Trout Mask Replica

Due to licensing rights this album is very hard to find and that’s the nicest thing I can say about it.

This book isn't titles "1001 albums you could listen to before you die" it specifically used the word MUST. Really? I MUST listen to this drivel before I die!? Is it only so I can appreciate all the good music in the world? I'm writing my own book: " Life Is Too Short: 1001 Albums you must NOT subject yourself to before you die" and this is the inaugural selection.

after some years, listening to this, i realized that is so fucking funny and absurd the discourse about this album. is so dumb but for some reason is so highly regarded. and i think, that in the same way of the emperor's new clothes, what's really important is that this album shows that anybody can make music. not good or listenable, but music

Some of the more noisier/esoteric songs were the sort of thing I liked, but this album was a lot, and most of the songs weren't good at all. Did not hate it, wouldn't want to listen to it again.

Nice and ripe

Comedy music, about as entertaining as a kick in the balls.

No

There was never a need; it did just fine on its own.

Bonkers

This is fucked, but somehow I feel richer for the experience

Nobody: Me: Heading on stage for karaoke after downing a 10 pack of fireball shooters Genuinely what the fuck. I want to rate this a 1 star solely off of the moaning groaning and randomness of it. Yet somehow the band continues to rope me in and think “hollup let them cook” this of course, is also followed up by even more “what the fuck is going on?” Digging further into the lore, the sounds of a band collapsing down an echoey staircase and being beaten to death by a toddler with a tambourine is no accident. This was fully planned and thought out, no improv involved. Needless to say. I don’t fully understand this is right now, but there is something here. What is it? I have no idea. But these guys clearly can play. I really do fuck with the guitar playing.

I’ve been listening to this album over the course of 5 days. I am not sure what this is. Its a unique piece of art the likes I have never heard. It’s actually more than music but art in motion, when a microphone is on anything can be said. When art is being created there are no rules. Captain Beefheart is the full epitome of that. I could not tell you any of the songs or even the titles. I can tell you that full feeling of listening to this knowing all these people spent time creating what is essentially performance art. There is truly nothing like this and I think that is beautiful. The creator of the Simpsons loves this album and for good reason it’s the true expression of creativity. It’s terrible but that’s the point, it’s the purest form of idea one which hasn’t been filtered or is synthetic. There is a level of creative restraint too because this could actively be worse but it’s not. It actually has some good songs which honestly again shows the talent.

I can’t say for certain that this album will not be better with many more spins. I can hear snippets of tolerable, and sometimes even almost decent. However, this being my first listen and not having the time to became acquainted with the album, it’s a mess. Don’t give me that old time religion

Absolutely hated this album as it began. Smoked a little weed and had a double scotch and kept listening. I have to say it’s the weirdest fucking thing I have ever listened to and that at least deserves three stars.

This was absolutely fantastic in no way whatsoever. A guy singing who to put it kindly has not a tune in his head.. Trombones tromboning for no reason. Cannot see any occasion you would play this. Have to give a 1 which is far to much.

"stumbling down the stairs holding a cup of coffee while simultaniously playing the clarinet". que locura de album, me lo guardo para cuando tenga mas cabeza para procesarlo :)

I don't know what I was expecting, but this wasn't it /pos

Whoa! I’ve never traversed so many emotions throughout the listening of an album. I initially felt very unnerved and believed Trout Mask Replica would be unlistenable. I nearly DNF’d. After Ella Garu I paused to learn about the albums significance. For myself knowing about the polyrhythmic melding of the instruments was a necessary piece to finally unlocking how to hear this. The initial tracks are admittedly harder to listen to than some of the later tracks in my opinion. Listening for the grating and meandering rhythms to overlap and find one another was great and led to some really interesting musical passages. If art is supposed to make you feel something, this definitely hit the mark. Disgust to curiosity to disbelief to joy. It’s disgusting. It’s weird. It’s interesting. Very fun!

I’ll need to read a few people’s memoirs before I see this as what critics seem to say it is. Maybe it’s your favorite band’s, favorite band’s, favorite band. Either way I’m at least one step removed from feeling it.

wtf

This album has an unfair reputation, in that people talk about this shit still. If you really think this is a 5 star album, good for you. Honestly, enjoy yourself. But I ain’t listening to this multiple times on a full moon standing on one leg to crack it. It was a chore after a few minutes it’s too long. Blues rhythms with (being generous) free jazz bursts. Tom waits vocals if he didn’t have the flow, melody or lyric prowess. Music is what you want it to be. For me this isn't out there, it isn’t exploring, it just isn't very good, didn’t find it funny either, like bad 5th rate Monty Python and failing dismally. So No, 1 Star.

What do you mean "unlistenable"? I just listened to it.

This might be artistically interesting, but it is not listenable music. I couldn't play this in my house - and I mean any portion of the album - for more than a minute before my wife would demand I turn it off. As far as art, I'm thinking it's akin to Piss Christ, or taping a banana to a wall and calling it art. Apparently, this pleases some people. I am inspired, though. Maybe I'll get a big canvas and some paint, and have some babies and maybe some ferrets have at. I think I might be able to sell the result for big money to the people with similar sensibility to art as those who value this album. I simply ask: Why?

Ah. I was wondering when this was coming. A very divisive album. Let’s see what side of the divide I am on. And I have to go for the bootleg. Well thank the lord for YouTube. Yeah. Ok. So I guess the divide is those who think this is an avant garde work of genius and those who think it’s utter BS? Well I listened to the WHOLE thing. The utterly unnecessary double album of, yes, utter and total BS. Supposedly there was a great deal of rehearsal going into this project? Could have fooled me. Really. And I listen to jazz. Post bop. Modal. Free jazz. This, most of this isn’t even demos. It’s just a dude making recordings for… the pleasure of the bush recorder? Because this certainly wasn’t for MY pleasure. No. I’m not buying the BS. I fall on one clear side of the divide apparently. 1 Boolean: well, I guess it’s True, so you can know for yourself

Guess this is what Stockholm syndrome sounds like

Clearly I am not sophisticated enough to understand and appreciate the musical genius here.

Literally this is what would happen if you gave a goose and a bunch of gorillas a drum set, a guitar, and some LSD and told them to go crazy

Truly awful

Tickled my brain funny

i appreicate its existence, its an important work, but nothing i ever wanna revisit

Just because you can doesn't mean you should

In 1974, Trout Mask Replica was my favorite record album. I would sit cross-legged on the deep shag carpeting of the basement floor, slide open the door of the gigantic fifties model stereo-TV console, and flip through the albums. Are You Experienced? was too intense, Superfly too creepy, the banana album (Velvet Underground & Nico) too terrifying, and Blonde On Blonde too boring. I didn’t get the Virgin Fugs album, but it still intrigued me. I was immediately drawn to the bright red cover of Trout Mask Replica, with a man in a goofy fish mask of alluring neon colors. Captain Beefheart was one word different from Captain Kangaroo, and other comical names were listed, like Drumbo, Zoot Horn Rollo and Rockette Morton. The sounds were strange and somewhat jarring, but it was the words, the funny nonsensical words that would come out of seemingly a dozen different voices, all cartoonish in their own way. For the same reason that my uncle found the album difficult, frustrating and annoying, I found it funny and entertaining. I believed it was a children’s record. And who’s to say it wasn’t? I was five years old, and Trout Mask Replica was my favorite record. It was made just for me. The White Album had some songs I liked, but it didn’t hold my attention. And it certainly blew away my Winnie the Pooh and Jungle Book records. I loved to confound my grandparents and playmates with snippets like “A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast ‘n’ bulbous, got me?” They never got me. Did I even get me? It didn’t matter. To an adult it might sound vaguely sexual. But really it was just the sound of the words. After that quote, one can hear the good Captain giggling to himself and saying, “I love those words.” So did I. Perhaps for the same reason that James Joyce admitted, if read aloud to a child,Ulysses would be better understood by the child than the adult. Did Joyce and Beefheart have children in mind when they created their works? Probably not. But perhaps in their efforts to create something startlingly new, they tapped into some of the imagination they all but lost since childhood. Like Guy Debord did with dada in the ’20’s, they ended up with a simulation of what it might have felt like when you just learned to talk. I go on and on, but an acquired taste not for everybody. Try Clear Spot (1972)!

3.5, imponerande men störig

No la pude escuchar, no estaba disponible.

you know what? Hell Yeah, Brother. (It still sucks)

A screw being drilled into your head only it sometimes stops working. 2/5

Very, very hard work. Discordant jazz blues is not my thing but I appreciate the weirdness.

What are we doing here

I'm giving this a 1 but only because I'm in on the joke. Favorite song: China Pig.

First Listen Favorites: Ella Guru Sweet Sweet Bulbs She's Too Much For My Mirror Well, Well, Well

Finally a case where my listening, not context, evaluation has to be subverted. Fitting that it came up on a day with heavy thunderstorms. Where most performances feel more hollow when paying close attention to the details, this not only feels more genuine but melodies can be found that aren't present when listening as background music. Might be a five someday, but not quite there for me yet

just weird and offbeat for the sake of being WEIRD AND OFFBEAT. Dont get me wrong, its absurd as hell and has its charm. I wanted turn this off a bunch of times but kept letting it ride. Its everything I hate about experimental/psychadelic rock, but therein lies the charm I guess. Good luck finding a melody or some kind of coherence, but you know what? Just listen to it and see if it clicks. Not me, but maybe you.

Weird for the sake of weird. I used to have a late night psychedelic rock show on my local radio station and I once played this album in its entirety thinking it was so cool. Needless to say I fell asleep.

Jeez. I mean, that was just awful. I'm all for creativity and originality and whatnot, but this is almost worse than that contemporary classical music BS where they just make a bunch of weird noises and say it's cool because it's something that hasn't been tried before in music theory. There's a reason we don't try certain things. I'll be honest, I couldn't even finish this monstrosity. Just a bunch of stupid noises. Awful.

Super fuckin weird but I liked it l the listening experience overall. I had heard this album once before because my grandpa owned it on vinyl and it was passed down to me. It was quite a trip to actually sit down and listen to it. Probably won’t seek it out much though.

Virtuosos noodling. Not super cohesive. Not a great listen. Impressive players, but not impressive songwriters.

Hey kids - don't do drugs... Or if you do, make them the kind that help you make music. Not whatever the fresh hell this is.

Bardzo dziwne. Chyba nie dokończyłem nawet.

