"TMR is one of the few things that still makes sense to me in this world anymore." But this album is as old (give or take a few years) as every Beatles album, most of Dylan's best work, most of Pink Floyd's best albums... None of that makes sense to you anymore in this world? And I've only touched on music as far as "things that could also still make sense to you." If you're willing to go back THIS FAR to find things that make sense to you, it seems like there should be plenty. 🤷
Well said. Keep sayin the way you say coz you said that well and imma bout to choke on all the unwellsaidness and need more wellsaidness to encourage my flagging emancipation. Like that.
@@neilleach5249 The same anticipation you'd get after randomly bashing around and recording two 'freeform' guitar parts, just before you listened back to them. If we're being honest, there's never much "like" attached to the result ;)
You might want to listen to XTC's "Roads Girdle the Globe" if you like "Ella Guru." Roads has a good bit of inspiration from Trout Mask Replica. ua-cam.com/video/o1JZCCeVzn0/v-deo.html
@@creationofseda Nah I've slept to this album (not out of boredom..) I think it's a good album just lets you feel like you should act how you want and not give a shit, no stress
I’ll never understand why people act like this is so inaccessible. Parts of TMR are difficult of you’re not used to experimental stuff, but this is just pure fun.
@@bummbrotha1065 this is extremely accurate, i found cecil taylor and sun ra to be way harder to listen to at first then trout mask replica was on first listen
This is one of the more normal sounding songs on the album when you compare it to everything else. This is probably my favorite song on it because of all the complicated yet catchy melodies followed by Beefheart's somewhat comedic vocals
I adopted a tuxedo cat who came with the name Bella. By chance, I Listened to Trout Mask Replica the first weekend she was here. When I heard track 4, I procLaimed her name shaLL be BeLLa Guru. May she Live Long, fast y buLbous.
Well, if you are like me Lewis, you'll spend the rest of your life listening to this masterpiece. Not necessarily because you like all of it's content but because of your wonderment as to how an artist had this creativity & the braveness to put this to vinyl. Cannot think of any other artist who would have produced a career defining moment like this.
1:46 to 1:57 always gives me those music shivers that happens when a musical passage seems so transcendent. The good Captain will always be remembered. He had such a good band
Completely agree, its the feeling of being submerged in the TMR chaos after what was some of the most conventional playing on the record. Its like sinking into the void!
you’re totally right i always feel the same thing every time i listen to it. the whole song is practically building up to how mangled and disjointed those drums get.
Dude. If you dont, at least, laught at this music, then you truly have no soul !! Maybe you dont like it, but this is so funny. I always have a good time listening to this.
@@dn8601 It's certainly beautiful, but Don absolutely approached his art with a perverse & deranged sense of surrealist humor. Like Dali he was 110% committed & serious as far as being determined regarding how well he created it, but you can't help but admit "Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on my Knee" or "My Head is My Only House Unless it Rains" are totally comedic.
Just as the world was starting to drown in blue men singing the whites, along came Don with this breath of fresh air. Thanks to John Peel at BBC Radio One.
@@jan_Travisliking the music doesn't make it a product, creating music simply to be liked is what makes it a product. It is the intention that makes the difference.
@@blackmore4 did a beefheart fan bully you in school or something or do you have some traumatic memory associated with this particular song 😂 because you seem to be posting an insane amount of salt in this comment section lmao.
Here she comes walkin' Lookin' like uh zoo Hello Moon Hello Moon Hi Ella high Ella Guru She knows all the colors that nature do High Ella high Ella Guru High yella high red high blue she blew High Ella high Ella Guru She do what she mean She do what she do Got sumptin' fo' me sumptin' fo' you She sho' sumptin' She's young too Ella Guru Ella Guru Ella Guru Ella Guru Ha ha right right Just dig it That's right "The Mascara Snake" Fast 'n bulbous Tight also Ella Guru Ella Guru Ella Guru Ella Guru High Ella high Ella Guru Ella Guru
@@Mothra-ll5bpjust watched a jeff cotton interview where he says when they were recording this, one year old moon was on zappa's lap and so jeff said the line for her.
Got vinyl double album for equivalent of 75c circa 1971 as someone had stolen the cover…. I think that summed up the thief’s opinion of the music. The BBC Radio 3 had an interview with our Captain many moons ago. Reverential, tremulous but disbelieving it is best described. The callow interviewer played clip from a TMR piece that sounded like a piano falling down the stairs of the Statue of Liberty. The dupe ventured to ask how long it had taken The Don to compose the item. Captain replies wryly ‘About 45 minutes’ ( or some other fanciful period ) Interviewer (walking into the trap ) condescends with trite giggle ‘ Why did it take you so long ?’ Captain ‘I didn’t know how to play the piano before I started…’ Cue rib-aching laughter from listener and other aficionados. The Don was one of a kind.
