Pigs

Zappa with stuffed pig.

Pigs appear regularly in Zappa's work.

"Zappa was lying in bed, eating breakfast and playing with his three-month-old baby. He lives with his wife, Gail, and the baby, in a long basement apartment in the West Village. The apartment has a garden and its walls are papered with posters and music sheets and clippings from magazines; there is a full-length poster of Frank in the hall and a rocking chair in the living room with a crocheted cover that says "Why, what pigs?" (Zappa and the Mothers: Ugly Can Be Beautiful)

Appearances of pigs on "Lumpy Gravy" and Civilization Phaze III

• Dark Water!
• A Different Octave
• Drums Are Too Noisy
• How Pigs' Music Works
• Just One More Time
• A Pig With Wings
• Pigs & Repugnant
• The Pigs' Music
• Reagan At Bitburg: From the CD booklet: "The shopping mall tableau does a quick change, becoming the Bitburg Cemetery. Ronald Reagan appears and lays a wreath on an SS officer’s grave. Within moments the stage is filled with happy dancing Nazi-pigs and Nazi-ponies.
• This Is All Wrong
• Very Distraughtening

Greggery Peccary

• "Ulterior Motive"
• The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary
• The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary (1975 - Record Plant & UCLA)
• The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary: Movement I
• The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary: Movement II
• The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary: Movement III
• The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary: Movement IV - The New Brown Clouds
• Blessed Relief / The New Brown Clouds
• The Complete History Of The Few Last Weeks Of The Mothers Of Invention
• Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions
• The New Brown Clouds (1972 - unknown)
• When It's Perfect...

Squat, the Magical Pig

• Stick It Out
• Sy Borg

Other appearances of pigs in Zappa's work

• Agency Man: "A simple trick, you simple pig"
• Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me: "He called her (...) a pig (...)"
• Porn Wars: "This must be the end of the world! All the people turning into pigs and ponies I can't let it happen to me!"
• Strictly Genteel (The Track): "The girl in the pig book"
• The Torture Never Stops: "An evil prince eats a steamin' pig in a chamber right near there."
• What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?: "Pigs 'n donkeys"
• Wistful Wit A Fist-Full

See also

• Ponies