Capt. Beefheart

Dick Jones
Dick Jones Posts: 777
edited March 2007 in Other Music
Where should I start?
Are you too good to tango with the poor poor boys?
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  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    "The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back" Anthology
  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    Not all of his albums are available right now. I reccommend his first album "Safe As Milk" as a good place to start. "Clear Spot" is his catchiest and most accessible album. "Doc At The Radar Station" is also fantastic. "Trout Mask Replica" is his most famous album becuase it's a total mindfuck. It's sort of like those paintings that look like gibberish until you focus and a 3-D image emerges. But if you want an overview of his entire career, the Anthology I mentioned in my previous post is a good place to start.
  • Dick Jones
    Dick Jones Posts: 777
    MMMkay.
    Are you too good to tango with the poor poor boys?
  • stu gee
    stu gee Posts: 1,174
    I had no choice but to listen to safe as milk all the time as a kid, because everytime my parents and their friends got wasted, that album would go on full blast. I didnt really appreciate it till i was a bit older but its ok.

    And that song Ice Cream for Crow is excellent.
    People say im paranoid. Well, they dont say it, but i know that's what they are thinking.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I'd try The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot. Both albums catch Beefheart in 1972, when he was fusing the weirdness of Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals Off, Baby with some good ole pimpmastah funk. Here's the Captain, from this period:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwEKene6ha0

    Then, when you're ready, you can venture this way:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFMjztFBSzM
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Happy birthday, Trout Mask Replica. Fifty years old today!
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    https://apple.news/AaoiAGEBDTfi_hIVh3G0Fmw
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,838
    dankind said:
    https://apple.news/AaoiAGEBDTfi_hIVh3G0Fmw
    Good article, thanks.

    I've been a long time Cptn B fan but I sometimes wish I hadn't read about some of the ways Van Vliet treated his crew.  Some of it sounds like a horror story, especially... ahh, but I really don't want to disparage the magic, which is what the end result of all that craziness was.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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