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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band |
| Record Label: |
Reprise |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Art Rock |
| Release Date: |
March 14, 1989 |
| Album Duration: |
79m:08s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Frownland 2. Dust Blows Forward 'N the Dust Blows Back 3. Dachau Blues 4. Ella Guru 5. Hair Pie: Bake 1 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. Dali's 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. She's Too Much For My Mirror 24. Hobo Chang Ba 25. Blimp, The (Mousetrapreplica) 26. Steal Softly Thru Snow 27. Old Fart at Play 28. Veteran's Day Poppy |
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Full performer name: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Captain Beefheart (vocals, soprano & tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, simran horn, musette); Antennae Jimmy Stevens (vocals, guitar); The Mascara Snake (vocals, bass clarinet); Rockette Morton (narration, bass); Zoot Horn Rollo (guitar, flute); Doug Moon (guitar); John "Drumbo" French (drums). Previously released as a 2-LP set. A great, sprawling, discordant work of genius--TROUT MASK REPLICA gives the lie to the frequent criticism that all double albums are exercises in self indulgence. Or perhaps in Captain Beefheart's case it's impossible to separate the self indulgence from the meaningful art--certainly the pieces you may feel on first listening to be the most excessively obscure are those that keep you coming back for more. Embedded in this influential, messy, confusing yet brilliant enterprise are a plethora of sui generis gems such as "Ella Guru" and "Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish," though "China Pig" with... |
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