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Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For The Money / Lumpy Gravy (1968)

Track listing:
  1. Are You Hung Up? 1:29
  2. Who Needs The Peace Corps? 2:35
  3. Concentration Moon 2:16
  4. Mom & Dad 2:19
  5. Telephone Conversation 0:45
  6. Bow Tie Daddy 0:33
  7. Harry, You're A Beast 1:21
  8. What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body 1:03
  9. Absolutely Free 3:28
  10. Flower Punk 3:04
  11. Hot Poop 0:29
  12. Nasal Retentive Calliope Music 2:02
  13. Let's Make The Water Turn Black 1:45
  14. The Idiot Bastard Son 2:43
  15. Lonely Little Girl 1:44
  16. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance 1:35
  17. What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body (Reprise) 0:57
  18. Mother People 2:31
  19. The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny 6:25
  20. Lumpy Gravy I 15:48
  21. Lumpy Gravy II 15:49

Notes

This twofer CD reissue contains two 1968 albums by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. We're Only In It For The Money, originally released in January 1968, is The Mothers' third album, containing some of the group's sharpest satires, including "Who Needs The Peace Corps?" and the anti-hippie "Flower Punk." When he was putting together The Old Masters, Box One in 1985, Zappa re-recorded the album's rhythm tracks and re-edited it in places in an attempt to improve its sound. Instead, the album now sounds like an odd mixture of old and new. Lumpy Gravy, originally released in March 1968, is a Zappa solo album recorded with an orchestra, but although it isn't song-oriented, its approach is not much different from that of We're Only In It For The Money, so the two make a good pairing.