Cheap Thrills (Frank Zappa album)
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Cheap Thrills is a compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

, with material from previously released albums.
  • Original recordings produced by FZ.
  • Compiled by the original Joe Black.
  • Intramural sports by David Greenberg.
  • Sampler mastered by Toby Mountain.
  • Pre-taping audience warm-up by David Baker.
  • 'Artwerks' by Cal Schenkel
    Cal Schenkel
    Cal Schenkel is an artist specialising in album cover design. He was the main visual collaborator for Frank Zappa and was responsible for the art and graphic design of many of Zappa's most well-known album covers. Schenkel's work is iconic and distinctive in style; a forerunner of punk art and...

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Track listing

All tracks by Frank Zappa, except where noted.
  1. I Could Be a Star Now (from The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels is a video documentary film released in 1989 by Frank Zappa, detailing the making of Zappa's 1971 film 200 Motels.-Cast:Appearing as themselves:*Theodore Bikel*Jimmy Carl Black*George Duke...

    / Playground Psychotics
    Playground Psychotics
    Playground Psychotics is a two-CD live album by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention. It was originally released in 1992 through his mail order label, Barking Pumpkin, and was re-released in 1995 through Rykodisc. The album features recordings of Zappa and his band, the Mothers of Invention...

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  2. Catholic Girls [Live] (from You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6
    You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6
    You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 is the last of six double disc collection volumes of live performances by Frank Zappa recorded between 1970 and 1988. All of the material on Disc one has a sexual theme. It was released on October 23, 1992 under the label Rykodisc.-Disc one:#"The M.O.I...

    )
  3. Bobby Brown Goes Down [Live] (from You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3
    You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3
    You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 is a double disc collection of live recordings by Frank Zappa, spanning from December 10, 1971 to December 23, 1984. "Sharleena" had been previously issued as a flexidisc in "Guitar Player" magazine. All the songs on disc one are by the 1984 band...

    )
  4. You Are What You Is (from Thing-Fish
    Thing-Fish
    -1995 Rykodisc CD Release:- Cast :*Thing-Fish—Ike Willis*Harry—Terry Bozzio*Rhonda—Dale Bozzio*The Evil Prince—Napoleon Murphy Brock*Harry-As-A-Boy—Bob Harris*Brown Moses—Johnny "Guitar" Watson*Owl-Gonkwin-Jane Cowhoon—Ray White- Musicians :...

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  5. We Are Not Alone (from The Man From Utopia
    The Man from Utopia
    The Man from Utopia is a 1983 album by Frank Zappa. It is a more song-driven, and less conceptual work than many others in Zappa's oeuvre. The album is named after a 1950s song, written by Donald and Doris Woods, which Zappa covers as part of "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou".The sleeve art...

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  6. Cheap Thrills (from Cruising With Ruben & The Jets
    Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
    Cruising With Ruben & The Jets is an album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released in December 1968, and controversially reissued in an alternate mix with newly recorded bass and percussion in 1984.-Concept:...

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  7. The Mudshark Interview - Frank Zappa, Mothers of Invention (from Playground Psychotics)
  8. Hot Plate Heaven at the Green Hotel
  9. Zomby Woof [Live]
  10. The Torture Never Stops [Original Version] (from You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4
    You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4
    You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 is a two-CD set of live recordings by Frank Zappa, recorded between 1969 and 1988, and released in 1991.-Disc one:#"Little Rubber Girl" - #*...

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  11. Joe's Garage [Live]
  12. My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama [Live]
  13. Going for the Money (from The True Story Of 200 Motels / Playground Psychotics)
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