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Unreleased Music

Unreleased Albums | Unreleased Compositions | Unreleased Lyrics
Songs We Know By Other Names | Unidentified and/or Unreleased Recordings

There are a number of compositions that have never seen the light of day in terms of an official Zappa release. There are also a number of albums which were recorded, mixed, mastered and for all practical purposes completed before Zappa's death that for some reason remain unreleased. I'm sure I'm not alone in hoping this list gets shorter over time. --Patrick Neve

Unreleased Albums

Albums that were not released and probably will not ever

Check the Zappa Patio for a complete list of this.

Albums that are going to be released

These albums were apparently completed by Zappa himself and are ready for release, However, no release dates have been set yet, except where indicated:

• Dance Me This
• Varèse: The Rage And The Fury
• Trance-Fusion (released!)

Apart from those three, these albums and other projects has been announced recently (2002-2003) on the FAQ sections of zappa.com either as being on the works, soon to be released, or just mentioned in some way, but not necessarily prepared by FZ himself, although you never know:

• The Lost Episodes Volume Two ("Yes, there will be and there is")
• Petite Wazoo ("2 finished CD projects with a possible special vinyl edition.") [One of them has been released since: Imaginary Diseases (2006)]
• Synclavier ("Of the more than 400 compositions in various stages of completion in the Synclavier, certain ones will be completed by Dweezil, perhaps Todd and others of them in other & various ways.")
• Beat The Boots ("We hope they will be rereleased. And you can expect a new batch.")
• 200 motels performed in Amsterdam 2000 ("a tiny maybe")
• Videos ("All HONKER is slated for DVD but of the "old" videos there are possibly 2 contenders.")
  • Roxy DVD ("countdown has begun.")
  • American Dissident ("Yes.")
  • Yellow Shark ("Yes.")
  • The Rage and the Fury ("Yes.")

Unreleased Compositions

Thanks to Johan Wikberg, Jon Naurin, Charles Ulrich, Jason Gossard and Bill Lantz for contributions.

• Archie's Home
• Beneath Contempt
• Big Sequence (from Resolver+Brutality)
• Bognor Regis
• Bondage (from Resolver+Brutality)
• Boogie For Berkeley
• Brutality (from Resolver+Brutality)
• Children Of The Corn
• Dragon Master
• George's Boogie (audio sample)
• Giraffe
• I Came On Your Face
• Is There Life After MGM?
• Little Dots (audio sample)
• Mice
• Moral Majority Blues
• Ned The Mumbler
• New World Order
• Number 7
• O, In The Sky
• Oral Sex At Gunpoint (from Resolver+Brutality)
• Portuguese Lunar Landing
• Resolver (from Resolver+Brutality)
• Saddle Bags
• Smog Sucker
• Solitude (audio sample)
• Song For Pinky (audio sample)
• Streets Of Fontana
• Swallow My Pride
• These Are The 90's
• Velvet Sunrise
• Viva La Rosa
• Waltz For Guitar aka Waltz #1
• We Been There
• Why Do They Fry Everything In Richmond?

Released and/or identified

These are songs or compositions formerly in the above list that have been identified as part of or have finally appeared in an official release.

• C Instruments (included in Sinister Footwear 1st Movement)
• Grünfinger (included in Manx Needs Women)
• Imaginary Diseases (audio sample) (released in Imaginary Diseases)
• Interlude (released in Joe's Domage as Another Whole Melodic Section)
• Kaiser Rolls (released in FZ:OZ)
• Number 6 (included in Jumbo Go Away)
• Pre-C Instruments (included in Sinister Footwear 2nd Movement)
• Wind Quintet (included in Bob In Dacron, 2nd Movement)

Unreleased Lyrics

These are songs or compositions that although have been released officially, contain extra lyrics that haven't been released:

• 200 Years Old
• Am-nerika (audio sample)
• Any Kind Of Pain
• Can't Afford No Shoes (Ralph Stuffs His Shoes)
• Envelopes
• The Idiot Bastard Son (That Arrogant Dick Nixon)
• Lonely Little Girl
• Lonesome Cowboy Ron (from Zonx, p. 622-624)
• Love Of My Life
• Packard Goose
• Rollo (audio sample)
• San Ber'dino
• Tell Me You Love Me (Don't Be A Lawyer)
• Titties & Beer
• Twenty Small Cigars
• We're Turning Again
• We Are Not Alone

Songs We Know By Other Names

This list originally compiled by Cletus, with the help of Jon Naurin, Kent Langsjoen and Knut Skogstad, on January, 1999.

