Frank Zappa - Civilization Phase III (1994)

 

1. Put a Motor in Yourself
2. They Made Me Eat It
3. Reagan at Bitburg
4. Navanax
5. Xmas Values
6. Amnerika
7. Buffalo Voice
8. Get a Life
9. Secular Humanism
10. I Was in a Drum   
11. A Pig With Wings
12. Gross Man
13. Why Not?
14. Dio Fa
15. Waffenspiel

This is a single disc version of Frank Zappa's album Civilization Phase III, the last album he was working on before he died. Most of these tracks were made with the Synclavier which had taken over Frank's creative process for about a decade by that point. He first started using it on the 1986 album Jazz From Hell and this is his first album of original music since then. The project originated in the '60s and featured short clips of people talking inside a piano as well as some newly recorded dialogue that I cut out. There were also two long songs I had to cut out and two other songs had dialogue in it that I cut out. 

Frank Zappa - The Yellow Shark (2 CD) (1993)

Disc One:
1. Intro
2. The "Dog Breath" Variations
3. Uncle Meat
4. Outrage at Valdez
5. Times Beach/Movement II
6. III Revised
7. The Girl in the Magnesium Dress
8. The Be-Bop Tango
9. Ruth is Sleeping
10. None of the Above
11. Pentagon Afternoon
12. Questi Cazzi Di Piccione
13. Times Beach/Movement III
14. Food Gathering in Post-Industrial America, 1992
15. Welcome to the United States
16. Pound For a Brown
17. Exercise #4
18. Get Whitey
19. G-Spot Tornado

Disc Two:
1. Library Card
2. This is a Test
3. Jolly Good Fellow
4. Roland's Big Event/Strat Vindaloo
5. Master Ringo
6. T'Mershi Duween
7. Nap Time
8. 9/8 Objects
9. Naked City
10. Get Whitey (Prototype)
11. Amnerika Goes Home
12. None of the Above (Revised & Previsited)
13. Wonderful Tattoo!

Though there weren't a lot of changes that needed to be made to make this, Frank Zappa's last album made while he was alive, The Yellow Shark, was originally intended to be a 2 CD album. Here's something from 1997 I found while doing research on this album. "The Yellow Shark was originally conceived by FZ as a two disk set, but for various reasons was shortened to one. Rumor is, that it contained rehearsals, improvisations, readings and even FZ playing a solo with the Ensemble. Teams are searching the vaults for the missing masters day and night... and for what reason? Will there ever be another release? No one knows, Stay tuned." 

A second album made from rehearsals of the Yellow Shark concerts from 1992 was eventually released in 1999 called Everything is Healing Nicely. In making this album, I listened to the second disc for the first time where I only edited out 30 seconds from the middle of Master Ringo cause the vocalist messed up. The rest of it really paints a picture of what they sounded like.