Reviewing all 28 Songs off of Trout Mask Replica - Worst Album Ever Made?
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica. an album that came out in 1969. From outside of the music scene this album is only known for it's hard to listen to riffs and confusing sounds. Some people say that this could be the worst album ever made. But is it?
I've decided to spend a full day listening to Trout Mask Replica on repeat and take apart every song one by one and give my opinion on whether or not you should pick this up. Buckle up its a long one.
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You have the music taste of a 7 year old
He has the musical dullness and curiosity of the typical neckbeard. No interest in learning any cultural context that doesn't exist beyond his own nose. No understanding of any musical forms that came before he existed and his taste ossified to what was cool when he was 15. You could cite Ornette Coleman to him and he'd still stare slack-jawed at his wikipedia page like I'm supposed to know about a jazz guy who started before my parents were born. Bruh.
Is this on every damn video?
@@acostiablown tf
@@acostiablown lol?
@@acostiablown hello?
I mean it’s one of the best albums ever made
The heck
@@heatbob he means from a technical perspective, like as far as innovation and skill of the players
@@wolfetteplays8894 and from a listening perspective.
Uhhhh, what you say?
@@jmason61 and from a sucked up booty face kicked in billy goat throat point of view.
I think this deserves a sort of redux since your experience with avant grade has grown tremendously since! I'd love to hear your thoughts on it after what else you've heard on the show
“A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?” .......a quote that I’ve modeled my life after.🤠
Also, a tin teardrop
I don't know who said "the worst album" but it must be a Coldplay fan
I like both.
A few notes:
Zappa started reconding this album at Beefheart's house so as to create a "guerilla recording", but the Captain accused Frank of working on the cheap, so the band moved into a studio.
Beefheart hated the sound of the drum kit's cymbals, so he put pieces of cardboard over them which made a thumping noise whenever they were hit. Also, he didn't use headphones (surprised?) -- instead, he sang along with any sound leakage from the control room.
Zappa and Beefheart had an on again -- off again professional relationship years after TMR's release. But whether it be good or bad, look what we got out of it!
There's more context here. The cardboard was initially put there because the neighbors complained about the loud cacophony that took 8 whole months to create. Eventually the cardboard sound just became the drum sound beefheart wanted.
I am a weird musician that loves weird music. I love beefheart. I am also a very patient person. I don't know if I could handle 8 months of this.
The cardboard was used at the trout house to keep the cops away. There's only one song on the album that uses the cardboard.
This is NOT the worst album ever made...this is one of THE BEST albums ever made...the influence is MASSIVE.
Broke: weed eater
Woke: FAST AND BULBOUS
that's right, the mascara snake, fast and bulbous
also a tin teardrop
Both
honestly i wouldn't remove the poetry songs because they feel like a breather from the absolute mayhem that is this album
i remember the first time i got the the orange claw song i just closed my eyes and layed down its definetley needed as a break and to avoid the album getting boring
This record was intended to be VERY WEIRD. It succeeded in that. The interesting thing was the Magic Band could play these songs LIVE Exactly as they were on the record.......so it wasn't accidental weirdness.... it was intended to sound like that.
Joe Strummer (lead singer for The Clash) tells a funny Captain Beefheart story. While The Clash were recording London Calling, Captain Beefheart was in the studio next door. He kept complaining, "That bloody Clash and their 'Go Tell Aunt Rowdy!! I can't bloody hear meself think!'"
I don’t think I’ve ever heard a better review of this album from someone who is unfamiliar. Kudos!
I almost prematurely shit on this based on the “worst album ever made” agreement. I felt like I knew where this was headed. I didn’t. For someone new to the album and unfamiliar with the story/stories behind it, you actually gave a shit. And you didn’t immediately go with the usual “this isn’t even music”; you actually listened and treated is as art. This is one of my favorite albums, and I appreciate that you gave it (well, most of it; Hair Pie Bake 1&2 are two of my favorites) an honest listen. I appreciate that you gave it serious consideration even though it doesn’t sound conventionally pleasing. I swear: listen to it 10 more times and you will be a fan. And the first 5 times listen to the last half first. Change it up. Listening is kind of a chore, so listen starting in a different spot.
