Weasels Ripped My Flesh

by The Mothers

Weasels Ripped My Flesh cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 August 1970
  • Label: Bizarre
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 39:50
  • Community rating: 4.26/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: Billy Mundi, Jimmy Carl Black, Captain Beefheart, Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood, Artie Tripp, Tom Fowler, Sidney Sharp, Ray Collins, George Duke, Roy Estrada, James Youman, Don Preston, Frank Zappa, Napoleon M. Brock, Elliot Ingber, Chester Thompson, Bunk Gardner, Ian Underwood

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Assembling leftover live recordings and studio outtakes from the original Mothers of Invention lineup, Frank Zappa released a wildly eclectic, delightfully abrasive swansong. 'Weasels Ripped My Flesh' is an incredibly chaotic, fiercely avant-garde masterclass, matching highly technical jazz-rock improvisations and shifting time signatures with wonderfully quirky, darkly humorous satire.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, uncommon-time-signatures, improvisation, technical, live, experimental, fusion, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Didja Get Any Onya? - Live At Philadelphia Arena, 3/2/69 (3:43)
  2. Directly From My Heart To You (5:17)
  3. Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask - Live At Royal Festival Hall, London, 10/25/68 (3:35)
  4. Toads Of The Short Forest (4:47)
  5. Get A Little (2:33)
  6. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (6:51)
  7. Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula (2:11)
  8. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (3:36)
  9. Oh No (1:45)
  10. The Orange County Lumber Truck - Live At Royal Festival Hall, London, 10/25/68 (3:20)
  11. Weasles Ripped My Flesh - Live At Town Hall, Birmingham, 5/30/69 (2:07)

Credits

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