This sounds like an old blues band who are so tired of each other that they each try to do their own thing. But they’ve been playing together so long that they just can’t play apart. They can’t help but jam
@@neighbor472 It's aural art, but some of the stuff Don did I think was expressly meant to be noise since he probably thought it'd be funny. If you listen to Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, some of the earlier free jazz that came before and Howlin' Wolf, you can kinda see where Beefheart came from.
@@uriahroseii1026 I don't think any of them are meant to be noise. Beefheart's stated intention was to make music where you couldn't focus on one instrument. Frequently parts would be played in different keys and time signatures, but not in a random or noisy way, to generate that effect. TMR is much more structured than much of what Coleman or other free jazzers would do which often had extended improvised solos, but on some songs Beefheart layered in free jazz elements built over the structured elements. I think most people agree that the more you listen to it, the more you see how intricate the structure of the music is, as opposed to it revealing itself to be random or noise driven.
It certainly paved the way for outside music. self expression that was very far from the norm especially for the time. Plus I enjoy most of the songs and love many of them. Catchy yet very experimental. It takes a while to grow on you. Always appreciating it more with each listen over time.
+Dom Tes I don't even think you have to concentrate. The riff that plays throughout the last half of the song & closes the song out is very catchy on it's own. Joyous, almost
think people that don’t appreciate beefheart can’t catch the groove of instruments not marching together?.. with beefheart the instruments dance with each other... : ) keeps me up off the ground.
In the history of music, few songs better demonstrate of the kind of a balancing act that it takes to fully express the strange idea of the chaotic rhythms of the universe. Pachuco Cadaver is certainly a standout example of one these songs.
One of my very favorite Beefheart songs. A few years later after the original Magic Band borke up, two good high school budies of mine joined the second interation of the Magic Band. Eric Drew Feldman, and Jeff Moris Tepper. I got to meet Don Van Vliet (Beefheart) a couple of times, including backstage at a show in West Hollywood when my budies were playing with him. They eventually recorded 3 more albums and toured the world. The Germans loved him. RIP Don.
Yes, but you have dozens of such incredible snippets all over the album... my fave is when Veterans Day cross-fades to 2nd part.. and Dalis Car, and... 😎
Beefheart: "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?" Me: "Wait wha-" Bass: *DUNGDUNGDUNG DENGDENGDENG DUNGDUNGDUNG DENGDENGDENG*
They're actually in key! The main notes are the 2 and 4 of the major scale so not very distinctive, or common but just 'work' if you relax your ears. 😂 Love it.
John "Drumbo" French was a huge part of the album, but Don did not even put this name on the record edit: after 1995 or something, Drumbo's name is in the credits, but not in the original record
@@aakkoin I feel real bad for the man, he did all of the actual work really, yeah Don made the melodies but Drumbo had to construct each song in an environment where he was bullied and starved but he didn't even get a credit on the album
Yes indeed. I very rarely only listen to it once, it usually requires a replay. It's weird enough to be interesting but normal enough to enjoy. And that bass line in the intro gets me every time!
Huzzah! I'm not the only crazy one who thinks this song has got a groove you can move to! Except maybe when the sax comes on. You know what, save it for the end when people are too plastered to notice and just vibe with it anyways lol
this has to be one of the best experimental albums ive listened to, not because youd say its bad, its great because it just doesnt make sense at all and it puts a smile on your face because of it
It's so amazing because it makes me picture everything he describes. And it's so off balance, it keeps you on edge and wondering "jesus christ what's next".
At last, a normal song! I love the riff at the end, very catchy ... the guitar interplay is beautiful. John French's drumming is impeccable (allegedly he had pieces of cardboard on his drum heads to muffle them).
