• Thing-Fish is an album by American musician Frank Zappa, originally released as a triple album box set on Barking Pumpkin Records in 1984. It was billed...
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  • No Such Thing as a Fish is a weekly British podcast series produced and presented by the researchers behind the BBC Two panel game QI. In the podcast...
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    significant roles in two of his major works, Joe's Garage (1979) and Thing-Fish (1984). Bozzio has released four solo albums and one EP. She co-founded...
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    18th-century composer Francesco Zappa, was also released in 1984. The album Thing-Fish was an ambitious three-record set in the style of a Broadway play dealing...
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    Perfect Stranger — — — — — — — 40 Oct Them or Us — 53 42 — 22 — — 41 Nov Thing-Fish — — — — — — — 42 Francesco Zappa — — — — — — — 43 1985 Apr The Old Masters...
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  • Skelton. Fish explains in his partly biographical essay, "Milton, Thou Shouldst be Living at this Hour" (published in There's No Such Thing as Free Speech...
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  • the album Thing-Fish, which MCA Records refused to distribute, Zappa made a deal with EMI Records, which would allow Them or Us and Thing-Fish to be distributed...
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    Zoot Allures (1976), Zappa in New York (1976), Sheik Yerbouti (1979) and Thing-Fish (1984)[clarification needed], and in the concert movie Baby Snakes (1979)...
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    writer. He is one of the four regular hosts of the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, together with Dan Schreiber, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski...
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    Thing as a Fish alongside Dan Schreiber, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin. She was also a presenter of the BBC Two television show No Such Thing...
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    performances with Zappa include the role of the "Evil Prince" on the Thing-Fish album. He has also performed with George Duke, Captain Beefheart and more...
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    Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. Frank Zappa's 1984 album Thing Fish was heavily inspired by the events of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Avant-garde...
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  • Mothers of Invention. Following distribution problems with Zappa's album Thing-Fish (1984), which former Barking Pumpkin distributor MCA Records refused to...
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    character and narrator in Zappa's off-Broadway-styled conceptual musical Thing-Fish. Willis also regularly does studio voice work and writes compositions...
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  • album Thing-Fish (1984). Flynt was going to pay for the production of a Broadway show based on the spread but reversed his decision when Thing-Fish did...
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  • pieces appeared on The Perfect Stranger earlier that year, as well as Thing-Fish, also released in 1984 but recorded earlier. All selections composed by...
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    Stump of Fall Out Boy, along with headlining HMV's Next Big Thing in February 2012. Fish was also a member of Worship, along with Tim Alexander, James...
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    contributed to Zappa's albums One Size Fits All (1975), Them or Us (1984), Thing-Fish (1984) and Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention (1985). In an August...
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    Broth (redirect from Fish broth)
    that they are all the same thing. A stock, which is also a broth or a bouillon, is basically some meat, game, poultry, or fish simmered in water with bones...
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  • Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger Them or Us Francesco Zappa Thing-Fish The Old Masters, Box I Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention Does...
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    my instrument. Don't ask me how I knew, I just knew. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen." As a young child, Vai was influenced by the music his...
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    the quality control department objected to the lyrics of Zappa's album Thing-Fish. After this MCA cancelled the Zappa contract. At about the same time,...
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  • The Cat in the Hat (redirect from Thing 1)
    children's fish, the Cat shows the children a few of his tricks in an attempt to entertain them. In the process, he and his companions, Thing One and Thing Two...
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  • 1976 album Zoot Allures. Other versions appear on Zappa in New York, Thing-Fish, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1, You Can't Do That on Stage...
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    Lloyd and co-producer Richard Turner and co-hosts the podcast No Such Thing As A Fish. Schreiber was born c. 1984 in British Hong Kong to an Australian father...
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  • No Such Thing as the News is a British television comedy series on BBC Two, which is a spin-off to the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, produced and presented...
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  • 1982 single "Valley Girl". This song was also remixed for the 1984 album Thing-Fish. The lyrics, which essentially tell the listener to be themselves and...
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    (1982). Frank Zappa: in 1982 one of the first Synclavier owners; 1984's Thing-Fish (underscoring), Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger (1984, underscoring)...
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  • 1984 Zappa intended to move Barking Pumpkin distribution to MCA Records. Thing-Fish was produced as a test pressing by MCA. However, MCA cancelled the contract...
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    Allures (1976) Zappa in New York (1978) Studio Tan (1978) Sleep Dirt (1979) Thing-Fish (1984) You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Sampler (1988) You Can't Do...
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