Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

[FunkMan53]

Great Beefheart!!! One of his best albums!

[DonVanVliet83]

remind me Tom Waits

[FastANDBulbous117]

@DonVanVliet83 Beefheart is one of Tom Waits' biggest inspirations! He based his vocal style off the good captain. :] Both very brilliant musicians.

[Ziplock74]

in plain view... it's Captain Beefheart!

[colsonsr]

You newbies are aware that he he quit music, moved to Arizona, and became a sculptor? Our loss for his gifted music. Many people of my gen. followed the Dead. I was always a Beefheart guy.

[colsonsr]

Charlie Parker would be an unfair comparison.

[noodlam]

I love him, but if they put his brain in a parakeet it would fly backwards.

[motherbrain86]

dammit hes gone but i knew his time was coming soon and i could'nt see him making a return to music anyway as much as i would of enjoyed don making music again

[007ifyable]

R.I.P. The Captain

[Mordock999]

This song pretty much sums up the attitudes of many on the planet today. EXCELLENT!

[MoralNihilism]

@Mordock999 The lyrics make no sense, how can they sum up an attitude? Or maybe you were trying to be funny.

Beefheart was a goddam genius, but his lyrics weren't exactly great poetry taken on their own.

[Mordock999]

@MoralNihilism

Not trying to be 'funny' at all, just expressing My opinion, so chill out. And by the way I agree with you that Beefheart IS a genius. A man 500 years AHEAD of his time!

[godfreyhowatchin]

@MoralNihilism you might not have, uh, actually read into his lyrics enough. They're pretty great poetry taken on their own. Beefheart is kind of a legitimate artist. Read "Orange Claw Hammer" again and tell me Beefheart isn't one of the great modern poets worthy of a place alongside Pinsky or whoever the fuck has more critical acclaim but isn't actually as good as Don

[MoralNihilism]

@godfreyhowatchin His lyrics sound good in a sort of visceral way, they are enjoyable as stream-of conciousness, free-form poetry. But I don't think they have any sort of deep meaning, they don't aim at making any deep philosophical points, because his music is all about primal urges and immediacy rather than deep reflective thought.

[godfreyhowatchin]

@MoralNihilism I think we just disagree on this,man. How are The Thousand And Tenth Day of The Human Totem Pole; 81 Poop Hatch; Bill's Corpse; Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat; Seam Crooked Sam; Ice Cream for Crow, etc "all about primal urges and immediacy rather than deep reflective thought"?

Beefheart interprets whole broad carbon-sooted sections of life in america and compresses them into Joycean diamonds. I can't tell if you're being dismissive or just haven't actually listened to him.

[godfreyhowatchin]

@MoralNihilism or, maybe you're just one of those people who can't make lateral connections between ideas in their brain. Nothing wrong with being a linear man, but don't go assuming you know best.

[JimmyPage97]

@MoralNihilism maybe the attitude is what is happening not what was being said.

[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

[joshula13]

i think it might be too good,too good of a song

[JakeLechuga]

maybe too hard hitting, son.

[joshula13]

Damn this song is hard hitting as fuck!

[bbcart1]

@joshula13

Yes my son, but you to will learn to fly!

[Jethrofinger]

You're lucky to have the whole album on here. I'm just getting into Beefheart and I've discovered finding this album on CD is HARD. They do have it on LP, which I might get sometime. I got a USB turntable.

[BradfordMan]

@Jethrofinger benderconverter

[EMILIOMARENGO]

Another Beefheart Classic!!