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It makes me sad, considering this, about how the free jazz elements were driven by time out of Beefheart's music. One of the members of Tragic Mulatto told me he liked Beefheart's late material best. I guess I admired him so much I bought into it for a long time.
Sometimes an album can hang its out on just one or two songs. These are not the songs of white bread blues. This album has one of Beefheart's greatest songs, Big Eyed Beans from Venus, and his absolute best song and the best love song ever written, My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains. Those two plus Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles make this my overall favorite Beefheart record.
Odd, isn't it?
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