- rock, art rock, comedy rock, progressive rock
- 72 min
- 18 tracks
- CBS
Sheik Yerbouti is the twenty-sixth album by American musician Frank Zappa, a double album released on March 3, 1979, as the first release on Zappa Records; it was distributed by Phonogram Inc. in the United States and Canada.
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Cool, comic, ironic and contemporary.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideC
- Music Week4/4 ★
- Rolling Stone(favorable)
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Tracks
- A1I Have Been in You3:34
- A2Flakes6:42
- A3Broken Hearts Are for Assholes3:43
- A4I’m So Cute4:20
- B1Jones Crusher2:50
- B2What Ever Happened to All the Fun in the World0:33
- B3Rat Tomago5:16
- B4We Gotta Get Into Something Real0:33
- B5Bobby Brown2:50
- B6Rubber Shirt2:45
- B7The Sheik Yerbouti Tango3:56
- C1Baby Snakes1:50
- C2Tryin’ to Grow a Chin3:31
- C3City of Tiny Lites5:32
- C4Dancin’ Fool3:44
- C5Jewish Princess3:17
- D1Wild Love4:10
- D2Yo’ Mama12:36
18 tracks, 72 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Frank Zappa
- Label
- CBS
- Released
- 1979
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- GB
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