Sheik Yerbouti

by Frank Zappa

Sheik Yerbouti cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 3 March 1979
  • Label: Zappa
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:11:48
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 11 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Built from heavily overdubbed live recordings, Frank Zappa achieved his greatest commercial success by embracing fiercely satirical, hilariously vulgar comedy rock. 'Sheik Yerbouti' is a wildly eclectic, intensely energetic album that brilliantly masks its incredibly complex, technically staggering progressive rock musicianship behind highly playful, deeply offensive lyrical humor.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, vulgar, satirical, parody, novelty, experimental, theatrical, virtuosic, diverse

Tracklist

  1. I Have Been In You (3:34)
  2. Flakes (6:40)
  3. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes (3:41)
  4. I'm So Cute (4:27)
  5. Jones Crusher (2:49)
  6. What Ever Happened To All The Fun In The World (0:33)
  7. Rat Tomago (5:14)
  8. Wait A Minute (0:33)
  9. Bobby Brown Goes Down (2:49)
  10. Rubber Shirt (2:45)
  11. The Sheik Yerbouti Tango (3:55)
  12. Baby Snakes (1:49)
  13. Tryin' To Grow A Chin (3:31)
  14. City Of Tiny Lites (5:30)
  15. Dancin' Fool (3:42)
  16. Jewish Princess (3:18)
  17. Wild Love (4:09)
  18. Yo' Mama (12:41)

Credits

  • Frank Zappa - primary artist, engineer [remix], lead guitar, vocals, producer, written-by, written-by [attributed to]
  • John Williams - art direction
  • Andre Lewis - backing vocals [background vocals]
  • Davey Moire - backing vocals [background vocals], engineer [basic tracks]
  • Napoleon M. Brock - backing vocals [background vocals]
  • Randy Thornton - backing vocals [background vocals]
  • Patrick O'Hearn - bass, vocals, written-by [attributed to]
  • Terry Bozzio - drums, vocals, written-by [attributed to]
  • Claus Wiedemann - engineer [basic tracks]
  • Kerry McNabb - engineer [basic tracks]
  • Peter Henderson - engineer [basic tracks]
  • Joe Chiccarelli - engineer [overdub], engineer [remix]
  • Barbara Issak - engineer [remix; assistant]
  • Peter Wolf - keyboards, other [butter]
  • Tommy Mars - keyboards, vocals
  • Bob Ludwig - lacquer cut by, mastered by [disc mastering engineer]
  • Ed Mann - percussion, vocals
  • Lynn Goldsmith - photography by [cover]
  • Gail Zappa - photography by [inside]
  • Adrian Belew - rhythm guitar, vocals, guitar, vocal
  • David Ocker - clarinet [clarinets]

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