I saw the Captain and his band open for Jethro Tull at Dorton Arena in Raleigh North Carolina in 1973..I could not forget his guitarist " Winged Eel Fingerling" that played the whole set with a woman's panties on his head..quite something for a young lad..
This track has really grown on me after several listens, then some time away from it. I've only listened to the entire album maybe twice...still waiting for it to breakthrough, but this tune gives me hope that I'll eventually like TMR in its entirety.
After all of these years I finally got stoned enough to understand this. Even now that I get it I don't see why people think it's one of the best albums ever made. It's an alright album once you figure out how to listen to it but I don't see it anywhere near the best. It insists upon itself.
Spontaneity? He rehearsed these guys until they were on the point of nervous exhaustion. There is nothing spontaneous here, this is how it was all planned, and meant to sound.
C'était les offres de cet ancien monde sauvage : vivre gratuitement, partager, s'occuper, s'amuser et vivre ensemble. Malheureusement, nous avons été tellement concentrés sur le changement d'époque que nous n'avons pas eu le temps ou la conscience de s'organiser. Nous avons regardé le monde comme une fusée dans le ciel et avons donné caution à des musiciens d’opérettes pour nous libérer. Mais l'esprit est toujours là, en attendant d'être reconnu et conscientisé - encore et encore jusqu'à ce qu'il soit partout en élévation vers le Paradis des utopistes et autres rêveurs inconscients .............. ;-)
Trout Mask Replica is one of the few things that still makes sense to me in this world.
"TMR is one of the few things that still makes sense to me in this world anymore."
But this album is as old (give or take a few years) as every Beatles album, most of Dylan's best work, most of Pink Floyd's best albums... None of that makes sense to you anymore in this world? And I've only touched on music as far as "things that could also still make sense to you." If you're willing to go back THIS FAR to find things that make sense to you, it seems like there should be plenty. 🤷
@@TroubleToby3040the beatles haven't had half the influence as this albums has
@@TroubleToby3040 You completely missed the point of my comment. Congratulations.
@@TroubleToby3040YAP YAP YAP YAP 😟the joke didn’t just fly over your head it is orbiting around your head
@@largevapor Its not a joak. And why do you spell the word joak as joke?
"Now here she come walkin' lookin' like a zoo, Hi Ella, Hi Ella Guru" Lyrical masterpiece
Well said. Keep sayin the way you say coz you said that well and imma bout to choke on all the unwellsaidness and need more wellsaidness to encourage my flagging emancipation. Like that.
Yes
@@neilleach5249 this is the best thing ive ever read
@@neilleach5249 Yes
She do what she mean and she do what she do …
both of the guitars played on the same time signiture for a few seconds.
Hey beter!
accidents sometimes do happen.
Heheh me like wacky song song foni
*HERESY*
Damn, mistakes happens bruh
This song is unironically good
*This album
It's definitely one of the first tracks to start sounding like actual music after a few listens.
@@Seantendo That's just the brain damage setting in
@@Brandon82967 The lunatic is on the grass
The guitar interplay is just so beautiful, so twisted, so raunchy.
@@DdraigGoch84 As soon as I understand this, I'm pretty sure I'll like it. Anticipation works like that. Jussayin.
@@neilleach5249 The same anticipation you'd get after randomly bashing around and recording two 'freeform' guitar parts, just before you listened back to them. If we're being honest, there's never much "like" attached to the result ;)
@Artisan Water A squid eating playdough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?
(I know it's "dough," not "playdough," I'm kidding.)
You might want to listen to XTC's "Roads Girdle the Globe" if you like "Ella Guru." Roads has a good bit of inspiration from Trout Mask Replica. ua-cam.com/video/o1JZCCeVzn0/v-deo.html
@@101Volts thanks, will do. Love this so better be good.
Great music to celebrate your own unbirthday party.
MAH MAMA MAKE MUMU PEPPER IN FUR BOLT YES
So this is the part that Jim Carrey was missing in "Liar Liar," huh?
@Alexander Nunley heppy day
birthdays are just a celebration for your own march to the coffin anyways
@@101Volts More like "The Number 23"
Nothing like some Avant-Garde music to relieve some stress
Joshua Stephens relive is right
typo is oddly fitting
@@josiahorm1650 747
This shit INDUCES stress
@@creationofseda
Nah I've slept to this album (not out of boredom..) I think it's a good album just lets you feel like you should act how you want and not give a shit, no stress
I’ll never understand why people act like this is so inaccessible. Parts of TMR are difficult of you’re not used to experimental stuff, but this is just pure fun.
