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The Man from Utopia is a 1983 album by Frank Zappa. 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 Dangerous Kitchen", "Moggio" and "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" were all prepared for Zappa's unreleased album Chalk Pie, which was scrapped after it had been bootlegged.

The sleeve art features the work of RanXerox artist Tanino Liberatore. It portrays Zappa on stage trying to kill mosquitos. That is a reference of a concert held in Italy in 1982, the year before the release of the album, on 7 July at Parco Redecesio (which is also referred in a street sign on the album cover) in Segrate, near Milan. While Zappa was playing a huge number of mosquitos began flying on stage and gave the band a hard time. The back cover shows the audience as seen from the stage during the 1982 concert in Palermo, Italy, which ended in a riot. The album was the second of two to credit Steve Vai with "impossible guitar parts" (the first being the preceding album Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Utopia

01. "Cocaine Decisions" 3:53
02. "SEX" 3:44
03. "Tink Walks Amok" 3:39
04. "The Radio is Broken" 5:51
05. "We Are Not Alone" 3:18
06. "The Dangerous Kitchen" 2:51
07. "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou" 3:22
08. "Stick Together" 3:14
09. "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" 4:29
10. "Luigi & the Wise Guys" (bonus track) 3:25
11. "Moggio" 2:35