vol. 1
cd1
1. "The Florida Airport Tape" (Kaylan, Volman, Zappa) 1:03
2. "Once Upon a Time" 4:37
3. "Sofa No. 1" 2:53
4. "The Mammy Anthem" 5:41
5. "You Didn't Try to Call Me" 3:39
6. "Diseases of the Band" 2:22
7. "Tryin' to Grow a Chin" 3:44
8. "Let's Make the Water Turn Black/Harry, You're a Beast/The Orange County" 3:27
9. "The Groupie Routine" 5:41
10. "Ruthie-Ruthie" (Berry, Brock) 2:57
11. "Babbette" 3:35
12. "I'm the Slime" 3:13
13. "Big Swifty" 8:46
14. "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" 20:16
cd2
1. "Plastic People" (Berry, Zappa) 4:38
2. "The Torture Never Stops" 15:48
3. "Fine Girl" 2:55
4. "Zomby Woof" 5:39
5. "Sweet Leilani" (Owens) 2:39
6. "Oh No" 4:34
7. "Be in My Video" 3:29
8. "The Deathless Horsie" 5:29
9. "The Dangerous Kitchen" 1:49
10. "Dumb All Over" 4:20
11. "Heavenly Bank Account" 4:05
12. "Suicide Chump" 4:55
13. "Tell Me You Love Me" 2:09
14. "Sofa No. 2" 3:00
* Frank Zappa engineer, keyboards, vocals, producer, main performer, guitar
* Mark Volman vocals
* Howard Kaylan vocals
* Chad Wackerman vocals
* Ray Collins guitar, vocals
* Ike Willis guitar, vocals
* Lowell George guitar, vocals
* Ray White guitar, vocals
* Adrian Belew guitar, vocals
* Warren Cuccurullo guitar, organ
* Ian Underwood guitar, wind, keyboards
* Steve Vai guitar
* Dweezil Zappa guitar
* Denny Walley slide guitar, vocals
* Jim Sherwood guitar, wind, vocals
* Scott Thunes bass guitar, synthesizer, vocals
* Jim Pons bass guitar, vocals
* Roy Estrada bass guitar, vocals
* Jeff Simmons bass guitar
* Tom Fowler bass guitar
* Patrick O'Hearn wind, bass guitar
* Arthur Barrow keyboards, bass guitar
* Peter Wolf keyboards
* Allan Zavod keyboards
* Don Preston keyboards
* Ruth Underwood keyboards, percussion
* Bobby Martin keyboards, vocals, saxophone
* Tommy Mars keyboards, vocals
* George Duke keyboards, vocals
* Motorhead Sherwood baritone saxophone
* Napoleon Murphy Brock saxophone, vocals
* Bunk Gardner tenor saxophone, trumpet
* Bruce Fowler trombone
* Vinnie Colaiuta drums
* Ralph Humphrey drums
* Art Tripp drums
* David Logerman drums
* Aynsley Dunbar drums
* Terry Bozzio drums
* Chester Thompson drums
* Jimmy Carl Black drums, percussion
* Ed Mann percussion
vol. 2 the helsinki concert
cd1
1. "Tush Tush Tush (A Token of My Extreme)" 2:48
2. "Stinkfoot" 4:18
3. "Inca Roads" 10:54
4. "RDNZL" 8:43
5. "Village of the Sun" 4:33
6. "Echidna's Arf (Of You)" 3:30
7. "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" 4:56
8. "Pygmy Twylyte" 8:22
9. "Room Service" 6:22
10. "The Idiot Bastard Son" 2:39
11. "Cheepnis" 4:29
cd2
1. "Approximate" 8:11
2. "Dupree's Paradise" 23:59
3. "Satumaa (Finnish Tango)" (Mononen) 3:51
4. "T'Mershi Duween" 1:31
5. "The Dog Breath Variations" 1:38
6. "Uncle Meat" 2:28
7. "Building a Girl" 1:00
8. "Montana (Whipping Floss)" 10:15
9. "Big Swifty" 2:17
* Frank Zappa lead guitar, vocals
* Napoleon Murphy Brock saxophone, vocals
* George Duke keyboards, vocals
* Ruth Underwood percussion
* Tom Fowler bass guitar
* Chester Thompson drums
vol. 3
cd1
1. "Sharleena" 8:54
