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Frank Zappa - Thing-Fish (1984) [VideoArts, Japan]

Posted By: v3122
Frank Zappa - Thing-Fish (1984) [VideoArts, Japan]

Frank Zappa - Thing-Fish (1984)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2002 | VideoArts, VACK-1256 | ~ 560 or 215 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 94 Mb
Alternative Rock, Dialogue, Avantgarde, Art Rock, Jazz-Rock, Parody

Of all of Frank Zappa's discography, Thing-Fish must be his most controversial, misunderstood, overlooked album. Obviously, it is not a masterpiece, but reducing it to a compilation album with a racist plot distorts the reality. First released as a three-LP set (and reissued on two CDs), this album is the "original cast recording" of a never-produced Broadway show. Working-class joes have been mutated into potato-headed, duck-mouthed creatures by a government experiment gone wrong. They put up a Broadway musical in which reality and fiction become one for two members of the audience. The main character, Thing-Fish, is played by Ike Willis. His thick caricatured Negro accent is directly taken from Amos 'n' Andy's King Fish character. Zappa's intention was not to mock African Americans, but to ridicule the way they are depicted on Broadway, mainly a white male-dominated milieu. Harry and Rhonda, the two audience members drawn into the story by force, are played by Terry Bozzio and Dale Bozzio. Harry will realize he is gay, Rhonda will turn into a briefcase fetishist. Zappa exaggerates the yuppie trends of the mid-'80s (Harry is gay for "career purposes"; Rhonda embodies the ultra-feminist) and slips into the plot concerns about the spread of AIDS being the result of governmental scientific experiments. It's crazy, offensive, barely holding together, but it sure is entertaining. To accommodate the plot, Zappa wrote a couple of new songs and re-recorded a handful of tracks from Zoot Allures, You Are What You Is, Tinsel-Town Rebellion, and Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch with new lyrics. It is definitely for the seasoned fan (the conceptual continuity clues make an integral part of the experience), but more than rehashed material.

by François Couture, allmusic
Frank Zappa - Thing-Fish (1984):

Frank Zappa - Thing-Fish (1984) [VideoArts, Japan]

Tracklist CD1:

01. Prologue 2:57
02. The Mammy Nuns 3:31
03. Harry & Rhonda 3:37
04. Galoot Up-Date 5:27
05. The 'Torchum' Never Stops 10:33
06. That Evil Prince 1:18
07. You Are What You Is 4:31
08. Mudd Club 3:17
09. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing 3:14
10. Clowns On Velvet 1:52
11. Harry-As-A-Boy 2:34
12. He's So Gay 2:44
13. The Massive Inprove'Lence 5:08
14. Artificial Rhonda 3:33

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 25. July 2014, 21:43

Frank Zappa / Thing - Fish (Disc 1) (VACK-1256-1)

Used drive : PLEXTOR DVDR PX-891SA Adapter: 3 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "Genre=%genre%" -T "Artist=%artist%" -T "Title=%title%" -T "Album=%albumtitle%" -T "Date=%year%" -T "Tracknumber=%tracknr%" -T "Comment=%comment%" %source%


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Frank Zappa - Thing-Fish (1984) [VideoArts, Japan]

Tracklist CD2:

01. The Crab-Grass Baby 3:48
02. The White Boy Troubles 3:34
03. No Not Now 5:50
04. Briefcase Boogie 4:10
05. Brown Moses 3:01
06. Wistful Wit A Fist-Full 4:00
07. Drop Dead 7:56
08. Won Ton On 4:19

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 25. July 2014, 22:03

Frank Zappa / Thing - Fish (Disc 2) (VACK-1256-2)

Used drive : PLEXTOR DVDR PX-891SA Adapter: 3 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "Genre=%genre%" -T "Artist=%artist%" -T "Title=%title%" -T "Album=%albumtitle%" -T "Date=%year%" -T "Tracknumber=%tracknr%" -T "Comment=%comment%" %source%


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