Finer Moments

disc 1

1. Intro

FZ:

Hello, boys and girls.

Now, during this part of our program—

Audience member:

Louder! We can't hear you.

FZ:

During this part of our program, we are going to perform for you various chamber music pieces—and also some zany Mothers Of Invention bullshit. You remember The Mothers Of Invention, that zany group.

We have the assistance of a famous pop star to help us tonight during our renowned ballet sequence.

And later on in the program, we're going to have our road manager, Dick Barber, come out and strangle a rubber chicken and make some funny noises for ya. And, as if that weren't enough, we're going to do our version of the birth of Frankenstein, live on stage, including a spark generator and a smoke bomb and a convulsing monster, which we construct out of Motorhead. And, let's see, what else are we gonna do?

That's about it.

2. Sleazette

 

3. Mozart Piano Sonata In Bb

FZ: Okay, now, the entertaining part of this . . . section. While the well-disciplined Ian Underwood plays selected fragments from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Piano Sonata In B-flat" and we make electric noises, some members of our rocking teen combo will hop around on stage in a grotesque parody of the art of ballet dancing. Which —which some of you might may find amusing.

Hey . . . double path!
. . . Double path
You get a double?

[...]

Oh you have to carry him . . .
Carry him?
You have to carry him
Come on over, you told to her, I mean . . .

He looks fat!

God, oh m' God!

Where's the chicken?

Bock! Bock! Be-REHH
Bock! Be-REHH
ACTION!
Bock bock, be-REHH
Boy, do I hate chickens!
Bock bock, be-REHH
Bock bock, be . . . SNORK
SNORK . . . SNORRRRK . . .

FZ: Put him in the middle of the stage and we can all dance around him and bring him back to life.
Kansas: Will he come out of it?!!
Roy?: Yes . . .
JCB: Far Out!!!

He's looking better [...], Kanzus.
Kansas: Anybody got a smoke for him?
Bunk: I think she's pregnant [...].
Kansas: Safe to say it's gone going to deliver us from something. Build a fish,
a biological masterpiece.

FZ: During this part of our extremely zany ballet, Don Preston disguised as a mad scientist will convert the unwilling Motorhead Sherwood into a walking zombie.

Bock . . . bock, bock . . . bock . . . BOCK!

No, let him get his smock on!

4. The Walking Zombie Music

He came on a Saturday afternoon from Manchester, and said to meet him at the railway station. He was an unusually large man that no . . . He also wore a black jacket and pin-striped trousers and carried a gladstone bag.

Hands up!

Although he did call [...], he stopped [...]. In fact, though you would expect an [...], he was a sensitive man, who could only sleep when [...] pillows had been forced into one pillowcase. My father was Wesleyan chapel steward and engaged him every second year to recite [...] people who had bought programs. If you called them tickets, they became liable to excise [...]. My father was a supporter of Wick Tyler. This minstrel used to deliver pocket versions of the classic books, such as Silas Marner and The Old Curiosity Shop.

5. The Old Curiosity Shoppe

FZ: You have just heard a make-believe record scratch. End side one.

6. You Never Know Who Your Friends Are

Play the harmonica . . .

Chíngale a tu madre
Pa-para pa-paraBa-bada ba-bada
Chíngale a tu madre
Pa-para pa-paBa-bada ba-ba

Chíngale a tu madre
Pa-para pa-paraBa-bada ba-bada
Chíngale a tu madre
Pa-para pa-paBa-bada ba-ba

7. Uncle Rhebus

FZ: Thank you. Steve, it's a good place for a reel change.

disc 2

1. Music From The Big Squeeze

 

2. Enigmas 1 Thru 5

 

3. Pumped And Waxed

 

4. There Is No Heaven From Where Slogans Go To Die

 

5. Squeeze It, Squeeze It, Squeeze It

Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh, Oh, Oh

Little right there, little right there, oh, a little right there!
Right there, oh-oh!
Right there, oh! Ah! Ah! . . . Ah-h-h-h . . .

More, more, more, more, more,
More, more, more, more, more,
More, more, more, more, more,
More, more, more, more, more . . . Oh . . . oh, God!

More, more, mo-mo-mo-mo-more, mo-mo-more!

He's had enough, he's had enough!
Bwah-hah-ha-hah, gettin' off, gettin' off!
Bwah-hah-ha-hah, gettin' off, gettin' off!
Bwoh-hoh-ha-hah, more!

Oh God, oh God, oh more . . . more . . .

Oh, God, oh, God!

Touch it! Touch it! Touch it! Touch it!
Skweezit! Skweezit!

(What, what we're gonna do, "All Night Long"?)
FZ: Thank you!
(We do "All Night Long" now?)

6. The Subcutaneous Peril

FZ: Thank you.

 

All compositions by Frank Zappa except as noted
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