The Man From Utopia
by Frank Zappa
- Type: Album
- Released: 28 March 1983
- Label: Barking Pumpkin
- Country: United States
- Length: 40:24
- Community rating: 3.05/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Frank Zappa delivers an incredibly eclectic, wildly complex assortment of studio wizardry, absurd comedy rock, and scorching guitar instrumentals on 'The Man From Utopia'. The album heavily experiments with early digital sampling and overdubbed live tracks, showcasing his fiercely technical bands and characteristically humorous, surreal social commentary.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, complex, technical, cocaine
Tracklist
- Cocaine Decisions (3:53)
- SEX (3:43)
- Tink Walks Amok (3:38)
- The Radio Is Broken (5:51)
- We Are Not Alone (3:18)
- The Dangerous Kitchen (2:51)
- The Man From Utopia Meets Mary Lou (3:18)
- Stick Together (3:18)
- The Jazz Discharge Party Hats (4:28)
- Luigi & The Wise Guys (3:24)
- Moggio (2:37)
Credits
- Frank Zappa - primary artist, composed by, arranged by, guitar, vocals, synthesizer [arp 2600], drum machine [lynn drum machine], producer
- John Vince - art direction
- Ike Willis - baritone vocals [bionic baritone]
- Scott Thunes - bass
- Chad Wackerman - drums
- Bob Stone - engineer
- Dave Jerden - engineer
- Mark Pinske - engineer
- Steve Vai - guitar [impossible guitar parts (on strat & acoustic)]
- Ray White - guitar, vocals
- Craig Steward - harmonica
- Tommy Mars - keyboards
- Arthur Barrow - keyboards, bass, bass [micro-bass], rhythm guitar
- Bobby Martin - keyboards, saxophone [sax], vocals
- Dick Fegy - mandolin
- Jo Hansch - mastered by [disk mastering by]
- Ed Mann - percussion
- Marty Krystall - saxophone [saxophones]
- Bob Harris - soprano vocals [boy soprano]
- Liberatore - typography [alphabet], illustration
- Roy Estrada - vocals [pachuco falsettos, etc.]
- Vinnie Colaiuta - drums
- Donald & Doris Woods And Obie Jessie - written by
- Obie Jessie - written-by [mary lou]
- Donald Woods - written-by [utopia]
- Doris Woods - written-by [utopia]