- hard rock, jazz rock, art rock, experimental rock
- 173 min
- 30 tracks
- Rykodisc
Läther is the sixty-fifth official album by American musician Frank Zappa. It was released posthumously as a three-CD set on Rykodisc in 1996. The album's title is derived from bits of comic dialog that link the songs. Zappa also explained that the name is a joke, based on "common bastardized pronunciation of Germanic syllables by the Swiss."
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- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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Tracks
- 1Re‐gyptian Strut4:37
- 2Naval Aviation in Art?1:33
- 3A Little Green Rosetta2:48
- 4Duck Duck Goose3:01
- 5Down in de Dew2:58
- 6For the Young Sophisticate3:15
- 7Tryin’ to Grow a Chin3:26
- 8Broken Hearts Are for Assholes4:40
- 9The Legend of the Illinois Enema Bandit12:43
- 10Lemme Take You to the Beach2:47
- 11Revised Music for Guitar & Low Budget Orchestra7:37
- 12RDNZL8:15
- 1Honey, Don’t You Want a Man Like Me?4:57
- 2The Black Page #11:58
- 3Big Leg Emma2:11
- 4Punky’s Whips11:07
- 5Flambe2:05
- 6The Purple Lagoon16:22
- 7Pedro’s Dowry7:46
- 8Läther3:50
- 9Spider of Destiny2:40
- 10Duke of Orchestral Prunes4:21
- 1Filthy Habits7:12
- 2Titties ’n Beer5:23
- 3The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution8:33
- 4The Adventures of Greggery Peccary21:00
- 5Regyptian Strut (1993)4:43
- 6Leather Goods6:01
- 7Revenge of the Knick Knack People2:25
- 8Time Is Money3:09
30 tracks, 173 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Frank Zappa
- Label
- Rykodisc
- Released
- September 24, 1996
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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