Frank Zappa – You Are What You Is

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Label:	Barking Pumpkin Records – PW2 37537, Epic – PW2 37537
Format:	2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country:	Canada
Released:	Oct 1981
Genre:	Jazz, Rock
Style:	Jazz-Rock, Fusion, Avantgarde

Tracklist

A1	Teen-age Wind	3:01
A2	Harder Than Your Husband	2:29
A3	Doreen	4:43
A4	Goblin Girl	4:07
A5	Theme From The 3rd Movement Of Sinister Footwear	3:34
B1	Heavenly Bank Account	4:03
B2	Suicide Chump	2:50
B3	Jumbo Go Away	3:42
B4	If Only She Woulda	3:47
B5	Drafted Again	3:05
C1	Society Pages	2:27
C2	I'm A Beautiful Guy	1:56
C3	Beauty Knows No Pain	3:01
C4	Charlie's Enormous Mouth	3:36
C5	Any Downers?	2:09
C6	Conehead	4:20
D1	You Are What You Is	4:22
D2	Mudd Club	3:11
D3	The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing	3:10
D4	Dumb All Over	5:50

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Barking Pumpkin Records
Copyright © – Munchkin Music
Mastered At – K Disc Mastering
Manufactured By – CBS Records Canada Ltd.
Distributed By – CBS Records Canada Ltd.
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Don Mills, ON
Printed By – Shorewood Packaging Corp. Of Canada Ltd.
Mastered At – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Don Mills, ON
Published By – Munchkin Music

Credits

Arranged By, Composed By – Frank Zappa
Bass – Arthur Barrow
Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – David Ocker
Drums – David Logeman
Electric Guitar [Strat Abuse] – Steve Vai
Engineer – Alan Sides*, Mark Pinske
Engineer [Assistant] – David Gray (5), George Douglas (2)
Engineer [Remix] – Bob Stone
Graphics – John Vince
Harmonica – Craig "Twister" Stewart*
Keyboards – Tommy Mars
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Frank Zappa
Mastered By – Jo Hansch
Mastered By [Assistant] – Ray Olson
Percussion – Ed Mann
Photography [Cover Photo] – John Livzey
Producer – Frank Zappa
Rhythm Guitar, Vocals – Ike Willis, Ray White
Saxophone – Motorhead Sherwood
Slide Guitar – Denny Walley
Soprano Vocals [Boy Soprano], Trumpet – Bob Harris
Technician [Everything Digital] – Dennis Sager
Technician [Everything Elsewhere] – Midget Sloatman*
Technician [Everything Remote] – Thomas Nordegg
Vocals, Guest – Ahmet*, Denny Walley, Jimmy Carl Black, Mark Pinske, Moon*

Notes

Studio: UMRK Central.

© 1981 Munchkin Music.
℗ 1981 Munchkin Music.
Manufactured and distributed by CBS Records Canada Ltd.

The track running order is misprinted on the sleeve, as follows:

Side 1
Teen-age Wind
Harder Than Your Husband
Doreen
Goblin Girl
Theme From The 3rd Movement Of Sinister Footwear

Side 2
Society Pages
I'm A Beautiful Guy
Beauty Knows No Pain
Charlie's Enormous Mouth
Any Downers?
Conehead

Side 3
You Are What You Is
Mudd Club
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Dumb All Over

Side 4
Heavenly Bank Account
Suicide Chump
Jumbo Go Away
If Only She Woulda
Drafted Again

Gatefold cover.

Issued with printed inner lyrics-sleeves.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Pressing Plant ID (Runouts): DM
Other (Spine): [Shorewood logo]
Other (Date code on spine): J81
Matrix / Runout (Side 1 variant 1): PW-37538-SA1 kdisc f Side 1
Matrix / Runout (Side 2 variant 1): PW-37538-̶S̶4̶B̶1̶ B-1 kdisc f Side 4
Matrix / Runout (Side 3 variant 1): PW-37538̶9-S̶2̶-A-1 kdisc f Side 2
Matrix / Runout (Side 4 variant 1): PW-37538̶9-S̶2̶-A-1 kdisc f Side 2
Matrix / Runout (Side 1 variant 2): 37538-Side A kdisc ƒ DM 5
Matrix / Runout (Side 2 variant 2): PW-37538 B ̶PW-32539-S4 kdisc ƒ DM-8 Side 4
Matrix / Runout (Side 3 variant 2): PW-37538̶9-S̶2̶-A-1 SIDE B kdisc ƒ Side 2 DM-9
Matrix / Runout (Side 4 variant 2): PW-375389-SB kdisc ƒ Side 3 DM2
Matrix / Runout (Side 1 variant 3): PW-37538-SA1 kdisc f Side 1 DM-1
Matrix / Runout (Side 2 variant 3): PW-37538-̶S̶4̶B̶1̶ B-1 kdisc f Side 4 DM-3
Matrix / Runout (Side 3 variant 3): PW-37538̶9-S̶2̶-A-1 kdisc f Side 2 DM-7
Matrix / Runout (Side 4 variant 3): PW-375389-SB kdisc ƒ Side 3 DM-3
Rights Society: ASCAP

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
	You Are What You Is (2×LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold)	CBS, CBS	CBS 88560, 88560	Europe	1981
Recently Edited	You Are What You Is (2×LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute)	Barking Pumpkin Records	PW2 37537	US	1981
Recently Edited	You Are What You Is (2×LP, Album, Stereo)	CBS, Barking Pumpkin Records	S2BP 220244	New Zealand	1981
Recently Edited	You Are What You Is (2×LP, Album)	CBS	88560	UK	1981
Recently Edited	You Are What You Is (2×LP, Album)	CBS/Sony	40AP 2217~8	Japan	1981

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Reviews

patlebouc Jan 28, 2021
Edited 3 years ago
I don’t have time right now to fix this cos there’s a lot to do. (But I will later)The track list is all wrong as is the description in the notes that the misprint is on the sleeve . The record is auto coupled with side 1 and 4 on one record and 2 and 3 on the other. The only misprint is the record side (not the titles)on the labels , with ‘’side 2’’ written on side 4 and side 3 written on side 2 and side 4 written on side 3.