Frank Zappa discography

Frank Zappa discography
Zappa performing in Ekeberghallen, Oslo, on January 16, 1977.
Studio albums 111
Compilation albums 13
Singles 34
Tribute albums 40
Miscellaneous 6

This is a list of albums by Frank Zappa, including all those credited to the Mothers of Invention. During his lifetime, Zappa released 62 albums. Since 1994, the Zappa Family Trust has released 49 posthumous albums, making a total of 111 albums. The current distributor of Zappa's recorded output is Universal Music Enterprises.[1] A list of albums of Zappa's music by other artists is also included.

Live and studio albums

Official

release #[2]

Released[2] Title Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Year Month US
[3]
UK
[4]
GER
[5]
NOR
[6]
SWE
[7]
SWI
[8]
AUT
[9]
1 1966 Jun Freak Out! 130
2 1967 Apr Absolutely Free 41
3 Aug Lumpy Gravy 159
4 1968 Mar We're Only in It for the Money 30 31
5 Nov Cruising with Ruben & the Jets 110
7 1969 Mar Mothermania 151
6 Apr Uncle Meat 43
8 Oct Hot Rats 173 9
9 1970 Feb Burnt Weeny Sandwich 94 17
10 Aug Weasels Ripped My Flesh 189 28
11 Oct Chunga's Revenge 119 43
12 1971 Aug Fillmore East – June 1971 38
13 Oct 200 Motels 59
14 1972 Mar Just Another Band from L.A. 85
15 Jul Waka/Jawaka 152
16 Nov The Grand Wazoo
17 1973 Sep Over-Nite Sensation 32 15 US: Gold[10]
18 1974 Mar Apostrophe (') 10 6 US: Gold[11]
19 Jul Roxy & Elsewhere 27 14
20 1975 Jun One Size Fits All 26 5
21 Oct Bongo Fury 66 11
22 1976 Oct Zoot Allures 61 16 17 UK: Silver[12]
23 1978 Mar Zappa in New York 57 55 6 24
24 Sep Studio Tan 147 30
25 1979 Jan Sleep Dirt 175 16 19
26 Mar Sheik Yerbouti 21 32 5 4 6 CAN: Gold[13]
27 May Orchestral Favorites 168
28 Sep Joe's Garage Act I 27 62 1 2 8 CAN: Gold[13]
29 Nov Joe's Garage Acts II & III 53 75 3 4 9
30 1981 May Tinsel Town Rebellion 66 55 13 8 9
31 Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
32 Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More
33 Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
34 Sep You Are What You Is 93 51 12 22
35 1982 May Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch 23 61 20 26
36 1983 Mar The Man from Utopia 153 87 23
37 Baby Snakes 67
38 Jun London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I
39 1984 Aug Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger
40 Oct Them or Us 53 22
41 Nov Thing-Fish
42 Francesco Zappa
43 The Old Masters, Box I
44 1985 Nov Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention 153
45 1986 Jan Does Humor Belong in Music?
46 Nov The Old Masters, Box II
47 Jazz from Hell
48 1987 Sep London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. II
49 Dec The Old Masters, Box III
50 1988 Apr Guitar 82 25
51 May You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1
52 Oct You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 2
53 Broadway the Hard Way
54 1989 Nov You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3
55 1991 Apr The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life 30
56 Jun You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4
57 Make a Jazz Noise Here
58 1992 Jul You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5
59 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6
60 Nov Playground Psychotics
61 1993 Mar Ahead of Their Time
62 Oct The Yellow Shark 61 30

Posthumous albums

Official

release #[2]

