)
=> 4 I'm Not Satisfied (2:06)
=> 5 Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy (9:27)
=> 6 You Can Swallow My Pride (4:50)
=> 7 Any Downers? / Packard Goose (8:32)
=> 8 Camarillo Brillo (4:01)
=> 9 Muffin Man (3:26)

12" Vinyl 5: Frank Zappa vs. the Tooth Fairy - (red label)

=> 1 [intro] (1:22)
=> 2 Gloria (7:51)
=> 3 [intro] (1:17)
=> 4 Inca Roads (9:50)
=> 5 [intro] (0:35)
=> 6 Pygmy Twylyte (5:21)
=> 7 Idiot Bastard Son (2:31)
=> 8 Cheepnis (4:22)
=> 9 [intro] (1:03)
=> 10 Cheepnis (clear version) (5:36)

12" Vinyl 6: A Token of My Extreme - (Silver label)

=> 1 A Token of My Extreme (7:57)
=> 2 Stinkfoot (6:18)
=> 3 Sleeping in a Jar (2:59)
=> 4 Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead (2:39)
=> 5 Debra Cadabra (4:33)
=> 6 Florentine Pogen (9:37)
=> 7 [intro] (1:52)
=> 8 Why Doesn't Someone Get Him a Pepsi? (10:08)

12" Vinyl 7: I Was a Teenage Maltshop - (pale yellow label)

=> 1 I Was a Teenage Maltshop / Status Back Baby / Ned the Mumbler / Ned Has a Brainstorm / Toads of the Short Forest (1:50)
=> 2 Excerpt from the Uncle Frankie Show [Mystery Disc version] (0:40)
=> 3 Charva [The Lost Episodes version] (1:59)
=> 4 Band Introductions from the Fillmore West [not listed] [Mystery Disc version] (1:11)
=> 5 Plastic People [Berry/Zappa] / Solo [Mystery Disc version of something] (1:58)
=> 6 Bobby Jameson: Gotta Find My Roogalator (2:22)
=> 7 Baby Ray & the Ferns: How's Your Bird (2:13)
=> 8 Baby Ray & the Ferns: The World's Greatest Sinner (2:29)
=> 9 The Penguins: Memories of El Monte [Zappa/Collins] (2:44)
=> 10 Camarillo Brillo (5:28)
=> 11 Muffin Man (3:26)
=> 12 Let's Make the Water Turn Black (3:52)
=> 13 Willie the Pimp (9:16)

12" Vinyl 8: Petrouska - (bright yellow label)

=> 1 Intro to (1:52)
=> 2 You Didn't Try to Call Me (2:15)
=> 3 Petrouska [Stravinsky] (0:56)
=> 4 Bristol Stomp [Appel/Mann] (0:40)
=> 5 Baby Love [Supremes] (0:53)
=> 6 Big Leg Emma (2:16)
=> 7 Intro to (0:35)
=> 8 King Kong [edit] (5:13)
=> 9 It Can't Happen Here [edit] (3:16)
=> 10 No Matter What You Do (interpolating Tchaikovsky's 6th) Pygmy Twylyte Room Service (18:32)

12" Vinyl 9: Zurkon Music - (cream label)

=> 1 Intro [from "Flakes"] (1:36)
=> 2 San Ber'dino [BABY SNAKES video version] (4:59)
=> 3 Tryin' to Grow a Chin [Stage #6 version] (3:31)
=> 4 City of Tiny Lites [BABY SNAKES video version] & The Squirm [guitar solo] (11:11)
=> 5 Big Leg Emma (2:05)
=> 6 Audience Participation [BABY SNAKES video version] (7:16)
=> 7 The Black Page #2 [BABY SNAKES video & Baby Snakes album version] (2:51)
=> 8 Jones Crusher [BABY SNAKES video & Baby Snakes album version] (3:24)
=> 9 Camarillo Brillo [BABY SNAKES video version] (3:47)
=> 10 Black Napkins [BABY SNAKES video version] (6:57)

12" Vinyl 10: Back on the Straight and Narrow - (green label)

=> 1 The Illinois Enema Bandit (8:27)
=> 2 Wind up Working in a Gas Station (4:13)
=> 3 Tryin' to Grow a Chin (4:10)
=> 4 The Torture Never Stops (7:12)
=> 5 How Could I Be Such a Fool? (3:53)
=> 6 I Ain't Got No Heart (2:30)
=> 7 I'm Not Satisfied (1:51)
=> 8 Black Napkins (10:39)
=> 9 Honey, Don't You Want a Man like Me (3:35)

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