I also love the 4.7 star rating.
You know what I think you might really appreciate? The Audible version of the 33 1/3 Trout Mask Replica book. There’s a lot in the story behind the songs/album. (The story of The Blimp isn’t what you think, it’s great).
I really have to commend that you actually gave it an honest chance, which is rare. You even started hating and seemed worn out - which is so understandable with this album - and said, “This song makes me feel a little better!” Love it. this is a great review. Thanks and subbed. (and don’t let us olds get you down. Your musical taste is at the very least at the level of a 9 year old. Jk). I should also disclose that Zoot was my guitar teacher throughout high school and is one of the coolest humans on Earth.
Great comment. I persevered with this album untill I loved it, too.
You mentioned an audio version of the book? I looked on audible, but couldn't find it. I'm trying to track it down 😀
Lovely comment, you are so lucky to have known zoot horn rollo.
@@jeffreybarton1297 Many of the 33 1/3 titles are difficult to track down and this one I found probably at HBP several years ago. It’s well worth reading if you find this sort of thing interesting. I was not aware of audio versions, but really doubt it’s on Audible.
Thanks for the info! I agree, somehow I can't imagine this on Audible 😊
the best thing is that the fish on the album cover isn't even a trout but a carp I believe.
Excellent way to think about it but how THE HELL can you tell the difference
@@jmason61 a carp has those two things hanging from the mouth, wheras a trout doesnt have those. But tbh someone pointed it out in a video.
thats cause its a replica of a trout. not an actual trout. so maybe a carp is a trout replica
Yeah, they are much like a catfish, they are almost "whiskers"...
Hence replica.
I thought this video was going to suck when you called it the worst album in the beginning, but I'm very impressed so far. Excellent work, buddy. I hereby award this review 4.7 stars. FAST AND BULBOUS!!
"Pachuco Cadaver" is a low rider, so named because Mexican expatriates would take the corpses of cars and create new automotive creations, and also because the grill and headlights of some resembled a skull. What he's describing throughout are the elaborate paint jobs and decorative additions. Yellow Jackets and Red Devils were downers commonly used recreationally.
I can understand why people would hate this album.
But I swear it gets better the more you listen. Took me years to warm up to it and begin to appreciate it.
I like a lot of music I would consider a bit weird, but if an album is going to take years to appreciate it then it's just not worth it for me.
@@joncoish beefheart definitely isn't for everyone, but the crazier stuff does begin to make sense after awhile. maybe one day it'll grow on you too
I just discovered this channel earlier today off of the pod review video (I love ween), and I'm already in love with this series
I'm currently binging this entire series
I love this album. I actually own a first pressing of it. Every aspect of this crazy ass album is so god damn hilarious to me.
I mean it's pretty obvious that beefheart was trying to be humorous on like 99% of these songs makes since after the whole extreme schizophrenia incident
How much is it worth?
@@incumbentvinyl9291 around $500 last I checked
@@pickled_pigface5189 Congratulations. Where did you get it?
@@incumbentvinyl9291 paid $100 for it on eBay a few years ago.
Got one of my coworkers- fresh out of high school, to give Frownland a listen just today with very little context. His initial reaction was, “this is chaotic. What the hell did I just listen to? I have to hear that again.” Five times through he’s looking up the lyrics and going “Wow, that makes sense.”
Honestly I was concerned he was going to think I was trolling him, but he got it.
This album is a fucking masterpiece and as i grow older i become even more obsessed with the crazy tracks that i used to not like as much like hair pie, big joan, human gets me blues. I really wish the band was mixed louder at some points.
