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**Frownland** · 10-31-2017, 06:06 PM

Trout Mask Replica: Our 8 Step Guide to appreciating an “unlistenable” masterpiece | Shoot Farken

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I would now like to speak to those of you who have not yet embraced the calamitous beauty that is Trout Mask Replica.

Hi. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Selfish bastards!

Get your heads together. Show some class and for once in your self-centred lives.

Show some goddamn respect.

You owe these musicians your lives. They fought for your musical freedom. They blazed trails for you. They cried, starved and bled for you. For god’s sake, they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into; they were young and naive, but by god they showed some grit and discipline by sticking out the eight month ordeal so you didn’t have to.

This album is the Gideon’s Bible of experimental music. If, in the space-time continuum, The Bible was replaced by Trout Mask Replica in every hotel room bedside drawer, then perhaps us humans might be able to spread our wings and fly. It would rain black label whisky, men would be able to fellate themselves and Donald Trump would be every single birthday pinata in Mexico.

Look at the album’s cover. It’s Captain Beefheart waving at you with a fish for a head. He’s waving at you, man! He’s being friendly, sociable. He wants to hang with you and you jocks refuse to because he’s a little bit weird and doesn’t play sport. This ain’t high school, man.