The Playlist of Life --- Trollheart's resurrected Journal

**Frownland** · 01-16-2017, 01:26 PM

Please, call me Christian.

The Batlord · 01-16-2017, 01:33 PM

No, Chris.

**Frownland** · 01-16-2017, 01:39 PM

Chris has been appropriated by the myselfers and I don't associate with people who try to use me like that.

Trollheart · 01-16-2017, 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord

You could always post the review in a new post and edit the OP with a... whatever Chris was talking about. An index?

Huh? I already said I will put a LINK to the index in the OP (explained why I can't transfer it there) and anyway it's in my sig. Other than that, I don't know what you're talking about...

The Batlord · 01-16-2017, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Huh? I already said I will put a LINK to the index in the OP (explained why I can't transfer it there) and anyway it's in my sig. Other than that, I don't know what you're talking about...

Click "Edit" in the OP. Copy original post. Paste original post into new post. Post index into OP. Profit.

Trollheart · 01-16-2017, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Click "Edit" in the OP. Copy original post. Paste original post into new post. Post index into OP. Profit.

There isn't room, you dumbass! Didn't I already say? Do you think I don't know how to edit a goddamn post? It's too damn large and there is a maximum character limit per post. This exceeds that. By a large amount.

The Batlord · 01-16-2017, 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trollheart

There isn't room, you dumbass! Didn't I already say? Do you think I don't know how to edit a goddamn post? It's too damn large and there is a maximum character limit per post. This exceeds that. By a large amount.

Then how do you have a link? Do you have like ten posts of indexed ****?

Trollheart · 01-16-2017, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Then how do you have a link? Do you have like ten posts of indexed ****?

Jesus Christ on a surfboard! There isn't room for the full list, which seems to be what you're asking me to put on the OP. I can't: it's thousands of characters long. You're talking about the whole of page 311 minus the graphics. It already takes up two posts: I had to split it because it would not fit in one post. I can put a LINK to page 311 on the OP, which I will, but I CANNOT paste the entire list in because there is no room. Comprendez-vous? The link in my sig goes to page 311. Clear?

Trollheart · 01-18-2017, 03:19 PM

Well I've already reviewed Trout Mask Replica twice, with varying degrees of success, so I won't be doing it here again. You can follow the link in the OP to the other review if you want. That means we move on to the next one in the Captain's discography, which is this:

Album title: Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Artiste: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Genre: Experimental/Psych/Jazz/Avant-Garde etc
Year: 1969
Label: Straight Records
Producer: Don Van Vliet
Chronological position: Fourth album
Notes:
Album chart position: 20 (UK)
Singles: n/a
Lineup: Captain Beefheart—vocals,bass clarinet,tenor sax,soprano sax,harmonica
Zoot Horn Rollo—electric guitar and glass finger guitar
Rockette Morton—bassius-o-pheilius
Drumbo—percussion,broom
Ed Marimba—marimba, percussion, broom

Review begins

The title track kicks it off, and I guess it takes up from where TMR left off, with a fast kind of folky guitar and that weird vocal that became his trademark, later copied by Waits. Doesn't do anything for me, not the greatest opener from my point of view, but like all the songs here it is short; there's hardly anything over three minutes. “Doctor Dark” is another kind of folky tune again on sharp guitar, while there's some good harmonica on “I love ya big dummy” and some fairly crazy screeching from the Captain. “Peon” is an instrumental mostly on acoustic guitar I think and there's some interesting sax in “Bellerin Plain” but it's not something I like. Marimbas give “Woe-is-uh-me-bop” a very familiar Waits feel to me, and yes, I know he was later but it just makes me feel a little more comfortable with this tune, which given my reaction so far is important. Then tehre's “Japan in a dishpan” which wrecks my ears with more harsh sax.

Rapidly losing the will to live here. Can't even think of anything to write. “Petrified forest” has a nice jangly feel to it, while “One red rose that I mean” is a decent little instrumental. “The buggy boogie woogie” is at least keeping my interest, quite cool, funky little guitar line holding it and a good vocal nd “The Smithsonian Institute Blues” is not without its charm, though “Space age couple” is just repetitive and very annoying. So is the closer, just a mess to my ears.

