Singer: Frank Zappa
Title: You Are What You Is
Label: EMI ‎– EN 5000
Type: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Remastered
Country: UK
Date of released: Feb 1986
Category: Jazz, Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Avantgarde, Symphonic Rock, Art Rock, Jazz-Rock, Parody
Size MP3 zip: 1579 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1617 mb
Rating: 3.7✭
Format: MP3 VQF MP2 AAC AUD MMF RA AIFF FLAC

Tracklist

A1	Teenage Wind	3:01
A2	Harder Than Your Husband	2:29
A3	Doreen	4:43
A4	Goblin Girl	4:07
A5	Theme From The 3rd Movement Of Sinister Footwear	3:34
B1	Society Pages	2:27
B2	I'm A Beautiful Guy	1:56
B3	Beauty Knows No Pain	3:01
B4	Charlie's Enormous Mouth	3:36
B5	Any Downers?	2:09
B6	Conehead	4:20
C1	You Are What You Is	4:22
C2	Mudd Club	3:11
C3	The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing	3:10
C4	Dumb All Over	5:50
D1	Heavenly Bank Account	4:03
D2	Suicide Chump	2:50
D3	Jumbo Go Away	3:42
D4	If Only She Woulda	3:47
D5	Drafted Again	3:05

Credits

• Bass Guitar – Arthur Barrow
• Clarinet, Clarinet [Bass] – David Ocker
• Composed By, Arranged By, Lead Guitar, Vocals, Producer, Technician [U M R K Central Studio], Liner Notes – Frank Zappa
• Design, Artwork By [Graphics] – John Vince
• Drums – David Logeman
• Engineer – Alan Sides*, Mark Pinske
• Engineer [Assistant] – David Gray , George Douglas
• Engineer [Remix Engineer] – Bob Stone
• Guitar [Strat Abuse] – Steve Vai
• Harmonica – Craig "Twister" Stewart*
• Keyboards – Tommy Mars
• Management [Glotzer Management & Tennis] – Bennett Glotzer
• Other [Shorthand] – Susan Rubio
• Other [Special Assistance] – None
• Percussion – Ed Mann
• Photography [Cover] – John Livzey
• Rhythm Guitar, Vocals – Ike Willis, Ray White
• Slide Guitar – Denny Walley
• Technician [Everything Digital] – Dennis Sager
• Technician [Everything Elsewhere] – Midget Sloatman*
• Technician [Everything Remote] – Thomas Nordegg
• Tenor Saxophone – Motorhead Sherwood
• Vocals [Boy Soprano], Trumpet – Bob Harris
• Vocals [Guest] – Ahmet*, Denny Walley, Jimmy Carl Black, Mark Pinske, Moon*, Motorhead Sherwood

Notes

"Digitally Remastered" at top of gatefold unlaminated gloss-varnish print cover
"EMI Records Ltd., Hayes, Middlesex, England.
Sleeve printed in England. Manufactured in England"
with vinyl in un-punched white paper wallets.
Discs numbered E 50001 & E 50002 (= EN 5000 set).
[The number below BP logo replaces the label code on first UK issue]
No lyric sheet insert.

©1981
℗1981 Original sound recording made by Barking Pumpkin Records.
Under licence to EMI Records Ltd.

Craig Steward is [still] incorrectly credited as Craig "Twister" Stewart.
Track timings change on later issues on CD (Example: "Dumb All Over" has complete solo).

Recordings relating to issues of these works can also be found on "Clean Cuts From You Are What You Is" .

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 5 099926 081236
• Matrix / Runout (A-Side run-out, stamped): E 50001 A-1-1-1-3
• Matrix / Runout (B-Side run-out, stamped): E 50001 B-3C-1-1-3
• Matrix / Runout (C-Side run-out, stamped): E 50002 A-1-1-2-
• Matrix / Runout (D-Side run-out, stamped): E 50002 B-1-1-2-
• Other (Below 'BP logo' back cover): RB8601HP

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
PW2 37537	Frank Zappa	You Are What You Is ‎(2xLP, Album)	Barking Pumpkin Records	PW2 37537	US	1981
RCD 10536	Frank Zappa	You Are What You Is ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Rykodisc	RCD 10536	US	1995
CDP 7 90075 2, CD EN 5000	Frank Zappa	You Are What You Is ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	EMI, EMI	CDP 7 90075 2, CD EN 5000	UK & Europe	1986
S2BP 220244	Frank Zappa	You Are What You Is ‎(2xLP, Album, Gat)	CBS	S2BP 220244	Australia	1981
LP2S 122	Frank Zappa	You Are What You Is ‎(2xLP, Album)	CBS	LP2S 122	Mexico	1981

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