Exactly
Same, there is WAYYYYY more challenging music than this out there
Compared to some free jazz albums, this album is (mostly) fairly easy to listen to and enjoy.
@@bummbrotha1065 this is extremely accurate, i found cecil taylor and sun ra to be way harder to listen to at first then trout mask replica was on first listen
She know all the colours that Nature do
I honestly quite like the way this one sounds
If the album had started with this song or Moonlight On Vermont it would have been universally acclaimed.
@@LosHuxleys It still is universally acclaimed
@@ThePowerpointMaster no it’s not, a whole lot of people still think it is some kind of joke.
0:52 holy shit... Is that a....
IS THAT A CHORUS!?!?!?
It's a mothafuckin chorus
There's no question that this is a fucking tune.
This feels like a logical next step from the Beach Boy's Pet Sounds, released only 3 years before in 1966...
Totally
Nah. That took some musical know how. This doesn't.
well i mean the parable of arable land was released in 1967, gotta give credit where it's due.
@@blackmore4 except it does.
also, why are you haunting this comment section?
@@nakedfordinner Not comparatively, but on the other hand such a comparison is unfair. Anyways i bet the main comment was a sarcasm so..
1:11 - 1:46 one of the greatest instrumental interplays in the history of music
@@ojberrettaberretta5314 😂😂😂😂😂
Ojberretta Berretta who hurt you
crazy great stuff
Hahaha...my dodgy boiler, my dog and two cats achieved greater instrumental interplay just this morning
We get it blackmore you're a cloth eared plebian
This song's been stuck in my head all day
Yea that "chorus" is goddamn catchy as hell
ELLLLLAAAAGAAARUUUUU
that's right The Mascara Snake, fast and bulbous!
bulbous also tapered.
Also, a tin teardrop.
tight also
oh, christ
tight also
Featuring Kenny McCormick on background vocals.
more like Elmo.
Sheriff Lophophora Uh-huh. Elmo Guru...
I always heard the simpsons in this track, not surprising given groening's a beefheart fan
Kenny _would_ be singing this. "She's YOUNG, too!"
This is one of the more normal sounding songs on the album when you compare it to everything else. This is probably my favorite song on it because of all the complicated yet catchy melodies followed by Beefheart's somewhat comedic vocals
This song absolutely bops
That would be moonlight on Vermont
@@Dsksea And Veteran's Day Poppy
Orange Claw Hammer
Out of all the songs on this album i think this is the only one where the vocals and instruments are acctually a bit more synced together
Also Veterans Day poppy
Moonlight on Vermont
I adopted a tuxedo cat who came with the name Bella. By chance, I Listened to Trout Mask Replica the first weekend she was here. When I heard track 4, I procLaimed her name shaLL be BeLLa Guru. May she Live Long, fast y buLbous.
Whatever else you may think of this song, and the whole album, it's a case of once heard never forgotten.
Agreed. Regardless of anyone's opinion, this album is truly unique.
This album calms me more than lo-fi hip-hop beats. Change my mind.
Four today my friend. I really love Meet the Residents. Just chilling to that or We're Only in it for the Money by Zappa
Who would wanna do that
Why change your mind when you're right?
I want to hear this playing in some snobby mall somewhere.
Same man
I just had a vision of it blasting in Bloomingdales and all the jewelry ladies singing along to it.
I mean, I did hear DEVO's "Beautiful World" in a Whole Foods in Pennsylvania in, I don't remember when exactly, 2015? So, there's some chance.
I've always wanted to hear the Skyhooks "Why Don't You All Get Fucked?"
You need to watch this in 4K with 3D glasses on.
Right. Right. Just dig it.
this is the future of music, just far before it's time
Masterpiece.
best song of all time
agree
One of the greatest for sure
It is pretty bloody good!
When this comes on at the club I fucking lose it.
I just bought a late 70s copy of this album. I am exited to finally experience the Captain at his most experimental.
Well, if you are like me Lewis, you'll spend the rest of your life listening to this masterpiece. Not necessarily because you like all of it's content but because of your wonderment as to how an artist had this creativity & the braveness to put this to vinyl. Cannot think of any other artist who would have produced a career defining moment like this.