Personally one of my favorite albums for an odd reason. It is this, it's NOT an album, it's a three dimensional sculpture. Beefheart was a sculptor, this was most likely his preferred medium. Sound sculpting is the TL:DR. Much like how The Residents were particularly based in textures. I also always found his friendly rivalry with Frank Zappa to be fun. Zappa actually produced and made a cameo appearance on Trout Mask Replica. Him and Beefheart knew each other in school and would exchange records.
OK, brace yourself, here come my comments on Garrett's comments.
Dust Blows is probably about camping holidays and outdoor sex. Hair Pie #1 - those who find it a challenge on the album should refer to the Grow Fins box set, where you get an extra two minutes of horn action before the band comes in! Bill's Corpse - Bill is either Harkleroad or a goldfish, but the song is more a prophecy of an America-induced catastrophe (nuclear war probably), in which case the symbolic "lady" is the Statue of Liberty (a recurring image in Beefheart's lyric). Neon Meate is a sex song - but you wouldn't necessarily know that on first listen. The "organ"-like sound is Don soloing on simran horn, through a leslie amplifier. At the end he adds another solo line on musette (basically the same horn, from another country). My Human Gets Me Blues - I don't know where Garrett gets the trans woman interpretation from (surely that's Big Joan!). China Pig - I'm pretty sure there are two "pigs" in the song, a real one and a piggy bank, both of which must-needs be "sacrificed". The Grow Fins box set puts it into context. Dali's Car, either the first or secondthing Don wrote on piano. Please note John French was the arranger/editor (not Jeff Cotton). Pena is one of a cycle of poems also including The Blimp and Hey Garland (recorded much later). Don is the backing-screamer (similar screams can be heard in other places). Well is chanted in the style of a work-song or an Icelandic Edda, and it might be about a dying man's hallucination. Big Joan, see my comment above - mismatched hands are a trope associated with post-op transsexuals, and there's the "is she a boy?". Reputation-making soprano solos here. Rockette Morton ran on beans because that was his subsistence diet, with the usual side-effects! Fallin' Ditch is another feeling-suicidal song. Sugar & Spikes obviously predates the rest of the material, and might even be one of those uncredited Herb Bermann co-write. Naturally I'm one of the people who love those polyrhythms near the end. Ant Man Bee is another song where we believe Mr Bermann has some input into the lyrics. Should clarify - a few chords on the two horns, then a solo on each. Orange Clawhammer - see other UA-cam pages for my theory as to is-the-girl-his-daughter-or-not. Wild Life is a favorite of many people: persecuted person empathises with bears more than people, thinks he can go the way of "grizzly-man" and not get eaten. More ace soprano work. Too Much For Mirror is probably likening cocaine to a devilish-woman (and is the first of a few Beefheart songs where he relies on Van Morrison's trademark descending riffs). Hobo Chang Ba - that vocal tone was indeed imitating a real acquaintance. The real questions are why does Bill blow about three notes on flute, and of course why are there twenty sets of sleighbells on it? (You know that story, I'm sure). The Blimp - whatever you may have heard, it's not about the Hindenberg disaster. The title character is a blimp-bodied sex-demon character (a winged zomby-woof maybe!) and the drazy-hoops are his groupies. Don always said Frank looked like a fly. Steal SOftly is one of the first things Don wrote for the album. Another fine ecological lyric, for those paying attention. Old Fart - apparently Don didn't want to record this poem but Frank insisted he should. Veterans Day - another early composition: the narrator is stated to be female, not male! Boogie-interlude added for Jeff Cotton's benefit, and it's not a cross-fade into the slow part, that was done in real time.
As you can tell, I've chosen to treat that "worst album" headline as a joke. The album scored very well in public surveys (not just critics' surveys!) of the finest albums of the twentieth century.
