"Inca Roads" – 8:45
"Can't Afford No Shoes" – 2:38
"Sofa No. 1" – 2:39
"Po-Jama People" – 7:39

"Florentine Pogen" – 5:27
"Evelyn, a Modified Dog" – 1:04
"San Ber'dino" – 5:57
"Andy" – 6:04
"Sofa No. 2" – 2:42

Frank Zappa – vocals, guitar
George Duke – keyboards, vocals, backing vocals, synthesizer
Ruth Underwood – marimba, vibraphone, percussion
Johnny "Guitar" Watson – vocals
James "Bird Legs" Youman – bass guitar
Chester Thompson – drums, sound effects, voices
Tom Fowler – bass guitar
Captain Beefheart (credited as 'Bloodshot Rollin' Red') – harmonica
Napoleon Murphy Brock – tenor saxophone, vocals, backing vocals, flute

Producer Frank Zappa

Recorded Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles; Caribou Ranch, Nederland, CO; and Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, August 1974 - April 1975

Released June 25, 1975. Label: DiscReet Records.

I was 15 years old and living in England just outside of Liverpool when a few footsteps into my friend's living room one summer had me facing a wall of sound that quite literally had the adolescent fast forward button pressed and held down until the entire album had finished revolving.

What the fuck happened? Prepare to be enlightened..

My friend's having a collection of Captain Beefheart albums and a nearby Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention collection all standing vertically was something I had noticed but not heard. I was still getting over just being introduced to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and like a toothpick being slammed into the middle of my forehead, One Size Fits All came hurtling through the speakers to adrenalize just about evrything in me that hitherto had been in a coma!

As a young and impressionable bass player, I was floored by Tom Fowler's playing. Frank's guitar work that soldered each and every one of my meninges and then ironed them flat was just ridiculously well informed and the production was, and still is, unsurpassable genius!

I want both versions of Sofa played at my bowing out (plus the live version from Zappa in New York!) but here's the thing... if you do not own this album you have a condition of some kind that needs seeing to plus, furthermore, you are a living disgrace to our species and I have no respect for living disgraces! Come to redemption and repent... buy the album if you haven't already it truly is astonishing with a capital 'ing'!

Colin Lynch