Friday Night Record Party : Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica

1969

Reprise/Straight Records

Format I Own it on: Vinyl

Track Listing: 1. Frownland 2. The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back 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. The Blimp (mousetrapreplica) 26. Steal Softly thru Snow 27. Old Fart at Play 28. Veteran's Day Poppy

Captain Beefheart's dance pop masterpiece! As soon as you first put the needle on the record and hear the club-ready beats on "Frownland (featuring Macklemore and Katy Perry)" the bottles of Cristal seem to pop open themselves (SWAG)!

BUB!!

"Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish (featuring Flo Rida, Ge Orgia, and South Da Koda)" " beats David Guetta at his own VIP/French-House/Blogstep game..."Pop Life" indeed!!

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$BALLIN"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Alright, enough horsin' around...If you haunt record stores long enough, eventually a big, red double-album with a guy holding a fish up to his face is going to catch your eye...The curiosity is going to be too much to take and you're going to go home with a copy of Captain Beefheart's 1969 classic "Trout Mask Replica."

This album seems to divide people...People usually declare it a masterpiece or they declare that anyone who considers this a masterpiece is lying...That it's just a bunch of noise and nobody actually like it...

I don't know, man...I liked this as soon as I put it on...It wasn't even the usual "you need to give it 4 or 5 listens before it reveals itself to you" thing either...I can only attribute this to the fact that I spent so many of my teenage years listening to Tom Waits and the Minutemen non-stop...

Good god, Tom Waits has definitely listened to this...Give "China Pig" a spin and tell me it wouldn't sound right at home on "Frank's Wild Years" or "Bone Machine"...

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I think I get the Minutemen from the thin guitar tone and the jagged swing of it all...The songs sound like they've been shattered into a thousand pieces and glued back together all wrong....

"Just keep comin' Jesus,
You're the best dressed,
You look dandy in the sky but you don't scare me,
Cause I got you here in my eye..."

It doesn't make literal sense, but damned if you don't feel something as you hear him wheeze and roar those lines...

Oddly enough, during the middle of Side Two you're totally used to it and suddenly it dawns on you that it's shuffling blue-rock...Just the gait is a little odd...

The acapella songs that came off as nothing more than slightly humorous on Side One suddenly become riveting by the time you get to "Well," and is it just me or are "Sugar N' Spikes" and "Ant Man Bee" real toe-tappers? Ah, who can tell anymore...

I can't convey how difficult these songs must have been to play...As each song starts it seems like the music is random for the first measure or so, but they keep playing those random sequences over and over...How do they play these flaws so flawlessly? I don't know...For that feat alone this record deserves all the praise it has received...

I personally find this album to be a blast...I spin it often and I recommend it for anyone who's into adventurous music...This is about as adventurous as it gets...But what do you serve your guests when you're playing"Trout Mask Replica" at your very own Friday Night Record Party? That's easy...