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Uncle Meat

The Mothers · 1969

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Label
Transatlantic Records
Catalog #
TRA 197
Added
7/8/2026
RockJazz-RockArt RockAvantgardeParody

Tracklist

  1. A1Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme1:54
  2. A2The Voice Of Cheese0:27
  3. A3400 Days Of The Year5:56
  4. A4Zolar Czakl0:57
  5. A5Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague5:51
  6. A6The Legend Of The Golden Arches1:24
  7. A7Louie Louie (Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London)2:28
  8. A8The Dog Breath Variations1:36
  9. B1Sleeping In A Jar0:49
  10. B2Our Bizarre Relationship1:05
  11. B3The Uncle Meat Variations4:40
  12. B4Electric Aunt Jemima1:53
  13. B5Prelude To King Kong3:24
  14. B6God Bless America (Live At The Whiskey A Go Go)1:22
  15. B7A Pound For A Brown On The Bus1:29
  16. B8Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live On Stage In Copenhagen)5:08
  17. C1Mr. Green Genes3:10
  18. C2We Can Shoot You1:48
  19. C3"If We'd All Been Living In California..."1:29
  20. C4The Air2:57
  21. C5Project X4:47
  22. C6Cruising For Burgers2:19
  23. D1King Kong Itself (As Played By The Mothers In A Studio)0:53
  24. D2King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild)1:15
  25. D3King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It)1:44
  26. D4King Kong (The Gardner Varieties)6:17
  27. D5King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks)0:29
  28. D6King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival ... The Underwood Ramifications)7:22

Tracklist from Discogs

About this pressing

Format
Vinyl, LP, Album
Label
Transatlantic Records — TRA 197
Country
UK
Released
1969-09-00
Styles
Jazz-Rock, Art Rock, Avantgarde, Parody

This was the first UK release of "Uncle Meat". Some UK copies may includes a large 16-page book (29 x 29,5 cm), printed by Hastings Printing Company, Drury Lane, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. Additionally some copies may have a sticker saying 'The Mothers of Invention Double Album 79s 9d' Track A3: Early issues of 'Uncle Meat' only had "400 Days Of The Year" as title on labels, as track-listed [see label images]. (Taken from a line in "Letter From Jeepers" on an FZ-produced Bob Guy single). The sleeve art of this issue (and other country/later issues) gives the updated title "Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution" Recorded Oct 1967 through to Feb 1968. Many overdubs. Clarinets fed through 'Maestro' device, set at 'Oboe D'Amour' with variable speed oscillator [V.S.O.]. Two Pultec Filters, two Lang Equalizers & three Melchor Compressors built into console at Apostolic Studio, N.Y.C. Recorded on prototype Scully 12-track at 30 ips. Percussion overdubs at Sunset Sound. Printed and made by MacNeill Press Ltd., London, S.E.1 Transatlantic Records Limited, 120 Marylebone Lane, London, W.1. Licensed from Reprise Records, U.S.A. Published by Frank Zappa Music BMI © 1968 all lyrics, music and arrangements of this material copyrighted for the world by Frank Zappa Music... Licensed through Warner Bros. / Reprise Records, U.S.A.

Pressing details from Discogs

Notes

Imported from Discogs collection of polyblanc.

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