Petrified Forest - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
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Uploaded by MrWzzzW on Nov 17, 2009
Song: Petrified Forest (9/15)
Album: Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)
Artist: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Lick My Decals Off, Baby (Straight, 1970), Beefheart is the sole composer. In a way this is his most intellectual work, because the album takes the traditional topics of blues, eroticism, freedom, trains and nostalgia, and sets them in a modern context of city alienation. Percussionist Artie Tripp (aka Ed Marimba), is added as a formidable complement to French, while Cotton is gone to play in Merrell Fankhauser's MU.
The sound is still fragmented in a myriad of surrealistic miniatures, employing celebrations of Dolphyesque clarinets (Japan In A Dish-plan), of convulsed false notes (Ballerin Plain), of street rallies (The Smithsonian Institute Blues), of absurd guitar solos (One Rose That I Mean). The best of his chamber jazz-blues is found in I Love You Big Dummy, with splendid confrontations between the pirouettes of the clarinet and the gargles of the voice, and in Flash Gordon's Ape, a revolting chaos of anti-rhythms, breath dissonances and free declamations. Beefheart reaches surrealistic heights in The Buggy Boogie Woogie, a meditation in muted tones. Ethnic cues peek through in Peon, a Mexican serenade, and from Woe-is-uh-me-bop and Lick My Decals Off, both with Caribbean flavors.
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One of his best, and in under 2 minutes. I was so lucky to see him perform live. The lyrics apply so well to today, as this is one of the few Beefheart songs that has a deliberate point in our political world.
meltingmedia 6 months ago
this is an amazing poem
kachunski 1 year ago
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.
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bbcart1 1 year ago
I can't believe that no one has responded to this track yet.
This continues the apparently anarchic trail laid by Trout Mask but ultimately resolves in perfect order.
JuneJune1950 1 year ago