You clearly haven’t followed the well -known biography of Don which makes me less confident about your comments.

Oi Ants. Like your style m8. Review Sizzla “Soul Deep” ya wee bastard.

This is something you appreciate, not like.

Fuck you dude
You review this shit but blow over Conan moccasin

Anthony do a Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden or a Laughing Stock one or i will punch you in the face.

Listen to Jon Bap holy shit

I know you think pink floyd’s the wall is a 10 (so do I) but it would be cool to hear you talk about it in depth

Please review ‘An Evening With Wild Man Fischer’.

The musicians hired as the band had no input on this album whatsoever. Neither did Zappa, he just kept an organized work environment. Beefheart (an untrained musician) wrote every note and all the parts for the other instruments on piano. He basically expected the impossible from his band, guitars don’t have the same range as a piano. Beefheart didn’t care, he expected what he wrote to be played. He was too ignorant to understand why they couldn’t. What Zoot Horn Rollo does on guitar on this album is not humanly possible and he did it anyway. The album is a triumph in what the musicians accomplished, but that being said I to this day find the album a difficult listen. I need to be in a mood to hear something different and I listen to it as a marvelous feat rather than as a pleasurable listen.

There are 21 different motifs going on in just the first 5 seconds of the album, and four different time signatures. This is not just some dudes trying to be weird. They spent a full year rehearsing making sure every part was just the way Beefheart wanted it before even going to the studio, where they did it in one take. It may sound random and unplanned, but it was the exact opposite.

Troutthany Masktano

He didn’t play any instrument.

this was my first Beefheart album! first time i stumbled upon the album cover i was like, “wtf is this about?” but i liked it, it looked weird. i loved the background color (so pink!!) and i liked the bold, green corduroy jacket with the sherpa collar, so i was instantly intrigued lol. first time you play it, the opening track smacks you right in the face and you either like it or not lol. i was dumbstruck. i was like, ‘um ok?’ but i listened to the whole thing haha. it took a second time listening to it to really truly enjoy it because the first time through, some of it sticks in yr head. 10 yrs later this is still one of my fave albums 🙂

Go fuck yourself you ugly ass looking nazi

B U L B O U S

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Frank Zappa… who produced this record.

i never realized that was a green screen oh my god

oii use a trash mask for your greenscreen masterpiece

I was not a fan of Trout Mask Replica until I’d heard it over 100 times. It took me a long time to acclimatise to it but once I did it all made sense. Now I give it a spin and it doesn’t sound anything out of the ordinary. The secret to it is to not try and make sense of it or analyse it. Instead just put it on in the background and let it slowly enter your blood stream.

Do Discovery by Daft Punk for classics week

I totally disagree with the idea that the instruments sound like they are all playing different songs. The music is sometimes polytonal and sometimes atonal, and the rhythms and grooves are wonky and off kilter, but they are absolutely still locked in with each other. Tense and unconventional yes (that’s what makes it fascinating in my opinion) but not out of sync or poorly performed. I personally enjoy listening to this record, I find it to be a cathartic and unpredictable roller coaster of wacky grooves and insane lyricism. I also disagree that the production is bad. It could be better produced and mixed yes, but I think the punchy tone on the bass guitar and the bright treble heavy guitars add to the albums sound perfectly. I’m not one of those people who thinks that because somebody else dislikes this record it’s because they don’t “get it” or that it reflects on their taste poorly, because the album is very much a take it or leave it proposition, but I absolutely love it and find it an amazingly satisfying listen. I will point out though, that you didn’t give enough credit to the musical talent on display om this record, one example can be heard in the drum solo at the end of Sugar and Spikes.

I beg to differ with you on this album receiving critical acclaim. Whilst reading what I believe to have been the first Rolling Stone Record Guide sometime around 1978 I saw this album was given five stars. On the basis of that, and having been produced by Zappa I shelled out $9.99 for this double album and felt thoroughly ripped off. Today I consider it a masterpiece. The Capt. is certainly an acquired taste. Thanks for the review.