• Born To Suck (The Mammy Anthem)
• C Instruments (Sinister Footwear, 1st Movement)
• Canard du Jour (Let's Move To Cleveland)
• Chester's Gorilla (Florentine Pogen)
• Chrissy Puked Twice (Titties 'N Beer)
• Desiccated (When Yuppies Go To Hell)
• Don't Be A Lawyer (Tell Me You Love Me)
• Excentrifugal Forz (Echidna's Arf)
• Furnished Singles (What's New In Baltimore?/Mōggio)
• Kreegah Bundolo (Let's Move To Cleveland)
• Mud Club (Mudd Club)
• Mystery Studio Song (What's New In Baltimore?/Mōggio)
• Ne Pas Deranger (What's New In Baltimore?/Mōggio)
• Some More Like That (Fine Girl)
• Think It Over (The Grand Wazoo)
• Variant Processional March (Regyptian Strut)
• Willing Suspension Of Disbelief (The Radio Is Broken)
• You Look Like A Dork (Luigi & The Wise Guys)
• Young & Monde (Let's Move To Cleveland)
• Your Ethos (The Blue Light)

Unidentified and/or Unreleased Recordings

Recently, Greg Russo researched the Musician's Local 47 documents in L.A., and some unidentified titles popped out. Some are unreleased songs, some are working titles for known recordings, some are probably still other things:

• Brown Shoes Don't Make It (Freak Out! sessions, TTG Studios, March 12, 1966) [probably another name for It Can't Happen Here]
• One For Parker Army (Freak Out! sessions, TTG Studios, March 12, 1966)
• Since Cisos (Freak Out! sessions, TTG Studios, March 12, 1966)
• Motown (Friday Night City) (TTG Studios, April 1, 1966)
• Reputation (TTG Studios, April 1, 1966)
• Garbage Eaters (Absolutely Free sessions, TTG Studios, November 15, 1966)
• Remember [prob. Duke Of Prunes] (Absolutely Free sessions, TTG Studios, November 16, 1966)
• No Regret [prob. America Drinks] (Absolutely Free sessions, TTG Studios, November 16, 1966)
• If You Like Chickens [prob. America Drinks & Goes Home] (Absolutely Free sessions, TTG Studios, November 16, 1966)
• Sunday [prob. Oh No] (Lumpy Gravy sessions, Capitol Studios, February 13, 1967)
• Fillmore (TTG Studios, March 3, 1967)
• Electric Banana (TTG Studios, March 3, 1967)
• Natasha (Hot Rats sessions, TTG Studios, July 22, 1969)
• Hot Rats (Jean-Luc Ponty's King Kong sessions, Whitney Studios, October 6, 1969) [prob. Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra]
• Love Will Make You Lose Your Mind (Chunga's Revenge sessions, Record Plant, March 4, 1970)
• I'm A Rolling Stone (Chunga's Revenge sessions, Record Plant, March 4 & 11, 1970)
• Twinkle Tits (Chunga's Revenge sessions, Record Plant, March 9 & 11, 1970)
• Khaki Sack (Chunga's Revenge sessions, Record Plant, March 10, 1970) [prob. Transylvania Boogie]
• Bass And Drum Song [prob. Stink-Foot basic track] (Chunga's Revenge sessions, Record Plant, March 10, 1970)
• Minimal Art (Grand Wazoo sessions, Paramount, April 18, 1972)
• Roadie Music (Part One) (Over-Nite Sensation sessions, Bolic Sound, March 19, 1973)
• Excentrifugal Forz (Over-Nite Sensation sessions, Bolic Sound, March 20, 1973) [prob. Echidna's Arf]
• Curse Of The Zombads (Over-Nite Sensation sessions, Bolic Sound, March 20, 1973)
• Excentrifugal Forz (George Duke session, Paramount, September 26, 1973) [Excentrifugal Forz or Echidna's Arf?]
• Po-Jama People (George Duke session, Paramount, September 26, 1973) [Po-Jama People?]
• Soup And Old Clothes (George Duke session, Paramount, September 26, 1973)
  

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