Weasels Ripped My Flesh - THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION**

Didya Get Any Onja/Directly From My Heart To You/Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask/Toad Of The Short Forest/Get A Little/The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue/Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula/My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama/Oh No/The Orange County Lumber Truck/Weasels Ripped By Flesh

Weasels Ripped My Flesh from The Mothers Of Invention was live material recorded between 1967-69, mostly free style jazz instrumentals together with some zany chanting. (US:189 UK:28)

"Much of Weasels Ripped My Flesh is quite experimental with its meanderings beyond the realm of regularly structured music, yet from my perspective it does tend at times to become slightly over indulgent and tiresome in some of those meandering experimental pieces."

"Zappa slaps some aimless outtakes together and calls it an album. Didja, From My Heart and My Guitar can't save this tedious mess."

"There is a lot of wild experimentation on this set which is designed to get up the listener's nose, which was always Zappa's musical intent. The most notable abomination, of course, was the excruciating title cut, two minutes which give new definition to the term 'feedback'."

“Zappa’s point seems to be that these aren’t discrete variables; that concepts of 'mainstream' and 'avant-garde' are much closer to each other than it might first appear, and that the space between these concepts is a continuum, not an abrupt shift. The less mainstream parts of this album may seem digressive, yet, by the end of the album, it’s clear that things haven’t stayed in the same spot. Weasels manages to be digressive and progressive at the same time."

"I think the title of this album is quite appropriate for the music in general, not only the final cut, which consists of about two minutes worth of pure 'white noise'. Weasels is full of abrupt transitions that almost rip you apart when listening. Free jazz, musique concrete, raunchy blues, provocative orchestral music, short live, 'lewd' outbursts, this record just keeps moving at a quick, almost taxing pace."

"The most insane rock record ever? Quite possibly. This was released shortly after the original Mothers split up, and basically compiles studio leftovers and live tracks that Zappa deemed worthy for release. There really isn't any other music out there that sounds like Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask consisting of the Mother's grotesque grunts and groans."