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Trout Mask Replica (CD)

By: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (Artist)

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Captain Beefheart Artist Snapshot:

From the 1960s through the early '80s, Captain Beeheart (Don Van Vliet) fused free jazz, the avant-garde, blues, and rock in a highly original, unclassifiable style. He's had few peers, but his angular, uncompromising sound has influenced countless younger artists, from Robyn Hitchcock to Tom Waits. Beefheart started out in a relatively straight ahead bluesy rock mode, but his music (courtesy of the Magic Band) grew progressively stranger and more complex with each album, culminating in his masterpiece, 1969's TROUT MASK REPLICA. After 1982's ICE CREAM FOR CROW, the ever-inscrutable Captain retired from music, concentrating instead on his painting.

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DISC 1 for Trout Mask Replica (CD) Album By Captain Beefheart & His Magic ...
1   Frownland
2   Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back, The
3   Dachau Blues
4   Ella Guru
5   Hair Pie: Bake 1
6   Moonlight On Vermont
7   Pachuco Cadaver
8   Bills Corpse
9   Sweet Sweet Bulbs
10   Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish
11   China Pig
12   My Human Gets Me Blues
13   Dali's Car
14   Hair Pie: Bake 2
15   Pena
16   Well
17   When Big Joan Sets Up
18   Fallin' Ditch
19   Sugar 'N Spikes
20   Ant Man Bee
21   Orange Claw Hammer
22   Wild Life
23   She's Too Much For My Mirror
24   Hobo Chang Ba
25   Blimp, The (Mousetrapreplica)
26   Steal Softly Thru Snow
27   Old Fart At Play
28   Veteran's Day Poppy
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.112) - Ranked #58 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time"
Rolling Stone (7/26/69, p.37) - "...[TROUT MASK REPLICA] is a total success, a brilliant, stunning, enlargement and clarification of [Beefheart's] art....the most unusual and challenging musical experience you'll have this year."
Q (11/94, p.136) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - "...the acme of true psychedelia and the most liberated music ever recorded...few musicians have ever worked so hard at bucking the perimeter of the fence of the rock song..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.53) - Ranked #1 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "A triumph of individual genius, matched by a collective work ethic..."

Title Note

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Captain Beefheart (vocals, soprano & tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, simran horn, musette); Antennae Jimmy Stevens (vocals, guitar); The Mascara Snake (vocals, bass clarinet); Rockette Morton (narration, bass); Zoot Horn Rollo (guitar, flute); Doug Moon (guitar); John "Drumbo" French (drums).

Previously released as a 2-LP set.

A great, sprawling, discordant work of genius--TROUT MASK REPLICA gives the lie to the frequent criticism that all double albums are exercises in self indulgence. Or perhaps in Captain Beefheart's case it's impossible to separate the self indulgence from the meaningful art--certainly the pieces you may feel on first listening to be the most excessively obscure are those that keep you coming back for more.

Embedded in this influential, messy, confusing yet brilliant enterprise are a plethora of sui generis gems such as "Ella Guru" and "Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish," though "China Pig" with its electric blues accompaniment finds Beefheart harking back to his Howlin' Wolf roots, and "Well" is similarly rooted in old Southern work songs--though obviously as sung by Salvador Dali. The sound is by turns murky, amateurish, and compellingly powerful. The Magic Band churns and twists under the Captain's direction, and on tracks such as "When Big Joan Sets Up," rocks as fiercely as Cecil Taylor. But be warned--after hearing TROUT MASK REPLICA, you'll never be able to listen to music in quite the same way again.

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