Thank you so much for your comment Grithron you have given me new ways to think about TMR! Before I wanted to make this review I only heard Frownland and I told myself I would save myself till I found myself a physical copy. The day I got it I was so ecstatic I listened to I one time In my house and my mind was blown. The next day was the only time I had off from work for a while so I was full on set to getting this review underway
Now I didn't want to base this on one listen alone because I knew how complex this would be so I listened to it 10 times (In one day) and around the 5th time I would look up theories for what each song means for each viewing afterward and the last one come up with my own meanings and theories. After the 10th time, I watched an Interview with Drumbo and reviews of the whole album from all over the web then turned the camera on and gave my thoughts.
I for one love this album and the story and the ideas that it paints in your mind. The dedication from every single one of the band members is nothing but awe-inspiring. I kept the "Worst Album of all Time" title cause people who haven't heard it all the way or only heard about it through hearsay usually think about it as the worst since it's so different from the collective norm. When I knew nothing about the album that's how I looked it up.
I made the video to show people who have never heard it before and are interested in it. I wanted to show them that this album this is good and you should hear it.
My biggest mistake with this video was I didn't do nearly enough research and listening to any album 10 times in a row is not doing it a service. you need time to digest what you heard and come back in a day and see what you think with a fresh perspective My perspective at the time was I've spent 12 hours listening to the same thing and about 4 hours doing research and writing the script. After all that then I spend another 3 hours filming the review. That's too much at one time and songs like Pachuco Cadaver, Wildlife, and others on the set didn't get fair shakes. This was my first time doing a music review so maybe after I get more experience under my belt I'll revisit Captain''s work again just with a keener eye. Thanks for sharing Grithon : )
"My Human Gets Me Blues" was initially written as a mockery of Drumbo/John French's fascination with religion by equating it with the persecution of LGBT people - it and "Bill's Corpse" were written as pieces of intimidate members of the band into complying with Don's strict orders to stay at his house and rehearse the album from back to front - which does lend credence to the idea of it being about a trans woman.
One word... Masterpiece (no sarcasm intended)
Clearly Tom Waits was influenced by Captain Beefheart. They have very similar vocal styles.
That's probably correct...I would think Beefheart's poetry influenced him a bit as well...
One of the greatest and most innovative albums ever made. I've been listening to it for over 30 years and I still discover new things like little riffs and beats and conglomerations of sounds (even unexpected melodies) I hadn't noticed earlier. If you listen to it a few times each year, you'll discover new things to enjoy about it. You'll eventually find things to like about the tracks you ranked lowly.
It's weird how it's a million miles from e.g Pet Sounds, yet I keep it next to Pet Sounds in my LP collection (my GOATS are kept together) - both are intensely rich recordings that can provide a lifetime of re-listens, albeit one is the height of sophistication and the other is as degenerative as can possibly be 😄
Listen to it 3 times in a row and then you automatically love it
Yup. First time I was "wtf". After about 2-3 tries it started growing. Now it's in my top 5.
@@johnchurchillnoisemusic it's like a fungus. It just grows and grows
I think he listened a bunch of times that's how he seems to write these reviews
The terrifying thing about this album is that the live versions sound the same as the album versions.
"Trout Mask" is NOT the "worst album ever"! It's just that Captain Beefheart is an acquired taste... and ALWAYS will be! (For a more accessible version check out his 1967 debut "Safe As Milk".)
Every Beefheart song has sweet melody You just need to find it
Honestly this album is pretty innovative even by today’s standards. I really like it ❤️
This album works really well as comedy, as the songs are often so stupid its hilarious. I personally really like this album, and I think its a masterpiece for avant-garde and music that's a big middle finger to the norm, and it does so without it being completely outlandish and difficult to listen to. (This is in reference to the especially avant-garde stuff that have little to no conventional musical form or even musicality) I actually enjoyed this album when I first listened to it, but more so in an ironic way, as it was so entertaining. However, I unironically love this record. Its a unique experience and I wish more records would be like this, and be this good.
