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FRANK ZAPPA CD COMPILATIONS

The Best Of Frank Zappa
2004 Release. This is basically a 15 track cut-down version of Strictly Commercial. The tracks NOT included are: Trouble Every Day, Sexual Harassment In The Workplace, Let's Make The Water Turn Black, Be In My Video. Bobby Brown Goes Down replaces Tell Me You Love Me.
Tracks: Peaches En Regalia . Don't Eat The Yellow Snow (single version) . Dancin' Fool . San Ber'dino . Dirty Love . My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama . Cosmik Debris . Disco Boy . Fine Girl . I'm The Slime . Joe's Garage (single version) . Bobby Brown Goes Down . Montana (single version) . Valley Girl . Muffin Man

UK £7.00    Europe £8.00      Rest £9.25




European Issue


USA Issue

 

Strictly Commercial
19 Tracks selected by members of the Rykodisc team as an introduction to Frank's more accessible/popular style of work. 20 page booklet contains an article by Terry Gilliam, notes about FZ's career and related songs plus some nice pictures.
Original Release Date: 1995
Tracks: Peaches En Regalia . Don't Eat The Yellow Snow (single version) . Dancin' Fool . San Ber'dino . Dirty Love . My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama . Cosmik Debris . Trouble Every Day . Disco Boy . Fine Girl . Sexual Harassment In The Workplace . Let's Make The Water Turn Black . I'm The Slime . Joe's Garage (single version) . Tell Me You Love Me . Montana (single version) . Valley Girl . Be in My Video . Muffin Man

UK £13.75 (each)
Europe £14.75
(each)
Rest £15.00
(each)

Japanese 2CD card sleeve version in a limited, numbered edition
This has two additional tracks:
Planet Of The Baritone Women
Bobby Brown Goes Down

UK £20.00 (each)
Europe £21.00
(each)
Rest £20.25
(each)

Strictly Genteel
The second compilation taken from Rykodisc's back catalogue, this time concentrating on the classical and instrumental areas of Frank's work. (CD only)
Original release date 1997
Tracks: Uncle Meat (from Uncle Meat). Regyptian Strut . Pedro's Dowry . Outrage At Valdez . Little Umbrellas . Run Home Slow Theme . Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula . Dupree's Paradise . Opus 1, No. 3, II . Duke Of Prunes . Aybe Sea . Naval Aviation In Art . G-Spot Tornado . Bob In Dacron . Opus 1, No.4, II . Dog Breath Variations . Uncle Meat (from The Yellow Shark) . Strictly Genteel

UK £10.75
Europe £11.75
Rest £12.50


Cheap Thrills
13 track sampler from Rykodisc.
Original Release Date 1998
Track List: I Could Be A Star Now . Catholic Girls . Bobby Brown Goes Down . You Are What You Is . We Are Not Alone . Cheap Thrills . The Mudshark Interview . Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel . Zomby Woof . The Torture Never Stops (original version) . Joe's Garage . My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama . Going For The Money

UK £5.50
Europe £6.50
Rest £8.00

Son Of Cheep Thrills
11 track sampler from Rykodisc Original Release Date 1999
Track List: WPLJ . Twenty Small Cigars . The Legend Of The Golden Arches . Yahozna . It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal . Love Of My Life . Disco Boy . Night School . Sinister Footwear II . The Idiot Bastard Son . What's New In Baltimore?

UK £5.50
Europe £6.50
Rest £8.00



Zappa Picks
Chosen by Larry LaLonde of Primus
Tracks /(from CD Title):
five-five-FIVE (Shut Up 'n Play yer Guitar) . Dumb All Over (You Are What You IS) . Alien Orifice (Make A Jazz Noise Here) . Camarillo Brillo (Over-nite Sensation) . Evelyn, A Modified Dog (One Size Fits All) . Wild Love (Sheik Yerbouti) . G-Spot Tornado (Jazz From Hell) . Dog Breath (Just Another Band From LA) . Little Umbrellas (Hot Rats) . Fine Girl (Tinsel Town Rebellion) . Sofa No.2 (One Size Fits All) Village Of The Sun (Roxy and Elsewhere) . Echidna's Arf (of you) (Roxy and Elsewhere) . Wind Up workin' In A Gas Station (Zoot Allures) . St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast (Apostrophe(!)) . Black Page #2 (Zappa in New York) . Fembot In A West T-Shirt (Joe's Garage) . On The Bus (Joe's Garage) . Doreen (You Are What You Is)

UK £12.00

Europe £13.00

Rest £13.50

Zappa Picks
Chosen by John Fishman of Phish
Tracks /(from CD Title):
Excentrifugal Forz (Apostrophe (!)) . Apostrophe (!) (Apostrophe (!)) . Magdalena (Just Another Band From LA) . Dog Breath (Just Another Band From LA) . Cheepnis (Roxy and Elsewhere) . Son Of Orange County (Roxy and Elsewhere) . More Trouble Every Day (Roxy and Elsewhere) . It Can't Happen Here (Freak Out) . Keep It Greasey (Joe's Garage) . For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers) (The Grand Wazoo) . Whatever Happened to All The Fun In The World (Sheik Yerbouti) . Rat Tomago (Sheik Yerbouti) . Wait A Minute (Sheik Yerbouti) . It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal (Waka/Jawaka) . I'm The Slime (Over-nite Sensation) . Sofa No.2 (One Size Fits All)

UK £12.00
Europe £13.00

Rest £13.50



The Doo Wop Box II
A 4 CD box set containing 101 Vocal Group Gems - almost 4 hours of music spanning the years 1951 to 1963. Of particular interest to Zappa fans is the inclusion of Memories of El Monte by the Penguins, written by FZ and Ray Collins with Zappa playing vibes, released in 1963, plus the original version of Valarie by The Starlites and Gene Chandler's Duke of Earl.
Deluxe box set package includes definitive essays and track by track information.


UK £65.00
Europe £67.00
Rest £58.50

We also have The Doo Wop Box I available at the same price - another 101 songs including the original of "The Closer You Are" by The Spaniels - covered on Them Or Us



Cucamonga
A 2004 Rhino reissue of the Del-Fi compilation of Frank Zappa's pre-Mothers recordings, now expanded to 17 tracks. 8-page booklet contains plenty of historical text and a couple of pictures.
Additional tracks in BOLD TYPE:
Songs/Artists: Dear Jeepers (Bob Guy) . Memories of El Monte (The Penguins) . How's Your Bird?, The World's Greatest Sinner (Baby Ray & The Ferns) . Every Time I See You, Cradle Rock (The Heartbreakers) . Slow Bird, Blind Man's Buff (Paul Buff) . Tijuana Surf, Grunion Run (The Hollywood Persuaders) . Mr. Clean, Jessie Lee (Mr. Clean) . Cathy My Angel, 'Til September (The Pauls) . Heavies, The Cruncher (The Rotations) . Letter From Jeepers (Bob Guy)

UK £13.00
Europe £14.00
Rest £14.25


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