Couldn't listen as not existent on deezer

Whenever an album is described as challenging by any critic with a platform, you know that shit sucks ass. ⭐️

I had to turn this off. What a load of nonsense

Experimental rock 1969, Waits precursor Pachuco cadaver

I would be a sorry excuse for a Tom Waits fan if I didn't enjoy Beefheart at least a little. If we're being honest, though, I've listened to Trout Mask Replica a couple of times over the years and, while I respected the work, I got nothing out of it. Well, this time it finally clicked. This was such an enjoyable listen. I think I'm going a little mad from an insane amount of both professional and personal stress I've been through in the last couple of days and this album felt like such a release. An album that completely got in my head and cleared everything out for a moment, a seemingly chaotic mess that was actually meticulously organized all the way through. Favourite track: Steal Softly Thru Snow

in retrospective, the very first song is acclimating you to the entire album, and somehow it works. every couple songs it gives you something to latch onto in terms of tempo, only to drag you back into chaos. it has this theatre like quality to it as well, like we're watching a play and everyone's running around the stage, even the talking without making an attempt to "sing" is very theatrical. the intrigue it evokes in me lives up to the visual identity of the album. its so dissonant and mad and has what i can only describe as "deceivingly amateur". the inbetween of music and prose, as well as walking across a tight rope of what "music" can represent and sound like is incredibly unique. maybe one of the most important experimental albums to listen to, and i think it's only fitting to put it right in the middle of "good" and "bad" in terms of rating

It's the afternoon on a (relatively) warm Scandinavian summer day. The sun has continuously had its way with me and caused me.. perhaps not sun-burned, but sun-glazed. A light headache lingers in my skull. A friend tells me that THIS one is the one I need to listen to, with my partner in the room. I've not quite listened to anything like this before. But I have, too. It's always tough to describe something based on thoughts that have escaped you. It feels like a theater production manifest in audio. It's.. I had a hard time absorbing what was being said, but I felt most of it. I feel more enriched having listened to it. 3/5

This is album is insane. Like listening to a nightmare, but the more you listen the more it pulls you in and the more you want to chip away and know more and understand. But it always keeps hiding it self. And it's greatest trick is the more you listen to it the more you start to like how it sounds. No album deserves to be on the list more than this one. It's almost a 5 but off because it is a little long 4.5

Weird

This album is so famous for being so bad and for some reason I still wasn’t expecting that level of dissonance. Certainly impressive to make something sound like that. I’m not experimental or avant garde enough to appreciate this but I am challenging myself to understand if (reading the YouTube comments from people who love it).

Likely the worst album I've ever heard. I listened for about 20 minutes, and nothing like actual music appeared in the noise. I sorta skimmed the rest of the album, as I'm not interested in wasting my time listening to discordant twanging. Occasionally something like rhythm or melody appeared, but then was just as quickly gone. It's really awful.

no me apareció el álbum en spotify

Um. wow. I appreciate that this exists. It's not to my liking. I'm almost 50 years old having heard this for the first time. I'll wait another 50 to come back to this again but for now. 1 star.

I'm glad this album exists because there are much better versions of what was attempted here that came after (take Tom Waits' "Bone Machine" as just one example). This was obviously the spiritual ancestor to those albums. Still, this was a painful listening experience. There are plenty of times when the band is doing absolutely incredible (and bonkers) stuff. Like seriously 5-star level chaos and complexity. But then Beefheart layers his asynchronous Wolfman Jack impersonation and ruins it. I could give this 3 stars, but it's a double-album so the pain just keeps going on and on and on. 2 stars.

Is this an album that should be heard before you die? Sure. Does it suck anyway? Absolutely. do you have any idea how hard it is to experience CIA psychological torture at work? Because now I do.

Not on Apple :(

this album is truly fucking crazy

nah y'all some performative mf'ers pretending to "get" this. i do love that it made people legit angry upon release in 1969.

Album not available on Spotify

Look, I don’t care how many times people insist you have to listen to this album to finally "get it", once was more than enough. Listening to this feels less like enjoying music and more like surviving an 80 minute hostage situation. It honestly sounds like a group of talented musicians were forced to tumble down a flight of stairs while all trying to play completely different songs at the exact same time. I can appreciate the guts it took to record something this abrasive, but that doesn’t make it fun to listen to. It’s an absolute chore from start to finish, with zero rhythm or melody to grab onto. If the goal was to make the most headache inducing musical endurance test ever, they nailed it. If I could give it zero stars, I would.

Good

I want to like the Captain but . . . not much going for me.

That sure is uh. Well I'm not entirely certain it IS music. But it sure is something all right.

very experimental. very very interesting. especially from the late 60s. def can see how this was influential and genre breaking. just not for me.

ni siquiera sé que opinar porque spotify tiene bloqueado el album para escuchar en mi país.

not good, but not good in a way where i cant help be charmed by this nonsense. however im not gonna torture myself by listening to this more than once to "get it." i wont get it and its total ass but i understand why weirdos fuck with it

Na come on man

Das muss diese "Kunst" sein von der immer alle reden. Bin Banause.

Tomorrow I’m planning to spend a full day of my hard earned vacation time in a contemporary art museum. I am exactly the kind of pretentious piece of shit who enjoys this kind of experimental approach to music and that is a fundamental piece of why I’m listening through this project in the first place. I don’t disagree with the review I read that said something to the effect of “the famous creatives who have cited this album as important to them projected their own creativity onto it” and I personally would argue that’s exactly the hallmark of great art. It starts a conversation rather than make a definitive claim. I still don’t love this album, but I did appreciate it.

No. Too hard. Hurty brain.

#10. No

i could only find one song off this album on spotify, now of course i could probably find the full album elsewhere & have done so before, but honestly based on that 1 song i don’t feel particularly inclined

It's officially a crime we that can't 0 star or negative star albums. I'm gonna find whoever put this on the list and punch them in the throat. This was fuck-awful. I feel physically ill after sitting through this.

My experimental music fan friend had to explain this to me. I do think it scratches the same itch as Tom Waits but with a more “rock” aesthetic. Maybe knowing this was a much derided and hated album set my expectations low enough to be surprised.

Naw

This is just noise. There is nothing redeeming about it.

Why was this ever released?

This one is so good it's not even on Spotify. I had to find it on YouTube to listen to it. My first thought was, who's this insane person singing about nonsensical things and is this really the Captain Beefheart I've heard about all these years? The music didn't match the lyrics. But then the lyrics make no sense and you surely can't sing along with the insane man. Is this for real? This might be the worst album I've heard after 550. One of the reviews I read said "This album sounds like a dementia patient trying to recall what their favorite song was". Not a single song with a melody or singing. Pure shit. I'm sorry I ever listened to part of it. I thought this guy was revered and was someone with an almost legendary status by how many times I've heard him referred to. It was awful and I can't imagine sitting around listening to a full album of this nonsense. Half of one star. This is shock value music

Ossa

fav songs: ella guru hair pie: bake 1 pachuco cadaver when big joan sets up raw, playful, undeniable 50/100

Well, here it is, the King of Weird Albums. I’m just on the edge of breaking through and really digging this, but it’s just slightly out of reach currently. 4 stars… for now.

Another "important" album where the history is the point, not the music. The entire thing sounds like someone held talented musicians against their will and forced them to learn these horribly complex compositions. 3⭐️

This was weird. Some songs had me grimacing, but for the most part, the songs were pretty enjoyable. Not because they were objectively pleasant to listen to, but because it was interesting. The layers in the songs were fascinating. And the band was incredibly tight with their playing. The vocals were not my favorite. I think what made me admire this album is knowing that this guy set out with a vision/an idea and picked some really talented people to help him figure it out. I admire the creativity and drive it takes to do that, but that doesn't make the album sound any better haha. Favorite Tracks: Frownland Moonlight on Vermont

Fast And Bulbous 1001 Albums Generator 311 (7/22/2026) Meticulous arranged cacophony. Equal parts genius and insane. Fish in a tophat. I know that Captain Beefheart was an extreme asshole, but at least his music sucks too. Nah, honestly I do get the appeal of this album, but it's really an album formed by the lore around it as opposed to being music that can speak for itself. From Beefheart composing the songs on the piano, an instrument he didn't play, to his megalomaniacal methods of martinetism (up to and including mental and physical torture; "At various times, one or another of the band members were put 'in the barrel', with Van Vliet berating him continually, sometimes for days, until the musician collapsed in tears or in total submission to Van Vliet"), it's clear that Beefheart had a very specific vision in mind when putting this album together, and he wasn't going to let your silly morals get in the way of that vision. Notice how long I've gone without talking about the music itself. That's the problem with Trout Mask Replica. Every discussion of why this album is "so great" requires a preamble because the music itself is nearly unlistenable. Polytonal, polyrhythmic, and 'polly really hard to listen to. But at the same time, there are these moments, like Frownland, Moonlight In Vermont, Pachuco Cadaver, When Big Joan Sets Up, and Veteran's Day Poppy where these bits of musicality come through and you get brought into the world of the fish. It's proto-punk, proto-math rock, proto-noise rock, and post-music. It's visionary, but nobody knows what the vision is. So what do I think of it? I probably just give it a 3/5 and continue on with my life. Favs: Frownland Moonlight in Vermont Veteran's Day Poppy Least Fav: Well

You know I know it's cool and I wish I were cooler but I just I like everything that's going on sonically I think it is so good and so cool I just don't enjoy listening to it sadly it is a a burden that I'll have to bear forever I'm not cool enough for beefheart

Couldn’t find this album but listen to other and artist was good

78 minutes of music over 4 sides. It's a very "1 take and you're done" type of recording, there's a lot of dead air, studio banter, and short fragments of songs, but the actual music is incredible. You can tell where Tom Waits got some of his inspiration from. This is one of those albums where adding a few coats of polish would probably ruin the free-flowing controlled chaos.

i was wondering when this one was going to come up for me. obviously its reputation precedes itself and as you can tell from the ratings, it's not very well liked on here. i didn't really know what to expect but i had heard a little bit here or there over the years. i actually kind of liked it! it's definitely weird, it's definitely not easy to listen to at times, but if you can get past the sort of off-kilter clunkiness, it's kind of a weird fun time. you can definitely feel the zappa influence on this one. i don't know how often i will come back to it, but man, i really didn't hate it.

