Music for Pets is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the band "Z", led by Dweezil

Dweezil Zappa

Dweezil Zappa is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor.-Early life:Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of musician Frank Zappa and Adelaide Gail Sloatman, who worked in business. He is the second of four siblings: his older sister, Moon, younger sister Diva and younger...

 and Ahmet Zappa

Ahmet Zappa

Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa is an American musician, actor and novelist.-Early life:Ahmet was born in Los Angeles, California, the third of four children born to businesswoman Adelaide Gail Sloatman and musician Frank Zappa. Ahmet's father was of Sicilian, Greek-Arab and French descent and his...

, released in 1996.

The creation of the album was a troubled one, with multiple recording sessions interrupted by the death of Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

, the creation and recording of new material based on what was popular at the time, and delays in the release causing several versions to be released at various times. This resulted in the "French Version" the "US Version", and the "Bone-Us Version" which was a CD of out-takes and unreleased material. When all is counted, Music for Pets underwent over a year of recording sessions, five re-mixes, three different sequences, and at least three different main engineers.

The cover art is a parody of their previous effort, Shampoohorn, and the inner photograph and listing of dogs as "Band Members" Bing Jang on guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

 and background vocals and Arkansas on bass guitar

Bass guitar

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 are pseudonyms and retribution for the firing of guitarist Mike Keneally

Mike Keneally

Michael Joseph Keneally is an American guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and composer. Allmusic says: "With his wide-ranging talents and ability to be creative in almost any musical situation, Keneally is the leading progressive rock genius of the post-Zappa era."Born on Long Island, New York, he...

 due to the Zappas' reluctance to allow his own band, "Mike Keneally & Beer For Dolphins" (later "The Mike Keneally Band") to exist at the same time as "Z". Bass guitarist Bryan Beller

Bryan Beller

Bryan Beller is an American bass guitarist known for his work with Mike Keneally, Steve Vai, Dethklok, James LaBrie of Dream Theater, and Dweezil Zappa.-Career:...

 made the decision to leave the band in support of Keneally, with whom he also played bass guitar in "Beer For Dolphins". This proved to be an important decision for both "sidemen", as Keneally and Beller have continued to work together on "Mike Keneally Band" releases, Beller's initial solo album View and an upcoming second release, various other recording and DVD projects, multiple American and European tours, as clinicians for Taylor Guitars

Taylor Guitars

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, and finally as self-proclaimed "Musical Soulmates". "Z" never released more material or played live again, essentially "breaking up" in 1997 with Dweezil

Dweezil Zappa

Dweezil Zappa is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor.-Early life:Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of musician Frank Zappa and Adelaide Gail Sloatman, who worked in business. He is the second of four siblings: his older sister, Moon, younger sister Diva and younger...

 focusing on several television projects such as the variety show "Happy Hour" with brother Ahmet

Ahmet Zappa

Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa is an American musician, actor and novelist.-Early life:Ahmet was born in Los Angeles, California, the third of four children born to businesswoman Adelaide Gail Sloatman and musician Frank Zappa. Ahmet's father was of Sicilian, Greek-Arab and French descent and his...

 and television and musical projects with then-girlfriend Lisa Loeb

Lisa Loeb

Lisa Anne Loeb is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She launched her career in 1994 with the song, "Stay ". She was the first artist to have a number one single in the United States while not signed to a recording contract.Loeb's efforts now include music, film, television, voice-over...

.

French track listing

1. "Singer In The Woods"
2. "Pure"
3. "Here"
4. "Flibberty Jibbet"
5. "Coyote Face"
6. "What It B"
7. "Ask Yourself"
8. "Feminine S.D.H."
9. "Us"
10. "Not My Fault"
11. "With You"
12. "Evil"
13. "Based On A True Story"
14. "Music For Pets"
15. "Polar Bear"
16. "Happy Song"
17. "I Wants Me Gold"
18. "Boodledang"
19. "Chicken Out"
20. "Enigma"
21. "Badass"
22. "Silver Lady Disco"

US track listing

1. "Silver Lady Disco"
2. "Coyote Face"
3. "True Face"
4. "Feminine SDH"
5. "Boodledang"
6. "Music For Pets"
7. "Us"
8. "Chicken Out"
9. "With You"
10. "Song For S"
11. "Father Time"
12. "Happiness"
13. "Pure"
14. "Mind Control"
15. "Flibberty Jibbet"
16. "Based On A True Story"
17. "Silver Lady"
18. "Choke"
19. "Singer In The Woods..." (with unlisted bonus track "Evil")

"Bone-Us" track listing

1. "Badass"
2. "Enigma"
3. "Fuckin' Glad"
4. "Happy Song"
5. "I Wants Me Gold"
6. "You Used All My Soap"
7. "What It B"
8. "Ask Yourself"
9. "Polar Bear"
10. "The Finger"
11. "Not My Fault"
12. "Here"

Some versions of the "Bone-Us" release includes two additional songs inserted into the running order: "Farfignewton" as Track 8 and "Rice Pudding" as Track 13. The rest of the tracklisting is the same notwithstanding the two new songs.

Personnel

• Dweezil Zappa - lead guitar, lead and background vocals
• Ahmet Zappa - lead vocals
• Joe Travers - drums
• Bryan Beller
  Bryan Beller
  Bryan Beller is an American bass guitarist known for his work with Mike Keneally, Steve Vai, Dethklok, James LaBrie of Dream Theater, and Dweezil Zappa.-Career:...
  
   - bass guitar
• Mike Keneally
  Mike Keneally
  Michael Joseph Keneally is an American guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and composer. Allmusic says: "With his wide-ranging talents and ability to be creative in almost any musical situation, Keneally is the leading progressive rock genius of the post-Zappa era."Born on Long Island, New York, he...
  
  - guitar, background vocals