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HALLOWEEN 81 - LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM, NEW YORK CITY

Frank Zappa

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Live, released in 2020

Songs / Tracks Listing

CD 1 - 10/31/81 - 8pm Show 1 (67:55)
1. Chunga's Revenge (5:30)
2. The Finest Night of the Year (3:05)
3. You Are What You Is - Take 1 (1:13)
4. You Are What You Is - Take 2 (3:46)
5. Mudd Club (2:53)
6. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing (3:13)
7. Dumb All Over (5:42)
8. Heavenly Bank Account (4:06)
9. Suicide Chump (5:43)
10. Jumbo Go Away (3:53)
11. Envelopes (3:08)
12. Drowning Witch (8:46)
13. What's New in Baltimore? (3:48)
14. Moggio (2:45)
15. We're Turning Again (5:04)
16. Alien Orifice (5:20)

CD 2 - 10/31/81 - 8pm Show 1 cont'd (63:57)
1. Teen-age Prostitute (2:32)
2. Flakes (5:14)
3. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes (4:10)
4. The Blue Light (4:46)
5. Tinsel Town Rebellion (4:56)
6. Yo Mama (9:46)
7. Bobby Brown Goes Down (2:40)
8. City of Tiny Lites (9:40)
9. We're Not Gonna Stand for It! (1:53)
10. Strictly Genteel (7:30)
11. Dancin' Fool (3:44)
12. Whipping Post (7:06)

CD 3 10/31/81 - 12am Show 2 (58:14)
1. Black Napkins (5:09)
2. A Historical Event (2:03)
3. Montana (3:48)
4. Easy Meat (6:50)
5. Society Pages (2:33)
6. I'm a Beautiful Guy (1:55)
7. Beauty Knows No Pain (2:56)
8. Charlie's Enormous Mouth (3:40)
9. Fine Girl (3:13)
10. Teen-age Wind (3:01)
11. Harder Than Your Husband (2:35)
12. Bamboozled by Love (5:32)
13. Sinister Footwear II (6:55)
14. Stevie's Spanking (6:09)
15. Commercial Break (1:55)

CD 4 - 10/31/81 - 12am Show 2 cont'd (73:25)
1. Cocaine Decisions (3:46)
2. Nig Biz (5:12)
3. Doreen (2:07)
4. Goblin Girl (1:49)
5. The Black Page #2 (7:06)
6. Tryin' to Grow a Chin (2:29)
7. Strictly Genteel (7:46)
8. The Torture Never Stops (11:48)
9. The Real Show Keeps Going (1:10)
10. Joe's Garage (2:30)
11. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? (2:48)
12. The Illinois Enema Bandit (9:23)
13. The Halloween Tradition (2:32)
14. King Kong (11:07)
15. Auld Lang Syne (1:52)

CD 5 - 11/01/81 Show (76:51)
1. Zoot Allures (7:17)
2. The Last of Our Halloween Shows (2:59)
3. I'm the Slime (2:39)
4. Pound for a Brown (10:02)
5. Dave & Al (5:20)
6. Cosmik Debris (4:05)
7. Montana (3:47)
8. Easy Meat (7:39)
9. Dumb All Over (6:34)
10. Heavenly Bank Account (4:03)
11. Suicide Chump (5:43)
12. Jumbo Go Away (3:50)
13. Envelopes (2:56)
14. Drowning Witch (9:57)

CD 6 - 11/01/81 Show cont'd (76:53)
1. What's New in Baltimore? (4:59)
2. Moggio (2:40)
3. We're Turning Again (5:02)
4. Alien Orifice (5:13)
5. Teen-age Prostitute (2:34)
6. Sinister Footwear II (6:29)
7. Stevie's Spanking (6:34)
8. Cocaine Decisions (3:40)
9. Nig Biz (5:06)
10. Goblin Girl (2:25)
11. The Black Page #2 (8:25)
12. Whipping Post (7:18)
13. Broken Hearts Are for Assholes (4:09)
14. The Torture Never Stops (12:19)

Total Time 417:15

Line-up / Musicians

- Frank Zappa / lead guitar, vocals, other (baton)
- Ray White / guitar, vocals
- Steve Vai / stunt guitar, vocals
- Scott Thunes / bass, vocals
- Tommy Mars / keyboards
- Robert Martin / keyboards, saxophone, vocals
- Chad Wackerman / drums
- Ed Mann / percussion, vocals

Releases information

Three complete shows recorded at The Palladium in NYC on October 31, 1981. Includes liner notes by Robert Martin, a 40-page booklet with photos of the concert, and Count Frankula mask with red-and-black cape.

6CD Zappa Records, UME, UMG ZR 20034 (October 2, 2020)

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FRANK ZAPPA Halloween 81 - Live at The Palladium, New York City ratings distribution


2.62
(7 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music (57%)
57%
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection (29%)
29%
Good, but non-essential (0%)
0%
Collectors/fans only (14%)
14%
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Review by Warthur
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2 stars A massive collection, in light of how expansive these live shows were, but compared to Halloween 73 or 77 I'm not so keen on this one. Zappa's early 1980s band neither has the groundbreaking virtuosity and experimentalism of his mid-1970s incarnation of the Mothers or the exciting raucousness of his late-1970s group. It's all rather polished, but the polish is rather ruined when the band rush through the songs to this extent, Zappa deciding to go for quantity over quality.

That's kind of how his release schedule went in the 1980s - just look at how much stuff he put out in 1984, where you had classical releases (Boulez Conducts Zappa), plus a double studio album (Them or Us), plus a truly horrible Broadway-style musical (Thing-Fish), plus an adaptation of a long-dead composer's works to the Synclavier (Francesco Zappa). There, as here, Zappa provides an object lesson in the idea that just because you have the space to do anything you like, doesn't mean you should necessarily do *everything* you like - selectivity and editing is important.

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