Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show

Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show
Live album by
Frank Zappa
ReleasedJune 18, 2021 (2021-06-18)
RecordedMarch 25, 1988 (except "Stairway to Heaven" recorded March 23 and "Whipping Post" recorded March 16)
VenueNassau Coliseum (Uniondale, New York), Towson Center (Towson, Maryland), Civic Center (Providence, Rhode Island)
Genre
Length150:07
LabelZappa Records
ProducerFrank Zappa, Ahmet Zappa & Joe Travers
Frank Zappa chronology
Zappa
(2020) 		Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show
(2021) 		The Mothers 1971
(2022)

Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show is a live album released June 18, 2021, by Frank Zappa. It contains mostly previously unreleased recordings of the last concert he would ever play in the US at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.[1]

Content

The album was released as a double CD and a quadruple LP. The album also has a couple covers such as "Stairway to Heaven", "Whipping Post", and a medley of Beatles songs consisting of "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", and "Strawberry Fields Forever" with changed lyrics to reflect a recent sex-scandal with Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart as well as a standalone cover of "I Am the Walrus". There were also two new songs written and recorded for the tour, "Jesus Thinks You’re A Jerk" and "When The Lie’s So Big". The opening track "We Are Doing Voter Registration Here" shows Frank Zappa encouraging everyone to go and vote for the upcoming election and showed someone registering on stage.[1][2][3] The tracks "When The Lie's So Big" and the cover of "America The Beautiful" from this concert were previously released in the 2016 compilation album "Frank Zappa for President". While the majority of the album features the Nassau concert, "Stairway to Heaven" was taken from a performance in Towson, Maryland on March 23, 1988, while "Whipping Post" was recorded in Providence, Rhode Island on March 16, 1988.

Track listing

Disc one
No.TitleLength
1.""We Are Doing Voter Registration Here""7:00
2."The Black Page (New Age Version)"7:12
3."I Ain’t Got No Heart"1:59
4."Love of My Life"2:14
5."Inca Roads"8:44
6."Sharleena"6:22
7."Who Needs the Peace Corps?"2:29
8."I Left My Heart in San Francisco"0:35
9."Dickie's Such an Asshole"6:01
10."When the Lie's So Big"3:38
11."Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk"8:47
12."Sofa #1"2:45
13."One Man, One Vote"2:38
14."Happy Birthday, Chad!"1:24
15."Packard Goose Pt. I"2:56
16."Royal March from "L'Histoire Du Soldat""1:17
17."Theme from the Bartok Piano Concerto #3"1:20
18."Packard Goose Pt. II"2:03
19."The Torture Never Stops Pt. I"5:09
20."Theme from "Bonanza""0:36
Disc two
No.TitleLength
1."Lonesome Cowboy Burt"4:59
2."The Torture Never Stops Pt. II"7:29
3."City of Tiny Lites"9:21
4."Pound for a Brown"10:56
5."The Beatles Medley"9:19
6."Peaches en Regalia"3:36
7."Stairway to Heaven"10:00
8."I Am the Walrus"3:37
9."Whipping Post"6:18
10."Bolero"5:30
11."America the Beautiful"3:58

Personnel

[1]

Charts

Chart performance for Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show
Chart (2021) Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[4] 19
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[5] 21
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[6] 106
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[7] 13
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[8] 44
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[9] 9
Italian Albums (FIMI)[10] 82
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[11] 8

References

  1. ^ a b c "Frank Zappa's Final American Show To Be Released For the First Time". Frank Zappa. April 22, 2021. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
  2. ^ "ZAPPA '88: THE LAST U.S. SHOW". Analog Planet. July 15, 2021. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
  3. ^ Kreps, Daniel (April 23, 2021). "Frank Zappa's Final U.S. Concert in 1988 Set for First-Ever Release". Rolling Stone. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
  4. ^ "Austriancharts.at – Frank Zappa – Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  5. ^ "Ultratop.be – Frank Zappa – Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  6. ^ "Ultratop.be – Frank Zappa – Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  7. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Frank Zappa – Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  8. ^ "Frank Zappa: Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  9. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Frank Zappa – Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  10. ^ "Italiancharts.com – Frank Zappa – Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show". Hung Medien. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  11. ^ "Swisscharts.com – Frank Zappa – Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show". Hung Medien. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
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