Once, in one of our visits, I carried two empty LP covers, plus some other unusual weird stuff to Dali's house, circa 1971. One was "Freak Out" and the other was "Trout Mask Replica", thinking that he might become fond of the LPs, we left the precious vinyl home, not far from Port -Lligat, much concerned about not to strand them. At that time, things were not as easy as it became since the CD advent, not to mention the Internet. At least if we lost the covers we would have the records to listen to. Our mission was to show him about how the indisputable 'Kings' of the underground, recognized and were paying unusual respect to the number one surreal madness Maverick of the world and as Zappa did on that LP. And Beefheart's homage with that extraordinary and unsurpassed composition. Dali did not go any further than browsing them and pushed them back into my portofolio. Dali was 65 years old then. Though we were eager to show him how important such gestures were, it might as it did look, seem too mundane for him as there was, I suppose nobody else but him that could praise him. But explain, somehow, how the British were his best admires (refereeing to Edward James, et al). Later on, that afternoon, as we were leaving the patio, he gave us the news, that somehow shocked us, after some goings about the 'evils' of drugs, as he thought we were lost and bamboozled in a world of subjectivity, when he announced us what it seemed as nobody else could know at such stage of things, and though I knew Alice Cooper was part of Zappa's Label. My opinion there, was, if in my thoughts, how come Dali could waste his time with such 'lesser' act ?. But he explain it enthusiastically, he would be doing a show in New York with him, in case we could follow him. That we kept it a best hidden secret for years, till it has grown in the public awareness and became sort of public domain. Somehow, something that was impossible for us, if to travel to the States though I was living in England...
Great and unique story! Thanks for that. It makes sense that Dali would be aware of/into Alice Cooper but found Beefheart a bit more...opaque? Though both are/were showmen, Alice's showmanship is more on the bombastic, visually shocking and overt carnival level as Dali's. Beefheart's style is not flashy, not even really 'theatrical' really, it's subdued, but much more odd.
If you like jazz this is really not too far out at all, not too hard to follow whatsoever. Oh, and if you dig poetry and painting too, then you're right at home. Play this on the nudist beach.
Yeah sure! Everyone will tell you Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, so yeah thats a good one, but also these are good too: Modern Day Jazz Symposium - Charles Mingus Live At Massey Hall - "The Quintet" Giant Steps - John Coltrane Out There - Eric Dolphy Filles De Killimanjaro - Miles Davis That's a pretty broad range of different types of jazz and iI think a good sample. Also listen to Folk Forms no. 1 by Charles Mingus, that ones really groovin'. \m/
You may also enjoy Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and Coltrane’s Interstellar Space. Especially Interstellar Space but Ascension or OM will work in a pinch.
I saw Captain Beefheart 3 times and I will say there was nothing else to compare His music is wonderful and nothing like it But to be under its spell live was nothing less than Music heaven
Beefheart was the first rapper in my opinion. His flow of words is incredible, not to mention the music is chaotic and running in every direction possible but streamlined at the same time.
@@rafffaaa6975Madvillany by MF Doom and Madlib, is an incredible rap album. They pay homage to Sun Ra on it and even sample Sleeping in a Jar from Zappas album Uncle Meat!
First time i listened to it was on acid. I had the wiki article for it open like “ehh this isnt as weird as people say...” Then i put it on two days later sober, and i was like “okay yeah this is weird as hell”
each melody is a meme, a completely absurd ridiculous and naive intention, colliding with several others. Trout Mask Replica is a meme compilation, he has fashioned the emotion of Gen Z humour long before it was comprehendible or mainstream. This also happened to be Matt Groenings favourite album
John Frusciante also was in love with this album when he first joined the peppers. Jack White re-released it on his label too! But with the proper high def OG album photo. Probably my favorite in my collection
Her sedan skims along the floorboard Her two pipes hummin' carbon come Who she walks flowers surround her Let their nectar come into the air around her Never noticed those lines before.
You really have to give it time, you have to listen, sooner or later Beefheart gets under your skin and in your heart where it will never leave..I love all his albums but I think his last 3 were his absolute best. If you don't like it at first , stick at it,neither I!!! It grows on you.
Starting to really dig this along with Ella Guru & Moonlight on Vermont. Made an effort to listen to T.M.R. and then got away from it. Now that I'm hearing a few of the songs again, I'm starting to get it. There's really no comps for this music...it just has to grow on you.
