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Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention · 1970

• Scores: Noise 4, Unease 4, Complexity 5 (each 1 to 5)
• Genre: Rock, Avant-Garde Rock, Experimental Rock
• Mood: chaotic, jagged, irreverent
• Sound: live recordings, abrupt cuts, free improvisation, dissonant jazz-rock, satirical vocals, noise

Weasels Ripped My Flesh is a collage of live and studio recordings by Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, with stage recordings from 1968 and 1969 spliced together with studio tracks, including material from the Hot Rats sessions. The playing moves between free improvisation, dissonant jazz-rock and satire: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask" parodies Debussy, and the title track is about a minute and a half of the whole band producing noise and feedback. "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" goes from a complex melody to howls and laughter to a rave-up, and ends in stop-start fashion.

Track list

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 Barbecue (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)