From: eichlertwothedigitnotspelled@comcast.net   
      
   In December of last year I decided to get my collection of posthumous   
   Zappa releases up to date, which turned out to be a very expensive   
   project (yes, I still buy the physical CDs).  I figured I might as   
   well make it worthwhile, so I organized my entire collection into   
   roughly chronological order (as close as I could get it) and then   
   listened to the whole thing front to back.  Took 16 weeks, but I got a   
   much better feel for how Frank's career played out.   
      
   My Zappa fanhood didn't start until the late 80s (just in time to miss   
   the 1988 tour), and I bought the back catalog in mostly random order.   
   And then the posthumous releases also came out in fairly random order.   
   So this was the first time I've heard the whole thing roughly "as it   
   happened".  It was very informative.   
      
   I started on January 1st and tried to group each week's worth of   
   albums into thematically related blocks as far as possible.  Here's   
   the order I listened to them all:   
      
   Week 1 (Jan 1 - 5) pre-Mothers and early original Mothers:   
   Rare Meat   
   Cucamonga Years   
   Joe's Xmasage   
   Joe's Corsage   
   MOFO - The Making of Freak Out   
   Freak Out!   
   Absolutely Free   
   'Tis the Season to be Jelly   
   Lumpy Money (making of Lumpy  Gravy & WOIIFtM)   
   Lumpy Gravy   
   We're Only In It For the Money   
   We're Only In It For the Money (1980s remix version)   
      
   Week 2 (Jan 6 - 12) original Mothers pt. 2:   
   Electric Aunt Jemima   
   The Ark   
   Road Tapes Venue #1 - Vancouver, 1968   
   Ahead of Their Time   
   Our Man in Nirvana   
   Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (original CD release)   
   Greasy Love Songs (Reuben & the Jets 40th anniversary release)   
   Meat Light (3 disc Making of Uncle Meat set)   
   Uncle Meat   
      
   Week 3 (Jan 13 - 20) original Mothers conclusion & Hot Rats:   
   Mothermania   
   Weasels Ripped My Flesh   
   You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 5 disc 1   
   Mystery Disc   
   Finer Moments   
   The Hot Rats Sessions   
   Hot Rats   
   Burnt Weeny Sandwich   
      
   Week 4 (Jan 21 - 27) Flo & Eddie era pt. 1:   
   Road Tapes Venue #3 - Minneapolis July 5, 1970   
   The Mothers 1970 (boxed set)   
   Chunga's Revenge   
   Freaks and Motherfu*#@%!   
   Tengo Na Minchia Tanta   
   Disconnected Synapses   
   The Mothers 1971 (boxed set)   
   Fillmore East, June 1971   
      
   Week 5 (Jan 28 - Feb 2) Flo & Eddie era pt. 2:   
   Playground Psychotics   
   200 Motels Soundtrack   
   200 Motels 50th Anniversary Edition   
   Carnegie Hall   
   Swiss Cheese/Fire!   
   Just Another Band From L.A.   
      
   Week 6 (Feb 3 - 10) Wazoo big band era:   
   Joe's Domage   
   Waka/Wazoo (studio tracks)   
   Waka/Jawaka   
   Wazoo   
   The Grand Wazoo   
   Waka/Wazoo 5.1 mixes   
   Imaginary Diseases   
   Little Dots   
   Waka/Wazoo (live tracks)   
   Piquantique   
   Road Tapes Venue #2 - Helsinki, August 1973   
   Overnight Sensation   
      
   Week 7 (Feb 10 - 16) Roxy band part 1:   
   Halloween '73 (4 CD set)   
   Roxy by Proxy   
   Roxy - The Movie   
   Roxy - The Soundtrack   
   The Roxy Performances (7 CD set)   
   The Crux of the Biscuit (the making of Apostrophe('))   
   Apostrophe(')   
      
   Week 8 (Feb 17 - 23) Roxy band part 2:   
   Zappa/erie (discs 1 & 2)   
   Unmitigated Audacity   
   The Dub Room Special! DVD   
   The Dub Room Special! CD   
   A Token of His Extreme (soundtrack CD, don't have the DVD)   
   Roxy & Elsewhere   
   You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 2   
   Zappa/Erie (discs 3 & 4)   
   One Size Fits All   
   Joe's Camouflage   
      
   Week 9 (Feb 24 - Mar 2) mid-70s:   
   Bongo Fury   
   Joe's Menage   
   Zappa ’75: Zagreb/Ljubljana   
   FZ:OZ   
   Zoot Allures   
   Philly '76   
   Zappa/erie (discs 5 & 6)   
   Conceptual Continuity   
   Zappa in New York   
   Zappa in New York 40th Anniversary   
      
   Week 10 (Mar 3 - 10) Baby Snakes concerts:   
   Halloween 77 (USB stick costume box)   
   Baby Snakes DVD   
   Halloween 77 (3 CD)   
   Baby Snakes CD   
      
   Week 11 (Mar 11 - 17) late 70s:   
   Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa   
   Hammersmith Odeon   
   Saarbrucken 1978   
   At the Circus   
   Studio Tan   
   Sleep Dirt   
   Orchestral Favorites   
   Orchestral Favorites 40th Anniversary   
   Läther   
   Chicago '78   
      
   Week 12 (Mar 18 - 23) end of the 70s:   
   Halloween   
   QuAUDIOPHILIAc   
   Any Way the Wind Blows   
   Sheik Yerbouti   
   Joe's Garage   
   The Lost Episodes   
   One Shot Deal   
      
   Week 13 (Mar 24 - 31) early 80s:   
   Mudd Club/Munich   
   Buffalo   
   Tinseltown Rebellion   
   Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar   
   You Are What You Is   
   Halloween '81   
   As An Am   
   Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch   
   You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 5 disc 2   
   The Man From Utopia   
      
   Week 14 (Apr 1 - 7) mid-80s, orchestral and synclavier:   
   London Symphony Orchestra Vol I & II   
   Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger   
   Them or Us   
   Francesco Zappa   
   Thing-Fish   
   Does Humor Belong in Music? CD   
   Does Humor Belong in Music? DVD   
   Congress Shall Make No Law...   
   Meets the Mothers of Prevention   
   Jazz From Hell   
   Feeding the Monkies at Ma Maison   
   Guitar   
      
   Week 15 (Apr 8 - 14) '88 tour & YCDTOSA:   
   Broadway the Hard Way   
   The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life   
   Make a Jazz Noise Here   
   Trance-Fusion   
   Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show   
   You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 1   
   You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 3   
   You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 4   
   You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 6   
   Understanding America (compilation)   
      
   Week 16 (Apr 15 - 19) final orchestral & synclavier & misc:   
   Everything is Healing Nicely   
   The Yellow Shark   
   Dance Me This   
   Civilization Phaze III   
   Frank Zappa For President   
   200 Motels - The Suites   
   Zappa - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack   
      
   Give it a try, it's a way of life.   
      
     -- Bob   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)