''The Lumpy Money Project/Object'' is a compilation album by

Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity and satire of A ...

. Released posthumously on January 23, 2009 as Official Release #85, it compiles the releases ''

Lumpy Gravy ''Lumpy Gravy'' is the debut solo album by Frank Zappa, written by Zappa and performed by a group of session players he dubbed the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra. Zappa conducted the orchestra but did not perform on the album. It ...

'' and ''

We're Only in It for the Money ''We're Only in It for the Money'' is the third studio album by American rock band the Mothers of Invention, released on March 4, 1968, by Verve Records. As with the band's first two efforts, it is a concept album, and satirizes left- and right ...

'' with previously unreleased material, with the overall package serving as an

audio documentary A radio documentary is a spoken word radio format devoted to non-fiction narrative. It is broadcast on radio as well as distributed through media such as tape, CD, and podcast. A radio documentary, or feature, covers a topic in depth from one ...

of the production of the two albums, which share conceptual continuity themes. It is project/object #2 in a series of 40th Anniversary FZ Audio Documentaries, following '' MOFO'' (2006).

Content

The first disc consists of the 1967 version of ''Lumpy Gravy'', intended for release by

Capitol Records Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007) is an American record label distributed by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint. It was founded as the first West Coast-based record label of note ...

(actually a few 4-track cartridge copies of the Capitol version were distributed to

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and radio stations before

MGM Records MGM Records was a record label founded by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack recordings (later LP albums) of their musical films. It transitioned into a pop music label that continued into the ...

, Zappa's label at the time, forced Capitol to halt distribution of their version of the album), and the 1968 mono mix of ''We're Only in It for the Money''. The second disc consists of two remixes prepared by Zappa in 1984, with overdubs by drummer

Chad Wackerman Chad Wackerman (born March 25, 1960) is an American jazz, jazz fusion and rock drummer, who has played with Frank Zappa and Allan Holdsworth. He has worked as a band member, session musician, sideman, and leader of his own ensembles. He is th ...

and bassist

Arthur Barrow Arthur Barrow (born February 28, 1952) is a multi-instrumental musician, best known for his stint as a bass guitar player for Frank Zappa in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Early life Barrow was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1952 and grew up in ...

. The ''Lumpy Gravy'' remix derives from the 1968 edit; this third version of the album had not been released in full; an excerpt appeared in a sampler for ''

The Old Masters ''The Old Masters'' is a box set series by Frank Zappa, released in three volumes on Barking Pumpkin Records from April 1985 to December 1987, consisting of studio and live albums by Zappa and The Mothers of Invention originally released from 19 ...

'' box set. The second remix, of ''We're Only in It for the Money'' had previously been released on

compact disc The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in Octo ...

in 1986. The third disc consists of studio assembly material and interviews with Zappa discussing the albums, as well as the single version of "Lonely Little Girl".

Track listing

Credits

All Music produced/composed & performed/conducted by Frank Zappa.
''The Lumpy Money Project/Object'' Compiled & Produced by Gail Zappa & Joe Travers
Liner notes:

David Fricke David Fricke is an American music journalist who serves as the senior editor at '' Rolling Stone'' magazine, where he writes predominantly about rock music. One of the best known names in rock journalism, his career has spanned over 40 years. ...

Conceptual & Continuous Stuff & Text: Gail Zappa
Production Manager: Melanie Starks
Solar Dominance: Jupiter
Cover Art, Package Design & Layout: Michael Mesker
FZ Portrait Photo:

Linda McCartney Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney ( Eastman; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, animal rights activist, vegetarian cookbook author and advocate, and entrepreneur. She was the keyboardist in th ...

Mastering & Audio Restoration engineer, Discs One and Three: John Polito
Mastering, Disc Two: Bernie Grundman

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lumpy Money Project Object Frank Zappa compilation albums 2009 compilation albums Zappa Records albums Compilation albums published posthumously