Sheik Yerbouti

Sheik Yerbouti is the album more known and more listened to Frank Zappa; he was a good business success. Its title is a phonetic transcription of “shake your bootie” , that one could translate by “bulge your buttocks”. All the songs were recorded into live by Zappa during various dates - they all are new. Zappa parodies there the hard rock (I' m so Cute) , the ballades blue flower with the weak words (I Cuts Been in You) , the frimeurs of the nightclubs (Dancin' Fool) , the accros with cocaine (Flakes) , Bob Dylan (of the same piece name), and the american way off life (Bobby Brown goes Down) . One there finds tango, joinings sound ( Rubber Shirt where Zappa stuck a basic part and another of battery recorded on different songs and which however seem to be answered), of the songs rock'n'roll and the solos in the purest style zappaïen.

List titles

All the titles are of Frank Zappa except Rubber Shirt of Bozzio/O' Hearn/Zappa

I Cuts Been in You - 3:33
Flakes - 6:41
Broken Hearts Are for Assholes - 3:42
I' m So Cute - 3:09
Jones Crusher - 2:49
What Ever Happened to All the Fun in the World - 0:33
Rat Tomago - 5:15
Wait has Minute - 0:33
Bobby Brown Goes Down - 2:49
Rubber Shirt - 2:45
The Sheik Yerbouti Tango - 3:56
Baby Snakes - 1:50
Tryin' to Grow has Chin - 3:31
City off Tiny Lites - 5:32
Dancin' Fool - 3:43
Jewish Princess - 3:16
Wild Love - 4:09
Yo' Mama - 12:36

Musicians

Adrian Belew - Guitar, Voice
ED Mann - Percussion, Voice
Terry Bozzio - Battery, Voice
Napoleon Murphy Brock - Chorus
Frank Zappa - Guitar, Voice
Andre Lewis - Synthetizer, chorus
Tommy Mars - Keyboards, Voice
Davey Moire - Voice
Patrick O' Hearn - Low, Voice
David Ocker - Clarinet
Randy Thornton - Chorus
Peter Wolf - Synthetizer
Randy Thornton - Voice, Chorus

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