People who've just met me think that I have no grip on reality when I randomly tell them a squid in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me? Screw 'em. I'm more bitchen than they'll ever be
Incredibly Diverse. I may have this album amongst my extensive FZ collection. A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast 'n bulbous, got me? When she wears her bolero then she begin t' dance All the pachucos start withold'n hands When she drives her Chevy Sissy's don't dare t' glance Yellow jackets 'n red debbles buzzin' round 'er hair hive ho She wears her past like uh present Take her fancy in the past Her sedan skims along the floorboard Her two pipes hummin' carbon cum Got her wheel out of uh B-29 Bomber brodey knob amber Spanish fringe 'n talcum tazzles FOREVER AMBER She looks like an old squaw indian she's 99 she won't go down Avocado green 'n alfalfa yellow adorn her t' the ground Tatooes 'n tarnished utenzles uh snow white bag full o' tunes Drives uh cartune around Broma' seltzer blue umbrella keeps her up off the ground Round red sombreros wrap 'er high tap horsey shoes When she unfolds her umbrella pachucos got the blues Her lovin' makes me so happy If I smiled I'd crack m' chin Her eyes are so peaceful thinks it's heaven she been Her skin is as smooth as the daisies In the center where the sun shines in Smiles as sweet as honey Her teeth as clean as the combs where the bees go in When she walks flowers surround her Let their nectar come in to the air around her She loves her love sticks out like stars Her lovin' sticks out like stars Written by: Don Van Vliet Album: Trout Mask Replica
I love how the sax starts and slowly drifts ahead of time. I'm guessing that it might have been overdubbed without the rest of the track playing. Either way, it's bonkers.
It gets out of time because the Captain could barely hear the music he was dubbing over, so he was pretty much guessing! Accounts for his voice losing track or overrunning on other tracks too.
This was released as a single. A large entertainment corporation actually believed there was a possibility that this could be a commercial hit song.
Dude wtf you weren't lying, I never thought this album would have had any singles released! damn
I mean its the catchiest song imo
@@neighbor472 When Big Joan Sets Up
This song was one of the greats from the “Captain!!”
@@neighbor472
Moonlight On Vermont and Big Joan would've been better singles imo
This sounds like an old blues band who are so tired of each other that they each try to do their own thing. But they’ve been playing together so long that they just can’t play apart. They can’t help but jam
I’ve remarked that this album is as if a group of homeless fishermen dug up a few dirty broken instruments and a tape recorder in the river
@@totalgarbage2053 wouldn’t be surprised if that was the actual lore behind it
Yes, the instruments sound a little bit like they are fighting...
@@wolfetteplays8894Unfortunately the actual lore is much darker. Filled with physical and verbal abuse under “cult like conditions”
"idiosyncratic blues" is probably a good label for Beefheart, he clearly loved blues but also wanted to push its boundaries.
When a song starts with
'Squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous' you know you're in for a wild ride !
Got me?
@@neighbor472 It's aural art, but some of the stuff Don did I think was expressly meant to be noise since he probably thought it'd be funny. If you listen to Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, some of the earlier free jazz that came before and Howlin' Wolf, you can kinda see where Beefheart came from.
When the song is called Pacheco Cadaver, you know you’re in for a wild ride
@@uriahroseii1026 I don't think any of them are meant to be noise. Beefheart's stated intention was to make music where you couldn't focus on one instrument. Frequently parts would be played in different keys and time signatures, but not in a random or noisy way, to generate that effect. TMR is much more structured than much of what Coleman or other free jazzers would do which often had extended improvised solos, but on some songs Beefheart layered in free jazz elements built over the structured elements. I think most people agree that the more you listen to it, the more you see how intricate the structure of the music is, as opposed to it revealing itself to be random or noise driven.
For some reason I found the opening to be a joke on The Beatles.
Capt. Beefheart got me into poetry, and I hate poetry
That’s right the Mascara Snake!
@@aramboodakian9554 She wears her past like a present
@@aakkoin bro that's so good
I love poetry, thank you for this comment oh my goodness, dear @aakkoin
That bouncy guitar riff is so catchy. I love that people don't get this album. It just makes me like it more
20 years ago i downloaded it. never listen to it. 10 years i tryed to. with some result. but not understand it yet
One of the greatest albums of all time.
Yeah, for many of us - THE greatest. Not trying to convince anyone ;)
@@tomasvanecek8626Up there with Weasels!
It certainly paved the way for outside music. self expression that was very far from the norm especially for the time. Plus I enjoy most of the songs and love many of them. Catchy yet very experimental. It takes a while to grow on you. Always appreciating it more with each listen over time.
We frequently see the UA-cam comment that "this album is so underrated" but Troutmask is the opposite.
Fast and bulbous!
37Dionysos Got me ?
Bulbuous, also tapered.
@@crescentfreshbret Yeah but you gotta wait for me to say, "also, a tin teardrop"
Willow Sparks hahaha... Christ!
that is right, maskara snake
This will sound pretentious, but you really have to concentrate, if you do this song is very catchy.
