(Rock; Zappa;) [LP] [24/96] Frank Zappa - 200 Motels - 1971, FLAC (tracks+.cue)

Disc: 1
1. Semi-Fraudulent/Direct-From-Hollywood Overture
2. Mystery Roach
3. Dance Of The Rock & Roll Interviewers
4. This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Prologue)
5. Tuna Fish Promenade
6. Dance Of The Just Plain Folks
7. This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Reprise)
8. The Sealed Tuna Bolero
9. Lonesome Cowboy Burt
10. Touring Can Make You Crazy
11. Would You Like A Snack?
12. Redneck Eats
13. Centerville
14. She Painted Up Her Face
15. Janet's Big Dance Number
16. Half A Dozen Provocative Squats
17. Mysterioso
18. Shove It Right In
19. Lucy's Seduction Of A Bored Violinist & Postlude
Disc: 2
1. I'm Stealing The Towels
2. Dental Hygene Dilemma
3. Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You?
4. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
5. Penis Dimension
6. What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning
7. A Nun Suit Painted On Some Old Boxes
8. Magic Fingers
9. Motorhead's Midnight Ranch
10. Dew On The Newts We Got
11. The Lad Searches The Night For His Newts
12. The Girl Wants To Fix Him Some Broth
13. The Girls Dream
14. Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce
15. Strictly Genteel (The Finale)
16. Trailer 1 'Coming Soon!...'
17. Trailer 2 'The Wide Screen Erupts...'
18. Trailer 3 'Coming Soon !...'
19. Trailer 4 ' Frank Zappa's 200 Motels...'
20. Magic Fingers (Single Edit)

The Original 2x LP Track Listing:

A1 Semi-Fraudulent / Direct-From-Hollywood Overture 1:59
A2 Mystery Roach 2:33
A3 Dance Of The Rock & Roll Interviewers 0:48
A4 This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Prologue) 0:56
A5 Tuna Fish Promenade 2:30
A6 Dance Of The Just Plain Folks 4:39
A7 This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich (Reprise) 0:59
A8 The Sealed Tuna Bolero 1:40
A9 Lonesome Cowboy Burt Vocals [The Mothers] – Jimmy Carl Black 3:51

B1 Touring Can Make You Crazy 2:53
B2 Would You Like A Snack? 1:23
B3 Redneck Eats 3:03
B4 Centerville 2:31
B5 She Painted Up Her Face 1:42
B6 Janet's Big Dance Number 1:18
B7 Half A Dozen Provocative Squats 1:57
B8 Mysterioso 0:48
B9 Shove It Right In 2:32
B10 Lucy's Seduction Of A Bored Violinist & Postlude 4:00

C1 I'm Stealing The Towels 2:14
C2 Dental Hygiene Dilemma 5:12
C3 Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You? 3:00
C4 Daddy, Daddy, Daddy 3:11
C5 Penis Dimension 4:35
C6 What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning 3:27

D1 A Nun Suit Painted On Some Old Boxes 1:09
D2 Magic Fingers 3:55
D3 Motorhead's Midnight Ranch 1:30
D4 Dew On The Newts We Got 1:10
D5 The Lad Searches The Night For His Newts 0:41
D6 The Girl Wants To Fix Him Some Broth 1:10
D7 The Girl's Dream 0:55
D8 Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce 1:01
D9 Strictly Genteel (The Finale) 11:09

This is the French 1971 version of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (2x LP), United Artists Records - UAS 29 218/19.

This has been the most difficult album for me to rip to date. It features 34 tracks on 4 sides; a lot of the tracks were less than one minute long; there was almost no space between tracks - one track led directly into the next [like most of Zappa's work]. The record, even at near-mint condition, was 41 years old and rather noisy. I did my best to manually remove all the pops and clicks...however, this was the first album I've ripped that I had problems actually finding the pops! I'd hear them, but I couldn't locate them visually. Ideally, you only want to remove the .001 seconds the pop exists in, but this album had many little pops that I simply couldn't locate.

Nevertheless, this rip sounds much, much better than the overly-compressed CD version. I remember the first time I heard the CD: there was simply too many layers of sound to fit within the 24 kHz frequency range that CD's are stuck in. This is definitely Zappa's most dense and multi-layered work, and it sounds fantastic on vinyl at 24/96.

Like all my hi-res vinyl rips, I used a Marantz tt185 turn-table, a Soundblaster X-Fi HD USB Soundcard, and Nero Soundtrax 7 software. Cool Edit Pro 2.1 was used to cut the sides into tracks, speed-correct several tracks, manually remove pops, and declick tracks.

FOOEEE