Progressive Ears Album Reviews

Release Date: 1969

Track Listing

Disc One
1)	Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
2)	The Voice Of Cheese
3)	Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution
4)	Zolar Czakl
5)	Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
6)	The Legend Of The Golden Arches
7)	Louie Louie (A The Royal Albert Hall)
8)	The Dog Breat Variations
9)	Sleeping In A Jar
10)	Our Bizarre Relationship
11)	The Uncle Meat Varitions
12)	Eletric Aunt Jemima
13)	Prelude To King Kong
14)	God Bless America
15)	A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
16)	Ian Underwood Whips it Out
17)	Mr. Green Genes
18)	We Can Shoot You
19)	If We All Been Living In California
20)	The Air
21)	Project X
22)	Crusin For Burgers
Disc Two
23)	Uncle Meat Film Exerpt, Part 1
24)	Tengo Na Minchia Tanta
25)	Uncle Meat Film Exerpt, Part 2
27)	King Kong Itself (Played By The Mothers)
28)	King Kong II (Interpeted By Tom Dewild)
29)	King Kong III (Motorhead Explains It)
30)	King Kong IV (Gardner Varities)
31)	King Kong V
32)	King Kong VI Live At The Miami Pop Festival)

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Member: Chuck AzEee! (Profile) (All Album Reviews by Chuck AzEee!)
Date: 11/19/2003
Format: CD (Album)

The material that composed this phenomenal double CD set Uncle Meat, was the soundtrack to film that Frank never completed, but yet most are thrilled that he decided to release these recordings anyway.

Amongst the countless skits of spoken word dialogues and noise experimentation, the actual variations and completed songs would go on to in some form of another be reworked into different versions throughout Frank's career. But the "meat" of this album is the majestic jazz-rockish "King Kong". Although it has its variations, and on the credits it is listed as having six different movements, it is actually on complete song, with part six, a live version added to it.

Also on Uncle Meat, the father or the slower version of Hot Rats’ "Son Mr. Green Genes", "Mr. Green Genes" is here filled with lyrics and all. "Cruisin' For Burgers", "Sleeping In A Jar" makes a brief appearance, What would be a Frank record without "Louie Louie", a atonal version at that!

Asides the blabbering hen, who crops up annoying everyone with her nonsense, Uncle Meat is quite enjoyable, and up there with the best and most complex Frank and this version of the Mothers ever did.

Charles