Captain Beefheart - Bellerin' Plain

[estvan56]

Brilliant!

[BlackFlag77]

joshula13, you are totally right man. Hair pie bake 2 is my all time fav beefheart song

[MoralNihilism]

Well put. Beefheart's music was all about primal expression. No wonder he liked Van Gogh.

[garygomesg]

It was available on CD for awhile--sadl!y not currently. This is a great song

[joshula13]

mufuckers better play this song at my funeral,dont want to have to haunt me a bitch

[joshula13]

this is the meanest Beefheart song of 'em all....

[joshula13]

This is the best Beefheart chune,this and Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop,and Hair Pie Bake 2...shit,how can yew pick a favorite,y'know

[ajgree6]

IMHO, this album is so much better than Trout Mask Replica.

[danstearns]

my all-time favorite Cb song, and i NEVEREVER thought about rhythm or drums (or poetry) the same again ever-after....check the amazing early 70's live Detroit decals set with this tune on fire and Drumbo/Torgo as the role model i based all other drummers on

[Saloq]

Buen viaje Don, siga usted con sus creaciones en otros lares.

RIP

[swabusy]

many thanks...... now grow some wings ....they'll work real good with the fins

RIP

[mbera11]

VINYL REISSUE SQUIDCO

ORANGE VINYL LIMITED EDITION

I OWN IT ALREADY BITCHES BUY IT

[MsSaxifrage]

An astonishing album.

[SuperWoody69]

"And the caboose waved the green 'gone on'."

[achtsieben87]

@SuperWoody69 Parapliers the willow dipped Rolled roots gnarled like rakers This hollow hole don't hold no jokers or fakers Don't fall by no jokers or fakers Puller down to the stirrin' hay acres Parapliers pinches uh levy 'n pulled way thru the toe Foothills, locomotives walked 'n sugar beets rolled Down the tracks Sunburn bounce soot off the black smokestacks Parapliers pinched up slow down the sky Blue 'o' poured the engineer's voice Whstlin' down low 'n piped like clacks

[JuneJune1950]

Perfect. I came here looking for 'Peon' and I found this -"and the caboose waved the dream gone on"

I saw the Captain live once in the late Seventies, he didn't perform this song, but hearing it again takes me back over thirty years.

[bbcart1]

Ah, an artist like this comes along every fifty years or so.

Unfortunately I don't see anyone out there ready to replace him.

He had a gift and got as much of it to us as he could afford.

It came at a steep price and its going to take a couple hundred years for

it to sink in.

bbcart

[Pallie25]

Unreasonably superb. Words are inadequate.

[rotagen5]

Gee this is not strictly commercial. Don't he want to make the cover of Teen Beat Magazine ?

[bbcart1]

ah...ah....ah...aweSOME! Help my volume control is on max and I can't get it OOOOff!

[JimCimEntertainment]

I think this is one of the greatest recordings of the 20th century.

[efyfe]

The guitars in this song are so bad ass.

[abelashes]

A great song about a train from one of the greatest albums ever made...currently out-of-print in the USA, but available as an import from Japan. (they have better taste in music).

[Pumiceous]

BEST song on Decals, hands-down.

[PARADOXo0o]

*spoiler alert*

THIS MUSIC IS INTENDED FOR THE YEAR 2586 A.D.

catch up humans and enjoy.

[WillisProvidence]

@PARADOXo0o AMEN!

[doorman292]

@PARADOXo0o as well as the year 10,000 B.C., for this has a primitive air to it that any cavemen could dig

[montecarlo362]

yeah the horn at the end fuck off everythink else beautiful

[efyfe]

Don Van Vliet's lyrics are some of the best poetry ever written! What else do you expect from a man who's influences were Shakespere and Philip Larkin.

[Schpoonfish]

Those vocal shifts up are really evocative in a way that they shouldn't be, logically, but it all makes so much sense in some strange way. I adore this album, his best as far as I'm concerned, better than Trout Mask Replica, popular consensus be damned.

[Bram25]

I'm always wondering if Don was like, an autist? It's always like he's talking in some kind of language only he speaks? :)

(not to insult the genius of geniuses!)

[SuperWoody69]

I'm an old guy. I was at a concert on the "Lick MY Decals Off" release tour. Believe me, I have he experiences to get this.

It is more akin to verse than a lot of other music, for as much as Vliet is a visual artist, too (don't neglect this appreciation). The time signature changes have meaning, too.

Please don't fall into the pit of believing that the freedoms Vliet enjoyed are the cause of Evil in the world.

You are free in the USA. So be free. We were.

[rubberting]

can i have your C.D please :P

[rotagen5]

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat chain puller puller

[wheresthebeefheart]

My favorite Magic Band tune. Zoot is playing some very mean stuff on this song.

[wannyyydilliamsss]

Christ, i've listened to this loads of times and it never gets any less strange. So complex yet somehow musical. That bass bit after he sings "sunnyland drum horn blow" is well spooky.

I love the last minute or so as well, after the marimba-guitar duet.

Incredible

[yoursaxman]

"the pots n pans burn the firemans hands 'til the kettle leap fire 'round the belly-o"

"sun like a bubble pop yellow down she go"

Don was the greatest lyricist of all time.

[faktamannen]

Så sjukt jävla fantastiskt bra att man bara vill börja grina. Ska kasta resten av skivsamlingen i Årstaviken.

[flynnjed]

my favourite track on my favourite beefheart album - the complexity and pacing are perfect - the build up to his soprano sax solo at the end and the way he explodes in with so much energy send shivers down my spine and makes me want to cry

[BayrischerLeberkas]

Lick my Decals off is a Master piece, without any doubt; but you got to listen to it twice or even three times to get its whole brilliancy

[bent2]

Thats difficult because the album is almost impossible to get on CD =/

[00eddie0]

love the bass solo

[blindbonder]

Simply incredible. Pots and pans line gets me hollering every time!

[wannyyydilliamsss]

cor blimey, fucking fantastical

[redshaftedflicker]

kickass that you came upon the cd of the very great album.

[yesfan951]

Ah, classic!

[doktorsawade]

Makes me dance myself in two...

[zenpainter09]

One of the best, complex works, both poetic and musical, of the 20th Century minds of magic!

[Ramentastic]

That part with just guitar and marimba gets me every time. amazing.

[socunasindria]

you are wellcome ! :) bellerin'Plain its one of my other favourites :):)

greets from Barcelona

[slloyd1452]

One of the great landmarks on "Decals". Staggering, monumental, nothing comes close to Don at his best. Second is a long way behind.

[Bram25]

Too bad you have the CD version. Quality sucks hard time over the LP version! :)

Don't feel too bad, since it's a genius' work after all! :)

[yoursaxman]

Does the panning on "Flash Gorden's Ape" separate the saxes from the rest of the band on the cd like it does on the LP... i heard a Youtube posted and it did not... just wandered.

[Reflection03]

Captain beefheart!!!!