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In this tour the band played 56 different "regular" songs, 27 previously released and 29 previously unreleased, to the unreleased batch should be added three songs (Drowning Witch, Truck Driver Divorce and Luigi & The Wise Guys) that only had some lyrics preview over some improvised musical texture or during the performance of other songs.
The following table shows the frequency that every song in the tour was performed, and if they were, at the time, already released on official Zappa records. Only "regular" songs are listed. In every single square songs are ordered from the more played to the less played.
| Songs played in the fall 1980 tour |
Released (at the time of the tour) |
Unreleased (at the time of the tour) |
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| Frequently played songs (appear on at least 1/2 of the tapes) |
The Torture Never Stops I'm So Cute Broken Hearts Are For Assholes City Of Tiny Lights Chunga's Revenge Andy Keep It Greasy Cosmik Debris Joe's Garage I Ain't Got No Heart Flakes Dancin' Fool The Illinois Enema Bandit Magic Finger Ms Pinky Bobby Brown Love Of My Life Stick It Out Don't Eat The Yellow Snow |
Tinsel Town Rebellion Pick Me I'm Clean You Are What You Is Dead Girls Of London* The Blue Light Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously I Don't Wanna Get Drafted** |
| Less frequently played songs (appear at least on 1/4 of the tapes) |
Tell Me You Love Me Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me Black Napkins Outside Now |
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing Mudd Club Easy Meat Heavy Duty Judy Suicide Chump Jumbo Go Away If Only She Woulda The Dangerous Kitchen |
| Rarely played songs (appear on few of the tapes available from this tour) |
Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up You Didn't Try To Call Me Watermelon In Easter Hay (King Kong)**** |
Heavenly Bank Account Goblin Girl I'm A Beautiful Guy Charlie's Enormous Mouth Beauty Knows No Pain Bamboozled By Love Harder Than Your Husband Dumb All Over Doreen Conehead Any Downers (The Deathless Horsie) (Teenage Wind) (Nite Owl)*** |
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Note * Dead Girls of London has been first time released in 1979 in L. Shankar's Zappa produced album Touch Me There. ** I Don't Wanna Get Drafted was released at the time of the tour only as a single (April 1980). *** Nite Owl was originally released by in 1955 by Tony Allen & The Champs, It still remains unreleased in Zappa official catalogue. **** King Kong doesn't appear on any tape but is the base vamp for Now You See It - Now You Don't, an extract of an opening guitar solo officially released on Tinsel-Town Rebellion. |
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The 27 previously released songs come from 11 different albums (only the records where the songs were first released are listed):
28 + 3 songs were officially released on 7 albums published after the tour:
One song still remains officially unreleased (Nite Owl, the only cover fully played during this tour).
The following table shows the main sequence structures for the more frequently performed songs in this tour.
Of course it is just indicative, because in this tour Zappa was varying each set list. Nevertheless many songs have often the same sequence order even if sometimes some song can be omitted. It is just a coincidence that (one of) the main body sequence of this table is identical to the one available in Buffalo: the table was built way before the release of that album.
Songs in (round brackets) appear only in few tapes. The "other blocks" show a couple of song sequences that appear rarely in the tapes available from this tour, in different set list positions and often not including all the songs listed (here is given the complete sequence as it appears in few tapes from this tour - these sequences has been used more often in other Zappa's tour).
