Lumpy Gravy ~ Frank Zappa

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Lumpy Gravy is the debut solo album by Frank Zappa, written by Zappa and performed by a group of session players he dubbed the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. Zappa conducted the orchestra but did not perform on the album. It is his third album overall: his previous releases had been under the name of his group, the Mothers of Invention.
It was commissioned and briefly released, on August 7, 1967, by Capitol Records in the 4-track Stereo-Pak format only and then withdrawn due to a lawsuit from MGM Records. MGM claimed that the album violated Zappa's contract with their subsidiary, Verve Records. In 1968 it was reedited and released by MGM's Verve Records on May 13, 1968. The final version of the album consisted of two musique concrète pieces that combined elements from the original orchestral performance with elements of surf music and the spoken word. It was praised for its music and editing.
Produced simultaneously with We're Only in It for the Money, Zappa saw Lumpy Gravy as the second part of a conceptual continuity that later included his final album, Civilization Phaze III.
Lumpy Gravy Part I:

The Way I See It, Barry
Duodenum
Oh No
Bit Of Nostalgia
It's From Kansas
Bored Out 90 Over
Almost Chinese
Switching Girls
Oh No Again
At The Gas Station
Another Pickup
I Don't Know If I Can Go Through This Again

Lumpy Gravy Part II:

Very Distraughtening
White Ugliness
Amen
Just One More Time
A Vicious Circle
King Kong
Drums Are Too Noisy
Kangaroos
Envelops The Bath Tub
Take Your Clothes Off

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