Yeah, this is bizarre. Sucks that you have to listen to it on YouTube. Not sure why, Apple Music has a bunch of other CB&HMB albums. I get why some might say this is great, with all the experimental work with rhythms and such. It just didn't make for great music, which is too bad.

Creative but crap listening

One of the Captains best

This is a fucking great album. It’s got everything I always ask for: truckloads of creativity, sounds like nothing I’ve ever heard before, wild variety of genres, doesn’t take itself seriously, and best of all it’s hilarious! I always say all of those things are important to me, especially a good sense of humor. And this album has all of those things in spades. PLUS! He has really interesting and original vocals! Nobody sounds like captain beefheart. It may sound contrarian for the sake of being contrarian to like this album. But i legitimately really love this album, it’s got so much style and no grace (in a positive way). If it wasn’t full of insane instrumentals and wildly talented musicians you could almost classify this as an “outsider music” album. But this album is so intentionally made this way, it’s pure brilliance!

Yeah this is a as weird as everyone says. But having gotten a Robert Wyatt album a few before this, makes me an appreciate it a little bit.

I love the Captain but this one I struggle with. Some call it the greatest of all time. I have tried to get it but don't. Sorry Cap'tm

Garbage. No amount or type of drug exists that would make this one palatable for me. I just don't care enough about a bunch of clowns fucking around in a studio in an attempt to push "musical" boundaries to suffer through this more than once.

I wish I had the memory of a fish and could instantly forget Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band and Trout Mask Replica. I was actually expecting more from this. Earlier in the year I listened to Safe as Milk and really enjoyed it, so I came into this with reasonably high expectations. Unfortunately, this album and I simply did not get along. The opening track, "Frownland", is possibly one of the most unpleasant things I have ever listened to. It feels chaotic, disjointed and completely impenetrable, and unfortunately things didn't improve much for me when "The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back" followed it. Rather than pulling me into the album, the opening few tracks left me wondering what on earth was going on. I understand that Trout Mask Replica is regarded as a groundbreaking and highly unconventional record, and I can appreciate the ambition behind it. The complex rhythms, strange song structures and complete disregard for conventional melody are clearly deliberate choices rather than mistakes. The problem is that none of it worked for me as a listening experience. Maybe I simply prefer my rock and roll to be a little more straightforward and a little less experimental, because I found much of this album bizarre rather than brilliant. The lyrics didn't connect with me, while the polyrhythms, multi-octave vocals and polytonal arrangements felt more exhausting than exciting. I can understand why some people consider this a masterpiece and an important artistic statement, but after spending time with it I can safely say it isn't for me, and I can't imagine ever wanting to revisit it. Favourite tracks: "Moonlight on Vermont" was probably the closest thing to a highlight, with some genuinely nice guitar work. "Sweet Sweet Bulbs" also has moments where the musicianship shines through beneath all the chaos. Least favourite tracks: "Frownland" takes the prize here. It was a very difficult introduction to the album and set the tone for much of what followed. Album artwork: Love the cover — it's far more appealing than the music inside.

Am I a douche if I say that I understand this album? It immediately reminded me of performances from Ariel Pink, Minutemen, Velvet Underground, The Mars Volta. The improvisation, the esoteric words, the lo-fi recording - it's familiar to me as a fan of the acts I previously mentioned.

Couldn’t get this on apple or Spotify so had to listen to the greatest hits. Very eclectic mix of music some bad some ok.

This album did not exist on Spotify

I mean, this was, um... It was certainly, uh... Y'know... I don't think it was that bad? You listen to it for long enough and you kind of start to enjoy it

As usual: a solo artist who’s a multi-instrumentalist? You don’t even need to open the album. With this particular album, I still can’t tell which is more prominent—the music or the drugs.

I do not understand it. The music is obviously awful and I don't enjoy listening to it. BUT I enjoyed the experience and after the full listen I had a strange sensation of have just experienced great art. It might be an unintended side effect of the full listen. Definitely a one of one experience. With music it's usually immediately clear whether you like it or not, but some of the challenging albums can have this kind of delayed gratification. "Arthur" by the Kinks probably falls somewhere in the middle - doesn't smack you in the face but about halfway through it sinks in. Incredibly engaging abum for pretty unique reasons. Many many questions throughout. If I were tasked with making the most unlistenable album ever, my first thought would be playing out of tune - which they are not doing. They're leaning heavily on clashing time signatures, but if you zoom out for a second the drums are keeping the wheels on, stitching it together and the effect is insane. It sounds like a musical monster. As for the rating i think it's binary. You either think its garbage and unlistenable (which it is) or you see value, and if you see value then its an incredible accomplishment and deserves 5 stars. It's SO bad that if you/I see any good in it then it's a miracle. They also went so far over the edge it needs to be acknowledged. I went back to Kollaps and this is far stranger. My argument here is flawed but i gotta pull the trigger. Looking forward to your reviews.

Sounds like a band falling down the stairs. I might find this to be an interesting choice if there was something in the songs themselves worth seeing through the chaos to. But after hearing the satirical holocaust song (Dachau Blues) I had a hard time seeing how the rest of the album would be something worth working so hard for The mix also sounds like shit - with the alleged hyperintricate complexity of the instrumentals drowned out by someone howling with the eloquence of a unmedicated schizophrenic. I'm sure this was intentional but I don't think 'make it sound bad' is that clever of an artistic choice. According to a podcast I listened to - Cpt Beefheart wrote the songs on the piano despite not knowing how to play piano. So like how my toddler 'writes' songs. GTFO. It might be hypocritical to hate this while kinda liking duck stab and kollaps. But there's a pretentious element to this (podcast guys explained that different musicians are playing in different keys and different time signatures from each other) that just feels exhausting.

Chad Freaks Out: Pt 2/3 Immediately after his Peaches episode, Andrew Hickey dropped another episode on Captain Beefheart. An easy no-brainer to go back to both Safe As Milk & Trout Mask Replica (both albums that surfaced this year) while listening to the deep dive. Safe As Milk Safe As Milk doesn’t demolish you into a million pieces like Trout Mask Replica does, but is far more approachable as an intro to Beefheart. Safe As Milk has far more broad appeal and fits the 60s vibe. It didn’t invent a new genre, but it shows the creative bones of what The Magic Band & Beefheart were capable of (which is being fucking weird). All sorts of sounds, genres and… production values are at play here. Sure ‘Nuff’ ’n’ Yes, I Do has that delta blues sound, Zig Zag Wanderer is psychedelic and Im Glad is something out of a 50s movie. Beefhearts voice is hypnotic and powerful. At this stage, he hasn’t reached that complete psycho mode that he hits in Trout Mask Replica. I truly wonder what the Rolling Stones thought of this. Trout Mask Replica A harder album to chase down due to legal disputes, but worth its place in this list. Andrew Hickey describes Beefheart in this era as Manson-like and even went as far as saying that Manson WASNT AS CRUEL as Beefheart was to his acolytes. That certainly taints some of the enjoyment here (at least for a moment). The range of spoken beatnik stuff to polyrhythmic experiments are amazing. Frownland, Ella Guru and China Pig were my favorites. The album stands as something I hope to play once a year to remind me how AI will never make something as extraordinarily wacky as this. My Last Thoughts: Think about Beefheart & Zappas relationship for second. These guys are childhood friends, both true artists with their unique tastes, forced to be coworkers resulting in them being enemies. They have SO MUCH in common: they each abused their bandmates and produced interesting work without EVER getting rich off of it. I personally think Beefheart was some kind of CIA asset, but who’s to say Frank wasn’t either. These guys are long gone, but you still can’t get all of the albums they worked on 😂 Remember Tom Waits? Apparently he was heavily influenced by Beefheart and was greatly respected/friends with him. Even PJ Harvey is super inspired by him. Connected some dots for me

I would rather listen to an entire concert from a beginner middle school band and orchestra than listen to this again. You know what, throw in an elementary school choir where the director is only working 1/3time because of budget cuta and they do at least one song with kazoos and I would still choose to listen to that concert over this album

não é taaaaao ruim assim como o pessoal fala, mas eu achei ele muito longo, o que acaba prejudicando bastante porque na metade pro fim você fica de saco cheio. certamente uma experiência.

Frownland - 2 The dust blows forward 'n the dust blows back - 2 Dachau blues - 2 Ella guru - 2 Hair pie: bake 1 - 1 Moonlight on vermont - 2 Pachuco cadaver - 3 Bill's corpse - 2 Sweet sweet bulbs - 2 Neon meate dream of a octafish - 2 China pig - 3 My human gets me blues - 2 Dali's car - 2 Hair pie: bake 2 - Pena - 2 Well - 2 When big joan sets it up - 2 Fallin' ditch - 2 Sugar 'n spikes - 3 Ant man bee - 2 Orange claw hammer - 2 Wild life - 2 She's too much for my mirror - 2 Hobo chang ba - 1 The blimp (mousetrapreplica) - 2 Steal softly through snow - 2 Old fart at play - 2 Veteran's day poppy - 3

I once listened to this album a few years back when it was being reissued or something like that. It wasn’t memorable at the time because I listen to so much music. Today I listened and I was listening and I was struck by the music first. It’s really good. I mean it’s skittering and not easily digested but if you listen then you will hear the musicianship in the music. The rhythms and polyrhythms it’s quite beautiful. The lyrics tend to be goofy in places. But it’s interesting to listen to them. I enjoyed and this is definitely an album you should hear before you die.

Total shit

Come on? WTF even is this. Probably one of those albums that people say "you don't get it" but this is not good. I feel like it is something my friends and I would do in middle school. Grab some instruments we don't know how to play and make noise and make up some lyrics in the moment. Maybe you have to be super high to enjoy this?

Always hated this band.

Spotify on my has one song listed for this album and I’m OK with that.

