Uncle Meat
by The Mothers Of Invention
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Uncle Meat is ranked 5th best out of 124 albums by Frank Zappa on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Frank Zappa is Hot Rats which is ranked number 238 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,576.
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Uncle Meat track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Uncle Meat rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 47 Music Albums of 1969 | 23/47 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 1301-1400 | 65/100 | - |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1969 | 74/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 97 Music Albums of 1969 | 71/97 | 1 |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 42 Music Albums of 1969 | 8/42 | 4 |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1960s | 27/100 | 15 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 97 Music Albums of 1969 | 47/97 | 3 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 45 Music Albums of 1969 | 42/45 | 0 |
| 2026 | brent13 | Top 97 Music Albums of the 1960s | 88/97 | 2 |
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 37 Music Albums of 1969 | 12/37 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 165 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,112 | |||
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Uncle Meat ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/30/2026 01:31 | thedudeabides | 169 | 83/100 |
| ! | 01/24/2026 18:04 | Bluedog | 165 | 73/100 |
| ! | 12/11/2025 01:14 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,781 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.5/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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Uncle Meat forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 06/30/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5359): By PurpleHazel
Rhyner 06/10/2026 17:27 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Uncle Meat comments
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While it isn't my favorite Mothers release, I do think it is the perfect culmination of all the ideas present in the early part of Zappa's career. It has the pop flavor of Freak Out as well as the heavy jazz influence of Hot Rats. (Edited)
Romanelli TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/27/2011 19:06 | #31522 | TOP COMMENT
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Zappa can even make gibberish work. This is a brilliant, underrated work. (Edited)
Taken as an isolated work (not as a part of a larger project) this may be, to me, Zappa's strongest display of his abilities as a musical artist. Many of the tracks are autonomously great but it's the succession and assemblage of these ideas and compositions that I find really exhilarating. Zappa's talent as an orchestral composer is usually overstated while his genius for editing and producing (in evidence in his early albums and in Trout Mask Replica) is not mentioned enough. That's why I'm not that big of a fan of King Kong (too long and stable a jazz-fusion for my taste) but love the preceding rollicking cascade of ideas (and instruments) and the implicit and explicit interplay of richly arranged polyrhythmic melodic pieces with the more erudite modernist dissonant pieces, bits of spoken word, bits of live performances, traditional doo-wop melodies, solo performances, etc. (Edited)
I have a vinyl version of this which doesn't have the 1/2 hour long movie interlude. The second best Zappa album behind Hot Rats imo (Edited)
This would rank as another Zappa masterpiece if not for the overlong and rambling film-clip interlude. Why, oh why?
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