My fave Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band listens are:
Safe As Milk (features a young Ry Cooder on guitar)
Trout Mask Replica
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Clear Spot
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_at_the_Radar_Station .
The site sort of reads (to me at least) like it's a classification of the type of site it is, like "XYZ Pod Cast".
No doubt that's why they put it that way, but it's not literal and doesn't need to be.
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#13A lot of people listen to about 30 seconds of Trout Mask Replica and then immediately write off Van Vliet's music as unlistenable twaddle, just weird for the sake of being weird. And it certainly is weird music--but when you really start listening to the album you start to discover a twisted inner logic to every atonal guitar shreik and weird drum beat. It all comes together to create something pretty unique in the w…
To those unfamiliar with Trout Mask Replica, I highly recommend this 30 minute video review[0] by Samuel Andreyev.
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#14Type Beefheart into youtube and you'll typically get TMR and Safe as Milk at the top (depending on your location and profile). There's 0.75 of one good track on Safe as Milk and TMR is merely a sketchbook compared to the masterpieces to come.
Let's go:
* Shiny Beast
* Lick My Decals Off, Baby
* Doc at the Radar Station
* Ice Cream For Crow
These are, unconditionally, guaranteed, the best Beefheart albums
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#15Don Van Vliet and his bands were unique talents. Some of the music is challenging, some is surprisingly accessible. Some might even evoke the response "what's all the fuss about" - because it entered the consciousness of so many other musicians, and they reinterpreted it, and made it part of "normal". There is bluesy Beefheart, soulful Beeheart, and jazz-inspire weird Beefheart.
"Clear-Spot" and "The SpotLight Kid" are a good starting point. In the UK they can be found packaged together as a single CD.
Enjoy!
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#16From 2013 at the latest. Is something new here? Or.. should I just go home, and do my washing.. (got those Smithsonian institute blues, those Smithsonian institute blues)
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#17I used to listen to Beefheart on The John Peel Show.
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#18I used to listen to Beefheart on The John Peel Show.
Me too. I phoned in a request for China pig. He played it!
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#19From 2013 at the latest. Is something new here? Or.. should I just go home, and do my washing.. (got those Smithsonian institute blues, those Smithsonian institute blues)
Probably nothing new here, but giving some attention to what has been for many years the best Beefheart resource online seems fine.
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#20Observatory Crest is underrated.