(2/7) I'm fine if people want to make experimental music or whatever but does it have to go on so long

I appreciate that they’re doing different stuff

One star for the trout. It's long and quite painful. Favorite songs: Moonlight on Vermont

RATING: 9.5/10 HIGHLIGHT: Ella Guru LOWLIGHT: Wild Life

This annoying album cover haunts me. I seem to find multiple copies all the time when flipping through stuff; or I'm remembering wrong and I just see a copy on the wall all the time and I can't escape it. Either way, don't like it. The music itself was bizarre. Just enough enough to be interesting and not outright hate it, but I couldn't listen to it and not be doing something else at same time

Just shy of 79 minutes of musical discord with few redeeming features. Any interest I had in the album had dissipated by the time of side three's "Well". Great album art though. One star. Side one 1 "Frownland" (2/5) 2 "The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back" (2/5) 3 "Dachau Blues" (2/5) 4 "Ella Guru" (1/5) 5 "Hair Pie: Bake 1" (instrumental) (1/5) 6 "Moonlight on Vermont" (2/5) Side two 1 "Pachuco Cadaver" (2/5) 2 "Bill's Corpse" (1/5) 3 "Sweet Sweet Bulbs" (1/5) 4 "Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish" (1/5) 5 "China Pig" (2/5) 6 "My Human Gets Me Blues" (2/5) 7 "Dali's Car" (instrumental) (1/5) Side three 1 "Hair Pie: Bake 2" (instrumental) (1/5) 2 "Pena" (1/5) 3 "Well" (1/5) 4 "When Big Joan Sets Up" (1/5) 5 "Fallin' Ditch" (1/5) 6 "Sugar'n Spikes" (1/5) 7 "Ant Man Bee" (1/5) Side four 1 "Orange Claw Hammer" (1/5) 2 "Wild Life" (1/5) 3 "She's Too Much for My Mirror" (1/5) 4 "Hobo Chang Ba" (1/5) 5 "The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)" (1/5) 6 "Steal Softly thru Snow" (1/5) 7 "Old Fart at Play" (1/5) 8 "Veteran's Day Poppy" (1/5) Total - 35 Average - 1.3 368/1001 195/368 albums reviewed were new to me.

It’s wild that I didn’t even remember his album Safe As Milk was listened to at the beginning of this year. Doesn’t sound like the same person at all. Admirably frantic stream-of-consciousness is what it sounds like, but under the chaos I understand there’s a technical complexity to many of these songs. It’s like if Tom Waits and Frank Zappa (who produced this album) had a deranged offspring together. 80 minutes is far too long for something this fragmented and unstable, but I can’t say I was tempted to skip a song at any point either. There’s some compelling vocal deliveries of lyrics that have to be heard to be believed. Just some standout extra crazy moments worth remembering: The beginning of “Pachuco Cadaver”. “Neon Meate Dream” is its own beast. “Pena” feeling like I was watching cartoons on many, many psychedelics. Hmmm. A studious close listen may yield some moments of genuine enjoyment, or at least appreciation for this project. It’s pretty neat that weve made it to the point where something this discordant resonates with many as an evocative work of art. Ive done this before with controversial, boundary-pushing records, but I’m gonna give this one a 3/5. It does chaos very well, it’s just that this type of chaos isn’t particularly appetizing very often

Was trying to guess what this might sound like and boy was I not at all close? Even the disconnect between the album cover and name was quite something. Anyway I wasn't sure about this really. Thank you Wikipedia for telling me it is regarded as one of the most challenging recordings of the 20th century, 'John Harris of The Guardian later discussed the idea that the album requires several listens to "get it", concluding it still sounded "awful" after six listens' and that it was David Lynch's favourite album (tracks) It was quite a lot. The Dust Blows Forward... I kinda didn't mind. Part of me appreciated the randomness and brazenness of each track just doing whatever it wanted with no regard for melody or structure or cohesion. So at times this made me just burst out laughing which I think is for sure a good sign. I couldn't rate any higher because some of these songs were awful to listen to but there were enough semi redeeming features, and at least I wasn't continually bored. I saw a comment on the youtube stream from someone who wanted to listen to the whole album and started crying when they realised they were only up to track 5 (I felt something not dissimilar at discovering I was less then halfway through, but we perservered)

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should. Also, if an album requires SEVEN LISTENS for you to 'get it', that sounds more reminiscent of being tortured to the point of confessing to something you didn't do.

Overall Rating - 1.41/5 (2.82/10). Whiskey. Tango. Alpha. Foxtrot. Over. Crazy, experimental, and, at times an assault on the ears.

Experimental até demais, não tem em streaming

Ik gaf een ander album van ze een 4. Ik weet niet of dat album echt heel anders was dan deze of dat ik een wat rare dag had. Maar dit album komt niet in de buurt van de 4. Gek doen om het gek doen. Moderne kunst die ik niet snap. Polyritmiek die ik niet kan volgen. Willekeurige shit waar ze schijnbaar toch heel lang op geoefend hebben. De reden dat veel muziek lekker aanvoelt is omdat er slim wordt gespeeld met patronen. Als die patronen te ingewikkeld worden of zelfs ontbreken gaat voor mij een groot deel van het plezier verloren. Het is knap, maar ik kan er niks mee. Ik heb dan ook helemaal geen zin om dit van voor naar achter naar deze Zappa-achtige gekheid te gaan luisteren. Eén ster en ik ga vroegtijdig verder naar het volgende album.

I love Zappa and CB is often compared to Zappa, but this was a hard listen. 1.5

Mon avis résumé : ??? Mon avis réel : Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, j'en entends parler depuis longtemps, mais je n'ai jamais trop pris le temps de me pencher sérieusement dessus et il y a bien longtemps que cet album en particulier me fait de l’œil. J'ai donc commencé en l'écoutant, en sachant bien que ça serait sûrement une de ces bizarreries dont seules les années 60 ont le secret. Même comme ça, j'étais pas prêt. Se pencher sur Trout Mask Replica, c'est se plonger dans un terrier de lapin où chaque découverte est plus déglinguée que l'autre. Le contexte de création de l'album vaut la peine qu'on l'évoque. Captain, Beefheart, pour préparer cet album, il a essentiellement fondé une secte. Bon, c'est un peu exagéré, mais le fait est qu'il s'est enfermé dans une maison pendant des mois avec ses musiciens et ils ont répété 14 heures par jour chaque jour. Difficile de distinguer la réalité de la fiction en parlant de cette étape de la création, on lit tout et n'importe quoi, mais il semblerait que Captain Beefheart ait été odieux, voire abusif avec ses musiciens, qui étaient sous-nourris et devaient respecter une discipline de fer, alors que l'argent se faisait rare. Chacun peut lire les histoires à ce sujet, c'est assez terrifiant. Et une fois ces mois passés à répéter, l'album a donc été produit par Frank Zappa (rien que ça !) qui était impliqué dans le projet depuis le début. Alors, l'enregistrement avait l'air d'être quelque chose aussi, mais passons plutôt au cœur du sujet : la musique. Je sais que les utilisateurs du site sont très frileux face aux albums très expérimentaux, donc je m'attends à ce qu'il ait une très mauvaise note. Et pour une fois, j'aurais du mal à leur donner tort. Pas parce que je pense que l'album est mauvais, au contraire, mais plutôt parce que c'est un foutoir incompréhensible. La musique est totalement déconstruite, y'a des influences free jazz très marquées et qui expliquent le bordel ambiant. D'ailleurs, la cacophonie est renforcée par le fait qu'il y a plein d'instruments. En plus des classiques du rock, on a aussi de la flûte, de la clarinette, du saxophone... et Captain Beefheart par-dessus tout ça qui se la joue chanteur de blues, par moment on dirait Howlin' Wolf. C'est bien simple, en l'écoutant, j'ai vu un commentaire qui disait que c'était comme si un groupe tombait dans les escaliers, mais continuait quand même à jour. Et c'est long ! Et pendant toute la longueur, il s'en passe, des choses. Parfois, on a des passages étonnamment conventionnels et d'autres sont un gros bordel indescriptible. Et à d'autres moments, on a juste des gens qui parlent. Et en plus, les titres sont très courts, donc un passe rapidement du coq à l'âne, ce qui ne fait qu'augmenter la confusion On croirait pas à l'entendre que tout ça a été répété pendant des mois. On dirait plutôt que le groupe improvise tout, mais non. Chaque élément dissonant, chaque intervention de chaque instrument est calculé et voulu par Captain Beefheart qui compte bien garder la maîtrise sur tout ce qui se passe. Alors oui, cet album n'est pas facile d'accès et pour beaucoup, ça ne sera guère plus que de la branlette et du bordel sans aucun fonds. Et si je trouve cette idée un peu exagérée, je ne peux personnellement pas m'empêcher d'apprécier l'album pour son jusqu'au-boutisme. L'objectif était de faire quelque chose de bizarre, éloigné de tous les standards du rock et pour moi, c'est réussi. L'album a été très influent et a montré qu'on pouvait oser des choses improbables et avoir du succès. Ce qui me gêne le plus, dans tout ça, c'est la phase de conception. Personne ne devrait être traité comme de la merde pour un simple album de musique. Et ça retire une étoile de la note finale. PS : ah et en continuant d'explorer un peu, j'ai vu que la pochette n'est pas un montage, c'est vraiment Captain Beefheart avec une tête de poisson qu'il utilise comme masque et il existe une vidéo de lui en train de jouer du saxophone soprano à travers la bouche du poisson, dégueulasse ! Quand je disais que c'était un terrier de lapin, je ne déconnais pas.

To me, *Trout Mask Replica* by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band is a bit crazy. It’s not an album you can just listen to casually; perhaps you need to hear it several times to grasp the music. But that requires time—something I didn't have yesterday. Sorry, just one star.

Not something for me but polyrythmic can sound nice if you excute it properly

While currently not available from Apple, since I have this album, it was easy to access for a relisten. Yep, still a great album!

Honestly not as awful as it is exhausting.

🐟🫪 The legendary Beefheart album. FAST N' BULBOUS 💡🏃 What's jarring is that the notes are played in different rhythms, which is a far cry from the harmonious chords I'm used. We're hearing the chords deconstructed to their most basic form. It's like the sounds I hear in my day to day life: the conversations, the loud Instagram reels, the engine on the bus. Each has its own rhythm and I think Trout Mask kinda "replicates" that. But most of the time Captain Beefheart and his band are giving elementary music class. And I mean this positively. There's a kid-like experimentation, a sense of wonder in this record where you just do random crap and see if it sticks. It takes me to being a kid again and not caring about what the world thinks. A masterpiece or a piece of sh-t, it doesn't matter if he's having fun with it. But personally, I'd lean to the latter, I don't think I'll be listening to Trout Mask Replica often. However, it's a much needed escape from that Trinity Session recording I had two weeks ago. A lot of these polyrhythms remind me of Geese's Getting Killed album but less refined. Later in the record, they get tolerable, but the runtime is just a bit much. For an album with jarring sounds, it follows a conventional structure: songs mixed with tape-recorded conversations as interludes.

