CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Trout Mask Replica ORIG BIZARRE 2 LP
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Aug 3, 2009 Sold Date
Jul 27, 2009 Start Date
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VERY HARD TO FIND ORIGINAL BIZARRE RECORDS!! with STRAIGHT GATEFOLD COVER!!!

    **CAPTAIN BEEFHEART**

                **Trout Mask Replica**

                                            (RELEASED IN 1969)

    

ORIGINAL BIZARRRE RECORDS with STRAIGHT ON COVER!!! 

ORIGINAL U.S.A PRESSING BIZARRE 2MS-2027. Cover is STRAIGHT STS-1035 (original). (Blue labels) STEREO

Review by Steve Huey

Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon. Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 28-song double album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, blues, and garage rock to free jazz and avant-garde experimentalism. Atonal, sometimes singsong melodies; jagged, intricately constructed dual-guitar parts; stuttering, complicated rhythmic interaction — all of these elements float out seemingly at random, often without completely interlocking, while Beefheart groans his surrealist poetry in a throaty Howlin' Wolf growl. The disjointedness is perhaps partly unintentional — reportedly, Beefheart's refusal to wear headphones while recording his vocals caused him to sing in time with studio reverberations, not the actual backing tracks — but by all accounts, the music and arrangements were carefully scripted and notated by the Captain, which makes the results even more remarkable. As one might expect from music so complex and, to many ears, inaccessible, the influence of Trout Mask Replica was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point. However, its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless future experiments in rock surrealism, especially during the punk/new wave era.

YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME AFTER YOU HEAR THIS LP!!!

 

SONGS:

1  Frownland  VanVliet  1:39 
2  The Dust Blows Forward 'N the Dust Blows Back  VanVliet  1:53 
3  Dachau Blues  VanVliet  2:21 
4  Ella Guru  VanVliet  2:23 
5  Hair Pie: Bake 1  VanVliet  4:57 
6  Moonlight in Vermont  VanVliet  3:55 
7  Pachuco Cadaver  VanVliet  4:37 
8  Bills Corpse  VanVliet  1:47 
9  Sweet Sweet Bulbs  VanVliet  1:47 
10  Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish  VanVliet  2:25 
11  China Pig  VanVliet  3:56 
12  My Human Gets Me Blues  VanVliet  2:42 
13  Dali's Car  VanVliet  1:25 
14  Hair Pie: Bake 2  VanVliet  2:23 
15  Pena  VanVliet  2:31 
16  Well  VanVliet  2:05 
17  When Big Joan Sets Up  VanVliet  5:19 
18  Fallin' Ditch  VanVliet  2:03 
19  Sugar 'N Spikes  VanVliet  2:29 
20  Ant Man Bee  VanVliet  3:55 
21  Orange Claw Hammer  VanVliet  3:35 
22  Wild Life  VanVliet  3:07 
23  She's Too Much for My Mirror  VanVliet  1:42 
24  Hobo Chang Ba  VanVliet  2:01 
25  The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)  VanVliet  2:04 
26  Steal Softly Thru Snow  VanVliet  2:13 
27  Old Fart at Play  VanVliet  1:54 
28  Veteran's Day Poppy  VanVliet  4:30

 

CONDITION:

2 RECORDS: I JUST FINISHED LISTENING TO THESE RECORDS AND THEY SOUND GREAT!!! WITH ONLY FEW LOW OCATIONAL CLICKS, AND VISUALLY: I COULD ONLY FIND ONE VERY THIN SUPERFICIAL LINE (SEEN UNDER A LAMP) AND SOME ALMOST INVISIBLE SLEEVE SCUFFS OR STAIN (ONLY SEEN UNDER A LAMP) AND THAT DON'T AFFECT MUSIC BECAUSE IT SOUNDS AND PLAYS GREAT!!! NO SKIPS, NO RETURNS AND NO JUMPS!!!

GATEFOLD COVER: HAS SOME RING WEAR (NOT TOO BAD LIKE MOST OF THE COPIES OF THIS RECORD), LITE WEAR ON SOME EDGES AND BENT CREASES ON TWO TIPS OF CORNERS, BUT STILL VERY HARD!!! WITH NO SPLITS, NO CUTS, NO SAWS, NO PUNCH HOLES, AND NO WRITTING, LOOKS GREAT!!! (SEE PICTURE)

          

               A MUST FOR ROCK COLLECTORS!!!

         

                                     WARNING:

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