Trout Mask Replica

This has to be a joke

Impenetrable by reputation, impenetrable in practice.

What the hell did I just listen to?!? Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's album Trout Mask Replica isn't some avant garde experiment. It isn't anti-art music to shed light on the pretensiousness of artists of the era. It is crap. Two albums, four sides, 80 minutes of crap. It is noise. It is nonsense. It is stupid. I hated every minute of this album, and couldn't wait for it to be over. Unfortunately for me, it is a super long double album, so it felt like it took forever. I could find no redeeming feature in this utter slog of a listen. I hated myself while I was listening to it. This album doesn't take long to show how completely terrible it is. Maybe it was by the third track, a ditty about Nazi Germany's death camps. Maybe it was the five minute "instrumental" cacophony of noise on track five. Somewhere after the one hour mark, I lost all hope that I could ever hear music again. I thought I should abandon all hope and puncture my own ear drums. I actually sat down and pondered who, in the era that this crime against humanity was published, would have actually taken the time to listen to this album the whole way through side 1, then willingly flip the album over to side two and resume play, then, in some act of sheer audacity, change the record to the second disc, and listen to that entire side of music before making the concious decision that they had to flip the album over to really see how this thing ends up? That wasn't hitting play on an iPod and zoning out. This was actual effort! For this album?! I thought I liked some weird ass stuff. I read the wikipedia article where some interesting people count this album as a masterpiece. I read the opinion that after 7 listens, you really can "get" this album. I can promise you that I will NEVER EVER subject myself to this nonsense another six times to reach any understanding with this. I hated every second of the eighty minutes of this album.

Jeg tror Safe As Milk og Unconditionally Guaranteed er mer mine kopper med te. Trout Mask Replica ga meg nesten ingenting. Likte ikke alle skitsene, og låtene i mellom switcha mellom å være kjip blues og litt offbeat jazza opplegg som høres ut som en parodi på pretensiøs eksperimentering. Jeg sjekket tiden flere ganger underveis, og det var ikke for å notere meg låtene slik at jeg kunne huske dem til senere.

i don’t think the spotify link was working bc it took me to a single song, which i listened to. it was so terrible that i wasn’t motivated to seek out the rest of the album

Inte riktigt för mig

536/1001 🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑 Not for me

I guess you could call that an album. It was surprisingly more listenable than I had anticipated. I'm not into any form of avant-garde but this piece had its moments. Also, I really dig the cover art.

maybe there's a musical masterpiece towards the end of the album, but there's no way i'm sitting through an hour of this

Sounds terrible, I don't care what kind of theories people make up with about this albums. Its not some obscure masterpiece that only the brightest minds comprehend, its just awful. Even admiting that this is a highly advanced exercise on music making, at the end of the day it doesn't sound good and my score evaluates that.

Not for me

Should have been on the 1001 albums to avoid before you die. Absolute shite

Phew, that was exhausting. After a lot of effort, I managed to listen to parts of the album. This is exactly the kind of experimental music that I don't understand and that really gets on my nerves. I'm not a musicologist and I don't want to become one. Maybe it's brilliant stuff. I don't enjoy it. I definitely won't be listening to it again. 1/5

Call me pretentious all you want, but I love experimental music. Music that pushes the boundaries of its genre and tries new things while still remaining true to the artist's vision is an incredible experience to listen to. But then you have this. This is the bad side of experimental music. I mean yeah, I can see the argument that it's fun or whatever, but I think that it's far more annoying than it is fun. It's very much just a bunch of guys coming together, randomly playing notes on their instruments for an hour and calling it an album. I know this album isn't meant to be taken seriously, but to be honest I don't think that makes a difference at all. Whether or not I'm listening to this seriously, it still makes me want to rip my ears off regardless.

Någonstans under ytan anar man riktigt duktiga musiker och ibland träder det till och med fram i korta stunder. Men mycket är bara så otroligt uselt, trotsigt och låter så fruktansvärt illa att det inte kan bli tal om ett högre betyg än etta.

