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jackhammer · 05-04-2008, 03:00 PM

3: CAPTAIN BEEFHEART-TROUT MASK REPLICA

Okay a fairly obvious choice but it's so damn good. Why should music follow natural progressions. It can excite, confuse, infuriate and delight in equal measure. This is what TMR can do. On first listen 90% of listeners hate it. The strange noises, the abrupt change in rythmns and disregard for genre conventions leads you to the assumption that this is just a product of it's drug induced time (1969). Subsequent listens reveal an unbelievably well written, highly textured album that takes in free form jazz, swamp blues, psychedelic rock riffs and spoken word snippets.

An album that is nearly 40 years old has an astonishing capacity to excite and remain wholly original. What is also remarkable is the complete lack of keyboards on the album with Musique Concrete filling in the ambience on the album.

I cannot really compare it to anyone else except perhaps early Zappa (who just so happened to produce!) and that is testament to the demented genius of Captain Beefheart. Even if you don't want it in your collection, anybody with a passing interest in music should listen to it once to proclaim that you made it through to the end after being aurally and sonically battered.

The Captain Beefheart Radar Station

05-04-2008, 03:00 PM	#18 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	3: CAPTAIN BEEFHEART-TROUT MASK REPLICA Okay a fairly obvious choice but it's so damn good. Why should music follow natural progressions. It can excite, confuse, infuriate and delight in equal measure. This is what TMR can do. On first listen 90% of listeners hate it. The strange noises, the abrupt change in rythmns and disregard for genre conventions leads you to the assumption that this is just a product of it's drug induced time (1969). Subsequent listens reveal an unbelievably well written, highly textured album that takes in free form jazz, swamp blues, psychedelic rock riffs and spoken word snippets. An album that is nearly 40 years old has an astonishing capacity to excite and remain wholly original. What is also remarkable is the complete lack of keyboards on the album with Musique Concrete filling in the ambience on the album. I cannot really compare it to anyone else except perhaps early Zappa (who just so happened to produce!) and that is testament to the demented genius of Captain Beefheart. Even if you don't want it in your collection, anybody with a passing interest in music should listen to it once to proclaim that you made it through to the end after being aurally and sonically battered. The Captain Beefheart Radar Station __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”