FRANK ZAPPA - Over-Nite Sensation (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) - 4CD + Blu-ray Audio Box Set [NOV 17]

4CD + Blu-ray - Limited 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Box Set. Newly expanded with 57 unreleased and rare studio and live tracks forged from creation of the benchmark gold-selling record.

Over-Nite Sensation turns 50 years old. An absolute classic. For some a gateway to Zappa, a place to start along with the following 1974 release Apostrophe(‘). It was also the first album by Zappa to be released in Quadraphonic surround sound. The album signaled a change in musical direction for The Mothers, with Frank handling the bulk of the lead vocals and being the only guitar player. It was a new band, a new sound and eventually the album went gold. Over the years, almost every song on Over-Nite Sensation would go on to become live staples and fan favorites. 50 years on, the album is still one of the highlights of the Zappa catalog and a consistent seller.

Now it has been newly expanded with 57 unreleased and rare studio and live tracks forged from creation of the benchmark gold-selling record. Three-88-track, five-disc expanded super deluxe edition contains four CDs and Blu-ray Audio Disc with outtakes, alternate edits, and unedited bonus vault masters plus two previously unreleased shows recorded at the hollywood palladium and detroit’s cobo hall expanded deluxe edition contains outtakes, alternate edits, and unedited masters from little known recording sessions

Blu-ray boasts original quad mix along with new surround sound and Dolby Atmos mixes of the core album. Featuring the 2012 remaster of the original album by Bob Ludwig along with additional unreleased masters, highlights and mix outtakes from the original 1973 sessions mastered by John Polito. Also included are two unreleased live recordings from 1973 showcasing the same band that recorded the album, one from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles and the other recorded at Cobo Hall in Detroit.

The Blu-ray contains the album newly re-mixed in Dolby Atmos and 5.1 surround by Karma Auger and Erich Gobel at Studio1LA, Zappa’s original 4-channel Quadraphonic mix (available for the first time since 1973), and the Hi-Res stereo 2012 remaster at 192K24B and 96K24B. The package features unseen photos from the album cover shoot along with liner notes and essays by Mark Smotroff and Vaultmeister Joe Travers. 

Tracklist:

4CD + 1BLU-RAY AUDIO SUPER DELUXE EDITION

CD 1

Over-Nite Sensation – The Album

1. Camarillo Brillo

2. I’m The Slime

3. Dirty Love

4. Fifty-Fifty

5. Zomby Woof

6. Dinah-Moe Humm

7. Montana

Bonus Session Masters

8. Wonderful Wino (Complete Edit)*

9. Inca Roads (1973 Version, 2023 Mix)*

10. RDNZL (1973 Mix)*

11. For The Young Sophisticate (Dolby EQ Copy)

12. I’m The Slime (Single Version)

13. Montana (Single Edit With Intro)

Bonus Vault Sensations

14. Inca Roads (Bolic Take-Home Mix)*

15. RDNZL (Take 2)*

16. X-Forts (Echidna’s Arf (Of You)*

CD 2

Bonus Vault Sensations

Continued

1. Camarillo Brillo (Alternate Mix)*

2. Face Down (I’m The Slime – Demo)*

3. I’m The Slime (Basic Track Outtake)*

4. Dirty Love (Session Rehearsal)*

5. Dirty Love (With Quad Guitar)*

6. Fifty-Fifty – Pipe Organ Intro Improvisations*

7. Fifty-Fifty (Basic Tracks, Take 7)*

8. Dinah-Moe Humm (Session Rehearsal)*

9. Dinah-Moe Humm (Bolic Take-Home Mix)*

10. Montana (Bolic Take-Home Mix)*

Live In Hollywood, California, Hollywood Palladium – March 23, 1973

11. Montana*

12. Dupree’s Paradise (Intro)*

13. Dupree’s Paradise*

CD 3

Live In Hollywood, California, Hollywood Palladium – March 23, 1973

Continued

1. Cosmik Debris*

2. “The Dynamic Sal Marquez!”*

3. Big Swifty*

4. “…The Successor To Willie The Pimp”*

5. The Curse Of The Zomboids (I’m The Slime)*

5. Don’t You Ever Wash That Thing?*

6. FZ & The Percussion Section*

7. Palladium Jam – Part 1*

8. Palladium Jam – Part 2*

CD 4

Live In Detroit, Michigan, Cobo Hall – May 12, 1973

1. Cobo Hall ’73 Band Intros And Sound Check*

2. Exercise #4*

3. Dog Breath*

4. The Dog Breath Variations*

5. Uncle Meat*

6. Fifty-Fifty*

7. Inca Roads*

8. FZ Introduces the Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow Medley*

9. Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow*

10. Nanook Rubs It*

11. St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast*

12. Father O’Blivion*

13. St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast (Reprise)*

14. Join The March*

15. Cosmik Debris*

16. Medley: King Kong/Chunga’s Revenge/Son Of Mr. Green Genes*

BLU-RAY AUDIO

Over-Nite Sensation – The Album

Dolby Atmos* / Dolby TrueHD 5.1* / Dolby TrueHD 1973 Quadraphonic / 24-bit/192kHz Stereo / 24-bit/96kHz Stereo

1. Camarillo Brillo

2. I’m The Slime

3. Dirty Love

4. Fifty-Fifty

5. Zomby Woof

6. Dinah-Moe Humm

7. Montana

* Previously unreleased