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Uncle Meat 2LP

Uncle Meat is the sixth album by the Mothers of Invention, and seventh overall by Frank Zappa, released as a double album in 1969. Uncle Meat was originally developed as a part of No Commercial Potential, a project which spawned three other albums sharing a conceptual connection: We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy and Cruising with Ruben & the Jets.

The album also served as a soundtrack album to a proposed science fiction film which would not be completed, though a direct-to-video film containing test footage from the project was released by Zappa in 1987. The music is diverse in style, drawing from orchestral, jazz, blues and rock music. Uncle Meat was a commercial success upon release, and has been highly acclaimed for its innovative recording and editing techniques, including experiments in manipulation of tape speed and overdubbing, and its diverse sound.

Tracklist
A1. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
A2. The Voice Of Cheese
A3. Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution
A4. Zolar Czakl
A5. Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
A6. The Legend Of The Golden Arches
A7. Louie Louie (At The Royal Albert Hall In London)
A8. The Dog Breath Variations
B1. Sleeping In A Jar
B2. Our Bizarre Relationship
B3. The Uncle Meat Variations
B4. Electric Aunt Jemima
B5. Prelude To King Kong
B6. God Bless America (Live At The Whisky A Go Go)
B7. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
B8. Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live On Stage In Copenhagen)

C1. Mr. Green Genes
C2. We Can Shoot You
C3. "If We'd All Been Living In California..."
C4. The Air
C5. Project X
C6. Cruising For Burgers
D1. King Kong Itself (As Played By The Mothers In A Studio)
D2. King Kong (Its Magnificence As Interpreted By Dom DeWild)
D3. King Kong (As Motorhead Explains It)
D4. King Kong (The Gardner Varieties)
D5. King Kong (As Played By 3 Deranged Good Humor Trucks)
D6. King Kong (Live On A Flat Bed Diesel In The Middle Of A Race Track At A Miami Pop Festival... The Underwood Ramifications)