Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Dropout Boogie"

[BootyFister]

Video unrelated. lol

[colossalberger]

Who fucking puts their meat in the shopping cart like that!? People back then sure were dumb...as they are now.

[RockaRollaZombie]

I'm hungry now.

[IOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIO]

Each and every one of you: mandatory Beefheart party today

[terser]

@IOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIO - I just heard about his death. Unfortunately it may take his passing for him to finally get the recognition he's deserved for so long.

[haineux]

Awesome creation.

[almadora]

a part of you lives on in me, captain. i wept for your death.

[teklaterra]

#glühschwein

[bernie910]

RIP Captain Beefheart,Legend

[killuminati63]

porkchops and cpt beefheart !

[fortyfeetremain]

It's captain porkheart!!!! Haha

Thank you for the video very unique

By the way punk has to many sub-genres to label

Punk is a lifestyle, a form of music, a reason to jump and down and scream, a reason to shave your head and wear leather jackets

Punk is not a word used to label people songs or bands

[mikegerski]

I love this song! AS a drummer, the only way I could convince my band how to play it was by butchering The Kinks' "You Really Got Me".

[PieceofMindmusic]

this made me simultaineously never want to eat pork again...and then want to eat bbq baby back ribs really badly...then made me appreciate capm beefheart all over again!

[ichbineintoober]

These cuts of meat represent all the prime females that don just used and callously threw away!

Capt. Beefheart you rascal. They say "Take me captain, take me, oh captain my captain" heheh

Seriously though i like cap beefheart and all this clownage. ok with frank is ok with me

[leojwelch20]

Nice one Terser. Hope you enjoy the vid I posted. A band carrying on the beefheart flame

[iggypot]

van vliet is a vegetarian

[mooiegarage]

@ iggypot

that makes this a great 'don't eat meat flick', then don't it? :-)

[keefyd5]

go to edgar broughton apache dropout its brilliant!

[dirtbag1713]

the kills cover beefheart? christ...

and by the way, not sure if any of you guys are into the Minutemen but Mike Watt refered to Beefheart as punk too. not saying that is definitive or anything but it does say something about what some of the earlier punk bands thought of these older "proto-punk" bands

[PhilipHaze]

Beefheart is the man!!

[strawwoodclaw]

poor pigs get it rough. they lucky the muslims & jews wont eat em or they'd have it even rougher. I like Beefheart pigs & pork

[bocgas]

i fucking love Beefheart and pork too

[riccdrum]

ahah,me too!

[bbudab]

God i love this song and i love this video!!!!!!

[PatrickMFnMurray]

No not punk, so much more complicated than punk.

[terser]

Yeah, though I have heard Beefheart referred to as "Proto-Punk" a few times.

[terser]

Hmmm - I don't think referring to Beefheart as "proto-punk" is unjustified.

Given the time period, this was pretty different stuff: sinister, frightening, uncategorizable, and brash - it really was a NEW sound. This is 1967, and this stuff is definitely not light-hearted, positive-minded hippy music.

Additionally, this surely isn't the easy going commerical rock of the time - this would NOT be easy to sell. It was weird as hell, agressive and challenged existing music. He is proto-punk.

[PatrickMFnMurray]

Define punk. Is it all of the things you just listed? Punk bands have been the exact opposite of those things at different time. I define punk as stripped-down rock music because that is usually the only constant in punk bands. Zappa was uncategorizable and brash. Was zappa punk? Robert Johnson was sinister and frightening for his time. Was the "king of the delta blues" punk? My problem with calling Beefheart "punk" is the broadness of this term.The core of punk music is simplicity not publicity

[funwithphobias]

What the fuck... Rock and Roll boiled down is just the blues. Go listen to the fucking Misfits

[vargason82]

get real thats garbage all recycled garbage for that matter

[thefortysixand2]

Really? I haven't heard of "the Misfits".  They sound like they'd have the blues, being misfits and all..

[Dripser]

Well if u look back u can find "Proto Punk" even earlier in the mid 60's garage bands, The Sonics, The Wailers and the likes...

[bbudab]

Listen to The Kills version of thi song.

[mbera11]

@PatrickMFnMurray

mozart and death metal both really enjoy writing mathematical melodic lines

i mean

grasping at straws, but illustrating you can defend or attack any supposition

[YamamotoNEW]

PUNK CLASSIC!

[sugarfunk75]

Sorry...I mean people who see it,do they really get it?...Lots of people count in "slices"...