+Kirk Landau shut up the both of you
+Dom Tes Oddly, it wasn't hard for me to like this album the first time I heard it. lol
+Dom Tes I don't even think you have to concentrate. The riff that plays throughout the last half of the song & closes the song out is very catchy on it's own. Joyous, almost
Yeah I just started listening to this band recently and I liked maybe 3 songs on this album the first time. It's really interesting.
on the first times was the same for me.
My father used to told me to listen to this record with him when I was like 7-8 years old. Lol wtf was he thinking? Thnx dad!
The best musical education a kid could have ...
Well if someone realizes music isn't just baby here baby there at that young of an age...
What a legend
At it's core it's just a really great blues album.
Like Safe as Milk but put in a blender for 8 months
@@aakkoinfermented!!!
@@aakkoinsafe as cheese
Blues blue blu
think people that don’t appreciate beefheart can’t catch the groove of instruments not marching together?.. with beefheart the instruments dance with each other... : ) keeps me up off the ground.
perfectly put
Read the coment of Ry Cooder on Beafhaert
Or they have awful headphones/speakers that can’t handle the music properly. I don’t have no high end audio equipment but any means but still.
In the history of music, few songs better demonstrate of the kind of a balancing act that it takes to fully express the strange idea of the chaotic rhythms of the universe.
Pachuco Cadaver is certainly a standout example of one these songs.
Yeah what you said
There are about 20 more standouts on TMR :)
Pseud.
@@tomasvanecek8626 Correction: 27
Pseud.
People hated Picasso once.. this is the future, this is brilliant, absolutely brilliant..
Just when you are beginning to tire of the initial groove, up pops another one at 2:13 to maintain your interest. Love this song.
Bulbous yet reassuringly tapered.
That's right
People get distracted by how many layers there are but this album has some of the best drum and guitar lines you can find anywhere in music
"a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous.....GOT ME?"....
yes indeed
One of my very favorite Beefheart songs. A few years later after the original Magic Band borke up, two good high school budies of mine joined the second interation of the Magic Band. Eric Drew Feldman, and Jeff Moris Tepper. I got to meet Don Van Vliet (Beefheart) a couple of times, including backstage at a show in West Hollywood when my budies were playing with him. They eventually recorded 3 more albums and toured the world. The Germans loved him. RIP Don.
The best album cover ever
This album is pure genius
Best song from the album, imo. That part the right guitar plays starting at 00:20 in is one of the catchiest things I've heard. Love it
Yes, but you have dozens of such incredible snippets all over the album... my fave is when Veterans Day cross-fades to 2nd part..
and Dalis Car, and... 😎
I was raised in the San Gabriel Valley during the 50's and 60's, This sounds like it.
This track has always been my favorite.
Benb Gallaher definitely
Beefheart: "A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?"
Me: "Wait wha-"
Bass: *DUNGDUNGDUNG DENGDENGDENG DUNGDUNGDUNG DENGDENGDENG*
It is kind of hard to believe that Zappa had nothing to do with that line.
It really is soo very Zappesque.
After you listen to it 100 times or so, the middle of the song becomes the catchy part...
what is the center.. the head and the toes?
"her lovin' make me so happy/when I smile I crack my chin"....after 40-something years of listening to this album, that line still cracks me up....
I crack up for the "dank drum and dung dust" line from "Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish."
Now watch that it don't crack your chin up though
That line always makes me smile, such a nice thing to say
Someone could listen to Trout Mask Replica whilst reading Finnegans Wake. Be cooler than cool.
She 99, she won't go down
This album is a fucking demigod of the underworld!
I feel confused! Everything I thought I knew about music was wrong!
That can be a good thing.
this is the best comment
Me, the first few tracks of this record "The fuck is this"
Me on this track "okay this is actually kinda lit"
So true tho
The craziest part is how well those soprano sax honks fits with everything else.
They're actually in key! The main notes are the 2 and 4 of the major scale so not very distinctive, or common but just 'work' if you relax your ears. 😂 Love it.
4/4 mostly...some nice polyphony taking place...with guitar and bass playing off each other nicely...or... am I simply...stoned!👽
The drums past 2.15 are beyond description.
Strazzvina The drumming is fantastic on this album
Probably the greatest bit of drumming in the history of the world!
