The Mothers of Invention е била американска рок група, известна със звуковите си експерименти, сатиричния хумор и музикално сложните композиции. Групата беше водена от композитора и китариста Frank Zappa, чието творчество обхващаше рокови и поп пародии, джаз фюжън и авангардна съвременна класическа музика.
Албумът Uncle Meat излиза през 1969 г. на лейбъла Zappa Records като първоначално замислен саундтрак към пълнометражен филм, който обаче остава незавършен до 1987 г. поради липса на финансиране. Записът е част от концептуалната поредица No Commercial Potential, която включва и албумите We're Only in It for the Money, Lumpy Gravy и Cruising with Ruben & the Jets. Този тридисков дигипак съдържа 79 песни, пълни със сюрреалистични образи, свободни импровизации и смесица от жанрове — от експериментален рок и фрий джаз до musique concrète. Сред открояващите се композиции са Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague, Mr. Green Genes и поредицата вариации на King Kong.
В записа са участвали Frank Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Ray Collins, Roy Estrada, Billy Mundi, Bunk Gardner, Don Preston, Jim „Motorhead“ Sherwood, Ian Underwood, Art Tripp и Lowell George.
Композиции
CD1
1. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
2. The Voice Of Cheese
3. Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution
4. Zolar Czackl
5. Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
6. The legend Of The Golden Arches
7. Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)
8. The Dog Breath Variations
9. Sleeping In A Jar
10. Our Bizarre Relationship
11. The Uncle Meat Variations
12. Electric Aunt Jemima
13. Prelude To King Kong
14. God Bless America (Live at the Whisky A Go Go)
15. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
16. Ian Underwood Whips It Out (Live on stage in Copenhagen)
17. Mr. Green Genes
18. We Can Shoot You
19. If We'd All Been Living In California...
20. The Air
21. Project X
22. Cruising For Burgers
23. King Kong (as played by the Mothers in a studio)
24. King Kong (it's magnificence as interpreted by Dom DeWild)
25. King Kong (as Motorhead explains it)
26. King Kong (the Gardner Varieties)
27. King Kong (as played by 3 deranged Good Humor Trucks)
28. King Kong (live on a flat bed diesel in the middle of a race track at a Miami Pop Festival...the Underwood ramifications)
CD2
1. Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
2. The Legend Of The Golden Arches
3. The Voice Of Cheese
4. Whiskey Wah
5. Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution
6. Louie Louie (Live at the Royal Albert Hall in London)
7. The Dog Breath Variations
8. Shoot You Percussion Item
9. The Whip
10. The Uncle Meat Variations
11. King Kong
12. Project X Minus .5
13. A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
14. Electric Aunt Jemima
15. Prelude To King Kong
16. God Bless America (Live at the Whiskey A Go Go)
17. Sleeping In A Jar
18. Cops & Buns
19. Zolar Czakl
CD3
1. We Can Not Shoot You
2. Mr. Green Genes
3. PooYeahrg
4. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
5. Our Bizarre Relationship
6. Later We Can Shoot You
7. If We'd All Been Living In California...
8. 'Ere Ian Whips It/JCB Spits It/Motorhead Rips it
9. The Air
10. Project X .5
11. Cruising For Burgers
12. A Bunch Of Stuff
13. Dog Breath (Single Version - Stereo)
14. Tango
15. The String Quarte
16. Electric Aunt Jemima (Mix Outtake)
17. Exercise 4 Variant
18. Zolar Czackl (Mix Outtake)
19. More Beer!
20. Green Genes Snoop
21. Mr. Green Genes (Mix Outtake)
22. Echo Pie
23. 1/4 Tone Unit
24. Sakuji s March
25. No. 4
26. Prelude To King Kong (Extended Version)
27. Blood Unit
28. My Guitar (Proto I- Excerpt)
29. Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution (Guitar Track, Normal Speed)
30. Uncle Meat (Live at Columbia University 1969)
31. Dog Breath (Instrumental)
32. The Dog Breath Variations (Mix Outtake)
