Trout Mask Replica

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List Price: £15.99 (GBP)
  • Lowest New Price: £5.57
  • Lowest Used Price: £3.98
  • Total New: 15
  • Total Used: 11
  • Total Collectible: 0
  • Total Refurbished: 0
  • Artist : Captain Beefheart
  • Binding : Audio CD
  • EAN : 0075992719629
  • Label : Straight
  • Languages : Original Language: English
  • Manufacturer : Straight
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
  • Package Quantity : 1
  • Product Group : Music
  • Publisher : Straight
  • Release Date : 2006-09-05
  • SKU : A075992719629
  • Studio : Straight
  • UPC : 075992719629

Probably the strangest album to regularly make critics' Top 100 Records of All Time, Trout Mask Replica is a landmark of idiosyncratic and visionary music-making. Don Van Vliet (christened Captain Beefheart by one-time colleague Frank Zappa) and The Magic Band rehearsed this record for over a year, translating Beefheart's ideas into fully fleshed-out pieces: although the record on first listen appears spontaneous and improvised, it is in fact carefully constructed, as the instrumental versions on the Grow Fins box-set demonstrate. Trout Mask Replica fuses blues, freeform jazz, rock, and Beefheart's surreal lyrics into an initially perplexing and daunting blend, in which the two guitars, drums and bass of10 seem to be playing four different songs at once--but over time, the music's angular, discordant shapes and rhythms not only begin to make sense, but take on an eccentric beauty. For those unfamiliar with Beefheart's work, check out the definitive compilation The Dust Blows Forward, or start with the luminously remastered Safe As Milk and Mirror Man. Both are essential records, but the man's mythical reputation begins and ends with the legacy of Trout Mask Replica. --Burhan Tufail

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

  • Disc 1

    • 1: Frownland
    • 2: The Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back
    • 3: Dachau Blues
    • 4: Ella Guru
    • 5: Hair Pie: Bake I
    • 6: Moonlight In Vermont
    • 7: Pachuco Cadaver
    • 8: Bills Corpse
    • 9: Sweet Sweet Bulbs
    • 10: Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish
    • 11: China Pig
    • 12: My Human Gets Me Blues
    • 13: Dali's Car
    • 14: Hair Pie: Bake II
    • 15: Pena
    • 16: Well
    • 17: When Big Joan Sets Up
    • 18: Fallin' Ditch
    • 19: Sugar 'N Spikes
    • 20: Ant Man Bee
    • 21: Orange Claw Hammer
    • 22: Wild Life
    • 23: She's Too Much For My Mirror
    • 24: Hobo Chang Ba
    • 25: The Blimp
    • 26: Steal Softly Thru Snow
    • 27: Old Fart At Play
    • 28: Veteran's Day Poppy

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