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Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica (CD 2006)

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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

Details
Number of CDs:	1
Producer:	Frank Zappa
Recording Type:	Studio
Distributor:	Cinram Logistics
Recording Mode:	Stereo

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
Ranked #58 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All TimeRolling 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 (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...
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)

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Trout mask replica - captain beefheart

Review created: 08/02/08

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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.

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