1:46 to 1:57 always gives me those music shivers that happens when a musical passage seems so transcendent. The good Captain will always be remembered. He had such a good band
Completely agree, its the feeling of being submerged in the TMR chaos after what was some of the most conventional playing on the record. Its like sinking into the void!
you’re totally right i always feel the same thing every time i listen to it. the whole song is practically building up to how mangled and disjointed those drums get.
Completely Cracked, mad professor, genius, Off The rails,. somewhat controlled insanity! 💕 IT!
Favorite song on the album
When do they stop tuning their instruments
ThatLittleKitten THAT IS THE MUSIC
🤣😆😂
The good captain celebrates and ridicules music all at once, mesmeric.
I unironically love this song
Most people that like this album like it unironically, me included.
one of the best moments from his peerless masterpiece.
One of my favorites off the album
Dude. If you dont, at least, laught at this music, then you truly have no soul !! Maybe you dont like it, but this is so funny. I always have a good time listening to this.
AdleyMD i dont really think its funny at least for me its beautiful
@@dn8601 It's certainly beautiful, but Don absolutely approached his art with a perverse & deranged sense of surrealist humor. Like Dali he was 110% committed & serious as far as being determined regarding how well he created it, but you can't help but admit "Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on my Knee" or "My Head is My Only House Unless it Rains" are totally comedic.
This music really is something, it just requires time and love
Just as the world was starting to drown in blue men singing the whites, along came Don with this breath of fresh air. Thanks to John Peel at BBC Radio One.
Blue men singing the whites? What?
Check out Can blue men sing the whites on UA-cam. It's self explanatory 🤪
R.I.P. Victor "The Mascara Snake" Hayden
The minor key is disturbingly wonderful. The lyrics are CB magic!
Music that is made to be liked is a product, music that is made to be music is art
I agree to some degree. Are you telling me you don't like this music? If you like it it becomes a product? You might want to rephrase that.
@@jan_Travisliking the music doesn't make it a product, creating music simply to be liked is what makes it a product. It is the intention that makes the difference.
WoW every track is like hearing the Cacophony of thought contained in the insane minds inner voice
Or like a few blokes randomly bashing around on guitars with a lapsed preacher preaching through a megaphone.
@@blackmore4 did a beefheart fan bully you in school or something or do you have some traumatic memory associated with this particular song 😂 because you seem to be posting an insane amount of salt in this comment section lmao.
dat opening bassline
Sublime
I heard someone say "bulbous" today. So, obviously I had to listen to this as soon as I got home.
This song is Fast n' Bulbous!
Tight also.
Pretty tight too
Impossibly lovely
Flying over old USSR in Emirates A380 listening to this four years ago. excellent time.
8 years now. Did you see the blimp? Is that a drone? No, its a gone.
that part at 1:20 man...
And yet some people think they don't know how to play...
Cameron Cope they know how!!
She's sure something...
It's beautiful
It's magic, a genuine moment of perfectly structured blues soloing.
Here she comes walkin'
Lookin' like uh zoo
Hello Moon Hello Moon
Hi Ella high Ella Guru
She knows all the colors that nature do
High Ella high Ella Guru
High yella high red high blue she blew
High Ella high Ella Guru
She do what she mean
She do what she do
Got sumptin' fo' me sumptin' fo' you
She sho' sumptin'
She's young too
Ella Guru Ella Guru
Ella Guru Ella Guru
Ha ha right right
Just dig it
That's right "The Mascara Snake"
Fast 'n bulbous
Tight also
Ella Guru Ella Guru
Ella Guru Ella Guru
High Ella high Ella Guru
Ella Guru
Thank you John. Fast and Bulbous. Tight also.
:"Hello Moon" must be in reference to Zappa's daughter, Moon Unit Zappa(Frank was producer of this album).
Those lyrics are so fucking brilliant 🤣
@@Mothra-ll5bpjust watched a jeff cotton interview where he says when they were recording this, one year old moon was on zappa's lap and so jeff said the line for her.
Got vinyl double album for equivalent of 75c circa 1971 as someone had stolen the cover…. I think that summed up the thief’s opinion of the music. The BBC Radio 3 had an interview with our Captain many moons ago. Reverential, tremulous but disbelieving it is best described. The callow interviewer played clip from a TMR piece that sounded like a piano falling down the stairs of the Statue of Liberty. The dupe ventured to ask how long it had taken The Don to compose the item.
Captain replies wryly ‘About 45 minutes’ ( or some other fanciful period )
Interviewer (walking into the trap ) condescends with trite giggle ‘ Why did it take you so long ?’
Captain ‘I didn’t know how to play the piano before I started…’
Cue rib-aching laughter from listener and other aficionados. The Don was one of a kind.