For some reason Spotify only played 1 song that was 4 minutes long, not the 1 hour 18 minute album I was expecting. This was a relief as those 4 minutes were utter garbage.

This album is so stupid. It sounds like my brother's friends messing around in high school, trying to be experimental, but just being pretentious.

Didn't understand. Like, at all. I truly do not understand. Whole album is 1h10, I stopped after 10 minutes maximum.

I already wasted 1h19min of my life, not wasting another second rating.

Fucking awful, if liking a modicum of melody or rhythm is a crime then send me to the chair. Despite it being critically acclaimed I can find no merit in this album brief moments where it seems like it might stumble into a cohesive tune are few and far between and never actually come to anything.

I do not get why this is revered. I am sorry but I like things like, melody or identifiable rhythm. 0

Polyrhythm and polytonal sounds are not for me. I'm content with being in a place of not understanding why some people think this album is the best thing they've heard.

Not on Spotify

oh my. Does it all sound like this? So I guess so. Whoever came first, Tom Waits or Captain Beefheart I dont know, but someone owes the other a lot of money. 4 disc?! This sounds lot like Yoko Ono anti-art stuff, but man is this a slog. I am about half way through it and really want to stop. I mean, I get it, "we're breaking all the rules and we're the first to do it", but I just dont understand it. Maybe its a freeform jazz thing, which I appreciate its existence, but why is this so highly regarded? Poems like Orange Claw Hammer were interesting, but it was surrounded by the cacophony of noise.

I wish I liked it since I tend to like abstract art but I really couldn't with this one. I felt so awful for a while after listening to this.

I’m a Spotify user and feel like I’m missing a lot of this album, but what I did hear was 0% for me. It was scratchy and chaotic and not something I get.

Pretentious drivel.

Look. Just because you can play polyrhythms doesn't mean I wanna listen to it

rubbish

I think it's ironic that I'm a big fan of abstract visual art, but find the gold standard for abstract musical art absolutely unlistenable. There were a couple of the..."songs"?? on here that I almost found a beat I could grasp onto, but I had to dig through so many layers of discordant nonsense to find them. I have a new least favorite album on this list.

the only good thing about this album are the youtube comments. worst thing i’ve heard so far

5/100.

I feel like I'm going to say this a lot in this journey. I appreciate the place of this album in music history, but it's just not for me.

Not a fan at all

Nope!

This is groovy. Vocals are crazy! not sure i like them but it's a vibe album cover also rocks what is this this is....... not good im scared ok dont hate thisAH that was loud and this is loud fast and bulbous! clicking like a barrel of red velvet balls yknow im not a big fan of this honestly, its not very pleasant to listen to is this even music, i mean i get its experimental but it's not good 😭 it's slowing down a bit... we are near the end and it's quieter OH ITS OVER the ending was nice but NOT worth all that

Me no like

The best part of this album was when it ended.

Fractured, violently angular bursts built from clattering polyrhythmic drums, splintered guitars and bass lines moving in hostile directions, shrieking horns, and vocals hurled as deranged chants, growls, and surreal declamations move this avant-garde rock album like being locked inside a collapsing clock factory where every gear spins to its own logic—overwhelming, abrasive, and perversely deeply aversive in its total rejection of order.

DNF

Flawless perfection

Asking anyone to listen to this album in its entirety should be considered abuse, and punishable in a court of law

Very unusual but not as bad as I thought it would be. I noticed this is one of the universally disliked albums on the site and was expecting the worst but I feel like there have been albums on here that are super experimental noise that I couldn't stand. This isn't that bad, I would never listen to it again but it didn't make me feel like I was going crazy. Also, I think that might be a carp on the cover not a trout. I'm sure that is the point and there is some meaning there but I don't get it.

I really think he recorded in his bathroom.

So people bought this and then took the effort to flip to side B, and then the further effort to pull the second record out of the sleeve and continue?