2. "Bamboozled by Love/Owner of a Lonely Heart" 6:06
3. "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" 2:52
4. "Advance Romance" 6:58
5. "Bobby Brown Goes Down" 2:44
6. "Keep It Greasey" 3:30
7. "Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?" 4:16
8. "In France" 3:01
9. "Drowning Witch" 9:22
10. "Ride My Face to Chicago" 4:22
11. "Carol, You Fool" 4:06
12. "Chana in de Bushwop" 4:52
13. "Joe's Garage" 2:20
14. "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" 3:07
cd2
1. "Dickie's Such an Asshole" 10:08
2. "Hands With a Hammer" (Bozzio) 3:18
3. "Zoot Allures" 6:09
4. "Society Pages" 2:32
5. "I'm a Beautiful Guy" 1:54
6. "Beauty Knows No Pain" 2:55
7. "Charlie's Enormous Mouth" 3:39
8. "Cocaine Decisions" 3:14
9. "Nig Biz" 4:58
10. "King Kong" 24:32
11. "Cosmik Debris" 5:14
* Frank Zappa arranger, editing, keyboards, lyricist, vocals, producer, main performer, liner notes, guitar, compilation
* Mark Volman vocals
* Howard Kaylan vocals
* Lowell George guitar
* Denny Walley guitar
* Steve Vai guitar
* Dweezil Zappa guitar
* Jim Sherwood guitar, vocals, wind
* Ray Collins guitar, vocals
* Ike Willis rhythm guitar, vocals
* Ray White rhthym guitar, vocals
* Ian Underwood guitar, wind, alto saxophone, keyboards
* Patrick O'Hearn bass guitar, wind
* Roy Estrada bass guitar, vocals
* Jim Pons bass guitar, vocals
* Scott Thunes bass guitar, vocals, synthesizer
* Tom Fowler bass guitar, trombone
* Peter Wolf keyboards
* Allan Zavod keyboards
* Andre Lewis keyboards
* Don Preston keyboards, electronics
* George Duke keyboards, vocals
* Tommy Mars keyboards, vocals
* Bobby Martin keyboards, vocals, saxophone
* Napoleon Murphy Brock saxophone, vocals
* Bruce Fowler trombone
* Bunk Gardner horn, wind
* Ralph Humphrey drums
* Art Tripp drums
* Chester Thompson drums
* Chad Wackerman drums, vocals
* Jimmy Carl Black drums, percussion
* Aynsley Dunbar drums
* Terry Bozzio drums, soloist, lyricist
* Ruth Underwood percussion, keyboards
* Ed Mann percussion
* Diva Zappa lyricist
* Mark Pinske engineer
* Kerry McNabb engineer
* Bob Stone engineer, engineering supervisor, remixing, supervisor
vol. 4
cd1
1. "Little Rubber Girl" (Zappa, Denny Walley)
2. "Stick Together"
3. "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama"
4. "Willie the Pimp"
5. "Montana"
6. "Brown Moses"
7. "The Evil Prince"
8. "Approximate"
9. "Love of My Life"
10. "Let's Move to Cleveland" (solos, 1984) (Featuring Archie Shepp)
11. "You Call That Music?"
12. "Pound for a Brown" (solos, 1978)
13. "The Black Page" (1984 version)
14. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (Jack Norworth, Albert Von Tilzer)
15. "Filthy Habits"
16. "The Torture Never Stops" (original version)
cd2
1. "Church Chat"
2. "Stevie's Spanking"
3. "Outside Now"
4. "Disco Boy"
5. "Teen-Age Wind"
6. "Truck Driver Divorce"
7. "Florentine Pogen"
8. "Tiny Sick Tears"
9. "Smell My Beard" (George Duke, Zappa)
10. "The Booger Man" (Duke, Napoleon Brock, Zappa)
11. "Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy"
12. "Are You Upset?"