| Main sequences | Other blocks and less frequently played songs that won't fit in pre ordered sequences |
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| Opener | Chungas's Revenge or Black Napkins or other openers | |||
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You Are What You Is Love Of My Life Flakes Magic Finger (Don't Eat The Yellow Snow) |
You Are What You Is Mudd Club The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing |
Tell Me You Love Me | |
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Cosmik Debris Keep It Greasy (Outside Now) |
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Doreen Goblin Girl |
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The Blue Light Tinsel Town Rebellion |
Tinsel Town Rebellion |
Heavenly Bank Account Suicide Chump Jumbo Go Away If Only She Woulda I Don't Want to Get Drafted |
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| The Dangerous Kitchen / dangerous singing | ||||
| Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me | ||||
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Pick Me I'm Clean Dead Girls Of London Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously City Of Tiny Lights |
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I'm A Beautiful Guy Beauty Knows No Pain Charlie's Enormous Mouth Any Downers Conehead |
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I Ain't Got No Heart The Torture Never Stops / (Heavy Duty Judy) |
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Broken Hearts Are For Assholes I'm So Cute Andy |
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| Encores |
Joe's Garage Dancing Fool |
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow Stick It Out |
I Don't Want To Get Drafted | |
| (Tell Me You Love Me) | (Love Of My Life) | |||
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Bobby Brown Ms Pinky |
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| (Easy Meat) - The Illinois Enema Bandit - (Watermelon In Easter Hay) | ||||
Heavy Duty Judy was mostly, but not always, played in medley with The Torture Never Stops. Note that it has some lyrics only in the Pittsburgh 11/13 late performance.
In this tour the Society Pages medley was played without the usually opening title song used in You Are What You Is album and in the other tours where this medley was played (see the following tables).
The following table shows which songs in the repertoire of this band (that made only this tour) had been performed for the last time or for the first time by a Zappa combo. Only 1975 - 1984 bands/tours are considered and only regular songs are listed. No song was played only in this tour/by this band.
| First time and last time played songs in this tour and by this band (in relation to 1975-1984 tours/bands) |
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| Last time played | First time played | |
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Andy * Any Downers Conehead Don't Eat The Yellow Snow I Ain't Got No Heart * I Don't Wanna Get Drafted If Only She Woulda I'm So Cute ** Magic Finger Pick Me I'm Clean * You Didn't Try To Call Me |
Doreen Dumb All Over Goblin Girl Heavy Duty Judy Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously The Blue Light The Dangerous Kitchen Tinsel Town Rebellion |
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| * These songs were later performed by the 1988 band. ** I'm So Cute was played before in a very different version just one time in 1976. |
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The following table shows the repertoire in common between this band and the straight previous and following line-ups.
| Common repertoire with straight previous and following bands | ||
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| 1st 1980 band | This band | 1981-82 band |
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Any Downers Conehead Don't Eat The Yellow Snow I Ain't Got No Heart I Don't Wanna Get Drafted If Only She Woulda Keep It Greasy Lucille Has Mess My Mind Up Nite Owl Pick Me I'm Clean Stick It Out The Deathless Horsie You Didn't Try To Call Me |
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Andy Heavy Duty Judy Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me I'm So Cute Magic Finger The Dangerous Kitchen |
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Broken Hearts Are For Assholes Dead Girls Of London Doreen Dumb All Over Flakes Goblin Girl Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously Tell Me You Love Me The Blue Light The Torture Never Stops Tinsel Town Rebellion |
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| Bamboozled By Love - Beauty Knows No Pain - Black Napkins - Bobby Brown - Charlie's Enourmous Mouth - Chunga's Revenge - City Of Tiny Lights - Cosmik Debris - Dancing Fool - Easy Meat - Heavenly Bank Account - I'm A Beautiful Guy - Harder Than Your Husband - Joe's Garage - Jumbo Go Away - King Kong - Love Of My Life - Ms Pinky- Mudd Club - Outside Now - Suicide Chump - Teenage Wind - The Illinois Enema Bandit - The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing - Watermelon In Easter Hay - You Are What You Is | ||
| Songs played by both straight previous and following bands but not by this band | ||
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A Pound For A Brown Dinah-Moe Humm Dong Work For Yuda In France Lets Move To Cleveland Society Pages Treacherous Cretins Why Does It Hurts When I Pee Zoot Allures |
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Disclaimer
Near everything here is based on Jon Naurin set lists.
Even if it is my aim for the future, I have not verified all of Naurin's set lists by comparing them with the tapes in my personal vault, but I know from experience that at least 90% of Naurin set lists are correct.
Tables, statistics and all information will be updated when new recordings surface or if I discover incorrect data in the Naurin set lists.
Warning: for some reason I've removed all punctuation (,?!) from song titles.
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This page created on March 2005 and latest revised on July 14, 2008