I’m both pleased and proud to initiate the inaugural post of Kill Ugly Radio’s first Mixtape presentation, “Thursday Mix: Cover Me This.” Sixteen different musicians/bands performing twenty-five Frank Zappa Covers:
1. Tink / 13 — Banned From Utopia
2. Solitude — Banned From Utopia
3. Black Page #2 — Bogus Pomp
4. Filthy Hobbitz — Doot!
5. Bogner Regis — Ed Palermo Big Band
6. Heavy Duty Judy / Grand Wazoo — Ed Palermo Big Band
7. What’s New In Baltimore? — FiDO
8. Eat That Question — FiDO
9. Little House I Used To Live In — Frogg Cafe
10. King Kong — Frogg Cafe
11. Uncle Remus (Instrumental) — George Duke
12. Sexual Harassment In The Workplace — Mario Mariani
13. Packard Goose — Mario Mariani
14. Peaches En Regalia — Marzi Nyman & Estonian Dream Big Band
15. Sofa — Marzi Nyman & Estonian Dream Big Band
16. Black Page #1 — Kroumata Percussion Ensemble
17. Uncle Meat — Kroumata Percussion Ensemble
18. Eric Dolphy Memorial BBQ — Kroumata Percussion Ensemble
19. Duke of Prunes — Project Object
20. Sy Borg — Project Object
21. Pygmy Twylyte — Quintette Gaucher
22. Mr. Green Genes — Viva Zappa
23. Motherly Love — Voice of Cheez
24. Big Swifty — The Wrong Object
25. Let’s Make The Water Turn Black — Zappatistas
Most of the tracks listed above are available for download via Zappateers, or Internet Archive’s Live Music Archive, or individual band/artist websites (check them all out, there are lots of audio nuggets to be found).
Click here to listen to the mixtape.
Note: If anyone feels we are infringing their copyright, contact us and we will remove the item in question.


September 4th, 2008 at 12:56 pm » Quote
mix.killuglyradio.com couldn’t have kicked off with a more splendid playlist, Urban — great listening!
September 4th, 2008 at 12:59 pm » Quote
Looks very fun! I’ll give it a spin later after work.
I wish Duke would rerelease “Feel” separate from the boxset. At least do an download only sale….he must know there is a huge Zappa fan market for that stuff!
September 4th, 2008 at 3:31 pm » Quote
Hey, this is good! With some REAL surprises! Like Solitude!!! Or Project Object: I’m not the biggest fan of them, but this acoustic thing.. nice!!! Do it, Mr. DeeJay!!!
September 5th, 2008 at 7:29 am » Quote
Ed Palermo with Bognor Regis… Ed is the best!!!
September 9th, 2008 at 4:25 pm » Quote
Gail is frothing at the mouth at the litigious possibilities.