Frank Zappa - Lather Related (1977-1979) 4LP

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Title: Lather Related
Year Of Release: 1977
Label: Discreet
Genre: Jazz-Rock, Avantgarde, Prog Rock, Post-Modern
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue, scans) 24/192
Total Size: 6.05 GB
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Tracklist:

Zappa In New York
A1 Titties & Beer
A2 I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth
A3 Big Leg Emma
B1 Sofa
B2 Manx Needs Women
B3 The Black Page Drum Solo/Black Page #1
B4 Black Page #2
C1 Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
C2 The Illinois Enema Bandit
D1 The Purple Lagoon

Studio Tan
A1 The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary
B1 Lemme Take You To The Beach
B2 Revised Music For Guitar And Low-Budget Orchestra
B3 R. D. N. Z. L.

Sleep Dirt
A1 Filthy Habits
A2 Flambay
A3 Spider of Destiny
A4 Regyptian Strut
B1 Time Is Money
B2 Sleep Dirt
B3 The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution

Orchestral Favorites

A1 Strictly Genteel
A2 Pedro's Dowry
A3 Naval Aviation In Art
B1 Duke Of Prunes
B2 Bogus Pomp

In the late 1970s Zappa was pressurized by Warners to fulfill his contract in providing albums. Much acrimony followed, with him providing 4 works that he had envisaged as a set. A severance with the label followed, resulting in the albums being released individually and with art also commissioned by them. The first was "Zappa In New York" issued in 1977 but then withdrawn, censored & reissued in 1978. The following three were "Studio Tan", "Sleep Dirt", & "Orchestral Favorites".

Subsequently, under Zappa's control, the project was released in 1996 as "Läther" - a typically Zappa-esque play on the phonetics of creamy 'lather' and the Germanic 'leather', following the 'leather' conceptual continuity. Four additional tracks were added to the 1996 issues, but these are deleted on the 2012 reissue.


Frank Zappa - Lather Related (1977-1979) 4LP