Track listing and ratings

Lick my decals off, baby
Doctor Dark
I love you, you big dummy
Peon
Bellerin' Plain
Woe-is-uh-me-bop
Japan in a dishpan
I wanna find a woman that'll hold my big toe till I have to go
Petrified forest
One red rose that I mean
The buggy boogie woogie
The Smithsonian Institute blues (or The Big Dig)
Space age couple
The clouds are full of wine (not whiskey or rye)
Flash Gordon's ape

Afterword: So we meet again Captain, and it's not a happy meeting. I feel that if I have any way in at all to this guy's music – and I'm not saying by any means that I do – then it may be through the later albums when, apparently, he stopped with all the experimental nonsense * and settled down into what I would, and did, in reviews, call more accessible music for the likes of me. But for now, still not a fan, nor particularly expecting to be.

* I don't mean it's actual nonsense, Frown, just that it does nothing for me and doesn't come across as pleasant to my ears.

Rating:

**Frownland** · 01-18-2017, 03:30 PM

That's his middle period you're thinking of, lovingly referred to as "The Tragic Band". At the end of his career he went back to nonsense, which has some of the most abrasive tracks of his career.

01-16-2017, 01:26 PM	#3211 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Please, call me Christian. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-16-2017, 01:39 PM	#3213 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Chris has been appropriated by the myselfers and I don't associate with people who try to use me like that. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-18-2017, 03:19 PM	#3219 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,970	Well I've already reviewed Trout Mask Replica twice, with varying degrees of success, so I won't be doing it here again. You can follow the link in the OP to the other review if you want. That means we move on to the next one in the Captain's discography, which is this: Album title: Lick My Decals Off, Baby Artiste: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Genre: Experimental/Psych/Jazz/Avant-Garde etc Year: 1969 Label: Straight Records Producer: Don Van Vliet Chronological position: Fourth album Notes: Album chart position: 20 (UK) Singles: n/a Lineup: Captain Beefheart—vocals,bass clarinet,tenor sax,soprano sax,harmonica Zoot Horn Rollo—electric guitar and glass finger guitar Rockette Morton—bassius-o-pheilius Drumbo—percussion,broom Ed Marimba—marimba, percussion, broom Review begins The title track kicks it off, and I guess it takes up from where TMR left off, with a fast kind of folky guitar and that weird vocal that became his trademark, later copied by Waits. Doesn't do anything for me, not the greatest opener from my point of view, but like all the songs here it is short; there's hardly anything over three minutes. “Doctor Dark” is another kind of folky tune again on sharp guitar, while there's some good harmonica on “I love ya big dummy” and some fairly crazy screeching from the Captain. “Peon” is an instrumental mostly on acoustic guitar I think and there's some interesting sax in “Bellerin Plain” but it's not something I like. Marimbas give “Woe-is-uh-me-bop” a very familiar Waits feel to me, and yes, I know he was later but it just makes me feel a little more comfortable with this tune, which given my reaction so far is important. Then tehre's “Japan in a dishpan” which wrecks my ears with more harsh sax. Rapidly losing the will to live here. Can't even think of anything to write. “Petrified forest” has a nice jangly feel to it, while “One red rose that I mean” is a decent little instrumental. “The buggy boogie woogie” is at least keeping my interest, quite cool, funky little guitar line holding it and a good vocal nd “The Smithsonian Institute Blues” is not without its charm, though “Space age couple” is just repetitive and very annoying. So is the closer, just a mess to my ears. Track listing and ratings Lick my decals off, baby Doctor Dark I love you, you big dummy Peon Bellerin' Plain Woe-is-uh-me-bop Japan in a dishpan I wanna find a woman that'll hold my big toe till I have to go Petrified forest One red rose that I mean The buggy boogie woogie The Smithsonian Institute blues (or The Big Dig) Space age couple The clouds are full of wine (not whiskey or rye) Flash Gordon's ape Afterword: So we meet again Captain, and it's not a happy meeting. I feel that if I have any way in at all to this guy's music – and I'm not saying by any means that I do – then it may be through the later albums when, apparently, he stopped with all the experimental nonsense * and settled down into what I would, and did, in reviews, call more accessible music for the likes of me. But for now, still not a fan, nor particularly expecting to be. * I don't mean it's actual nonsense, Frown, just that it does nothing for me and doesn't come across as pleasant to my ears. Rating: __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

01-18-2017, 03:30 PM	#3220 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	That's his middle period you're thinking of, lovingly referred to as "The Tragic Band". At the end of his career he went back to nonsense, which has some of the most abrasive tracks of his career. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x