Wää grussig Ha na chli umegsuecht um das z finde aber denn uf dasi woni gstosse bin isch disgusting

hahaha igitt 10 sekunde glost und fast chli trurig chani mir die restliche 1h 17min 50s nöd gönne

It's practically unlistenable. I know some famous people love it, but I think that's more about establishing an avant-garde identity or being cool than it is about actual musical enjoyment. Another example would be The Shaggs. Zappa and Cobain said they were geniuses because they were untrained and played "pure" music. But that too is unlistenable. This just sounds like an unstable person that they allowed to do whatever he wanted, while the trained musicians tried to noodle around. He sings like Tom Waits without any sense of musicality. The poetry is excruciatingly bad. What the hell, people? Untrained and unrestrained does not a genius make. Zappa might well be a musical genius, as he's done some incredible things. But his musicians were well trained and knew they were making wild excursions into uncharted territories. And sometimes they just made noise, too. Both of those things are evident here. But the singing and poetry bring it all down down down. As a producer on this, he just let this madman ramble and enabled his foolishness. Now, certainly there is a chance I just "don't get it". But there's no way I'm coming back to this block of horror in the hopes of becoming enlightened. It's a 1 at best.

Sounded like angry geese.

Awful

This is a poor replica of a good album.

It’s not on Spotify and that’s fine. It’s ridiculous and pretty unpleasant

Not available on Tidal

Graded 11th from bottom, so what the fuck is this doing on here. Album cover is such a cringe.

This is a very generous review. I never thought I would dislike Zappa's work, but this is just too much

THE avant-garde art-rock album. Look, it's objectively terrible. Just because it's difficult to have several musicians play consistently at slightly different beats doesn't mean such things should be recorded. This is worse than prog rock. All of the pretentiousness, none of the songwriting talent. They're an okay jam band, but they are completely unrelatable. Nothing is conveyed, no emotion, no fun, no point. And of course, as though we wouldn't have believed that someone who recorded and sold this was jarringly arrogant, it's a double album. Influence 1. Quality 1. Intangibles 3 (it'sTHE albumfor this, but no one shouldsufferthroughthe double). Hits 1. Captain Beefheart can eat a big bag of trout dicks 1.

Proving that not all magic is good.

Nope! (Although now I know where the sound bite “It’s the blimp” came from that WBLM used.)

#23 The YouTube comments are right, as if this band is playing while falling down never-ending stairs. Fast and bulbous!

Interesting? Probably to some. Good? Nope, it's a cacophony for the sake of it.

Tried to get into it but it’s too dissonant for me. Lyrics are funny at times in an ignatius j. Reilly sort of way but it’s pretty atonal and unmusical.

Oh man, Trout Mask Replica. With its cult status on Reddit, I was thinking that it would be at least something interesting. It's not. It's like some kind of torture. Most of the songs are just them banging on instruments. Moving on. Candidate for worst song. Best song: Orange Claw Hammer

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 wankers declaring 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, fuck off, it sounds like shit 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 bullshit.

This is honestly one of the worst things I've heard in my life. What the actual f*ck.

This is how you break me. 1/5

Ah man, it's already so shit and I haven't even hit the 20 second mark yet. It's just utter, utter bullshit. There's such little artistic merit to this. It's just a bunch of people fucking about between themselves, and, I suspect, with us the audience. Many of these people are also in 'The Mothers of Invention', another band that supremely grates on me. These guys think they're well funny. Well how's *THIS* for funny Captain Beefheart and your Tragic Band? How's *THIS* for funny!? 1 star. And you can thank me for it. Oh wait you can't, because you're dead.

I love Zappa. I have every official release and have listened to his living discography many times over. Wanna get that out there... That having been said, I hate this album so much. I've read the articles. Influence, challenge, etc... I get it. I just don't want to listen to it.

That is quite possibly the worst album on here. I mean......why ???????

I didn’t hate it, but I was glad when it was over.

Koji je ovo kurac. Opet neko konceptualno izdrkavanje, nemrem. 1/5, 1/10

This is a tough hang

Not a vibe

What even was this?!