It’s so interesting to see how other people like the exact opposite songs that I like on the album. Non the less, controversial as ever, even today
loved binging your series, and now I'm doing it again while studying for a calc exam at 6am lol keep up the fun content dude
I've watched this review several times and I absolutely love every moment of it. I'm obviously a Beefheart fan, and I really enjoyed your take on it. Awesome.
I listened to it recently after a year and I utterly love it.. It sticks to my ears ribs..
Clear Spot is probably my favorite album, but Trout Mask is just a masterpiece..
This is killer man! Love it!
It seems to me "Pachuco Cadaver" is about an old lowrider; lyricalty this makes the most sense to me. Also, all of the songs share many themes. Regardless, it's a masterpiece imo.
Pena is my favorite song too 😂😂 it’s so awesome. When the baby starts crying at the end it makes me laugh so haes
You should do a spin-off series called “best album ever made?” Where you essentially review some really great albums in the same manner (even though some of the albums on waem (such as trout mask replica, the pod, meet the residents, ready for the house, we buy a hammer for daddy, philosophy of the world) are already great albums)
Those poor Jews.
Greatest album of the 20th century and probably by the 23rd century it will be recognized!
This album is what would happen if Zappa wasn't sober
moonlight on Vermont and ella guru is one of my favorites
A great album. An artistic album. An avant-garde, psychedelic masterpiece... And one I cannot listen to 😆. I saw a documentary on the making of this album. How every note, every word was preordained and it was made exactly how it was supposed to be. How Don locked everyone in the house for 8 months, wouldn't let anyone leave until the album came out exactly how he wanted. In some alternate universe, this album is perfection.
Pachuco cadaver is bliss
Great vid!
I’ve recently been listening to the instrumental of “When Big Joan Sets Up”, personally it’s the most intriguing composition on the album and kinda just puts me in a trance. It’s a cool feeling
Whatever it may have come to mean, I still think Beefheart got Fast and Bulbous from maybe an ad for plants or plant fertilizer and just latched on to whatever the tagline was
This album is #76 on the greatest albums according to AcclaimedMusic. That should show how it's acclaimed.
I feel like Beefheart had to know how to do music right to know how to do it "wrong." He made it weird as possible so whether you love or hate it, you never forgot it.
im really liking the crt showing the album art the whole time
You are a man of taste Dan!
For some reason, I laugh joyfully every time I rewatch this and you say “[Frank Zappa] had no time for Captain Beefheart and his dumb shenanigans”.
One of the greatest albums ever recorded. This album was actually scored.
Fun fact wblm the blimp of classic rock actually uses the it's the blimp sample during its commercials and bumpers
I liked this review. I just started listening to Trout Mask Replica a few months ago and I love the album. Can't believe you didn't like Pachuco Cadaver. I hope you do more reviews like this
Dude it’s the best song. Just gotta listen to it 10 times lmao
Pachuco Cadaver happens to be my all time favourite song. I am appalled by this man.
Your review was cool. I liked the fact that you were open minded. And I enjoyed your personal reactions to the songs. You probably learned that music doesn't have to sound "nice" to be good or at least interesting. I had a piano teacher when I was 17 who didn't like dissonance and one day I ask her if she takes a walk in the park and listens to all the birds chirping does she really enjoy it? Of course she said yes. Then I asked her if we applied your beautiful bird sounds to musical instruments would it still be ok? She just looked at me like I was from Mars. I like many forms of music and one of them is Avant-Garde. If Avant-Garde music is a style that a person is drawn to, then Beefheart is the real deal. But it obviously isn't for everyone because people listen to music for different reasons. When I was in high school I became a big Zappa fan and soon discovered Beefheart. Trout Mask was the first recording I picked up and listened to with the drummer in our band. John French (Drumbo) became one of our favorite drummers. Couldn't believe the stuff he was coming up with. When I first heard the album, I thought that they were making up a lot of the songs on the spot. But found out that they transcribed and rehearsed everything to the point that they recorded it in like six hours. We went to a Beeefheart concert in Boston and they played the songs perfectly. I would recommend listening to some of the Magic Band's band members interviews with Samuel Andreyev. Interesting stuff. You might give a listen to The Spotlight Kid by Beefheart. I think you might really like that album.
