Francesco Zappa

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I bought the LPs of Francesco Zappa, The Perfect Stranger: Boulez Conducts Zappa, and Them Or Us on the same day.  They were all released at about the same time, and all featured the anthropomorphic dog drawn by Donald Roller Wilson in the cover art.  I played Them Or Us regularly as it was the most accessible of those three albums and caught my first Zappa show in '84 on the Them Or Us tour at Merriweather Post Pavilion.  
 

When I opened my record store in 2005, I sold those records.   Along with many other treasured pieces I let go then, I have some regrets, but hey, I was starting a business, and here I am 19 years later, still at it. 
 

I've come across other copies of Them Or Us and The Perfect Stranger, but never another copy of Francesco Zappa.  I can't imagine that they sold too many copies.  Frank doing synclavier versions of works by an obscure 18th Century Italian composer?  Pretty much limited to the hardcore Zappa collectors and Classical Music completists.

It's great that you are still getting mileage out of it Fabes.  Much like the original Francisco Zappa's works which Frank unburied, if the music isn't played, it is forgotten.

Bravo!

You gotta be a really, really hardcore Frank Zappa fan to appreciate this stuff at all I think

Personally, I was never able to decide whether the synclavier noises or the music itself was the worst part of the album

In a lifetime's worth of very odd and novel albums, this one is near the top of Frank's heap