Captain Beefheart - Grown So Ugly

[9Esnuzan5]

I just do not care for this one as much as the original and the Black Keys, but props for inspiring BK to cover it.

[Alan96box]

Captain Beefheart always amazes me ...

[fireblossom2u]

Give me something new, something that isn't vomited from the hit machine. Challenge my numb brain Brian. Spruce up my gray matter just like this.

[Sanningsministeriet]

This is the shit.

[swlabr413]

the black keys are a great band, and captain beefheart is a legendary artist. both versions are good.

[TheKaytaqattacks]

@jeffboyardee DOUUUUUUUUCHHHHHHEEEEEEE

[mikekadas]

Grown So Ugly - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band [Glendale, California] - 1967 - "I understand where this song title is coming from. I noticed a long time ago that I look better in my bathroom mirror then in real life. LOL." - Safe As Milk (Buddha Records)-1999.

[NahuelAcedo]

Rest in peace Don Van Vliet

[spinnact]

RIP DON!

[rowzenator]

Adieu. Anyone who spends  a quarter of his lie in the desert needs worshippers! Listen to the poetry and think about why no one does this sort of thing any more.

[sonicjay007]

Forever Now...

[1papaken]

Ry the fuck Cooder? Who would have thunk it?

[palteonato]

If you love Rock you should have THIS MASTERPIECE(Safe As Milk)

[TexasMist]

The Black Keys version is the best so far. But that doesn't diminish the genius of this version or the original. Its just evolution.

[bobboa0]

@TexasMist tru dat

[spazdal1]

this is awsome! ive been a huge black keys fan for years and just started getting into captain beefheart thourgh zappa and to learn that it was a cover of captain beefheart is flippin sweet!

[THCSOUNDS1]

yeah!

buena cancion

♪♪♪♪♪ skinheads and mods ♪♪♪♪♪

[LokiClock]

Another time to be sad about not having a record player. This album is sitting three feet away from me.

[ZappaMaskReplica]

That first chorus still gives me chills when it kicks in...

[klummp]

I dont think the Keys Changed the Tempo on purpose i think thats just the best they could do with the (talent) they have!!!

[highdesert9]

I thank the person who posted all the songs for this album. I tried to get a copy of it years back but I was told it was only released in the UK.. But hey, it here now.

The first time I got stoned my friend put on this album (8 track) needless to say it blew my mind. I can still smell the reefer to this day!!

[unumsedleonum]

I'd love to have the guitar tab for this. great intro. Love John's drumming on this aswell, good stuff.

[george383]

Robert Pete Williams (born 1914), author of Grown So Ugly

Covered in 1967 by Captain Beefhart and his Magic Band (arrangement by Ry Cooder)

This cover was then recovered by The Black Keys in 2004

You can like best whichever version you want but Robert still did it first and just him and a guitar.

[corked7mute]

I love the captain but I do prefer the keys version of this song. I do prefer the captains more experimental stuff to this as well. Although safe as milk and strictly personal are great albums (minus the production on strictly personal). Trout mask, Decals, Doc, and Ice Cream for Crow are his best albums i would say

[vitorbelfort]

the keys version? what the hell you talking about fool, a decient homage by the keys but this is clearly the version to listen too. a cover rarely outdoes the original, and certainly not in this case johnny

[avizzone]

@vitorbelfort wow...couldn't disagree more. of couse this version by Captain beefheart is great, but how can you deny Black Keys version?? So raw, so passionate, so much more feeling. And the change of tempo that Dan incorporates in the Keys version is so unpredictable, yet so necessary. Props to Beefheart, But i gotta say Black Keys bring this song to a whole new level.

[vitorbelfort]

common johnny, if we talking raw than youve got your shit confused, it doesnt get any more raw than beefheart.

[avizzone]

haha, johnny? Sorry Nancy, gonna have to disagree. Dan Auerbach takes this song to a whole new level

[DrWild7]

For everyone complaining that the Black Keys ruined the song by covering it, read up before you talk.

This song is actually a cover of a Robert Pete Williams song. So if we are going by those standards, then Captain Beefheart ruined a Robert Pete Williams song by covering it.

[bastiaanvanbeek]

yeah, and nobody ruined the song. every version is just as good, in their own style.

[timj41]

@bastiaanvanbeek damm straight

[mbera11]

@DrWild7 well, no, its like, the black keys ruined the robert pete williams song. captain beefheart and the magic band did a cover of the robert pete williams song

[youtubinfool]

@DrWild7 yeah.. but the beefheart version is good..

[conservativefloozie]

How many times are you going to hit the thumbs down button Morgantown1?!

Captain rocked this song.