If you enjoy the unhinged vocal performances and the cartoonish insanity of Pena, you HAVE TO listen to Caroliner Rainbow. Start with Rise Of The Common Woodpile, and please don't give up after the first track. Caroliner is/was one of the most genuinely bizarre bands ever, but also one of the most fun ones as far as insane avantgarde shit goes. This video tells me that you'd love them.
By the way, I stumbled upon your channel via your Orthrelm video; I clicked on it like "why would someone go out of their way to shit on such an obscure album?", and was pleasantly surprised to find that you actually got across the appeal of the music really well. It's like... benevolent clickbait.
I really enjoyed this video, off to watching the Shaggs one next.
This is a great album and your video made me want to listen to it again later today!
I’m just getting into your videos because of your Mike Payton review getting suggested to me… if you wanna hear a really good interpretation of Orange Claw Hammer, there exists a duet with Frank Zappa on guitar! It sounds coherent in the best way too.
Also, White Stripes did a cover of China Pig! Also worth checking out
18:52 and that’s how Rockette Morton Part 1 & 2 is born.
You should look into Royal Trux' Twin Infinitives. It's like Trout Mask Replica but made by two 90s junkies instead.
HEY !! what happened to Moonlight on Vermont ??? Funny enough I first bought T.M.R. on CD way back in the mid 1980's. When I first was playing it I discovered that that beautiful riff you refer to in Veterans Day poppy was seamlessly blended to repeat itself in a continuous 25 to 30 second repeating loop, on and on and on it went indefinitely (due a printing error I guess), it was absolutely mesmerising and hauntingly beautiful. Unfortunately though I had my entire CD collection stolen pretty soon after this and lost this absolute freakish treasure .. boo hoo..
Thanks to this review, I’ve been blasting Veteran’s Day Poppy on the REGS.
What progressive rock sounds like to normal people
I adore this album. Great review
You are a cool guy
These guys were the pioneers of noise rock.
I like cold showers they feel warm because my house is like NEGATIVE 10 DEGREES
I prefer this album more not only every time I listen to it, but when I listen to other Captain Beefheart albums. I thought they'd all be like this, but they're much more accessible, so you can hear how much of an avant garde experiment this was. Never really heard people calling it the "worst" though, I've seen it in critical Top 100s.
DaChau Blues hit different on a Saturday morning
Dude btw, great ending to your video. Please do more music reviews
I'm back to watch the whole series again.
This boys mom got her cherry popped to this album
Currently the #76 most acclaimed album of all time.
TBH, I kinda dug some of these tracks on here. I looked up the band and it turns out Frank Zappa produced this album(makes a lot of sense, actually. He's got a lot of humor in his songs). It sounds weird and abrasive, but I can definitely understand why these have a cult following though, it's agressive and sounds wrong, but something about it is encapsulating. It seems like they had a huge influence on experimental bands and areas of punk. Also I really liked the Moonlight on Vermont track, that ripped hard. I feel like this album heavily influenced The Mollusk by Ween, because God damn, this album is what this reminded me of.
This whole album is a musical wonderland Bear don't tbh nothin! I wouldn't have listened to this whole thing for 10 hours if it didn't slap. The whole novelty of this whole album out match the bad everyday of the week and 5 of the 28 songs are on my personal playlist and boy does it annoy my friends.
It's definitely insanity. I think this is one of the prime examples of an anti-music album. Thanks for introducing it to me man, I gotta check out their other albums, haha. ALSO you should do more music reviews. I really dug this format you got going.
