Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Released August 1970
See also:
The Old Masters, Box II
2 Originals Of The Mothers Of Invention

Players

Tracks

LP

Side One

  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)

Side Two

  1. Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (6:53)
  2. Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula (2:12)
  3. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (3:35)
  4. Oh No (1:46)
  5. The Orange County Lumber Truck (3:18)
  6. Weasels Ripped My Flesh (2:05)
CD
  1. Didja Get Any Onya? (6:52)
  2. Directly From My Heart To You (5:17)
  3. Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask (3:48)
  4. Toads Of The Short Forest (4:48)
  5. Get A Little (2:31)
  6. Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (6:53)
  7. Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula (2:12)
  8. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama (3:32)
  9. Oh No (1:46)
  10. The Orange County Lumber Truck (3:21)
  11. Weasels Ripped My Flesh (2:08)

Release Notes

Produced by Frank Zappa.
Cover art by Neon Park.
Art direction by John Williams.

Liner Notes

Background Information

After Zappa broke up The Mothers in the autumn of 1969, he mentioned a twelve-record set tentatively titled The History And Collected Improvisations Of The Mothers Of Invention. What emerged instead were Burnt Weeny Sandwich and, in the summer of 1970, Weasels Ripped My Flesh. Both were amalgams of material extracted from various 1968 and ‘69 shows and studio tapes.

The album’s title and cover came from a 1956 Man’s Life magazine which Zappa had shown to Neon Park.

The Second track "Directly from my heart to you" is credited to R.W. Penniman, which is the real name of Little Richard.

German "Doll" Cover

Frank Zappa on first seeing the German cover:

"This ... actually, in terms of graphics it's not bad. The thing I resent most about this album cover is that it's not the way I wanted it to come out. I wanted it to look like that one. That one is ugly enough. I don't need this one.

German "Doll" Cover created by Dieter Boé

Conceptual Continuity

Versions

ZFT # Version # # discs Format Catalog # Release
(YYYY-MM-DD)
Barcode
(EAN-13)
Artwork Comment
10 1
Original
Stereo
1 LP Warner Bizarre/Reprise
MS 2028
1970-08-10 None Neon Park US edition. Matrix # Side1:
MS-2028 31083-1-A-1B logo
Side2:
MS-2028 logo 31084-1 re 1 B-/A overwritten on D B7
1 LP 1970 None Neon Park French edition - manufactured by Vogue - Matrix #
Side1: SR 2028 A
Side2: SR 2028 B
1 LP Warner-Pioneer Bizarre/Reprise
P-8003R
? None   Japanese edition.
1.2
Remaster Stereo
1 LP Barking Pumpkin
BPR 8888-4
1986-11-25     Included in The Old Masters, Box II set.
2
Remaster
&
Log Edit Track
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10163
1990-05 0014431016325
(not printed)
  US edition, AAD.
1 CD Zappa
CDZAP 24
1990-05? 5016583602420   UK edition
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5028
1994-10-26 4988112405301   Japanese edition
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10510
1995-05-02 0014431051029   US edition. Matrix # IFPI 2U3Q WEA mfg. OLYPHANT ifpi L902 X11970 A4 P2 310510-2 02 M1S1
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5119
1995-10-25 4988112407794   Japanese edition
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 5254
1996-05-30 4988112408548   Japanese edition
1 CD VideoArts
VACK 1211
2001-09-21 4988112412675   Japanese edition, mini-album papersleeve
1 CD Rykodisc
RCD 10599
2005-08-16 0014431059926   = VideoArts VACK 1211, the barcode is a sticker, the Ryko reference is not printed
Unknown 1 CD VideoArts
VACK 1332
2008-06-18 4988112417748   Japanese edition,
mini-album papersleeve.

See Also