Released[2] Title Peak chart positions
Year Month US
[3]
UK
[4]
GER
[5]
NOR
[6]
SWE
[7]
SWI
[8]
AUT
[9]
63 1994 Dec Civilization Phaze III 87
64 1996 Feb The Lost Episodes 54
65 Sep Läther 50
66 Oct Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute
67 1997 May Have I Offended Someone?
68 1998 Sep Mystery Disc
69 1999 Dec Everything Is Healing Nicely
70 2002 Aug FZ:OZ
71 2003 Feb Halloween DVD-Audio Disc
72 2004 May Joe's Corsage
73 Oct Joe's Domage
74 Sep QuAUDIOPHILIAc DVD-Audio Disc
75 2005 Dec Joe's XMASage
76 2006 Jan Imaginary Diseases
77 Dec The MOFO Project/Object (4-CD set) A FZ Audio Documentary
78 The MOFO Project/Object (2-CD set) A FZ Audio Documentary
79 Oct Trance-Fusion
80 2007 Apr Buffalo
81 Aug The Dub Room Special!
82 Oct Wazoo
83 2008 Jun One Shot Deal
84 Sep Joe's Menage
85 2009 Jan Lumpy Money Project/Object (3-CD set) A FZ Audio Documentary
86 Dec Philly '76
87 2010 Apr Greasy Love Songs A FZ Audio Documentary
88 Sep Congress Shall Make No Law...
89 Nov Hammersmith Odeon
90 2011 Sep Feeding the Monkies at Ma Maison
91 Oct Carnegie Hall
92 2012 Oct Road Tapes, Venue 1
93 Oct Understanding America
94 Dec Finer Moments
95 Dec Baby Snakes: The Compleat Soundtrack
96 2013 Oct Road Tapes, Venue 2
97 Nov A Token of His Extreme (Soundtrack)
98 2014 Jan Joe's Camouflage
99 Mar Roxy by Proxy
100 2015 Jun Dance Me This
101 Nov 200 Motels: The Suites (LA Philharmonic-Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen)
102 Oct Roxy The Soundtrack (Roxy The Movie DVD/CD or BD/CD, CD soundtrack not sold separately)
103 2016 May Road Tapes, Venue 3
104 Jul The Crux Of The Biscuit A FZ Audio Documentary
105 Jul Frank Zappa For President
106 Sep ZAPPAtite: Frank Zappa's Tastiest Tracks
107 Nov Meat Light Uncle Meat Project/Object Audio Documentary
108 Nov Chicago '78
109 Nov Little Dots
110 2017 Oct Halloween 77: The Palladium, NYC [Costume Box Set edition containing a 24-bit WAV audio USB stick of the complete 6 shows: 10.28.77 (2 shows), 10.29.77 (2 shows), 10.30.77, 10.31.77][nb 1]
110.5 [called 110K] Oct Halloween 77: October 31, 1977 – The Palladium, NYC [3-CD edition][nb 2]
111 2018 Feb The Roxy Performances[14] (7CD box set) (all four public shows from December 9-10, 1973 at the Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood, California) 55

Miscellaneous

Released Title Peak chart positions
Year Month US
[3]
UK
[4]
GER
[5]
NOR
[6]
SWE
[7]
SWI
[8]
AUT
[9]
1982 May Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (Box Set)
1987 May Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III
1991 Jul Beat the Boots
1992 Jun Beat the Boots II
1995 Apr London Symphony Orchestra, Volumes I & II
2009 Jan Beat the Boots III
2015 Oct Roxy The Movie (DVD/CD or BD/CD, Roxy The Soundtrack CD not sold separately)

Compilation albums

Released Album details Peak chart positions
Year Month US UK GER
[5]
1968 Oct The **** of the Mothers
1970 Jul The Mothers of Invention
1971 Mar Worst of the Mothers 201
1987 Jun The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa
1995 Aug Strictly Commercial 45 51
1997 May Strictly Genteel
1998 Feb Cucamonga
Apr Cheap Thrills
1999 Apr Son of Cheep Thrills
2006 Dec The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle 2006
2008 Dec The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAA Birthday Bundle 2008
2010 Dec The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAA Birthday Bundle 2010
2011 Dec The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAAAAAM Birthday Bundle 2011[15]
2014 Dec The Frank Zappa AAAFNRAA Birthday Bundle 21.12.2014
2016 Sep ZAPPAtite

Singles

[16][17]