I just don’t understand how you even come across this album. Like did this guy just have that deep of music knowledge to know about this shit? Or did he actively listen to this shit and enjoy it? Or is the criteria just throwing shit (this album) at a wall (us) and hoping it sticks? This genuinely has confused me and simultaneously pissed me tf off.

Trout Mask was the nickname of Len Houmous’ 32nd wife 1.7 7/23 Pachudo Cadaver

trash trash trash can i give -10000000 points

es un loco y un poco me quiro matar, pero de bizarro algo bueno tambien esta. nose.

Estaba incompleto en Spotify pero lo que había era bueno

Robert Wyatt, you can rest now; you’ve been dethroned The only thing I can say that’s positive about this album is that it’s not boring and when it wants to, it can sorta kinda throw together some blues pieces (Moonlight on Vermont would be ok if someone else sang it) The rest is just…beyond garbage. Half of the tracks on here I wouldn’t even call music. I hate the almost insistence to play off rhythm and off key to make songs clash with themselves. I hate the vocals that intentionally sound bad to show you “music ain’t all that beautiful”. I hate the subject matter of half of these songs, it really does feel like it was specifically appealing to the fart sniffing “high art” intellectuals who think because it’s challenging it’s automatically good. I hated the snippets of blues, one of my favorite genres, which would immediately transform into disgusting abominations of something that could once be considered good. Also this being a double album made it all the more insulting, as if I didn’t get enough of this garbage. I could go on for hours about how much I didn’t like this album. I think it’s kinda crazy this came out in the 60s, and definitely does stand out as pretty unique, but from a “do I want to listen to this” perspective I think this might be the single worst album we’ve had. I listened to Rock Bottom again and although it sucked it’s so much less painful than some of the other awful records we’ve gotten (Pere Ubu, White Light/White Heat come to mind). This is worse because not only is it mind numbingly awful, but it took a significant portion of my day and wasted it. This is an affront to music as a medium

its like 2 different songs being played over each other at the same time. complete nonsense noise; i just happen to find it amusing at how unapologetically bad it sounds. a loving 1 star

I listened to this full album, just so I could post a sincere 1 rating. This type of music enrages me as it inevitably leads to those who declare it a masterpiece, avant-garde, a piece of art, etc. You need to really listen to it a few times to appreciate the musicianship, they say. No you don't, I say. This is crappy music. This is complicated for the sake of being complicated, it strips all the fun out of music leaving a barely functional purely technical pile of slop. "Oh wow polyrhythms and polytonality, these musicians are so great" no they aren't, shut up, it sounds like garbage and just because you heard someone call this experimental and you want to attach yourself to it because you think it makes you seem complex is ridiculous.

The app link only gave me the Trout Mask Replica Replica single which is horrible. Hence the rating otherwise I really 'rate' the Captain

250 records in and only Pet Sounds has topped this so far. They’re very similar albums in that the depth sonic ideas is overwhelming. You need to lose yourself in it. In fact I think new listeners probably do get overwhelmed by the length, the number of songs and the density of the instrumentation and dismiss it as weird. I was lucky in that my introduction was song by song. In the 90’s John Peel would play a song a week on his radio show. I used to edit his shows into mixtapes and songs from Trout Mask Replica became strange interludes from another world amongst the indie and electronica of the era. When I bought the Capt’s work on cd I preferred his other albums at first. It’s been a slow process over the years to spot the intricacies and now sometimes I’ll be in the mood for Beefheart but not in the right head place for Trout Mask Replica. So give it thirty years and it’ll grow. If you don’t have time for that listen in chunks (say the four sides of the lp) with breaks in between.

This was painful all the way long

Challenging listen. Started to pick up a few things on my second time through. Needs more listens to get something from it.

No lo terminé. Muy buena tapa. Se nota el sonido de Frank Zappa. No me shockeó tanto porque el sonido me es familiar, pero banco la experimentación y sobre todo me gusta que haya temas cortos.

A symphony of dying geese and gruff vocals. Must have been a fun recording session. A real Ferris Bueller ‘Never Had One Lesson’ type record

Hell, this was actually a more of an enjoyable time than that RHCP record I got a few days ago. This album is so proud of its weirdness and that it makes it impossible for me to hate it, even when it becomes very challenging to listen to. Filled with eccentric rhythms and absurdist poetry, this record will never sound conventional no matter how much time passes. You can't say that for most music. The most 'normal' moments on this record are on songs like "China Pig", which is just Beefheart singing a blues song with bizarre lyrics backed by just one guitar. Beefheart's gritty voice is perfect for blues music and he sounds quite similar to Tom Waits. I'm glad this project forced my hand to sit down with this after hearing if its reputation for years. You can call Trout Mask Replica a lot of things, but you can never call it boring.

An album that demands your attention and then has no idea what to do with it. I hate it.

I have this on vinyl. I have tried so hard to like it. But it’s just awful. Giving it a 2 instead of a 1 out of respect for Frank Zappa.

Well, this finally popped up. I’m not sure you could make an EP of what I enjoyed here. This was mostly a driving listen via YouTube since it’s not on streamers. Doubt I’ll ever want to revisit it.

Been waiting for this day - the subreddit has made this album famous. So famous that the last thing I expected was having to go to Youtube to find it via playlist. I'm not sure I found or listened to all of the songs but I heard enough. Does the album lack structure? Does it sound like it was made by a kid? Is it the worst thing I've heard on this list? Would I like to listen to it again? Yes, yes, no and no - in that order. Maybe my impressions were helped by low expectations set by reddit (I sort of expecting finger nails on chalkboard type stuff). But there is, for me, a certain charm here...it was sort of like listening to the seeds of something that could have become more but was stopped dead in its development tracks. I loved late 1980s David Letterman because he took the camera behind the scenes and you could see and feel how the show was made. I'm not saying I loved this album but it has a place and I can appreciate that. 2/5.

I have finally been blessed by the magic carp with its presence. Listen man, I can sort of get it. I listened to the whole thing, and I really tried to be ACTIVELY listening, not just using this as background noise. But my god, it still felt like noise for the majority of the time, it's redeeming quality is that sometimes this is downright hilarious to listen to. Sorry Captain Beefheart :(

They deliberately tried to make the most unlistenable album ever, and it’s still better than a lot of stuff on this list. Beefheart tells Zappa and Yoko, “Hold my beer.”

I think some of the overly-pretentious enjoy calling it a masterpiece—or, again, maybe it’s for the meme—but, in all honestly, it’s completely unlistenable noise.

If you took all the weirdness of Waits (of whom I'm a big fan) and Zappa (not as much), mashed them together, turned up the bizarreness to 11, and then removed any of the actual musical skill and emotional weight they bring, you end up with something like this. I give it a 2 because it is weirdly compelling in places, and the sheer audacity of it is somewhat admirable. I think I would sooner re-listen to this than most of the Eno and techno stuff on this list. But I just can't go any higher than that for something this extremely weird and off-putting.

Como carajo puede un disco que suena a ninos jugando con instrumentos musicales puede ser uno de los mejores 1001 álbumes? Pero si es una reverenda mierda

Some people clearly took too many drugs back in the day. Each to their own, but do they really have to impose their nonsense on others?

FAST & BULBOUS!

I ain’t listening to all dat

An extraordinarily strange and even harsh critics’ favourite. For its unique and uncompromising Anne garde approach it deserves a couple of stars, but nothing more.

Trout Mask Replica es una de las mayores anomalías de la música del siglo XX; una obra de arte atemporal de la vanguardia que ha envejecido bien como un monumento a la deconstrucción formal. Desde la perspectiva del diseño de ensamble, enfrentarse a este disco es experimentar un asalto sonoro que al principio era indescifrable; sin embargo, cuando la escucha se profundiza y se logran notar las coincidencias, pasos comunes y el diálogo entre instrumentos, se nota la genialidad matemática y la claridad arquitectónica de una propuesta donde, en contra de toda lógica convencional, las piezas se entretejen muy bien. El álbum se edifica como un collage auténtico de la vida real y cruda, conectando de forma directa con los principios de la música concreta y el surrealismo al integrar grabaciones accidentadas y texturas ásperas que le aportan una fuerza y calidez que transmiten autenticidad. La voz telúrica y errática de Captain Beefheart comanda este laberinto sónico con una fuerza y autoridad superior, rompiendo con cualquier noción tradicional de belleza para ofrecer un documento conmovedor, crudo y real. Aunque carece de una sensación de paz y fluidez comercial, su naturaleza disruptiva le otorga una versatilidad única para múltiples usos, funcionando como un detonador excepcional para el trabajo creativo de alta exigencia o como el objeto perfecto para una reflexión solitaria y analítica.

I thought I would hate this more than I did, but it was too amusing. However, if someone were to ask me what the worst album I ever listened to was, this one would stand out too vividly for me to pick anything else. Listened to it on YouTube, and the comments gave me a chuckle.

At first I really didn't like this one, and by the end of it I ended up listening to the whole thing twice. I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about i either. The background of the production is kind of horrible. It feels pretentious and avantgarde just for the sake of it at times. But there's something oddly compelling about it. I think I'm giving this a 5, but at the same time I'm not sure if it's earned it.

vad i hela friden 0/10 låter som en musiklektion på lågstadiet

What the fuck is this?

The thing about Trout Mask Replica is that it's such an unpleasant, punishing experience for the most part, that if you just persevere with it through a sense of obligation, of duty there are fleeting moments where it sounds something... something like music, and it's such sweet, sweet relief you start to think maybe you misunderstood it, maybe the problem was you all along, and maybe you're developing into someone who can appreciate it, maybe one day...love it. After all, you only get one album a day, and there's no guarantee there will be another one tomorrow. Maybe this is the best you can get. Maybe those brief breaks from the chaos, the noise, the madness are worth the pain. Who did you think you are thinking you might get a Sgt Pepper or Rumours? You don't deserve them. They don't even know you exist. This is the album you deserve, so be grateful for it. So what if your friends and family don't like it? What do they know? They still haven't gotten over your split with your last album with its "melodies" and "choruses" and all the musicians agreeing on what "time signature" to use. They didn't even try to like it. They don't know it like I do. Oh shit...am I in an abusive relationship with this album?