John "Drumbo" French was a huge part of the album, but Don did not even put this name on the record
edit: after 1995 or something, Drumbo's name is in the credits, but not in the original record
@@aakkoin
I feel real bad for the man, he did all of the actual work really, yeah Don made the melodies but Drumbo had to construct each song in an environment where he was bullied and starved but he didn't even get a credit on the album
@@Tomversal While wearing underwear on his head.
Best song in the album.
WOLF STAR one of the best for sure
Second best. Moonlight on Vermont's the best
It's quite good; for me steal softly thru snow is the best currently
I agree. Bills Corpse my second favorite
Yes indeed. I very rarely only listen to it once, it usually requires a replay. It's weird enough to be interesting but normal enough to enjoy. And that bass line in the intro gets me every time!
Best track on TMR
That fine line between madness and genius, with 1 foot on the line and the other on the side of madness!!
In other words, _madness with a genius edge._
The Magic Band are so 'tight' on this track, goes to prove all the rehearsals paid off
And all the beatings, too
@@painovoimatonAnd all the starving….
when she walks, flowers surround her
let their nectar come into the air around her
nice
That's right up there with Syd Barrett's line - "My hair's on end about you."
If I ever get married I want this song played at the wedding reception for the first dance for the new couple.
Yes, have the band learn it and also "You're Something Special To Me" by The Shaggs for your special day.
Huzzah! I'm not the only crazy one who thinks this song has got a groove you can move to! Except maybe when the sax comes on. You know what, save it for the end when people are too plastered to notice and just vibe with it anyways lol
If your Bride goes along with it she is a keeper...
Follow it with a Richard Marx tune.
I first acquired this album fifty years ago and still never cease to be astounded by the music on it.
this has to be one of the best experimental albums ive listened to, not because youd say its bad, its great because it just doesnt make sense at all and it puts a smile on your face because of it
I think he/they never thought about it as being an experimental album.. it was what just happened, you know ?
If you like this check out Dutch punk rock/art rock/avant garde band The Ex
almost a song, we were so close
It's so amazing because it makes me picture everything he describes. And it's so off balance, it keeps you on edge and wondering "jesus christ what's next".
At last, a normal song! I love the riff at the end, very catchy ... the guitar interplay is beautiful. John French's drumming is impeccable (allegedly he had pieces of cardboard on his drum heads to muffle them).
Apparently the riff at the end was The Captain using the “Momma likes shortening bread” melody
I love the Captain's contributions on Bongo Fury.
Once, in one of our visits, I carried two empty LP covers, plus some other unusual weird stuff to Dali's house, circa 1971. One was "Freak Out" and the other was "Trout Mask Replica", thinking that he might become fond of the LPs, we left the precious vinyl home, not far from Port -Lligat, much concerned about not to strand them. At that time, things were not as easy as it became since the CD advent, not to mention the Internet. At least if we lost the covers we would have the records to listen to. Our mission was to show him about how the indisputable 'Kings' of the underground, recognized and were paying unusual respect to the number one surreal madness Maverick of the world and as Zappa did on that LP. And Beefheart's homage with that extraordinary and unsurpassed composition. Dali did not go any further than browsing them and pushed them back into my portofolio. Dali was 65 years old then. Though we were eager to show him how important such gestures were, it might as it did look, seem too mundane for him as there was, I suppose nobody else but him that could praise him. But explain, somehow, how the British were his best admires (refereeing to Edward James, et al). Later on, that afternoon, as we were leaving the patio, he gave us the news, that somehow shocked us, after some goings about the 'evils' of drugs, as he thought we were lost and bamboozled in a world of subjectivity, when he announced us what it seemed as nobody else could know at such stage of things, and though I knew Alice Cooper was part of Zappa's Label. My opinion there, was, if in my thoughts, how come Dali could waste his time with such 'lesser' act ?. But he explain it enthusiastically, he would be doing a show in New York with him, in case we could follow him. That we kept it a best hidden secret for years, till it has grown in the public awareness and became sort of public domain. Somehow, something that was impossible for us, if to travel to the States though I was living in England...
I'm really interested in this. So essentially you were carrying across Dali's influence on the US counterculture, but he was already dismissive?
