Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering

Mastered from the original analog tape

Double LP in deluxe gatefold jacket

Finer Moments is a recording, intended for vinyl, discovered in the vault exactly as Frank Zappa left it in 1973. You could say it's a prequel to the series "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore" which was launched 15 years later. Finer Moments is probably about getting very close to the edge of perfection in terms of performance — hitting the correct notes, correctly. It's also about one of a kind performances and the events that occur simultaneously onstage — imagine all that in the same dimension.

Composer, guitarist, singer, and bandleader Frank Zappa was a singular musical figure during a performing and recording career that lasted from the 1960s to the '90s. His disparate influences included doo wop music and avant-garde classical music; although he led groups that could be called rock & roll bands for much of his career, he used them to create a hybrid style that bordered on jazz and complicated, modern serious music, sometimes inducing orchestras to play along. As if his music were not challenging enough, he overlay it with highly satirical and sometimes abstractly humorous lyrics and song titles that marked him as coming out of a provocative literary tradition that included Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and edgy comedians like Lenny Bruce.

Track Listing
Side 1
Intro
Sleazette
Mozart Piano Sonata in Bb
The Walking Zombie Music
The Old Curiosity Shoppe

Side 2
You Never Know Who Your Friends Are
Uncle Rhebus

Side 3
Music From the Big Squeeze
Enigmas 1 thru 5
Pumped and Waxed
There Is No Heaven From Where Slogans Go To Die
Squeeze It, Squeeze It, Squeeze It

Side 4
The Subcutaneous Peril