Uh, no. Some days I roll with it, other days, what the actual f*ck? I scream for all the albums and artists in my vinyl, cassette tapes, 8tracks, cds, mp3 playlists that are not included in this list of 1001 albums. Like, why this and not ANY of those others 🤬

Not on spotify.i listen when I find it physically

Fun.

this album is equal parts hilarious, equal parts absolute confusion. it shouldn't work, but it does. the avant-garde is hard to get past, but overall its pretty good and fun. this album, for me, falls into this list perfectly. you should listen to this album once before you die. what you do with it after is your choice, but its crazy and unique

So many analogies that I could make but really this album isn’t even worth the time I’d put into that. Some dudes did way too many drugs decades ago and now I have to listen to this shit. You can argue all day long that it’s groundbreaking or influential, but you can’t polish a turd.

I think I heard the guitarist accidentally start to play a melody, but don't worry, the drummer smashed a snare drum over his head before it could become enjoyable.

For along time I thought that Captain Beefheart was just a novelty act like Doctor Demento or Weird Al, so this album was something of a revelation. To say it’s hard going is an understatement, and first impressions are of a shambolic racket with different musicians noodling to whatever groove is playing in their heads while some crazy dude rants random beat poems over the top. Continued listening is worth it though, although it doesn’t get any easier. This is actually meticulous free jazz where the apparent randomness will sometimes resolve into a tight focus before splintering off again. The lyrics are similarly thought through as a piece of performance art that would obviously go on to inspire people like Tom Waits and David Lynch. Moonlight-on-Vermont-tastic!

Not on Amazon Music

I love the weirdness!

An assault on the senses by a band who sound like they're falling down a very long flight of stairs. It's not a comfortable listen- I don't think it's meant to be. Yet Beefheart and Zappa are both masters of their craft and the result is so intriguing that to my surprise, I ended up enjoying this.

Been waiting for this, the Beefheart I heard I liked, but have never heard this album. Takes a couple of tracks to get into, but it starts to crawl into your skull. But is it good? Hard to say, more interesting than a lot of 70s hard rock slop on this list. Can't imagine a context where I would listen to it again, maybe if I needed to scare away a burglar. 3 Heard before? No Owned: No. 80/314 (25%) Will I get: No

04/06/2026 My time has finally come. For an album that is supposed to be monstrously horrible... I was expecting something utterly terrible. To my shock, it wasn't as bad as all you crazy cats say. At least it was different to all other music at that time! Spotify listeners: 245.9k

pas terrible

Ça va être long et je sens que sydou va détester. Je comprends ce que ça fait dans la liste car c'est vraiment différent et fondateur donc ça sera pas un 1 mais bordel c'est chiant à écouter... Beaucoup de bruit et la voix de capitaine cœur de bœuf fait pas rêver du tout

Holy FUCK this is BAD! Who made this list, Helen Keller? This is the sort of music that results when you let a music classroom full of 10-year-olds all press a different demo button on the keyboards at slightly different times and let them fuck around for an hour and twenty minutes.

I think this one really benefited from popping up more than 700 albums into this project for me. It's long (too long) but it's certainly not boring, which is more than I can say for a lot of other albums I've listened to lately. It's disjointed and weird but in an intentional and controlled way. This honestly grew on me as I was listening to it. I initially thought it was going to be a 1 or 2 star album, but then it slowly crept up to 3 and I think it could possibly land around 4. We'll see.

This is what a hangover feel like. No matter what happens you can’t get comfortable and there is an incessant yet ever changing noise that you can’t escape.

Discordant nonsense

So I didn't hate ALL of it. In particular, some of the bluesy jams were perfectly inoffensive and occasionally fun, but when "perfectly inoffensive and occasionally fun" is as good as it gets, yikes, good luck. Dude locked the band in a house and psychologically abused them for months to make this? This?!? Rock sociopathy has given us a lot over the years (Siamese Dream, the later works of the Beatles, PRINCE) but this ain't worth it. I understand this must have been world-tilting in 1969, but it's 2026, I want to listen to something *good*. On the Wikipedia page for this, there's a comment from Matt Groening (?) that he hated it when he first listen, but that sometime around the fifth or sixth spin (!) it clicked and he loved it. For all I know that would be true for me too, but I doubt I have the patience to find out. I've tried to listen to Lulu too, and rightly concluded life is too short.

“Squid eating dough in a polythene bag is fast and bulbous!” - Captain Beefheart, Paucho Cadaver. This is like fricking crazy ahh album it’s almost as if they are just trying to shake up what industry with these weird sounds. For most of the album all of the instruments are playing against eachother. However for some moments you can get some really banger moments, one reason I love and respect Zappa. This is definitely one of his early works, where he is trying to put a message out there that he doesn’t really care. And he is just going to keep making music to prove people wrong about the rules of what music has to be to make it big. He is just doing what he loves not making any hit singles. It’s mad respectable and inspirational. Fish mask replica is a very strange album with very strange lyrics and very strange instruments. It’s just weird, but when you need a super weird album this will do it for you. If you’re driving your friends somewhere that you don’t wanna go, you can throw this on at any time and drive them insane. Fav song: she’s too much for my mirror it’s so like run it’s great

Huh?

Noniin nyt sit taas. Avant garde rokkia/bluesia. Frank Zappan tuottamaa. Aivan täysin sekopäistä ja ei mitään järkeä. Perus avant gardea et jokainen nuotti on käytännössä "väärä". Mut mää tavallaan ...ymmärrän? On tää mielenkiintoisempaa kuin moni muu levy tällä listalla. Tän kuuntelu ei kyllästytä vaikka tää onkin 1h20min pitkä. Eihän tää millään tapaa hyvää ole, mutta... mielenkiintoista. Ja väli "skitit" on ihan hauskoja. Parhaat: Fallin' Ditch, Veteran's Day Poppy

This album is not available on Apple Music.

2 stars

A deconstructed psychedelic cabaret from a wild showman having a demented trip - it's annoying on purpose, disjointed, choatic, dissonant, lo-fi, funny and full of life. Settles into some surprisingly deep grooves to jam out, but they succumb to the centripital forces pulling it all apart.

All songs sounded alike, even the non-sensical interludes. I know this shit’s supposed to be experimental but there’s a science behind that, a coherent logical order, an artistic sensibility. Not this arrhythmic, anti-melodious bullshit.

It's finally here. The album I've been expecting and dreading for the last 950 albums. And honestly? It's a heck of a lot better than I'd feared. Still bad, mind you, but not as bad as it could be. We start with Frownland. I see the vision. Beefheart and Zappa and co. achieve it nicely. Every instrument, including the vocals, uses a completely different tempo and key. It's hilarious, disjointed, glorious. I seriously doubt I'll have the patience for 78 minutes of this, but then I've been proven wrong before. The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back... just a little snippet of 1890s glory. From the "Oh! Susanna" days. It's quite literally just poorly recorded vocals. Then we're shoved back back into the land of the frenetic, with Dachau Blues (I'd rather go to Dachau myself than listen to that again.) Ella Guru is the closest we get to something conventional. But it still sounds entirely ahead of (separate from?) its time. Nothing else in the 60s sounds quite like this jumbled, yet surprisingly musically complex, mess. Hair Pie: Bake 1 brings me back to my jazz big-band days. You know, when everybody's honking their saxes, trying to out-Chameleon (Herbie Hancock) the others before the band director walks in? Sprinkle some Donna Lee (Charlie Parker) in there... I'm glad they added audio of something eating the title pie. Very important. After this point the tracks start to blend together. It doesn't help that I'm listening to a SoundCloud version that doesn't show which track is which, so I have to switch back and forth between it and the TMR Wikipedia page to try and calculate which track is playing at any given time. Pachuco Cadaver (I think?) is honestly really solid. I have to shout out the lyrics of the song Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish: "Meate rose and hairs / Meaty meate rose and hairs / Meaty dream wet meat / Limp damp rows / Peeled and felt fields and belts / Impaled on in daemon / Mucus mules / Twat trot / Tra-la tra-la tra-la tra-la tra-la". Incredible. I also have to shout out Old Fart At Play for being a news commentary detailing exactly what the title suggests, and nothing more. Per another reviewer: "You could give this a 5 for the sheer brass balls of releasing this on the public, but, really, it gets a 1 for being shit." Well, except that's not how averages work. The album is certainly shit, and Beefheart's balls are indeed brassy, but only a little bit (plenty of experimental music exists), so I'll give Ol' Beefy a 2 and a slap on the wrist. 2/5 Key tracks: Ella Guru, Hair Pie: Bake 1, Pachuco Cadaver, Hobo Chang Ba, Veterans Day Poppy

Nope

4.5

Haters gonna hate. Appreciate this and I love its risk taking and eccentric sound.

Do not be discouraged by the first track of this album. Once you endure it, the remaining songs are quite pleasant.

The confidence to release this and call it music

I don't get it. Favourite Songs: Moonlight on Vermont, Bill's Corpse, When Big Joan Sets Up. Least Favourite Songs: The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back, Well, Orange Claw Hammer.

Complete and utter shit

Every now and then there would be something I found enjoyable, but most of it not so much.

1/10 - a crappy 60s album that tries to be endearing with bad jazz skits

yeah great that

Perhaps not his most accessible work but it’s one that’s grown on me over the years. The strange angular nature of the backing music in conjunction with Beefheart’s lyrics create an impressive juxtaposition which is full of wit and humour. The album definitely rewards repeated listening

Are you kidding me? And almost an hour and a half of this. Just no. It's like a teenager trying to be "random". Zany lyrics, good music I could manage. Experimental music and good lyrics I could probably cope with. Zany lyrics and experimental music is a hard no. love and waffles, *~t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m~*

"I listen to this album when I vacuum my lawn."

Hat alles, was ein richtig gutes Album braucht. Nur untypischer Weise zeitgleich.

Favorite track(s): Frownland, Dachau Blues, Ella Guru, Moonlight on Vermont, Pachuco Cadaver, China Pig, Sugar 'n Spikes, Veteran's Day Poppy Heard before Previous rating: 9/10 Yes, I'm one of those people. Sue me.

Link To Album:https://archive.org/details/captain-beefheart-and-his-magic-band-trout-mask-replica_202403

HOLY COW what am I listening to? I went all the way to YouTube to listen to what MIGHT be the worst album of all time. You need to read the Wikipedia for this album because the environments in which this album was created might be the only environment possible to come up with this...1/5

Erikoista settiä. Oli vain yksi biisi spotifyssa, joten vaikea arvostella. Laitetaan turvallinen 3/5.