Great and unique story! Thanks for that. It makes sense that Dali would be aware of/into Alice Cooper but found Beefheart a bit more...opaque? Though both are/were showmen, Alice's showmanship is more on the bombastic, visually shocking and overt carnival level as Dali's. Beefheart's style is not flashy, not even really 'theatrical' really, it's subdued, but much more odd.
If you like jazz this is really not too far out at all, not too hard to follow whatsoever. Oh, and if you dig poetry and painting too, then you're right at home. Play this on the nudist beach.
EDM Sucks Any jazz records you'd recommend?
Yeah sure!
Everyone will tell you Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, so yeah thats a good one, but also these are good too:
Modern Day Jazz Symposium - Charles Mingus
Live At Massey Hall - "The Quintet"
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Out There - Eric Dolphy
Filles De Killimanjaro - Miles Davis
That's a pretty broad range of different types of jazz and iI think a good sample.
Also listen to Folk Forms no. 1 by Charles Mingus, that ones really groovin'.
\m/
You may also enjoy Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and Coltrane’s Interstellar Space.
Especially Interstellar Space but Ascension or OM will work in a pinch.
Bitches Brew should be in this mix. Great fusion record.
What about Mama too Tight by the master Archie Shepp?
The best song/tune on the record. Love it!!!
I will name my first child Pachuco Cadaver, even if its a girl.
Been a big fan of this for about 30 years but damn, everytime I hear it it blows my mind.
That sax tho..
*sex
I saw Captain Beefheart 3 times and I will say there was nothing else to compare His music is wonderful and nothing like it But to be under its spell live was nothing less than Music heaven
It took mushrooms for to get into Captain Beefheart. I haven't taken them in years and I keep coming back to this record. Not an easy one to forget.
I think you need psychedelics to truly appreciate this album.
when she walks, flowers surround her
...
her lovin' stick out like stars
Like stars
Damn the outro is simply amazing.
brillante!!! Que locura que se hacía en la música en 1969 y por esos años, ahora todo suena repetitivo
Thanks for posting. My version of TMR was removed from my ITunes library.
Beefheart was the first rapper in my opinion. His flow of words is incredible, not to mention the music is chaotic and running in every direction possible but streamlined at the same time.
Nah, poets were the biggest proto-rappers of anything.
Woo daddy!
@@wolfetteplays8894 dont compare poets with rappers please, rap sucks
@@rafffaaa6975 There's good rap out there if you look for it. Just have some patience and listen
@@rafffaaa6975Madvillany by MF Doom and Madlib, is an incredible rap album. They pay homage to Sun Ra on it and even sample Sleeping in a Jar from Zappas album Uncle Meat!
I have to remind myself to listen to this on acid
Jose Diaz I know I always forget
First time i listened to it was on acid. I had the wiki article for it open like “ehh this isnt as weird as people say...”
Then i put it on two days later sober, and i was like “okay yeah this is weird as hell”
I decoded the entire album on 250ug
Jose Diaz it sounds best sober. Doesn’t really mix well with psychedelics.
andrew reinhardt I think it’s great both ways. Music always gets weird on psychedelics lol
each melody is a meme, a completely absurd ridiculous and naive intention, colliding with several others. Trout Mask Replica is a meme compilation, he has fashioned the emotion of Gen Z humour long before it was comprehendible or mainstream. This also happened to be Matt Groenings favourite album
John Frusciante also was in love with this album when he first joined the peppers. Jack White re-released it on his label too! But with the proper high def OG album photo. Probably my favorite in my collection
My fave of theirs and perhaps their best song. Love the warm and odd conventionality of it.
That ending was actually pretty killer.
Holy fucking shit this song needs more recognition
Zappa is good, Beefheart is the real stuff.......!!
I’m Jimmy Carl black and I’m the Indian of the group
This song always makes me happy
Her lovin' make me so happy, when I smile... I almost crack my chin
Her eyes are so peaceful, it's like heaven she been!
@@ThePowerpointMaster Stay Fast and Bulbous. (Tight Also)
There's parts of this that I can easily see nestled in a math rock song.
Her sedan skims along the floorboard
Her two pipes hummin' carbon come
Who she walks flowers surround her
Let their nectar come into the air around her
Never noticed those lines before.
This has a whole peachy vibe of the Allman Bros ... ..can here a Melissa tease in there... Must've been a whole vibe in 69
i used to own this masterpeice, and i sold it, what a fuck wit..a squid eating doe in a polyethelene bag is fasten bulbous..GOT ME !
