Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Moonlight in Vermont

Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon. Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 28-song double album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, blues, and garage rock to free jazz and avant-garde experimentalism. Atonal, sometimes singsong melodies; jagged, intricately constructed dual-guitar parts; stuttering, complicated rhythmic interaction -- all of these elements float out seemingly at random, often without completely interlocking, while Beefheart groans his surrealist poetry in a throaty Howlin' Wolf growl. The disjointedness is perhaps partly unintentional -- reportedly, Beefheart's refusal to wear headphones while recording his vocals caused him to sing in time with studio reverberations, not the actual backing tracks -- but by all accounts, the music and arrangements were carefully scripted by the Captain (aided by John "Drumbo" French), which makes the results even more remarkable. As one might expect from music so complex and, to many ears, inaccessible, the influence of Trout Mask Replica was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point. However, its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless future experiments in rock surrealism, especially during the punk/new wave era.

by Steve Huey
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moonlight on vermont affected everybody
even mrs. wooten as well as little nitty
even lifebuoy floating
with his little pistol showing
with his little pistol toting
well that goes to show you what a moon can do
no more bridge from tuesday to friday
everybodies gone high society
hope lost his head and got off on alligators
somebodies leaving peanuts on the curbins
for a white elephant escaped from zoo with love
goes to show what a moon can do
moonlight on vermont
well it did it for lifebuoy
and it did it to you
and it did it to zoo
and it can do it for me
and it can do it for you
moonlight on vermont
gimme that old time religion [2x]
don't gimme no affliction
that old time religion is good enough for me
and it's good enough for you
well come out to show them
come out to show them [6x]
gimme that old time religion [3x]
it's good enough for me
without your new affliction
don't need your new restrictions
gimme that old time religion
it's good enough for me
moonlight on vermont

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[stickernation]

Well, that goes to show you what a moon can do.

[newfuckingwave]

this album is fucking repulsive - i approve

[MissKatebush]

In my drug-fuelled-upwardly-spiralin­g 20's, this was the song that brought my feet back down to earth. God love you forever my Captain.

[marcelpascottoable]

ENORMOUS!!!! as he said: "I don't make music, I make MONSTERS" RIP MAD CAPt!

[viker89]

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