13. "Little Girl of Mine" (Morris Levy, Herbert Cox)
14. "The Closer You Are" (Earl Lewis, Morgan Robinson)
15. "Johnny Darling" (Louis Statton, Johnny Statton)
16. "No, No Cherry" (L. Caesar, J. Gray)
17. "The Man from Utopia" (Donald Woods, Doris Woods)
18. "Mary Lou" (Obie Jessie)
* Frank Zappa composer, lead guitar, vocals
* Captain Beefheart vocals, harmonica
* Ian Underwood alto saxophone
* Paul Carman alto saxophone
* Kurt McGettrick baritone saxophone
* Motorhead Sherwood baritone saxophone
* Arthur Barrow bass
* Patrick O'Hearn bass
* Roy Estrada bass, vocals
* Scott Thunes bass
* Tom Fowler bass
* Arthur Dyer Tripp III drums
* Chad Wackerman drums
* Chester Thompson drums
* Jimmy Carl Black drums
* Vinnie Colaiuta drums
* Ike Willis guitar, vocals
* Lowell George guitar, vocals
* Mike Kenneally guitar, synthesizer
* Ray White guitar, vocals
* Steve Vai stunt guitar
* Alan Zavod keyboards
* Bobby Martin keyboards, saxophone, vocals
* Don Preston keyboards, synthesizer
* George Duke keyboards, vocals
* Peter Wolf keyboards
* Tommy Mars keyboards, vocals
* Ed Mann percussion
* Ruth Underwood percussion
* Napoleon Murphy Brock saxophone, vocals
* Denny Walley slide guitar
* Albert Wing tenor saxophone
* Bunk Gardner tenor saxophone
* Bruce Fowler trombone
* Buzz Gardner trumpet
* Denny Walley vocals
vol. 5
cd1
1. "The Downtown Talent Scout" 4:01
2. "Charles Ives" 4:37
3. "Here Lies Love" (Martin, Dobard) 2:44
4. "Piano/Drum Duet" 1:57
5. "Mozart Ballet" (Zappa, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) 4:05
6. "Chocolate Halvah" (Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Zappa) 3:25
7. "JCB & Kansas on the Bus #1" (Kanzus, Black, Kunc, Barber) 1:03
8. "Run Home Slow: Main Title Theme" 1:16
9. "The Little March" 1:20
10. "Right There" (Estrada, Zappa) 5:10
11. "Where Is Johnny Velvet?" 0:48
12. "Return of the Hunch-Back Duke" 1:44
13. "Trouble Every Day" 4:06
14. "Proto-Minimalism" 1:41
15. "JCB & Kansas on the Bus #2" (Kanzus, Black, Kunc, Barber) 1:06
16. "My Head?" (MOI) 1:22
17. "Meow" 1:23
18. "Baked-Bean Boogie" 3:26
19. "Where's Our Equipment?" 2:29
20. "FZ/JCB Drum Duet" 4:26
21. "No Waiting for the Peanuts to Dissolve" 4:45
22. "A Game of Cards" (Zappa, Motorhead Sherwood, Art Tripp, Ian Underwood) 0:44
23. "Underground Freak-Out Music" 3:51
24. "German Lunch" (MOI) 6:43
25. "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama" 2:11
cd2
1. "Easy Meat" 7:38
2. "The Dead Girls of London" (Zappa, L. Shankar) 2:29
3. "Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously?" 1:44
4. "What's New in Baltimore?" 5:03
5. "Moggio" 2:29
6. "Dancin' Fool" 3:12
7. "RDNZL" 7:58
8. "Advance Romance" 7:01
9. "City of Tiny Lites" 10:38
10. "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" 8:38
11. "Doreen" 1:58
12. "Black Page, No. 2" 9:56
13. "Geneva Farewell" 1:38
* Frank Zappa conductor, guitar, lyricist, remixing, producer, main performer, liner notes, vocals
* Dick Kunc vocals, voices, engineer
* Kanzus J. Kanzus vocals, voices
* Dick Barber vocals, voices, sound effects
* Lowell George guitar, vocals
