Baby Snakes (soundtrack)

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Baby Snakes
File:Zappa Baby Snakes.jpg
Live album soundtrack by Frank Zappa
Released March 28, 1983
Recorded October 28–31, 1977 at The Palladium, NYC
Genre Hard rock, progressive rock, art rock, comedy rock
Length 36:13
Label Barking Pumpkin
Producer Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa chronology
The Man from Utopia
(1983)The Man from Utopia1983
Baby Snakes
(1983)
London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I
(1983)London Symphony Orchestra, Vol. I1983
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[1]

Baby Snakes is the soundtrack to Frank Zappa's film of the same name. It features several of the songs from the film and was originally released as a picture disc. The track "Baby Snakes" is the studio recording which appears on Sheik Yerbouti, but omits the opening riff (instead starting at the first verse). All others are live recordings, unique to this album and the film. This is Official Release #37. In 2012, Baby Snakes: The Compleat Soundtrack was released to iTunes.[2] Of the one hundred official releases so far, it is the only release which is available as a download only. This is Official Release #95.

Track listing

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Intro Rap/Baby Snakes" (CD Edition only) 2:22
2. "Titties & Beer"   6:13
3. "The Black Page #2"   2:50
4. "Jones Crusher"   2:53
5. "Disco Boy"   3:51
Side two
No. Title Length
6. "Dinah-Moe Humm"   6:37
7. "Punky's Whips"   11:29

Baby Snakes: The Compleat Soundtrack

Disc one
No. Title Length
1. "Baby Snakes Rehearsal"   2:11
2. "'This Is the Show They Never See'"   5:52
3. "Baby Snakes - The Song"   2:04
4. "Bruce Bickford / 'Disco Outfreakage'"   6:15
5. "The Poodle Lecture"   5:03
6. "'She Said' / City of Tiny Lites"   10:28
7. "New York's Finest Crazy Persons"   1:55
8. "'The Way the Air Smells…' / Flakes"   4:01
9. "Pound Bass & Keyboard Solo"   6:36
10. "'In You' Rap / Dedication"   6:47
11. "Manuaga / Police Car / Drum Solo"   9:45
12. "Disco Boy"   4:02
13. "'Give People Somewhere to X-Scape Thru'"   6:26
14. "King Kong / Roy's Halloween Gas Mask"   9:01
15. "Bobby Brown Goes Down"   3:43
Disc two
No. Title Length
1. "Conehead / 'All You Need to Know'"   5:32
2. "I'm So Cute / 'Entertainment All the Way'"   5:15
3. "Titties 'n' Beer"   6:19
4. "Audience Participation / The Dance Contest"   6:36
5. "The Black Page #2"   2:55
6. "Jones Crusher"   2:53
7. "Broken Hearts Are for Assholes"   3:50
8. "Punky's Whips"   12:10
9. "'Thank You' / Dinah-Moe-Humm"   7:19
10. "Camarillo Brillo"   3:26
11. "Muffin Man"   4:59
12. "San Ber'dino"   5:02
13. "Black Napkins"   7:54
14. "New York's Finest Crazy Persons 2"   4:09
15. "'Good Night'"   1:22

Credits

Production

  • Arranged & Produced by Frank Zappa
  • Engineered & Mixed by Joe Chiccarelli
  • Mastered by Bob Stone
  • Norman Seeff – photography
  • Lynn Goldsmith – photography

References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/2012-aaafnraa-baby-snakes/id588945565