[dellboid]

This is no criticism, but i cant work out wether this group is really great or really shitty. I've got the Safe as Milk album, and i sometimes love it, and other times think, what the fuck is this shit.

[bastiaanvanbeek]

I have the same with some music. you just have to be in the mood. sometimes I listen to an album and I love it because i'm in the mood. maybe the next week it sounds less special already.

[MuffisdosTrapezoid]

Safe as Milk is an excellent album, Trout Mask Replica makes me say "what the hell?!"

[pyannaguy]

@dellboid

It's honest and candid of you to say that, but I think the "really great" appraisal is the appropriate and deserved one.  I submit that this group is monstrously good. And, Oh, where he continued to go in the years and decades following.

What a beacon!

[klummp]

OMG anyone who even thinks The Black Keys shouldnt be BEATEN for Defiling a Beefheart Masterpiece deserves to be beaten with them

[conservativefloozie]

CAPTAIN is the "greatness"......all others pale in comparison, Black Keys included!

[morgantown1]

thats not very logical...how was it defiled? it was a different interpretation with different inflections throughout the song...are all covers bad?

[zoso1019]

@klummp That version of Grown So Ugly led me to the decision to buy Safe as Milk on 180 Gram Vinyl. I'm sure Captain loves the Keys version. How do you know that the Keys didn't cover the original Robert Pete Williams version? Either way all three versions are great and they all have qualities that make them unique.

[morgantown1]

great, yet check out the keys cover of it live at grimeys here on youtube for greatness

[JimCimEntertainment]

One of the greatest musical genius's of our time.

By the way ... It's Ry Cooder on guitar!

[BluesBurner]

Ry Cooder is awesome.

[Boviss1]

Seriously wonderful goodness. Why they talking about cover versions? Noone ever did a cover of the magic band's thing that sounded worth a jobby.

They always change it by making it into chunka chunka VERY LOUD rock music. Just like Muddy Waters stuff - better leave it alone. Looks simple but it aint.

[almadora]

just gorgeous. truly beautiful.

[mikestu11]

wow the black keys took this song to another level.

[conkerhead500]

i only discovered this guy today, and hes brilliant :D

[jeepstir69]

Very cool, but Love the Black Keys version!

[SkopTeocratico]

One of best intro ever. Don Van Vliet has the Blues.

[vicpur]

Late 60's .68/69. which is when skins first arrived on the scene. You can see some pictures on youtube.

[vicpur]

I was a skinhead around this time and into Ska etc. Hey I didnt know any different!!! Then I heard this album!!! It change my life!!!

[123frizzlefry]

I think this album is still underrated. the album influenced so many artists. and just because it's very good, it's like raw avantgarde blues rock. one of my favorite of all time.

[vadertuber]

@123frizzlefry Its probably the only complete Beefheart album I love (although i like selections from others), which probably has something to do with other album Beefheart fans hating this one. it is a lot easier to get into, whatever there is in albums like Trout Mask that people like, this is missing it.

[MrWildcountry]

@123frizzlefry raw like sushi? He is the king,,and his king is howling wolf

[elizpayton]

@vicpur This album was released in 1967. I guarantee you you weren't a ska listening skinhead in 1967

[poomunkeyspew]

yip

[trevbot12]

is the black keys version a cover of this song?? they both rule

[123frizzlefry]

yeah, it's a cover. their version is awesome

[marbel69]

@123frizzlefry

its actually Beefheart who covered it from Robert Pete Williams, then the black keys covered it again ;)

[8trackcp]

@123frizzlefry and this one is a cover of Robert Pete Williams

[VUandChips]

The Black Keys version is sort of a cover of this cover. The song was written by Robert Pete Williams. Both the Black Keys and Beefheart's versions are amazing.

[trevbot12]

word

[poomunkeyspew]

yeh I heard it on safe as milk and it stuck in my head enough to cover it with Missing Cat I've never heard the original I should really look for it

[updogs]

@trevbot12 they both cover robert pete williams.

[holmsatlarge]

don`t care for the vid...but am enamored of the tune!!!!

[123frizzlefry]

this song is awesome. Ry Cooder plays guitar on it.

[N8Core14]

@123frizzlefry About the only good thing Ry has done since. :)

[cgraber]

@N8Core14 ...except heavily influence the entirety of the Rolling Stones best period and four best albums. LOL. Pretty well known that after hearing Ry Cooder play Keith developed his signature style that we hear on Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and the Immortal Exile on Mainstreet. The fact remains that we will never know how much they "borrowed" from Ry Cooder and guys like him during that period from 1968-72.

[ThePlampherman]

Yes!!!!

All hail big Don!

[LeEgameplay]

I love it.