I miiiiight I would have to be for something I have a lot of interest though btw next week I'm recording a big thing for the 1st of a 5 part series its going to be a big big project and I hope it turns out lit fam
@@CactusMalpractice Tight! Looking forward to that man!
When you said you only gave five stars to one song I said it must be Pena. Bingo. And The Blimp a close second? You definitely get this album. That's the strawberries!
Please do a history on captain beefheart
I was 14 in 1978 when I first heard Zappas Absolutely Free & We’re Only in it For the Money & it was the most unpredictable & brilliant things I’d ever heard but although I respect Beefhearts’ pushing back against many predictable rock or blues norms I struggle when there aren’t catchy melodies which although sometimes whacky Zappas tunes more often had . Glad you’re beginning to appreciate this. Maybe I’ll give this another go.
I really enjoyed this. I like your style... also agree on the best fast and bulbous assessment.
Could you do an episode where you say the album Atub is the worst ever?
When I was 16 and smoked a lot of weed this was the only album my friend and I listened to for weeks. It's brilliant.
Lol, it's not even the worst Captain Beefheart album of all time.
Pachuco Cadaver is the best song on the album and it is the first person narrative of an old Mexican car in a parade
The first time I heard it, I was a bit puzzled. The second time (when I knew what to expect), I was hooked. One of my all-time favourites.
I have heard all his albums many times, and rarely go back to this album.
This is precisely where your name aesthetic does not serve you
When Big Joan Sets Up is my favourite. It has it all, a true classic.
the specific part with the titular line in Frownland is so fucking good, i wish it lasted longer.
you sound exactly like the completionist
That's just a theory
Jebadiah Jackson a game theory. Thanks for watchin
Note: The End of Veterans Day Poppy sounds like Polvo or Thinking Tellers Union Local 282..🎯
How on earth could anyone attach the word "worse" to this album?
i love Orange Claw Hammer
The album came across better on its original vinyl, where the music was divided into four sides. Each one had a sort of mood. I especially enjoyed side four, but I wonder if I would have if its songs had just been the closing numbers on a CD. Sometimes you need to listen to music in its original media for it to really come across. By the way, that's the Mothers of Invention doing the backing music on "The Blimp." It's a song called "Charles Ives." Jeff Cotton does the poetry reading on this one. Shame he wasn't in the band longer.
Loved TMR when I bought it in 1969 and have had 5 copies since. Some people don’t like it- so what, I do and that’s what matters to me. Some music - and life is difficult - jazz, 20century classical, heavy metal etc. but it’s worth the effort
I love this album actually
The drazey hoops! The drazey hoops! The blimp!
Weird. I've always found "Well" to be really captivating. Oh well.
Also I’d like to add that fast and bulbous refers to the style of playing. The mascara snake was a Dons cousin and he was telling him to play fast, and bulbous
Tight also
Nice pfp
subbed thx u
Why doesn't anyone talk about Lick My Decals Off, Baby? It's the album that came after this, and you could argue it's superior, either way.
Pena fucked me up, holy shit
hopeful for a modern-day follow-up. as a TMR alumni i have a few points:
1. Veteran’s Day Poppy- A mother mourns her son’s return from war addicted to heroin.
2. The paper shredder part of Sugar & Spike is John Drumbo French going full-out cray while the rest of the band plays their part in the regular time signature. no easy task done live in the studio.
3. The album was written and rehearsed daily for just under a year before they stepped foot in Franks studio. Frank rolled tape and they played the music exactly as it appears on the record. (the exception being Moonlight and Veterans Day Poppy)
4. Big Joan’s hands are too small because the rest of her body is so big. oh and he loves her. he won’t droop if she don’t talk about her hands being too small. he hates how the world fat-shames her.
5. I dig your fresh perspective. what do you think after these years? oh- and it’s Pachuco CADAVER like a cold, dead body.
Thanks, man!