Year Single (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated
Peak Chart positions Album
US
[18]
US Rock
[18]
CAN
[19]
GER
[20]
SWI
[8]
AUT
[9]
NOR
[6]
SWE
[7]
1966 "How Could I Be Such a Fool?"
b/w "Help I'm a Rock (3rd Movement: It Can't Happen' Here)"
Freak Out!
"Trouble Comin' Every Day"
b/w "Who Are the Brain Police?"
1967 "Big Leg Emma"
b/w "Why Don't You Do Me Right?"
Non-album tracks (later issued on CD version of Absolutely Free)
"Son of Suzy Creamcheese"
b/w "Big Leg Emma"
Absolutely Free
"Lonely Little Girl"
b/w "Mother People"
We're Only In It for the Money
1968 "Motherly Love"
b/w "I Ain't Got No Heart"
Freak Out!
"Deseri"
b/w "Jelly Roll Gum Drop"
Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
"Anyway the Wind Blows"
b/w "Jelly Roll Gum Drop"
1969 "WPLJ"
b/w "My Guitar" (from Weasels Ripped My Flesh)
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
"My Guitar" (Original version)
b/w "Dog Breath" (45-only version w/o lyrics)
Non-LP tracks ("My Guitar" later issued on "You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5" CD)
1970 "Peaches en Regalia"
b/w "Little Umbrellas"
Hot Rats
"Tell Me You Love Me"
b/w "Will You Go All the Way for the U.S.A.?" [sic]
Chunga's Revenge
1971 "Tears Began to Fall" (remix)
b/w "Junier Mintz Boogie" (non-album track)
Fillmore East – June 1971
"Magic Fingers"
b/w "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy"
200 Motels
"What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning"
b/w "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy"
1972 "Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus"
b/w "Eat That Question"
The Grand Wazoo
1973 "I'm the Slime" (single mix with different guitar solo)
b/w "Montana"
Over-Nite Sensation
1974 "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow Suite"
b/w "Cosmik Debris"
86 Apostrophe (')
1975 "Du Bist Mein Sofa"
b/w "Stink Foot" (from Apostrophe ('))
One Size Fits All
1976 "Find Her Finer"
b/w "Zoot Allures"
Zoot Allures
"Disco Boy"
b/w "Ms. Pinky"
105
1979 "Dancin' Fool"
b/w "Baby Snakes"
45 Sheik Yerbouti
"Bobby Brown"
b/w "Stick It Out" (from Joe's Garage Acts II & III)
4 5 2 1 1
"Joe's Garage"
b/w "Central Scrutinizer"
4 14 Joe's Garage Act I
"Stick It Out"
b/w "Why Does It Hurt" (from Joe's Garage Act I)
Joe's Garage Acts II & III
1980 "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted"
b/w "Ancient Armaments"
103 71 3 Non-album tracks
1981 "Love of My Life"
b/w "For the Young Sophisticate"
Tinsel Town Rebellion
"Harder Than Your Husband"
b/w "Dumb All Over"
You Are What You Is
"You Are What You Is"
b/w "Pink Napkins" (from Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar)
"Goblin Girl"
b/w "Pink Napkins" (from Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar)
1982 "Valley Girl"
b/w "You Are What You Is" (from You Are What You Is)
32 12 18 Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
1983 "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou"
b/w "Sex"
The Man from Utopia
"Cocaine Decisions"
b/w "Sex"
1984 "Baby Take Your Teeth Out"
b/w "Stevie's Spanking"
Them Or Us
"In France"
B-side unknown
"The Girl in the Magnesium Dress"
b/w "Outside Now, Again"
Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger
1988 "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace"
b/w "Watermelon in Easter Hay"
Guitar
"Zomby Woof"
paired with "You Didn't Try to Call Me"
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1
1991 "Stairway to Heaven"
paired with "Bolero"
9 The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

