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- Artist: Frank Zappa
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- Release Date: October 23, 1970
- Total Time: 40:22
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
Review
Chunga's Revenge marks the debut of Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (among several other musicians) with the Mothers, and while their schtick has not reached the graphic proportions it later would, the thematic obsessions of the 200 Motels period are foreshadowed on tracks like "Road Ladies" and "Would You Go All the Way?" Other vocal numbers include the hard-rocking "Tell Me You Love Me," the musicians' union satire "Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink," and the doo wop-influenced "Sharleena." Meanwhile, Frank Zappa's strong instrumental music incorporates Eastern European influences ("Transylvania Boogie"), cocktail jazz ("Twenty Small Cigars"), and the percussion-only "The Clap." Zappa's guitar tone is wonderfully biting and nasty throughout; George Duke provides another musical highlight by scat-singing a "drum solo." But while there are plenty of fine moments, Chunga's Revenge is in the end more of a hodgepodge transitional album, with less coherence than Zappa's other 1969-1970 works. Still, it will appeal to fans of that creatively fertile period in Zappa's oeuvre. ~ Steve Huey, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Transylvania Boogie | Frank Zappa | Frank Zappa | (5:01) |
| Road Ladies | Frank Zappa | Frank Zappa | (4:10) |
| Twenty Small Cigars | Frank Zappa | Frank Zappa | (2:17) |
| The Nancy & Mary Music | Frank Zappa | Frank Zappa | (9:27) |
| Tell Me You Love Me | Frank Zappa | Frank Zappa | (2:33) |
| Would You Go All the Way? | Frank Zappa | Frank Zappa | (2:29) |
| Chunga's Revenge | Frank Zappa | Frank Zappa | (6:15) |
| The Clap | Frank Zappa | Frank Zappa | (1:23) |
| Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink | Frank Zappa | Frank Zappa | (2:44) |
| Sharleena | Frank Zappa | Frank Zappa | (4:04) |
