The Usual Eclectic Mix Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin; check out the links at your leisure. You can listen to this program
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* - originally scheduled for release, summer 1977 / The BACKSTORY: Zappa delivered four new individual albums to Warner (for release on DiscReet) in March 1977 to complete his contract. According to the contract Warner was required to pay Zappa $60,000 per album ($240,000 total) and release the recordings in the United States within six weeks. However, Warner failed to follow through on these terms. Zappa claimed that Warner first began to manufacture the album only when they heard he had negotiated to release the recordings with a competing company.
* - originally scheduled for release, summer 1977 / The BACKSTORY: Zappa delivered four new individual albums to Warner (for release on DiscReet) in March 1977 to complete his contract. According to the contract Warner was required to pay Zappa $60,000 per album ($240,000 total) and release the recordings in the United States within six weeks. However, Warner failed to follow through on these terms. Zappa claimed that Warner first began to manufacture the album only when they heard he had negotiated to release the recordings with a competing company.
Their first album without co-founder Jerry Corbitt, who played lead guitar, also harmonica and piano. / This song was covered a number of times: Mott the Hoople, Richie Havens, Screaming Trees
* - originally scheduled for release, summer 1977 / The BACKSTORY: Zappa delivered four new individual albums to Warner (for release on DiscReet) in March 1977 to complete his contract. According to the contract Warner was required to pay Zappa $60,000 per album ($240,000 total) and release the recordings in the United States within six weeks. However, Warner failed to follow through on these terms. Zappa claimed that Warner first began to manufacture the album only when they heard he had negotiated to release the recordings with a competing company.
* - originally scheduled for release, summer 1977 / The BACKSTORY: Zappa delivered four new individual albums to Warner (for release on DiscReet) in March 1977 to complete his contract. According to the contract Warner was required to pay Zappa $60,000 per album ($240,000 total) and release the recordings in the United States within six weeks. However, Warner failed to follow through on these terms. Zappa claimed that Warner first began to manufacture the album only when they heard he had negotiated to release the recordings with a competing company.
Time:
5:22
Artist:
Roy Hytower [Billed on single as 'Roy Hightower* & Gant {no "r"} Green']
* - originally scheduled for release, summer 1977 / The BACKSTORY: Zappa delivered four new individual albums to Warner (for release on DiscReet) in March 1977 to complete his contract. According to the contract Warner was required to pay Zappa $60,000 per album ($240,000 total) and release the recordings in the United States within six weeks. However, Warner failed to follow through on these terms. Zappa claimed that Warner first began to manufacture the album only when they heard he had negotiated to release the recordings with a competing company.
Time:
5:52
Artist:
Kaleidoscope [Willie Dixon] [Billed as 'Kaleidoscope* / The Sidekicks']
* - the 1st full-length album Chess released by Waters; later retitled 'Sail On', in 1969 / Click on the Link above, left to view the original shellac record
* - originally scheduled for release, summer 1977 / The BACKSTORY: Zappa delivered four new individual albums to Warner (for release on DiscReet) in March 1977 to complete his contract. According to the contract Warner was required to pay Zappa $60,000 per album ($240,000 total) and release the recordings in the United States within six weeks. However, Warner failed to follow through on these terms. Zappa claimed that Warner first began to manufacture the album only when they heard he had negotiated to release the recordings with a competing company.
* - Which was the follow-up single to 'Surfin' Bird, the greatest record ever (as determined by Peter Griffin, of "Family Guy" - LsA) // Click on the Link above, left, to view the original Danish(!!) single, with a picture sleeve
* - originally scheduled for release, summer 1977 / The BACKSTORY: Zappa delivered four new individual albums to Warner (for release on DiscReet) in March 1977 to complete his contract. According to the contract Warner was required to pay Zappa $60,000 per album ($240,000 total) and release the recordings in the United States within six weeks. However, Warner failed to follow through on these terms. Zappa claimed that Warner first began to manufacture the album only when they heard he had negotiated to release the recordings with a competing company.
The song's first line was used as the title of the book "Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991", by Michael Azerrad. // Slant Magazine listed the album at No. 77 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s". /// AcclaimedMusic.net ranked the album the 305th most acclaimed album of all time. + According to "American Hardcore: A Tribal History" (Steven Blush), this album was, along with Husker Du's 'Zen Arcade', "either the pinnacle or downfall of the pure hardcore scene. Watt later commented that it was the "best album I ever played on".
