- rock
- 91 min
- 22 tracks
- Barking Pumpkin Records
Thing-Fish is an album by American musician Frank Zappa, originally released as a triple album box set on Barking Pumpkin Records in 1984. It was billed as a cast recording for a proposed musical of the same name, which was ultimately not produced by Zappa, but later performed partially in 2003, ten years after his death.
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Cool, open-ended, contemporary and ironic.
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- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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Tracks
- A1Prologue2:56
- A2The Mammy Nuns3:50
- A3Harry & Rhonda3:36
- A4Galoot Up‐Date5:29
- B1The ‘Torchum’ Never Stops10:32
- B2That Evil Prince1:17
- B3You Are What You Is4:31
- C1Mudd Club3:17
- C2The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing3:14
- C3Clowns on Velvet1:38
- C4Harry‐as‐a‐Boy2:51
- C5He’s So Gay2:48
- D1The Massive Improve’lence5:07
- D2Artificial Rhonda3:30
- D3The Crab‐Grass Baby3:48
- D4The White Boy Troubles3:35
- E1No Not Now5:50
- E2Briefcase Boogie4:10
- E3Brown Moses3:02
- F1Wistful Wit a Fist‐Full3:53
- F2Drop Dead7:56
- F3Won Ton On4:20
22 tracks, 91 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Frank Zappa
- Label
- Barking Pumpkin Records
- Released
- 1984
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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