Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
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Artist: Captain BeefheartEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Reprise / Ada
Soundtracks:
- Frownland
- Dust Blows Forward 'N the Dust Blows Back
- Dachau Blues
- Ella Guru
- Hair Pie: Bake 1
- Moonlight in Vermont
- Pachuco Cadaver
- Bills Corpse
- Sweet Sweet Bulbs
- Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish
- China Pig
- My Human Gets Me Blues
- Dali's Car
- Hair Pie: Bake 2
- Pena
- Well
- When Big Joan Sets Up
- Fallin' Ditch
- Sugar 'N Spikes
- Ant Man Bee
- Orange Claw Hammer
- Wild Life
- She's Too Much for My Mirror
- Hobo Chang Ba
- Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)
- Steal Softly Thru Snow
- Old Fart at Play
- Veteran's Day Poppy
Music reviews of Trout Mask Replica
Music Review: Severely Strange Avant-Garde (music? noise?)
Rating: 3 Stars
This one is waaaaay out there . . . one of the most "out there" albums ever made. Also one of the most challenging, inaccessible and polarizing.
The main ingredients here are the standard guitar, bass, drums and vocals line up of your average rock band with some sax and other horns occasionally squealing away. There are no trippy mellotron flourishes or other spacey or radical sounds, yet music doesn't get much more bizarre than this album.
I actually love weird, avant-garde music (Faust, Mr. Bungle, Boredoms, etc.) but TROUT MASK REPLICA has always been just too much for me to take - until recently. A few months ago I started forcing myself to listen to it in an attempt to understand its appeal. I can report that I have come to actually enjoy it to some degree because it is so complicated and challenging and thus intrigueing. But these days I'll only put it on once in a blue moon and rarely will I sit through the entire album at once. But I have a new found respect for it. Some of the instrumentation is actually quite impressive and sometimes each of the instruments seem to be playing different songs at once. Quite disconcerting to be sure - and mind-warping. Playing these bizarre, off-kilter songs couldn't have been easy. In fact, the band supposedly rehearsed for an entire year while living in seclusion before they began recording (with Frank Zappa).
TROUT weds Captain Beefheart's growling, weird and whimsical prose with "music" (some refuse to call it that) that is so frantic, angular and jarring that the average listener will no doubt reject it out of hand. The most objectionable aspect of this music by far is its atonal quality, particularly from the guitar. Most of these songs have little regard for key or basic elements of song structure although a fundamental blues root can be detected at times. A few feature only Beefheart reciting/singing his poetry and it's quite . . . distinctive -- and I like it. If you can give this album a while to sink in, you might find it to be very rewarding. If nothing else it will expand your musical mind in strange new directions and you will be exposed to something radically different than anything you've ever heard before - whether you like it or not.
Tom Waits, who I love, was obviously greatly influenced by Beefheart. His voice came to take on a scruffy quality similar to The Cap'n's and he's also made reference to him in his lyrics. And Waits' music, of course, can get pretty weird as well. TROUT MASK REPLICA has had a huge influence on the music world, but mostly in terms of pushing musical boundaries. Never have I heard anything that sounds like it, save Beefheart's own music. Those who dig this album will want to get its follow up, LICK MY DECALS OFF, BABY which continues in the same chaotic vein as TROUT. Most of the other Beefheart music I've heard is rather poppy, almost run-of-the-mill blues-based music, although I know there's plenty of other Beefheart weirdness out there to be heard. I'm not really a fan but I'm glad to have been exposed. Rating: caution.
Description of Trout Mask Replica
Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 1969 album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, blues, and garage rock to free jazz and avant-garde experimentalism. Warner Brothers Records.A colleague of Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet) and his Magic Band produced some of the most eccentric music of the late 1960s--or, for that matter, ever. The high water mark of Beefheart's bizarre career, this double album of freeform "Dada rock" features such daunting tracks as "Pachuco Cadaver," "Hair Pie (Bakes 1 and 2)," and "Neon Meat Dream of an Octafish," all of which actually sound as unusual as their titles. Between Beefheart's mind-bending lyrics and cavernous voice, as well as the twisted playing of guitarists Zoot Horn Rollo and Antennae Jimmy Semens, bassist Rockette Morton and drummer The Mascara Snake, this album fully explains the expression "far out." --Billy Altman
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