Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band Ella Guru

Captain Beefheart And His Magical Band Ella Guru from Trout Mask Replica

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Music

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• Captain
• Beefheart
• And
• His
• Magical
• Band
• Trout
• Mask
• Replica
• Ella
• Guru
• Studio
• Version

[blueprairiedog]

This record is an American masterpiece. 

[mussman717word]

@leahcim38

In a sense, you are correct. However, when the word "commercial" is thrown around, it could mean one of two things. A) anything that is mainstream, status quo or B) something produced for the sole purpose of making money. If you are referring to (A), then you'd be completely right, but don't forget the second definition. This music was made just to be made. After all, words are nothing more than syllabic incarnations, we put our own meanings into them. That's how poetry works.

[digitalsustain]

@SuperBarakula i agree but this song is still the shit

[SuperBarakula]

give me the mothers any day over this.

[vankook]

I love this record. It doesn't try and pretend to be anything more than what it is. A madman's insane genius ramblings transcribed by his scared shitless band.

[jefferyhoelscher]

@libertyhopeful18 That's good news. Congratulations. Nice metaphor, too.

[libertyhopeful18]

@MoralNihilism i've finally got it. i listened to the bassline. that thing is holding the entire song together like super glue. its fantastic. that's the first thing i noticed. all i can picutre listening to this is a big band on the edge of a cliff. and it feels like the cliff is gonna give and everything is just gonna crash and fall apart. but that some magical force is holding that cliff up (hey one guy told me to surround myself with weirdos, this is just the fruit of that)

[kntrlr]

Calling this, calling ANY of Beefheart's music "shit" is to do an immense disservice to feces. His catalog is totally without merit on any level. Noise, impenetrable, grating, utterly worthless.

[dandmarcus]

SHIT ! wtf, how can a song this perfect be made ???

[MoralNihilism]

@libertyhopeful18 To 'get' Trout Mask Replica, I think the key is to realise that it is about expression rather than technical form. As intricate as the musical patterns are (for Beefheart's music is certainly not just random noise, as it may initially sound), they in themselves are not the reason he was a genius. Listen to it when you're in an 'extreme' mood, e.g. depression, anxiety, alienation from society. His music truly starts to reach you at times like that, or at least it did for me.

[mattheus5012]

Shit!

[oxfordye]

@libertyhopeful18

It grows on you.