Singer: Frank Zappa
Title: Thing-Fish
Label: Rykodisc ‎– RCD 10544/45
Type: 2 x CD, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Date of released: 02 May 1995
Category: Rock
Style: Avantgarde, Prog Rock, Musical
Size MP3 zip: 1792 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1420 mb
Rating: 4.4✭
Format: MP3 FLAC AAC VQF APE MPC MIDI MP2 FLAC

Tracklist

1-1	Prologue	2:56
1-2	The Mammy Nuns	3:31
1-3	Harry & Rhonda	3:36
1-4	Galoot Up-Date	5:30
1-5	The 'Torchum' Never Stops	10:32
1-6	That Evil Prince	1:18
1-7	You Are What You Is	4:30
1-8	The Mudd Club	3:16
1-9	The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing	3:14
1-10	Clowns On Velvet	1:51
1-11	Harry-As-A-Boy	2:38
1-12	He's So Gay	2:46
1-13	The Massive Improve'lence	5:08
1-14	Artificial Rhonda	3:30
2-1	The Crabb-Grass Baby	3:47
2-2	The White Boy Troubles	3:35
2-3	No Not Now	5:50
2-4	Briefcase Boogie	4:09
2-5	Brown Moses	3:01
2-6	Wistful Wit A Fist-Full	3:53
2-7	Drop Dead	7:56
2-8	Won Ton On	4:18

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Rykodisc
• Copyright (c) – Zappa Family Trust
• Published By – Zappa Family Trust
• Published By – Munchkin Music
• Recorded At – UMRK
• Manufactured By – Disque Americ

Credits

• Bass – Arthur Barrow, Scott Thunes
• Double Bass [String Bass] – Jay Anderson
• Drums – Chad Wackerman
• Engineer [Recording] – Bob Stone, Mark Pinske
• Guitar – Ray White, Steve Vai
• Guitar, Synthesizer [Synclavier] – Frank Zappa
• Keyboards – Tommy Mars
• Lyrics By [Book & Lyrics], Music By, Arranged By, Directed By [Direction Of Characterizations], Producer – Frank Zappa
• Other [Costumes] – Robert Fletcher
• Other [Thing-fish & Sister Ob'dewlla 'x' Prosthetics] – Jene Omens
• Percussion – Ed Mann
• Photography By [Cover] – Ladi Von Jansky
• Piano [Broadway] – Chuck Wild
• Programmed By [Synclavier] – David Ocker, Steve De Furia*
• Vocals [Brown Moses] – Johnny 'Guitar' Watson*
• Vocals [Evil Prince] – Napoleon Murphy Brock*
• Vocals [Harry-as-a-boy] – Bob Harris
• Vocals [Harry] – Terry Bozzio
• Vocals [Mammified Evil Prince] – Ike Willis, Terry Bozzio
• Vocals [Owl-gonkwin-jane Cowhoon] – Ray White
• Vocals [Rhonda] – Dale Bozzio
• Vocals [Thing-fish] – Ike Willis

Notes

Released in a standard fat double jewelcase with green tinted color and horizontal OBI.
Note about the booklets:
There are supposed to be two booklets (one 28-page "libretto" and one 2-page tracklist and credits booklet), but it seems that some copies only has the first booklet and other copies only has the second one.
Some copies comes with a 10-page foldout Ryko's Frank Zappa catalog, detailed scans of it: Frank Zappa - Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger
All selections controlled for the world by The Zappa Family Trust d/b/a Munchkin Music (ASCAP).

Artwork copyright 1995 The Zappa Family Trust.

℗ 1984 Rykodisc. © 1984, 1995 Zappa Family Trust.
The green-tinted CD jewel box is a registered trademark of Rykodisc.
Printed in the USA. Manufactured in Canada.

Recorded 1982-1984 at UMRK.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 14431 05442 6
• Matrix / Runout (Disc1, mirrored): DISQUE AMERIC 818 PUMPKIN 0FP31RCD10544
• Matrix / Runout (Disc2, mirrored): DISQUE AMERIC 818 PUMPKIN 0E5S2RCD10545
• Mastering SID Code: none
• Mould SID Code: none
• Rights Society: ASCAP

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
24 0294 3, 1A 3LP 198 24 0294 3, EX 24 0294 3	Frank Zappa	Thing-Fish ‎(3xLP, Album + Box)	EMI, EMI, EMI	24 0294 3, 1A 3LP 198 24 0294 3, EX 24 0294 3	UK & Europe	1984
4XCO-74201	Frank Zappa	Thing-Fish ‎(Cass, Album)	Barking Pumpkin Records	4XCO-74201	US	1984
ZR3871	Frank Zappa	Thing-Fish ‎(2xCD, Album, RE)	Zappa Records	ZR3871	US	2012
24 0294 3, 1C 198 24 0294-95-96 1, 3LP 198 24 0294	Frank Zappa	Thing-Fish ‎(3xLP, Album + Box)	EMI, EMI, EMI, EMI	24 0294 3, 1C 198 24 0294-95-96 1, 3LP 198 24 0294	Europe	1984
VACK-1256	Frank Zappa	Thing-Fish ‎(2xCD, Album, RE + Box)	Rykodisc	VACK-1256	Japan	2002

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