* Ray White guitar, vocals
* Steve Vai guitar
* Elliot Ingber guitar
* Roy Estrada bass guitar, vocals
* Scott Thunes bass guitar
* Tommy Mars keyboards, vocals
* Don Preston electronics, keyboards
* Bunk Gardner tenor saxophone, trumpet
* Motorhead Sherwood baritone saxophone, vocals
* Bobby Martin saxophone, vocals, keyboards
* Ian Underwood clarinet, alto saxophone, electric piano, piano
* Billy Mundi drums
* Art Tripp drums
* Chad Wackerman drums
* Jimmy Carl Black drums, vocals, voices
* Ed Mann percussion
* Ray Collins tambourine
* Noel Redding dancer
* John Judnich engineer
* Bob Stone remixing
vol. 6
cd1
1. "The M.O.I. Anti-Smut Loyalty Oath" 3:01
2. "The Poodle Lecture" 5:02
3. "Dirty Love" 2:39
4. "Magic Fingers" 2:21
5. "The Madison Panty-Sniffing Festival" 2:44
6. "Honey, Don't You Want a Man Like Me?" 4:01
7. "Father O'Blivion" 2:21
8. "Is That Guy Kidding or What?" 4:02
9. "I'm So Cute" 1:39
10. "White Person" 2:07
11. "Lonely Person Devices" 3:13
12. "Ms. Pinky" 2:00
13. "Shove It Right In" (comprised of "She Painted Up Her Face", "Half A Dozen Provocative Squats" and "Shove It Right In") 6:45
14. "Wind up Workin' in a Gas Station" 2:32
15. "Make a Sex Noise" 3:09
16. "Tracy Is a Snob" 3:54
17. "I Have Been in You" 5:04
18. "Emperor of Ohio" 1:31
19. "Dinah-Moe Humm" 3:16
20. "He's So Gay" 2:34
21. "Camarillo Brillo" 3:09
22. "Muffin Man" 2:25
cd2
1. "NYC Halloween Audience" 0:46
2. "The Illinois Enema Bandit" 8:04
3. "Thirteen" 6:08
4. "Lobster Girl" 2:20
5. "Black Napkins" 5:21
6. "We're Turning Again" 4:56
7. "Alien Orifice" 4:16
8. "Catholic Girls" 4:04
9. "Crew Slut" 5:33
10. "Tryin' to Grow a Chin" 3:33
11. "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" 3:46
12. "Lisa's Life Story" 3:05
13. "Lonesome Cowboy Nando" 5:15
14. "200 Motels Finale" 3:43
15. "Strictly Genteel" 7:07
* Frank Zappa conductor, main performer, guitar, vocals, synthesizer, producer
* Mark Volman vocals
* Howard Kaylan vocals
* Denny Walley slide guitar, vocals
* Ike Willis guitar, vocals
* Adrian Belew guitar, vocals
* Ray White guitar, vocals
* Warren Cuccurullo guitar
* Steve Vai guitar
* Mike Keneally bass guitar, synthesizer, vocals
* Patrick O'Hearn bass guitar
* Jeff Simmons bass guitar
* Arthur Barrow bass guitar
* Scott Thunes bass guitar
* Tom Fowler bass guitar
* Bob Harris keyboards, vocals
* Bianca Thornton keyboards, vocals
* Peter Wolf keyboards
* Allan Zavod keyboards
* George Duke keyboards
* Tommy Mars keyboards
* Ian Underwood keyboards, alto saxophone
* Albert Wing tenor saxophone
* Napoleon Murphy Brock saxophone, vocals
* Paul Carman alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone
* Bruce Fowler trombone
* Walt Fowler flugelhorn, synthesizer, trumpet
* Kurt McGettrick contrabass clarinet, bass saxophone, baritone saxophone
* Jean-Luc Ponty violin
* Ralph Humphrey drums
* Vinnie Colaiuta drums
* Aynsley Dunbar drums
* Terry Bozzio drums
* Chad Wackerman drums, electronic percussion
* Ed Mann electric percussion, percussion, backing vocals, marimba
* George Douglas engineer
* Bob Stone engineer