This was INTERESTING and challenging and scratches that itch in your ears.

Nup

I had to go through several of the 5 reviews to see what I was missing. No one really explained it. Someone said "I truly believe this is Captain Beefheart’s greatest work." Oh god.... not that I was planning to listen to anything else they might have produced, but it's difficult to imagine worse. In any case, not the lowest low of this list, but it doesn't reach 2 stars.

The one nice thing I'll say about this album is that it I detect some similarities between it and Beck's 1994 gem, Stereopathetic Soulmanure, an album I really enjoy. But where Stereopathetic Soulmanure has Satan Gave Me A Taco, Trout Mask Replica does not. One review I read said this album "sounds like a band falling down a staircase but they don't stop playing" and that seems right. Maybe in a different place or a different time I would have appreciated this one. But probably not.

Missed the opportunity to select did not listen, but based on the rest of my group not approving either…

The Good: It’s a trap!!!! The Bad: It’s a trap!!! The Ugly: Okay, so the Star Wars character has a catfish mask, not a trout… still… It’s a trap! What a total mindfuck this music is. I am constantly thinking about them Canadian freaks Angine de Poitrine. Microtonal, Dissonance… a general disregard of anything mainstream… it is interesting to say the least, but I am uncertain if roughly 80 minutes is a of the o-kay. I will want to listen to this again though, as I am certain there is going to be a time when this is exactly what I need… potentially on a long haul flight, this is perfect to keep the brain going. 4* even if I don’t like trout!!!

I can’t see why anyone would need to listen to this before they die.

Nope, not for me

I really wanted to hate this....but I kinda dig it 🫣

Random album again. Rather enjoyable though Definitely marmite.

This is an incredibly hard album to get through, but I get it. I can hear the genius behind this album, but it’s too jarring and unnerving to fully enjoy it. My biggest complaint was the length; 80 minutes is too long. I did like Well, Dali’s Car and Veteran's Day Poppy, along with a few others. I have now joined the ranks of those who have survived Trout Mask Replica.

Weird as fuck lol

Uh wow… even going in knowing this was going to be a challenging listen, there was nothing that could have prepared me for it. I don’t hate it as there’s actually parts that I really liked, but there is just so much going on that I can’t focus on anything too closely which is the point I guess. Some instrumentals have some catchy parts and I can even get into Beefheart’s on some tracks, however that’s with caveat that for every few things I enjoyed there’s about 50 more pieces than completely confuse and disorientate me. Like halfway through I thought ‘I have to be close to done right?’ just for another 14 songs to be sitting in the queue. I can definitely see why this was influential especially at the time. Could not imagine how it was to hear this as it came out. I though do not plan to come back to this for a LONGGGGG time lmao.

Vamos allá. Llevo tanto tiempo sabiendo que llegaría este momento que no creo que esté a la altura de las expectativas (bajas) que tengo. Solo lo he encontrado en una lista de usuario de YouTube Music. Al final no ha sido para tanto. NO creo que lo vuelva a escuchar y no guardé nada, pero en mi vida creo que he escuchado cosas peores en especial alguna de esta lista de 1001 discos.

This is right up my alley! Quirky, creative, complete chaos

Everyone has to go sometime, right? For me, my turn has come after completing 58 percent of this list(God knows how many more albums will be added this October though). Nevermind that, though, because we're still in May. Today is the birthday of an ex-friend of mine, one who was my best friend at one time, so this day is already bittersweet, and now I get this adventure on this complicated day. First, and foremost, the album isn't boring. It's quite zany, and as someone who is already a big Frank Zappa listener, I had an idea of what I was getting myself into. Because I'm bored, and because this album is anything, but boring, I'm going to briefly discuss the 28 tracks on this bad boy. The opening track actually sets the tone of what you're getting into. The next two tracks are zany, but consistent. Then, "Ella Guru" comes along, and that's the first song I fell in love with on this album. The screaming is hilarious. Then, "Hair Pie: Bake 1(Instrumental)" comes along, and easily lands a spot as the worst track on the album. My ears bled, and it made me want to stop my car(I was driving), and run away, but my self control saved me. "Moonlight On Vermont" closes out side one, and contrary to popular belief, it's not a Frank Sinatra cover song. It's the most normal song on this album. On side two, every song is consistently weird, and zany, and nothing truly stuck out to me. Then, side three came along, and opened up with a better pie than the last time. Both "Pena", and "Well" are legendary in their own right, and I will die on that hill. "When Big Joan Sets Up" isn't politically correct by 21st Century standards, but this was back in the '60s, when fat-shaming was celebrated. The next three tracks are just consistently weird, and zany. Then, we finally get to side four. We open up with "Orange Claw Hammer", one of humanity's greatest achievements. "Wild Life" suits anyone who has listened to this album in their lifetime. The next two songs are funny, and "The Blimp(Mousetrapreplica)" isn't as legendary as it claims, but I still laughed. I'll skip to the closing track, which was very disappointing compared to the rest of the album. My favorite track on the album is, well, "Well". I keep hearing from people you need to listen to this album multiple times to fully appreciate it, but couldn't that be said for almost all albums? Hell, the first week after purchasing "Plastic Beach" by Gorillaz, I almost broke the disc I was so angry, and now it's my favortie album in the 2010s decade. What makes this insane album any different, Matt Groening? Finally, I was perplexed on what to rate this album. I could give it a 1 because it really is shit, I could say 2 for at least being experimental shit, 3 is the safe rating, I could say 4 for at least keeping me engaged with every track, or I can say 5 for Captain Beefhart being an evil genius. How about this, fellow listeners, the ghost of Captain Beefhart, the trout mask replica, and Mike Trout himself: Let's just shake hands, and give it a "3". Deal?

I'm displeased to learn there is another Captain Beefheart album on this list. Double Album. 79 minutes. FML

Not al all my style.

First listen I hated it. Second time it was starting to grow on me. A keeper.

Not my favorite Beefheart

1/5 Unbearable

I don’t know why this isn’t available on many streaming services, but I assume it’s some kind of public health measure to protect people from the toxins this garbage produces. This isn’t music, it’s just noise. I read that this was meant to have a bluesy sound, which could be true if it was blues performed whilst drunk at a karaoke party. But don’t let that get the instrumentation off the hook, which is even worse- I’ve never heard professional musicians perform so badly. In all, there’s nothing here that is even a cohesive song (‘Moonlight on Vermont’ probably as close as we get). It absolutely baffles me that so many ‘experts’ rated this as some kind of great artistic statement. The claim of some that this takes *6-7* listens to appreciate is probably more a sunk-cost fallacy than evidence of any deeper greatness to be found.

To say this is a challenging listen would be an understatement. To it's credit, it is certainly an interesting album and you can hear in some of the guitar work how it influenced later post-punk bands (though most of them would take it in a much more melodic direction). However, by and large, this is a cacophonous mess with each band member seemingly playing a different song to everyone else. A lot of times when I've read people singing this album's praises they've talked about it taking four or five listens before they have a 'road to Damascus' moment and it all suddenly clicks into place. But frankly life is too short for me to want to test that theory out.

It’s experimental, it’s avant-garde, it’s… atrocious. Captain Beefheart here almost totally failed to create anything listenable or even recognisable as a proper song. I say almost, because just occasionally a track did have some sense of structure, melody, rhythm, etc. and was even vaguely enjoyable, e.g. ‘Moonlight in Vermont’. Nonetheless, it’s got to be 1 star; if this isn’t, then what is? Perhaps it would grow on me (like mould?) if I heard it several times, but I’m not masochistic enough to inflict it on myself again. Some say it’s a ‘masterpiece’. I say the emperor has no clothes.

Fast and bulbous. That's right the mascara snake. Bulbous also tapered and a tin teardrop. No more needs to be said.

Giving it 3 stars because of the sheer audacity to release such shit music upon the world.

I take issue with the idea that challenging music needs to be torturous, both to create and to consume. There's this fucked up notion that Captain Beefheart was a misunderstood genius because he made an impenetrable record that requires 7 listens to "get" and did it by physically and emotionally abusing his band. Fuck that. No art is worth that kind of torment. There is clear talent within this group, and Captain Beefheart himself—it's not easy to make music that sucks this hard. But there are all these assholes who romanticize the REAL suffering of the band, and have decided to suffer alongside them to enjoy art that they are uniquely troubled enough to understand. It's stupid and self-centered.

O fato de ser ruim de propósito é tão único e incrível que eu não vou nem questionar a razão de estar nessa lista (mas também não vou ouvir lol).

OK, I’m gonna run you through a quick and simple hypothetical situation, and you can tell me what you think… Imagine, for a moment, that you are given a list of over 1000 albums that you must go listen to. There are many mediocre albums in that list, shit, there’s even some truly horrendous ones. You, naturally, would be not happy with this arrangement! So many boring, unoriginal and flat-out unnecessary albums, that no one should be forced to listen to. So imagine, and I know this may be difficult, that instead of taking issue with any of those albums, you instead level that anger towards one of the most influential, experimental, and important albums in the entire canon of Western music! Listen, I’m not gonna tell you that this is accessible, or makes for an easy listen. I’m not that far-gone, at least yet, and more over, that’d be missing the point. There are rhythms and melodies on here; but they are hidden like a thief concealing his loot. You have to, y’know, /actively engage/ with it to fully understand what’s really going on because at first glance, it really seems just like meaningless cacophony. But that is merely how it gets you through the door. OFC, given that it’s the internet, people hate actually attempting to analyze the media they consume, and instead just flock to the lowest common denominator. Hence why this magnum opus is one of the lowest rated albums on the site, with it being under such atrocities against sound as Kings of Leon’s “Only by the Night”, and the Libertines S/T. Thinking, after all, is scary, and those records will give you fucking nothing to think about for their entire duration. I know caviar may taste odd if you’ve been eating fast-food burgers your whole life, but that’s not so much a failing on the part of the food, but rather a failing of both yourself, and society for allowing you to be like this. At least, consider that so much obviously unimportant filler is on the list, that this album, which has been incredibly influential to experimental musicians to this very day, deserves to be here far, far more. TL;DR: A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous.

It pisses me off that shit like this makes the list when there’s so many good albums left out, especially more modern albums. Now I’m forced to listen to it because some old white fuck thinks he’s funny for including it,,, go. fuck. yourself.

