The Man From Utopia ~ Frank Zappa

The Man from Utopia is an album by American musician Frank Zappa, released in March 1983 by Barking Pumpkin Records. The album is named after a 1950s song, written by Donald and Doris Woods, which Zappa covers as part of "The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou".
"The Dangerous Kitchen", "Mōggio" and "The Jazz Discharge Party Hats" were all prepared for Zappa's unreleased album Chalk Pie.
The album was the second of two to credit Steve Vai with "impossible guitar parts", the first album being the preceding Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (1982).
The sleeve art features the work of Tanino Liberatore. It portrays Zappa on stage trying to kill mosquitoes. That is a reference to a concert held in Italy in 1982, the year before the release of the album, on 7 July at Parco Redecesio (which is also referred in a street sign on the album cover) in Segrate, near Milan. While Zappa was playing, a huge number of mosquitoes began flying on stage and gave the band a hard time. The back cover shows the audience as seen from the stage during the 1982 concert in Palermo, which ended in a riot.
The sleeve art is also a reference to Liberatore's comic character RanXerox.
1. Cocaine Decisions 00:00
2. SEX 03:53
3. Tink Walks Amok 07:37
4. The Radio Is Broken 11:16
5. We Are Not Alone 17:07
6. The Dangerous Kitchen 20:35
7. The Man from Utopia Meets Mary Lou 23:27
8. Stick Together 26:45
9. The Jazz Discharge Party Hats 30:25
10. Luigi & the Wise Guys 34:53
11. Mōggio 38:18