Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band-Trout Mask Replica-1969-mp3@3

Track List



1. Frownland Listen Listen

2. The Dust Blows Forward N The Dust Blows Back Listen Listen

3. Dachau Blues Listen Listen

4. Ella Guru Listen Listen

5. Hair Pie Bake 1 Listen Listen

6. Moonlight On 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. Dalis Car

14. Hair Pie Bake 2

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. Shes Too Much For My Mirror

24. Hobo Chang Ba

25. The Blimp

26. Steal Softly Thru Snow

27. Old Fart At Play

28. Veterans Day Poppy



Amazon.co.uk Review

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