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Format: CD
May 1995
2 Discs
Record Label: Rykodisc (USA)
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 014431054426 |
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Track Listing
DISC 1: PART I:
1. Prologue
2. Mammy Nuns, The
3. Harry & Rhonda
4. Galoot up-Date
5. Torchum Never Stops, The
6. That Evil Prince
7. You Are What You Is
8. Mudd Club
9. Meek Shall Inherit Nothing, The
10. Clowns on Velvet
11. Harry-as-a-Boy
12. He's So Gay - (live)
13. Massive Improve'lence, The
14. Artificial Rhonda
DISC 2: PART II:
1. Crab-Grass Baby, The
2. White Boy Troubles, The
3. No Not Now
4. Briefcase Boogie
5. Brown Moses - (live)
6. Wistful Wit a Fist-Full
7. Drop Dead
8. Won Ton On
Album Notes
Personnel: Frank Zappa (guitar, Synclavier); Steve Vai, Ray White (guitar); Chuck Wild (piano); Tommy Mars (keyboards); Jay Anderson (acoustic bass); Arthur Barrow, Scott Thunes (bass); Chad Wackerman (drums); Ed Mann (percussion); Steve De Furia, David Ocker (programming).
Cast of THING-FISH: Ike Willis (Thing Fish); Terry Bozzio (Harry); Dale Bozzio (Rhonda); Napoleon Murphy Brock (Evil Prince); Bob Harris (Harry-As-A-Boy); Johnny "Guitar" Watson (Brown Moses); Ray White (Owl-Gonkwin-Jane Cowhoon).
Originally released as a 3 LP set.
Like his masterpiece JOE'S GARAGE, Zappa's THING-FISH is an epic rock opera on a grand scale. The comical narration by Ike Willis in the title role, with his own Amos-&-Andy-ish dialect, may seem like harmless buffoonery on the surface, but there is a dastardly evil undercurrent. The overall theme is the attempt by the establishment to systematically do away with certain undesirables in society. Instead, bizarre mutations called the mammy nuns are created and proceed to overtake mankind through the context of a Broadway show.
Along the way, Zappa's compositional and satirical genius is in full creative overdrive as he manipulates his many strange characters (including Terry and Dale Bozzio as ignorant theater goers) through the weird libretto. Although many of the musical pieces only work in the context of the story, a dramatic reworking of the classic "The Torture Never Stops," the driving "You Are What You Is" and the gospel-sounding "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing" are stand-out performances. Disc two continues with strange robotic voices in "The Crab-Grass Baby," the rocking "No Not Now" and it's backwards-running counterpart "Won Ton On" as the grand finale.
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