[terser]

I have no idea what you are getting at...

[sugarfunk75]

OK,I don't eat meat,or any part of a dead animal.that's where i'm getting at...

[marlboro555555]

Animals are delicious. Life feeds on life. So bring her to mother.

[terser]

marlboro- Exactly.

We have canine teeth for a reason - we are animals and should eat animals.

[sugarfunk75]

Good video...but do they really understand????

[TheClugger]

Nice video!

Cracking song!

[melvyd2]

Captain Porkheart?

[HPSmallville]

Excellent take on it.

I see what you mean. A lot of people I've introduced the song to had never heard of Beefheart!

[terser]

Yeah, I'll admit I had never heard of Captain Beefheart until I heard the White Stripe's cover of "Party of Special Things to Do" years ago.

Covers have a purpose.

[HPSmallville]

I think the Kills' cover is amazing.

Not as good as the original. But it's very

good.

[terser]

I'm not particularly crazy about it, but the key point is that they appreciate Beefheart and are in a way promoting the song.

If anything (regardless of it's good or not) they are creating a gateway to discover Beefheart for those who have never heard of him.

[Copshootcop74]

IMO The Kills cover is really really good! People cover songs they love and I don't see anything wrong in that.

[billyshitcheese]

fucking beefheart man...genius! kill the kills' attempt at a cover. DO NOT EVEN TRY! it's like trying to cover jimi. you just can't beat the people from the other place, fuckers!

[DeepFrance]

-Safe as milk : De l'art ou du cochon ?

-Les deux, mon capitaine !

[SkateyRaiden]

The video reminds me of a Fallout 3 advert!

[JohnFuckingLennon]

Awesome choice of a video.

[pmf598]

Hi Terser, do you know the Beefheart track with the line "i ain't got the blues no more ah said" its got wicked harp playing as usual and i thought it might be on Unconditionally gauranteed, but i'm not sure, i need help from an expert on the Captain, cheers Paul.

[sbmx]

that is "Ah Feel Like Ah Said / Ahcid" from Strictly Personal, it's the opening track.

[JesustheLizard]

what about this one, in a bluesy wail he yells "Let's go down to the (unintelligible wail)

"let's go down to the (im not sure what he says) I got this stuck in my head, and i can't find the song i heard it on, but i know it was on youtube somewhere.

[YouzTube99]

JesustheLizard, you may have heard, "Come on down to the Big Dig!" which is aka 'The Smithsonian Institute Blues'.

"Big Dig" is not a common phrase which may be why you found it unintelligible. But that's one of the reasons I like the Captain's music -- nothing common about it!

[FugginNorb]

Beefheart kind of sounds like the Kool-Aid man on this one...

[bassistbenito]

i love how the music changes at 1:04

that shit is trippy

[youtubbs67]

Captain Beefheart is a genius.

[vlietvandon]

hell yeah drop out and work at a slaughter house!! or a textile mill :(

[jackdollhandler]

one of my favorite tracks on the record

[almadora]

scary as hell.

[nirvana505primus]

Man I love this song

[Signzit]

what's up with the paycheck at the end?

[terser]

Ha, I'm not sure.

Maybe they were trying to show how lucrative and satisfying a career in the pork industry can be.

[Signzit]

great upload thanks.

[Superjew14]

The new high school anthem

[redape6870]

makes me want the meat lover's slam at denny's!

[crabula]

Good! Pork People Like! I Like Pork People! I think this song works better than "china pig" would. IMO, music videos should, in most cases, avoid ever literally illustrating the lyrics of the song. I hate videos like that. What's the point? It does'nt add anything. It only encourages people to be lazy: to rely on others to create a literal visualization of the lyrics for them. It's much better to juxtapose two seemingly unrelated things and allow (or trick) the veiwer into participation with art

[marieddu75]

music and video good match!

[Brock2097]

Thanks, been looking for this!!

[epenmedi]

guessing you couldn't get Beefhearts "China Pig".

[terser]

Excellent idea, I had never made the connection before. I was just watch pork videos listening to Beefheart one day and thought they fit nicely. I may make a China Pig sometime soon, great idea.

[epenmedi]

I'm glad you made it to this great raunchy tune. Its the only youtube vid of "dropout boogie", i've seen.

More Beefheart on you tube !!!

[TheClugger]

haha nice idea, it's just a shame "China Pig" is a shit song.

[jennyhate]

sweet

[HagusMcFee]

thanks