Current Events > Was Captain Beefheart one of the greatest 'shitposters' of his time?

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9lpLm7jwQY

Thus it's very gratifying to say that Captain Beefheart's new album is a total success, a brilliant, stunning enlargement and clarification of his art. Which is not to say that it's in any sense slick, "artistic," or easy. This is one of the few bands whose sound has actually gotten rawer as they've matured"a brilliant and refreshing strategy. Again the rhythms and melodic textures jump all over the place (in the same way that Cecil Taylor's do), Beefheart singing like a lonesome werewolf screaming and growling in the night. The songs clatter about"given a superficial listening, they seem boring and repetitious. It's perhaps the addition of saxophones (all played by the five men in the band) that first suggests what's really happening here and always has been happening in this group's music.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/trout-mask-replica-19690726
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Beefheart vinyl is what you buy when you graduate hipster school.

Zappa was always better and his stuff actually sounds good.
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

Zappa was always better and his stuff actually sounds good.

True

Random guy in the comments posted...

This sounds like my ass after I eat a bowl of curry

Lmfao
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dolomedes posted...

the awful thing about trout mask replica and everything that followed is how great his previous album - safe as milk was.

well tbh the awful thing about trout mask replica is how much everyone pretends to like it.

I listened to the entire album and laughed my ass off throughout the whole thing. I love it.
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