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Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa is a person from the US, active from 1940.

Person US 1940–1993 progressive rock rock art rock
TOTAL PLAYS
370
SONGS PLAYED
83
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-25 09:54 · 6 Music — "Dirty Love"
LAST PLAYED
3 weeks ago · 6 Music — "Spider Of Destiny"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
30 23 15 8 0
'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 333 90%
Radio 2 28 8%
Radio 1 7 2%
1Xtra 2 1%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 19:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Peaches en Regalia 114 2025-12-24
2 Dancin' Fool 37 2024-08-18
3 Willie the Pimp 20 2024-02-01
4 Don't Eat the Yellow Snow 16 2019-12-25
5 Dirty Love 15 2025-09-18
6 Baby Snakes 12 2025-04-07
7 I'm the Slime 10 2026-05-07
8 Valley Girl 10 2024-11-02
9 Joe's Garage 10 2022-06-22
10 City Of Tiny Lites 8 2025-10-02
11 Camarillo Brillo 8 2025-04-25
12 Montana 8 2021-08-11
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-19 23:49 Spider Of Destiny 6 Music
2026-05-07 14:14 I'm the Slime 6 Music
2025-12-24 11:54 Peaches en Regalia 6 Music
2025-10-04 10:35 Little Umbrellas 6 Music
2025-10-02 11:11 City Of Tiny Lites 6 Music
2025-09-29 23:51 Pink Napkins 6 Music
2025-09-18 13:50 Dirty Love 6 Music
2025-06-17 21:41 Flower Punk 6 Music
2025-05-20 13:40 Watermelon in Easter Hay 6 Music
2025-04-25 22:54 Camarillo Brillo Radio 2
2025-04-22 13:51 The Dog Breath Variation/Uncle Meat (Medley/Live) 6 Music
2025-04-09 23:28 Uncle Remus 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

83 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
20 Small Cigars — 1 ▶
Alien Orifice — 2 ▶
Any Way The Wind Blows — 1 ▶
Apostrophe — 1 ▶
Apostrophe (') — 1 ▶
Approximate-Bale - Live In Basel, Switzerland / October 1, 1974 — 1 ▶
Baby Snakes — 12 ▶
Black Napkins — 1 ▶
Call Any Vegetable — 2 ▶
Camarillo Brillo — 8 ▶
City Of Tiny Lights — 1 ▶
City Of Tiny Lites — 8 ▶
Concentration Moon — 2 ▶
Cosmik Debris — 6 ▶
Cozmik Debris — 1 ▶
Dancin' Fool — 37 ▶
Dirty Love — 15 ▶
Disco Boy — 1 ▶
Dog Breath — 1 ▶
Don't Eat the Yellow Snow — 16 ▶
Eat That Question — 2 ▶
Elvis Has Just Left The Building — 1 ▶
Elvis has Left the Building — 1 ▶
Excentrifugal Forz — 1 ▶
Father O'Blivion — 2 ▶
Fire! — 2 ▶
Flakes — 1 ▶
Flower Punk — 4 ▶
Fountain of Love — 1 ▶
Hungry Freaks, Daddy — 1 ▶
I'm the Slime — 10 ▶
Inca Roads — 2 ▶
It Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal — 1 ▶
Joe's Garag — 1 ▶
Joe's Garage — 10 ▶
Joe's Garage (single version) — 1 ▶
Let's Make the Water Turn Black — 2 ▶
Let's Make The Water Turn Black / The Idiot Bastard Son / Lonely Little Girl — 1 ▶
Little Umbrellas — 1 ▶
Mom and Dad — 1 ▶
Montana — 8 ▶
Montana (radio edit) — 2 ▶
More Trouble Everyday (Live Recording) — 1 ▶
More Troubled Every Day — 1 ▶
Muffin Man — 3 ▶
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama — 1 ▶
Oh No — 1 ▶
Outrage At Valdez — 1 ▶
Peaches en Regalia — 114 ▶
Pink Napkins — 1 ▶
Purple Haze — 1 ▶
Sharleena — 1 ▶
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar — 1 ▶
Spider Of Destiny — 1 ▶
St Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast — 1 ▶
St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast — 2 ▶
Stairway to Heaven — 1 ▶
Status Back Baby — 1 ▶
Stinkfoot — 1 ▶
The Adventures of Greggery Peccary — 1 ▶
The Black Page Drum Solo / Black Page #1 — 1 ▶
The Central Scrutinizer — 1 ▶
The Dog Breath Variation/Uncle Meat (Medley/Live) — 1 ▶
The Gumbo Variations — 1 ▶
The Muffin Man — 1 ▶
The Sheik Yerbouti Tango — 1 ▶
Transylvania Boogie — 1 ▶
trouble comin' every day — 1 ▶
Uncle Remus — 4 ▶
Valley Girl — 10 ▶
Watermelon in Easter Hay — 3 ▶
Watermelon in Easter Hay (Live, 1978) — 1 ▶
We Are Not Alone — 1 ▶
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling — 1 ▶
Who Are The Brain Police? — 1 ▶
Who Needs the Peace Corp — 2 ▶
Who Needs the Peace Corps — 1 ▶
Who Needs the Peace Corps? — 1 ▶
Willie the Pimp — 20 ▶
You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here — 1 ▶
Your Mouth — 2 ▶
Zomby Woof — 3 ▶
Zoot Allures — 3 ▶