Peter Maxwell It is on vinyl for about 30 dollars...I mean probably more then what you paid for it...but worth the investment!
Most entertaining comment section in UA-cam. Thanks for the laughs.
You really have to give it time, you have to listen, sooner or later Beefheart gets under your skin and in your heart where it will never leave..I love all his albums but I think his last 3 were his absolute best.
If you don't like it at first , stick at it,neither I!!! It grows on you.
Starting to really dig this along with Ella Guru & Moonlight on Vermont. Made an effort to listen to T.M.R. and then got away from it. Now that I'm hearing a few of the songs again, I'm starting to get it. There's really no comps for this music...it just has to grow on you.
People who've just met me think that I have no grip on reality when I randomly tell them a squid in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me? Screw 'em. I'm more bitchen than they'll ever be
If you or anyone recited that to me we would immediately become best friends forever riding on a unicorn on a rainbow laughing hysterically. So now.
Smooth as a daisy at the center where the sun shines in ;^)
The Captain delivers.
Sound fragmented but actually very tight and together.
Oddly the most dance-able song on the record. It could be a modern ballet.
That bass!
This honestly settles into a nice groove towards the end
This music hironize to itself ...geniously!!! (sorry for my english)
I see no English here.
This and John cage HPSCHD is the frontier between sanity and music🙂
best poem ever written
maybe not
‘Her loving’ makes me so happy, when I smile I crack my chin’ - so perfectly expressed!
Incredibly Diverse. I may have this album amongst my extensive FZ collection.
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast 'n bulbous, got me?
When she wears her bolero then she begin t' dance
All the pachucos start withold'n hands
When she drives her Chevy Sissy's don't dare t' glance
Yellow jackets 'n red debbles buzzin' round 'er hair hive ho
She wears her past like uh present
Take her fancy in the past
Her sedan skims along the floorboard
Her two pipes hummin' carbon cum
Got her wheel out of uh B-29 Bomber brodey knob amber
Spanish fringe 'n talcum tazzles FOREVER AMBER
She looks like an old squaw indian
she's 99 she won't go down
Avocado green 'n alfalfa yellow adorn her t' the ground
Tatooes 'n tarnished utenzles uh snow white bag full o' tunes
Drives uh cartune around
Broma' seltzer blue umbrella keeps her up off the ground
Round red sombreros wrap 'er high tap horsey shoes
When she unfolds her umbrella pachucos got the blues
Her lovin' makes me so happy
If I smiled I'd crack m' chin
Her eyes are so peaceful thinks it's heaven she been
Her skin is as smooth as the daisies
In the center where the sun shines in
Smiles as sweet as honey
Her teeth as clean as the combs where the bees go in
When she walks flowers surround her
Let their nectar come in to the air around her
She loves her love sticks out like stars
Her lovin' sticks out like stars
Written by: Don Van Vliet
Album: Trout Mask Replica
At 3:06 "Play it SAX MAN!!!"
Fucking play something Sax Man!
LOL
Iv'e often thought Steve Howe's (Yes) guitar work on Close To The Edge would have sounded great on this album
The opening of the song Close to the Edge might have been a great bed for Beefheart's rants.
The fact that Frank and Don met up as young men makes me believe in something being true even if it's just music.
How can you not jam out to this song
Catchy
Incredibly so.
lyrically, only Beefheart would attempt this.....and only Beefheart could get away with this.....
Drives a Cartoon around.
Drives a Cartoon around.
Legitimately the greatest lyric of all time.
the entirety of When Big Joan Sets Up, Veteran's Day Poppy, and everything after 2:11 on this song are probably the most normal parts of the album
This is the shit. Mad respect for the brave captain.
That closing riff is so infectious when it all comes together.
This whole album is the definition of a fever dream
Her teeth as clean as the combs where the bees go in
I HEARD THE BEETLE CLICKINNN'
Immortal shit right here.
I love how the sax starts and slowly drifts ahead of time. I'm guessing that it might have been overdubbed without the rest of the track playing. Either way, it's bonkers.
Proto No Wave
It gets out of time because the Captain could barely hear the music he was dubbing over, so he was pretty much guessing! Accounts for his voice losing track or overrunning on other tracks too.
The album was basically recorded live with the exception of The Captain doing his vocals separately