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All rights reserved.| Track Listing 1. Frownland 2. Dust Blows Forward 'n' The Dust Blows Back 3. Dachau Blues 4. Ella Guru 5. Hair Pie/Bake I 6. Moonlight On Vermont 7. Pachuco Cadaver 8. Bill's 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 II 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 26. Steal Softly Thru Snow 27. Old Fart At Play 28. Veteran's Day Poppy
Album Notes 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. Editorial Reviews Rolling Stone (12/11/2003) | |||||||||||||
Reviews Review created: 08/02/08 by: 1 of 1 people found this review helpful. This album was recorded after a grueling three month rehearsal period in a rented house in 'the valley'. The album was recorded 'live' with Frank Zappa sequestered in the bathroom with the recording equipment. After the music was all recorded the conversation sort of went : FZ :(reportedly) OK, Don, I'll take the tapes and do some editing, and then you can listen to the finished item." CB(Don) : It's done Frank. FZ : No, Don, you need to mix and edit the tapes. CB : It's done Frank. And so it was. The record came out as a double album exactly as recorded. Cuts between tracks are just that, and the balance is random. But this record invariably makes everyones top 100 albums of all time. Bizarre but brilliant !! Rich. Review ID: 10000000005533743 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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