Apart from the robbery - great craic John🦚 I adore Beefheart🎃
Finally something I can dance to.
I love this! It’s ultra-boogie
That was fun. I'm gonna play it again.
If you're here, you know real music 🤘
I have a headache man and I'm 3 tracks into this thing
@@milkmedia1657 yeah, it really makes you think huh
@@zombeaver69 ok I finished and that is the most polarizing and strange album I've ever listened too
My dad found this album when I was thirteen and it really rocked my world. This one was 13 year old me's favorite.
Pop was never greater... :-)
(Pat, Switzerland)
Every part was worked out. Incredible! 😄
unironically a banger
The best description of Captain Beefheart ever (and I forget who said it) is: "Music as made by an alien intelligence". Good enough for me!
I like this...listened to it as a youngster.
One of my favorites on what, with time, may become one of my favorite records.
Captain Beefheart had soul
이걸 커버하신 거였구나..
I saw the Captain and his band open for Jethro Tull at Dorton Arena in Raleigh North Carolina in 1973..I could not forget his guitarist " Winged Eel Fingerling" that played the whole set with a woman's panties on his head..quite something for a young lad..
it's the blimp, frank, it's the blimp!
Each time I listen I feel like it is listening to me.
Im glad this album exists.
this part is stuck in my head 1:20
I really love this one
This track has really grown on me after several listens, then some time away from it. I've only listened to the entire album maybe twice...still waiting for it to breakthrough, but this tune gives me hope that I'll eventually like TMR in its entirety.
Pure brilliance
Amongst a host of other things, I just love Jeff Cotton's(Antennae Jimmy Semmers;)backing vocals on this song, THE gr8tist piece of music of all-time.
Only the Captain could write lyrics this brilliant. No one else comes close. Ella Guru, Sue Egypt. She used me like an ashtray heart.
Guy Budziak what about Mike Patton
Or Frank Zappa
Maybe solo Syd Barrett.
Frank Zappa fades the music master volume back at 1:57.
used this as pest control- but it backfired .the ants and spiders performed their square dance and made speeches anyway
the sound from that guitar at the start.. I can't breathe, it's hilarious.
It is true art
ahh, the captain!! hi Ella guru!!
Not gonna lie this song actually slaps.
Yeah It is freaking amazing
Gimme that old time religion
After all of these years I finally got stoned enough to understand this. Even now that I get it I don't see why people think it's one of the best albums ever made. It's an alright album once you figure out how to listen to it but I don't see it anywhere near the best. It insists upon itself.
out of the catatonic state Thanks for the posting
The closest thing to a pop hit on the entire album. Fast n bulbous!!!
also, a tin teardrop.....
@@citizenterryk That's right!
@@kennethkeen1234 also, a tin teardrop............😁
His band really is magical, huh.
One of the best albums released in the 20th Cebtury or any Cebtury in fact.
RIP Mascara Snake.
This is so good.
It really swings 🎶
Ella guru is the friend of the captain and Frank Zappa - she loves both of them and so do we, don't we?
Classic and still totally unique.
SPONTANEITY. Yeah ! Absolutely crucial to any artistic endeavor.
Spontaneity? He rehearsed these guys until they were on the point of nervous exhaustion. There is nothing spontaneous here, this is how it was all planned, and meant to sound.
Ice JJ Fish was ahead of his time
Wonderful ..
is it wrong that i genuinely enjoy this sound??
good vibes this music
Nothing like it out there. Complicated music at its best. Fabulous. Unfortunately this version hasn’t got the intro discussion with Frank.
C'était les offres de cet ancien monde sauvage : vivre gratuitement, partager, s'occuper, s'amuser et vivre ensemble. Malheureusement, nous avons été tellement concentrés sur le changement d'époque que nous n'avons pas eu le temps ou la conscience de s'organiser. Nous avons regardé le monde comme une fusée dans le ciel et avons donné caution à des musiciens d’opérettes pour nous libérer. Mais l'esprit est toujours là, en attendant d'être reconnu et conscientisé - encore et encore jusqu'à ce qu'il soit partout en élévation vers le Paradis des utopistes et autres rêveurs inconscients .............. ;-)
Could be true. C'est vrais.
THIS WOULD BE ULTRA SUPER DUPER INTENSE ON MUSHROOMS JUST SAYIN
Royal Deviant Media [C.L. VII] It is. Trust me.
I'll have to. Boundaries yaknow...
What a shame! They grow wild on cow flop in our Southernmost states.
Royal Deviant Media [C.L. VII] been there....done that.....it is....
I should be so brave