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The Mothers of Invention
EST. 1964 // ORIGIN: Unknown
Band Biography
Current
Former
Alan Estes
Art Tripp
Billy Mundi
Bruce Fowler
Bunk Gardner
Don “Sugarcane” Harris
Don Preston
Earle Dumler
Elliot Ingber
Frank Zappa
George Duke
Howard Kaylan
Ian Underwood
Jean‐Luc Ponty
Jeff Simmons
Jim “Motorhead” Sherwood
Jimmy Carl Black
Lowell George
Mark Volman
Ralph Humphrey
Ray Collins
Roy Estrada
Ruth Underwood
Tom Fowler
Discography
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
1970 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
Didja Get Any Onya?
3:44
2.
Directly From My Heart to You
5:17
3.
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask
3:35
4.
Toads of the Short Forest
4:48
5.
Get a Little
2:35
6.
The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque
6:53
7.
Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula
2:12
8.
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
3:35
9.
Oh No
1:46
10.
The Orange County Lumber Truck
3:18
11.
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
2:05
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
1970 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
WPLJ
2:52
2.
Igor’s Boogie, Phase One
0:36
3.
Overture to a Holiday in Berlin
1:27
4.
Theme From Burnt Weeny Sandwich
4:32
5.
Igor’s Boogie, Phase Two
0:36
6.
Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown
6:24
7.
Aybe Sea
2:46
8.
Little House I Used to Live In
18:41
9.
Valarie
3:14
Mothermania: The Best of The Mothers
1969 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
Brown Shoes Don’t Make It
7:26
2.
Mother People
1:41
3.
The Duke of Prunes
5:09
4.
Call Any Vegetable
4:31
5.
The Idiot Bastard Son
2:26
6.
It Can’t Happen Here
3:13
7.
You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here
3:37
8.
Who Are the Brain Police?
3:22
9.
Plastic People
3:40
10.
Hungry Freaks, Daddy
3:27
11.
America Drinks and Goes Home
2:43
Absolutely Free
1967 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
Plastic People
3:40
2.
The Duke of Prunes
2:12
3.
Amnesia Vivace
1:01
4.
The Duke Regains His Chops
1:45
5.
Call Any Vegetable
2:19
6.
Invocation and Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin
6:57
7.
Soft‐Sell Conclusion & Ending of Side #1
1:40
8.
America Drinks
1:52
9.
Status Back Baby
2:52
10.
Uncle Bernie’s Farm
2:09
11.
Son of Suzy Creamcheese
1:33
12.
Brown Shoes Don’t Make It
7:26
13.
America Drinks & Goes Home
2:43
Freak Out!
1966 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
Hungry Freaks, Daddy
3:27
2.
I Ain’t Got No Heart
2:30
3.
Who Are the Brain Police?
3:22
4.
Go Cry on Somebody Else’s Shoulder
3:31
5.
Motherly Love
2:45
6.
How Could I Be Such a Fool
2:12
7.
Wowie Zowie
2:45
8.
You Didn’t Try to Call Me
3:17
9.
Any Way the Wind Blows
2:52
10.
I’m Not Satisfied
2:37
11.
You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here
3:37
Pop History
-0001 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
Duke of Prunes
5:09
2.
Absolutely Free
3:26
3.
Status Back Baby
2:52
4.
America Drinks & Goes Home
2:43
5.
Invacation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin
6:57
6.
Flower Punk
3:57
7.
You Didn’t Try to Call Me
3:53
8.
I’m Not Satisfied
2:37
9.
The Idiot Bastard Son
3:27
10.
The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny
6:30
The Mothers of Invention
-0001 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
Mother People
2:30
2.
Who Needs the Peace Corps
2:34
3.
Flower Punk
3:57
4.
I Ain’t Got No Heart
2:30
5.
Concentration Moon
2:32
6.
Wowie Zowie
2:45
7.
America Drinks and Goes Home
2:43
8.
Call Any Vegetable
2:19
9.
Son of Suzi Cream Cheese
1:33
10.
Absolutely Free
3:23
The $&%£§*+ of The Mothers
-0001 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
Status Back Baby
2:52
2.
Wowie Zowie
2:54
3.
You Didn’t Try to Call Me
3:17
4.
Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin
6:57
5.
Soft‐Sell Conclusion
1:40
6.
Bow Tie Daddy
1:22
7.
Uncle Bernie’s Farm
2:09
8.
Concentration Moon
2:32
9.
Go Cry on Somebody Else’s Shoulder
3:31
10.
Flower Punk
3:57
11.
Motherly Love
2:45
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
-0001 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
Peaches en Regalia
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2.
Willie the Pimp
--:--
3.
Son of Mr. Green Genes
--:--
4.
Little House I Used to Live In
--:--
5.
Valarie
--:--
Over‐Nite Sensation
-0001 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
Camarillo Brillo
4:01
2.
I’m the Slime
3:35
3.
Dirty Love
3:00
4.
Fifty‐Fifty
6:08
5.
Zomby Woof
5:11
6.
Dinah‐Moe Humm
6:05
7.
Montana
6:37
The Grand Wazoo
-0001 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
For Calvin (and His Next Two Hitch‐Hikers)
6:06
2.
The Grand Wazoo
13:20
3.
Cletus Awreetus‐Awrightus
2:57
4.
Eat That Question
6:42
5.
Blessed Relief
8:02
Uncle Meat
-0001 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
1:54
2.
The Voice of Cheese
0:27
3.
400 Days of the Year
5:56
4.
Zolar Czakl
0:57
5.
Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague
5:51
6.
The Legend of the Golden Arches
1:24
7.
The Mothers Play Louie Louie at the Royal Albert Hall in London
2:28
8.
The Dog Breath Variations
1:36
9.
King Kong Itself (As Played by the Mothers in a studio)
0:53
10.
King Kong (its magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)
1:15
11.
King Kong (as Motorhead explains it)
1:44
12.
King Kong (The Gardner Varieties)
6:17
13.
King Kong (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor trucks)
0:29
14.
King Kong (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival…the Underwood Zappa ramifications)
7:22
Cruising With Ruben & the Jets
-0001 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
Cheap Thrills
2:39
2.
Love of My Life
3:08
3.
How Could I Be Such a Fool
3:34
4.
Deseri
2:09
5.
I’m Not Satisfied
4:08
6.
Jelly Roll Gum Drop
2:24
7.
Anything
3:06
8.
Later That Night
3:00
9.
You Didn’t Try to Call Me
3:58
10.
Fountain of Love
3:23
11.
“No. No. No.”
2:16
12.
Anyway the Wind Blows
3:02
13.
Stuff Up the Cracks
4:36
We’re Only in It for the Money
-0001 // FULL-LENGTH
1.
Are You Hung Up?
1:23
2.
Who Needs the Peace Corps?
2:34
3.
Concentration Moon
2:32
4.
Mom & Dad
2:16
5.
Bow Tie Daddy
1:22
6.
Harry, You’re a Beast
1:22
7.
What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body?
1:03
8.
Absolutely Free
3:26
9.
Flower Punk
3:57
10.
Hot Poop
0:16
11.
Nasal Retentive Caliope
2:00
12.
Let’s Make the Water Turn Black
1:54
13.
The Idiot Bastard Son
3:27
14.
Lonely Little Girl
1:10
15.
Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
1:33
16.
What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (reprise)
1:03
17.
Mother People
2:30
18.
The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny
6:30