Slip the fish face on the pole, fuck yeah dude

Truly the urinal-at-the-Tate-Modern of the music world. At this point I think appreciate this more than I actually like it, truly undeniable that some crazy musicianship went into making this

nope

this was genuinely one of the worst things i've ever heard in my life. tapped out halfway through, first 1001 album i couldn't finish. would give a 0 if i could

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I think it warped my mind.

No. Just weird.

This may be the single shittest album I have ever had the misfortune of hearing. I couldn't even get through it all, and I listen to experimental music that's basically just construction sounds sometimes. If it is all insane bangers past track #10, I don't think that could even pull this album out of 1 star hell. Terrible, heinous, awful.

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Would have decimated this but I read about the creation of this album and it's actually awesome

Took a bit of effort, but was worth it.

I understand they are important musically and culturally. I heard future echoes of Primus. The Residents were from the same school (or at least same school district) but the music seemed, somehow, happier? Trying to make music rather than anti-music. More power to the Captain (RIP) but I can’t, just can’t.

Lyrics seem to be the only anchoring element, dense, but also Dadaist. Van Vliet's vocal delivery reminds me of Wolfman Jack. Not sure it would be worth listening to on headphones to try to get an idea of what he's talking about. Has samples of spoken word. I guess it makes perfect sense that it was produced by Zappa. Much of it seems like random noise interspersed with fleeting one-off riffs, a whirling maelstrom always dancing on the edge of something intriguing but never lasting long enough to grab onto. Like a 78-minute long attempt at a musical representation of a Jackson Pollock painting. Pachuco Cadaver and Moonlight On Vermont approach actual conventional song form for a while. This is one of those records that seems impossible to enjoy, but demands "appreciation". More provocative than evocative. You can argue that music is art, and any art is good but I prefer my music to be something that moves body and/or soul and this doesn't. The Wikipedia article makes a point of mentioning that the band members were submitted to a tortuous cult-like environment rehearsing for eight months, and that doesn't sound very fun either.

TMR wasn’t available on Spotify so listed to a Beefheart playlist. I get the art of the method but musically, it just sounded like 3 or 4 guys who never once rehearsed as a band. Or ever played an instrument before. At times, they’d catch a rhythm together and run with it but it’d inevitably divulge into individual, chaotic improvisation. I literally could not focus for the whole day at work after listening to this on my drive in, it fucked with me that much. Save yourself and avoid this.

meth vomit music

gave me headaches

Little to far out there for my tastes. 1.0

Kan antagligen skrivas hur mycket som helst om detta, vrida vända och analyera. Någon skrev att detta är den enda skiva som skulle kunna få 1/10 och 10/10 på samma gång. Får nog ses som ett konstprojekt och inte ett musikalbum. Som skiva betraktat så blir det såklart en 1:a...

struggling to imagine a worse album to listen to while studying. no continuity of sound between songs. felt like anything could happen at any moment. at a certain point i think you have to be impressed that you're ENTIRELY on your toes? anyways no i did not like this album at ALL. in fact i think it worsened my acetaminophen induced nausea and also gave me a headache. can't say i've ever had such a reaction to an album before! and get this i DID listen all the way through!

Cuenta una historia está interesante. Al principio tocan mal los instrumentos y se van sumando d a poco. Al final tocan bien. Es solo una canción

I appreciate that Spotify only made available “Hair Pie - Bake 1”. Instead of 78 minutes of torment, I only had five. Five. Long. Minutes.

Art rock experimentation that confounds. Don Van Vliet pushes the boundaries and sometimes stumbles upon something interesting, but most of the time it’s just aimless.

Piss poor guitar playing, songs that go out of tempo, songs that go out of tune, songs that were never IN tune, nonsensical lyrics, random dialogue in between songs, and some of the worst vocals I’ve ever heard. When they said it had polyrhythm and polytonality what they meant was “these guys can’t fucking play”

I would give it 1 but honestly it was so out there and wild I just wanted to know what they were going to put on this album next. Kinda sounded like the Temu version of Tom Waits. 2.

Odd music, but far from the worst. That was my prevailing impression, just that it was odd. I could probably see myself appreciating it at some point, but it's not striking enough right now for me to continue.

vielleicht bin ich zu dumm und ignorant um es zu checken, hab es auch nicht ganz angehört aber es sind nur random geräusche, einmal hört es sich einfach nur an wie schreiende gänse... also whack

I understand people who like it, I guess. But generally I don't want my music to feel like homework. It sounds like if you took all the weirdness of Zappa's songs, and none of the catchy parts. There are parts here and there that sound more 'normal', but those come more as sweet relief. I don't mind weirdness. I own a lot of Zappa albums and, interestingly enough, Bongo Fury, an album with Captain Beefheart, is one of my favorites. But this is all dissonance with not resolution. I feel that sometimes if something is complicated and anti-pop, some people declare it to be genius based simply on that. Reviews of music like this so often seem to be a way for the reviewer to show off their knowledge of barely known groups within sub-sub-sub-sub genres. It's certainly hard to write about music (Zappa famously said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture), but so often compositions like this are described as 'challenging' and other words that suggest that if you don't also like it, you lack the intelligence to 'get it'. I don't hate this, but I certainly don't like it. I can appreciate that the instruments all seem to create a unified thing, despite seemingly playing completely different songs. However, the atonal nature of nearly every instrument in every song makes this exhausting. The 80 minute runtime doesn't help with this. I'm glad to have finally listened to it, but I don't particularly ever want to hear it again.

The roots of everything Zappa!

choices

i completely understand the importance, talent, and difficulty of this album, but I am unfortunately not a music nerd so I do not understand the concept of 'polyrhythms' or sucking my own dick to feel smarter than the next person. This thing is actually OKAY once you get past Frownland, what an insane way to start an album. This certainly ain't no Throbbing Gristle levels of fucked, I would never listen to this again but I'm glad I can say I did. It took me all day to get through though lmao.

Maybe Matt Groening is right, maybe you do need to listen to this A LOT before you can truly grasp it. But at that point, are you grasping it or are you losing your grasp on reality? Maybe this album contains an infohazard deep in its core that's only revealed once you wear out whatever part of your brain protects you through repeat listenings. It is absolutely no surprise to me that Captain Beefheart is a paranoid schizophrenic, or at least claims to be one. I was also not surprised to learn that this album was filmed under strange circumstances but good lord the actually circumstances are fucking weird. - The band lived in the same house where only Beefheart had his own room and the other five band members lived in the same room - He would verbally abuse the fuck out of the band with one special member getting extra abuse at any one time - Beefheart also physically abused the band - When a band member tried to leave Beefheart dressed up as a cop and tried to arrest them - They rehearsed 14 hours a day (it doesn't show) but at least they were able to record the whole thing in a single six hour session? - Beefheart sang without headphones (it shows) - One of the band members defenestrated himself to escape one of Beefheart's screaming tirade - Beefheart composed songs by piano (he did not know how to play) and forced the drummer to translate his mashing into actual parts (he would not receive any credits on the album) - The band "lived off" (they were starving) rations of tinned beans most days and had to shoplift for food - When they got arrested for shoplifting Frank Zappa had to bail them out - They used their budget to hire a tree surgeon to heal the trees that heard the music This shit went on for nine months. By the time it was all over and they had to do the photoshoot, Beefheart demanded a REAL trout for the shoot. I am sure the hours-long photoshoot would have smelled GREAT. I like this for the same reason I like Wesley Willis, a fellow paranoid schizophrenic musician. It's weird as fuck, and pretty fucking funny too. I don't think it's trying to be funny, I don't think it's trying to be good either. Who knows what the fuck it's trying to be. Maybe it's not meant to be enjoyed, but experienced. I sure experienced it, and now I'd really like a cigarette.

album raro malos audios no me gustó

To paraphrase Community: Beefheart is a genius. He has to be. If he isn't, then I've given almost two hours of life to an idiot; that is unacceptable. Therefore, Beefheart is a genius, and I will die protecting his vision. Either an unparallelled work of avant-garde blues / jazz fusion, or an unlistenable mess that sounds like the musicians all threw their instruments down several flights of stairs at once. I honestly can't decide which.

this is what all music should sound like

Too much, too weird, too difficult. Another review says you need 7 listens to appreciate its genius and i barely made it through 1. I may be a fan if this in about 100 years.

Experimental? Sure. Influential? I’m told. Cool album cover? Yep. Enjoyable? Sometimes. Annoying? Not infrequently.

I respect Captian Beefheart a lot, but this album is really hard to get into. It's very all over the place and strange. That combination, as the trademark of the band, can work or can't. On this album it doesn't, I find.

Challenging and endlessly stimulating. Certainly feel that there is plenty going on that is beyond my ken but also very intriguing. Lots of amazing musicianship

Rv

I generally like weird stuff, and I love a lot of Zappa's output, but I couldn't really wrap my head around this album.

As I understand it, the whole purpose of the 1001 Book & Project is to broaden one’s horizons, and this work fits perfectly. That’s the extent of it, though. Thanks, but no thanks. :)

Not available on my streaming platform of choice but I seem to recall owning the CD. Can't remember much else about it though.

Complex for no reason and virtually incomprehensible. This is the kind of crap snobs like to reference to show that they are somehow superior because they understand this music while us mere mortals are repelled. I'm looking at you 5-star reviewers. The emperor has no clothes and he's overweight, hairy and ridiculous.

Difficult to get through & a real challenge to the listener, but the list was made for albums like this.

One track made me feel like someone slipped a huge bout of mdma into my drink- the wave of anxiety was so palpable, suffice to say I didn’t not complete the listen. Not my jam, excellent fucking name however lol

I partially listened to this last month but stopped. Tried again while sitting down for a long read of ma book... and loved it!! Sooooo crazy + strange, but I enjoyed the weirdness of the lyrics and the creativity. I also loved the last song, thought it was a fab way to end the album and brought it emotionally to a close. Had a thought while listening that it would be a fun and intriguing shroomy album! Will def listen again to see how my views change and what I can learn. 5 stars (9/10). Surely people rate this either a 1 or a 5 cos it's proper marmite hahaha and have to be in a very specific seeking newness mood

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Ik voel het niet. Het doet me niets

Had nog wel iets

Hard to vibe with this one. I was able to in little bits. But overall not an easy listen

Rock surrealism from Beefheart was certainly experimental and boundary pushing but somehow the songs just got left behind for me.

Fast and bulbous. I didn't really get it. It gets a 2 just for the album cover art.