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CIVILIZATION PHAZE III

Studio Album, released in 1994

Songs / Tracks Listing

Disc 1 (56:10)
- ACT I -
1. "This is Phaze III" (0:48)
2. Put a Motor In Yourself (5:14)
3. "Oh-Umm" (0:50)
4. They Made Me Eat It (1:48)
5. Reagan at Bitburg (5:39)
6. "A Very Nice Body" (1:00)
7. Navanax (1:40)
8. "How the Pigs' Music Works" (1:49)
9. Xmas Values (5:31)
10. "Dark Water!" (0:23)
11. Amnerika (3:04)
12. "Have You Ever Heard Their Band?" (0:38)
13. Religious Superstition (0:43)
14. "Saliva Can Only Take So Much" (0:28)
15. Buffalo Voice (5:12)
16. "Someplace Else Right Now" (0:33)
17. Get a Life (2:21)
18. "A Kayak (On Snow)" (0:29)
19. N-Lite (18:00)
- a. Negative Light
- b. Venice Summerged
- c. The New World Order
- d. The Lifestyle You Deserve
- e. Creationism
- f. He Is Risen

Disc 2 (57:39)
- ACT II -
1. "I Wish Motorhead Would Come Back" (0:14)
2. Secular Humanism (2:41)
3. "Attack! Attack! Attack!" (1:25)
4. I Was In A Drum (3:38)
5. "A Different Octave" (0:58)
6. "This Ain´t CNN" (3:21)
7. "The Pigs´ Music" (1:18)
8. A Pig With Wings (2:52)
9. "Tis Is All Wrong" (1:43)
10. Hot & Putrid (0:29)
11. "Flowing Inside-Out" (0:46)
12. "I Had A Dream About That" (0:28)
13. Gross Man (2:55)
14. "A Tunnel Into Muck" (0:21)
15. Why Not? (2:19)
16. "Put A Little Motor In ´Em" (0:51)
17. You´re Just Insultin´ Me, Aren´t You!" (2:13)
18. "Cold Light Generation" (0:44)
19. Dio Fa (8:19)
20. "That Would Be The End Of That" (0:36)
21. Beat The Reaper (15:23)
22. Waffenspiel (4:05)

Total Time: 113:49

Line-up / Musicians

- Frank Zappa / synclavier (all Act I & 70% Act II), voice (1967), composer, conductor, producer, compiler & editor

With:
- Spider Barbour / voice (1967)
- All-Night John / voice (1967)
- Euclid James "Motorhead" Sherwood (a.k.a. Larry Fanoga) / voice (1967)
- Roy Estrada / voice (1967)
- Louis "The Turkey" Cuneo / voice (1967)
- Monica / voice (1967)
- Gilly Townley / voice (1967)
- Unknown Girl #1 / voice (1967)
- Unknown Girl #2 / voice (1967)
- Moon Unit Zappa / voice (1991)
- Dweezil Zappa / voice (1991)
- Michael Rappaport / voice (1991)
- Ali N. Askin / voice (1991)
- Walt Fowler / voice (1991)
- Todd Yvega / voice (1991)

Ensemble Modern sampled instrumentations (from 1992 European tour):
- Peter Rundel / violin 1 & conductor
- Catherine Milliken / * , oboe, english horn, baritone oboe, didjeridoo
- Michael Svoboda / * , bass trombone, alp horn, didjeridoo, conch
- Michael Gross / * , trumpet, fleugel horn
- William Formann / * , trumpet, fleugel horn
- Uwe Dierksen / * , trombone, pygmy trombone
- Stefan Dohr / * , french horn
- Daryl Smith / * , tuba
- Franck Ollu / * , french horn
- Hermann Kretzschmar / * , piano, celeste
- Dietmar Weisner / piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute
- Roland Diry / clarinet
- Wolfgang Styri / tenor sax, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet
- Veit Scholz / bassoon, contabassoon
- Mathias Tacke / violin 2
- Hilary Sturt / viola
- Friedemann Dähn / cello
- Thomas Fichter / contrabass, electric bass
- Detlef Tewes / mandolin
- Jürgen Ruck / guitar, banjo
- Ueli Wiget / harp
- Rumi Ogawa-Helferich / cymbalom, percussion
- Rainer Römer / musical saw, percussion
- Andreas Böttger / marimba, percussion

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