I see the divine mustache of Captain Beefheart

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When I close my eyes I see his divine mustache communicating with my mustache

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Damn man that’s odd

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Andrew Collins suggests Captain Beefheart
“Ah yes, that’ll be Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. I appreciate the work of the good Captain in deconstructing rock orthodoxy and introducing absurdity into the blues, but this 28-song punishment is a better idea on paper than in reality. Beefheart apparently recorded his vocals without headphones in the studio. Can you blame him?”

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Captain Beefheart
There’s nothing so boring as affected “madness”: it’s just depressing and annoying. Same goes for Captain Beefheart. He’s namechecked far more often than he is listened to, and his Trout Mask Replica album is deep-fried toss on toast. If you recorded Anne from Little Britain over a soundtrack of toddlers blowing saxophones at random, you could sell it as newly discovered Trout Mask Replica out-takes featuring a guest vocalist. Just call it Zoot Talon Cornflake Mama and hey presto! Instant classic!
Johnny Sharp

Back in 1982 during my last stay in hospital I knew someone who was into Captain Beefheart. He had a copy of " Ice cream for crow". It was excruciating listening.

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Trout Mask Replica sounds like my psychosis

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Was up @Om_Sadasiva…??? U really listen to good music…!!!

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Nothing. My mustache has an individual separate soul of its own

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Good good good…!!!

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Why do you keep thinking of him if it’s triggering your delusions paranoia whatever? I don’t even know who he was

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I like his music. His album Trout Mask Replica is one of my favourite ones. I don’t know how but our mustaches communicate. I am not aware of what they’re talking

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How about your (“furry crawlin’”) brow?

A friend of mine was always wiggling his brow before he became schizophrenic. Perhaps subsequently too.

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I think Howard Devoto wrote some of the lyrics to his version of this song too. But it’s credited to Don Van Vliet, which is Capt Beefheart’s legal name. Fun stuff.

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Lick my decals off, baby is great album too

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It’s his odd metres/time signatures that I get into right away…
That and the raw guitar sounds…

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How about pouting lips?


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Why not? 15151515151

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A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag
is fast and bulbous, got me?

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Thing about beef heart is there is a lot of competition between a population of followers over who properly ‘gets’ his music. It is so far from the norm some people see liking his music as a status symbol.

But I find if you just lie back and let it wash over you, in a way very similar to listening to a fugue by Bach, you can find many things to like and then to love about his music. And every time I go into listening to his stuff with an ‘equal opportunities’ ear I hear something new.

His work reminds me of the dune books in how dense it is. And for me this dense ness is best appreciated not by extreme disection, as in a literary analysis kind of way, but by letting yourself notice nice new things every time.

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That’s why I am with @Om_Sadasiva - I would take trout mask replica with me to a desert island because the album has so much legs on it

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