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The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life is a double disc live album by Frank Zappa, released in 1991. The album was one of three to be recorded during the 1988 world tour, along with Broadway the Hard Way and Make a Jazz Noise Here. Each of these three accounts of the 1988 tour has a different emphasis: Broadway the Hard Way mainly consists of new compositions; Make a Jazz Noise Here is a sampler of classic Zappa tunes, most of them instrumental; and The Best Band... devotes itself to covers. Some of these are unlikely (such as "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin), while many are from Zappa's extensive back catalogue. His mid-1970s output is emphasized in the selection, but there is also some material from the Mothers of Invention's late 1960s recordings and one song ("Lonesome Cowboy Burt") from 200 Motels. It was re-issued in 1995 and 2012 along with his entire catalogue.

The album is also notable for its extended section of potshots against American Pentacostal televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who had then just confessed to transgressions with a prostitute on live television; the speech was later dubbed his "I have sinned" speech. "Lonesome Cowboy Burt", "More Trouble Every Day" and "Penguin in Bondage" feature entirely rewritten lyrics to capitalize on and satirize the scandal.

http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/The_Best_Band_You_Never_Heard_In_Your_Life

http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-best-band-you-never-heard-in-your-life-mw0000690351

Disc One
01. "Heavy Duty Judy" 6:04
02. "Ring of Fire" (Merle Kilgore, June Carter) 2:00
03. "Cosmik Debris" 4:32
04. "Find Her Finer" 2:42
05. "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" 2:40
06. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George C. Cory, Jr., Douglas Cross) 0:36
07. "Zomby Woof" 5:41
08. "Boléro" (Maurice Ravel) 5:19
09. "Zoot Allures" 7:07
10. "Mr. Green Genes" 3:40
11. "Florentine Pogen" 7:11
12. "Andy" 5:51
13. "Inca Roads" 8:19
14. "Sofa No. 1" 2:49

Disc Two  
 
01. "Purple Haze" (Jimi Hendrix) 2:27
02. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Pete Brown, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton) 2:30
03. "Let's Move to Cleveland" 5:51
04. "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" (Ernest Ball, George Graff, Chancellor Olcott) 0:46
05. ""Godfather Part II" Theme" (Nino Rota) 0:30
06. "A Few Moments with Brother A. West" (Brother A. West, Zappa) 4:00
07. "The Torture Never Stops, Pt. 1" 5:19
08. "Theme from "Bonanza"" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) 0:28
09. "Lonesome Cowboy Burt" (Swaggart version) 4:54
10. "The Torture Never Stops, Pt. 2" 10:47
11. "More Trouble Every Day" (Swaggart version) 5:28
12. "Penguin in Bondage" (Swaggart version) 5:05
13. "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" 9:18
14. "Stairway to Heaven" (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant) 9:19

Musicians

    Frank Zappa – synthesizer, guitar, keyboards, vocals
    Paul Carman – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone
    Bruce Fowler – trombone
    Walt Fowler – synthesizer, trumpet, flugelhorn
    Mike Keneally – synthesizer, guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals
    Ed Mann – percussion, marimba, vibraphone, electronic percussion
    Bobby Martin – keyboards, saxophone, vocals
    Kurt McGettrick – saxophone, baritone saxophone, E flat clarinet
    Scott Thunes – synthesizer, bass guitar, electric bass, vocals, Minimoog
    Chad Wackerman – drums, vocals, electronic percussion
    Ike Willis – synthesizer, guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals
    Albert Wing – tenor saxophone

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