As sideman

Albums by other artists

  • King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (Jean-Luc Ponty) (1970)
  • The BRT Big Band Plays Frank Zappa (BRT Big Band) (1990)
  • Yahozna Plays Zappa (Yahonza) (1992)
  • Zappa's Universe—A Celebration of 25 Years of Frank Zappa's Music (Joel Thome/Orchestra of Our Time)(1993)
  • Smart Went Crazy (Meridian Arts Ensemble) (1993)
  • Harmonia Meets Zappa (Harmonia Ensemble) (1994)
  • What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? (Jon Poole) (1994)
  • Music by Frank Zappa (Omnibus Wind Ensemble) (1995)
  • Thanks to Frank (Warren Cuccurullo) (1995)
  • Prime Meridian (Meridian Arts Ensemble) (1995)
  • Anxiety Of Influence (Meridian Arts Ensemble) (1996)
  • Frankincense: The Muffin Men Play Zappa (Muffin Men) (1997)
  • Plays The Music of Frank Zappa (The Ed Palermo Big Band) (1997)
  • Dischordancies Abundant (CoCö Anderson) (1997)
  • Zappe Zappa (Pierre-Jean Gaucher) (1998)
  • Ear Mind I (Meridian Arts Ensemble) (1998)
  • Sta Chitarra Ammazzera 'Tua Madre (Ossi Duri) (1998)
  • Frankly a Cappella (The Persuasions) (2000)
  • The Zappa Album (Ensemble Ambrosius) (2000)
  • Bohuslän Big Band plays Frank Zappa (Bohuslän Big Band) (2000)
  • Fric Out ! (Nasal Retentive Orchestra) (2001)
  • Have a Bun (Nasal Retentive Orchestra) (2002)
  • Prophetic Attitude (Le Concert Impromptu & Bossini) (2002)
  • Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa: Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions (Ensemble Modern) (2003)
  • UMO Jazz Orchestra: UMO plays Frank Zappa feat. Marzi Nyman (2003)
  • Tales Of Brave Flegmar (Nasal Retentive Orchestra) (2003)
  • Oh No!... Just Another Frank Zappa Memorial Barbecue! (LeBocal) (2003)
  • Zapparcie, czyli uboczne skutki jedzenia żółtego śniegu (Prząśniczki & Tymon Tymański) (2003)[21]
  • The Purple Cucumber - A Zappa Tribute (BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra & Zuchini Rocking Teenage Combo) (2003 and 2008)
  • NRO Live (Nasal Retentive Orchestra) (2004)
  • Lemme Take You to the Beach: Surf Instrumental Bands playing the music of Zappa (Cordelia Records) (2005)
  • Frank Zappa's Hot Licks (and Funny Smells) (Colin Towns and the NDR bigband) (rent a dog) (2005)[22]
  • Zappostrophe (Marc Guillermont) (2005)
  • Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (The Ed Palermo Big Band) (2006)
  • Music for Hungry People (Nasal Retentive Orchestra) (2007)
  • Struber Z'Tett Plays Zappa Live : Les Noces De Dada (Struber Z'Tett) (2007)
  • 2G (Pierre-Jean Gaucher & Christophe Godin) (2007)
  • Zappa Plays Zappa (Dweezil Zappa) (2008)
  • Eddy Loves Frank (The Ed Palermo Big Band) (2009)
  • The Brass from Utopia (A Frank Zappa Tribute) (The Norwegian Wind Ensemble) (2013)
  • Perfect Strangers (Heiner Goebbels, Frank Zappa) (The Norwegian Radio Orchestra) (2014)
  • Sheik Yer Zappa (Stefano Bollani) (2014)
  • Around Zappa (Cd+Dvd live at Blue Note Milano) (Quintorigo con Roberto Gatto) (2015)

Sales awards

  •  Australia (70,000 sales)[23][24]
    • January 1976: Gold record for "Just Another Band From LA"
    • January 1976: Gold record for "Fillmore East"
  •  Austria (50,000 sales)[25]
    • November 1991: Gold record for "Bobby Brown"
  •  Canada (100,000 sales)[26]
    • September 1979: Gold record for "Sheik Yerbouti"
    • November 1979: Gold record for "Joe's Garage"
  •  European Union (1,000,000 sales)[27]
    • 1991: Gold record for European releases
  •  France (100,000 sales)[28]
    • December 1979: Gold record for "Sheik Yerbouti"
  •  Germany (500,000 sales)[29][30]
    • January 1980: Gold record for "Sheik Yerbouti"
    • January 1980: Gold record for "Bobby Brown"
  •  Norway (50,000 sales)[31]
    • January 1980: Gold record for "Bobby Brown"
  •  Sweden (50,000 sales)[32]
    • October 1993: Gold record for "Bobby Brown"
  •   Switzerland (50,000 sales)[33]
    • December 1980: Gold record for "Bobby Brown"
  •  United Kingdom (60,000 sales)[34]
    • March 1979: Silver record for "Zoot Allures"
  •  United States (1,100,000 sales)[35]
    • April 1976: Gold record for "Aposthrope (')"
    • November 1976: Gold record for "Over-Nite Sensation"
    • June 2006: Gold record for "Does Humor Belong in Music?"
    • February 2015: Gold record for "Baby Snakes"

Notes

  1. The package contains: the Frank Zappa 1977 mask and costume, a USB stick containing six concerts in 24-bit WAV audio, and a 32-page PDF digital booklet with extensive liner notes.
  2. The bonus section four tracks on disc three (tracks 8-11) are taken from the 10-30-77 show.

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