I’ve always found the name Captain Beefheart to be pretty repulsive so I wasn’t thrilled for this. Anyway, for some reason it’s not on Apple Music, and I had a super hard time getting it to play on YouTube. Maybe it’s my phone, maybe it’s the universe protecting me.

Wat

This list is called 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Silly me for thinking it meant that these were things you had to listen to because they were supposed to be good. This is one you must hear because it's SO colossally bad. Or maybe it's like fashion shows -- not meant for most audiences, kind of weird, and is meant to move the industry forward. Either way, woof.

I neither have enough masochistic energy nor time to listen to it 7 times and then maybe like it. Today I have a headache and want this to be over.

Well only one track from this is on Spotify. and it is weird af! 1 star.

Fast an bulbous.

All the discordant chaos of free jazz. While I respect how hard it must be to sound this…cacophonous, I’m also amazed that anyone would ever want to listen to it. Knowing how many great musicians were influenced by Captain Beefheart, I tried, but man it was rough.

I’d rather listen to my parents fuck for a month non-stop than listen to that again. Normally my reviews feature some form of unhinged attempt at prose in which I try to explain a scenario that captures the same vibe than the album in question elicits. But this album doesn’t deserve that degree of effort. This sounds like a homeless crack addict shoved a one-man-band up his arse and jumped on a trampoline, while rambling incoherent nonsense. It is terrible. Anyone who claims to like this ‘music’ is a pretentious fuckwit that is just trying to paint themselves as a deep thinker. If that album is one of the 1001 albums I’m meant to listen to before I die, I think maybe I’m done with life. I hate it, and I hate everyone involved in its creation.

OK here is the plan. I'm going to go to a music school, where kids are first learning to play. Im going to hide a microphone in each room and record these students as they attempt to play their instruments. Im then going to mix it together and occasionally speak over it. I'll call it high art, polyrythmic music. If people don't like it, its because they are not smart enough to "get it". This is maybe the worst music I've ever heard, and this is coming from someone who use to go to crustpunk gigs. Negative 5 stars, an absolute waste of time and resources.

Initial impression: this is an insane cacophony. Terrorism with musical instruments Impression after reading the Wikipedia article: "[Beefheart] once told drummer John French that he had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia." Oh, this makes complete sense now. This is absolutely what I imagine schizophrenia would sound like. I have dealt with numerous severely mentally ill, manic, and people in crisis, and this word salad nonsense is exactly what they sound like. It's impossible to replicate for someone who isn't in one of these states, but an instantly recognizable hallmark of the condition. Now, apply the word salad concept to musical instruments and you get this garbled nonsense with actual word salad stacked on top. This is more an accidental distress signal than it is music. I made it halfway without skipping a song, but I gave up at Pena. This album was an assault. ⭐

Not on Spotify I enjoyed the YouTube ads more

Bruh... wtf is this?!

The infamous album has finally come... If something is to turn me insane, that would be it

You know when modern artist painters take a white canvass and throw three squiggles of paint on it - and try (and often do) sell it for millions. Yea, not buying it...the difference between schizophrenic and creative might be pretty thin....but i know which one this one lines up on.

Can’t convince me anyone genuinely enjoys this shite.

Trop énervant

“Dang, I left the recorder on while we were tuning up… again.” I’m all for experimentation. But you don’t get credit from me for not being able to discern that your experiment didn’t work. I don’t know why this is on the list. But I most definitely did not *need* to hear it before I died. 1 of 1.

"Fast and Bulbous!" Ha ha. This thing is nutty. It took me about 20 minutes to figure out what was going on. It's not music as far as I can tell. That's not to say it's not entertaining. It felt more like a poetry slam. I have no idea why they decided on making it a double record. 45 minutes would have more than sufficed. Obviously, a lot of work went into this. But, I'm not gonna be pretentious and pretend I think this is a masterpiece or that it's an "important album" just because it shows up on lists like this. It may be those things but my mind isn't currently calibrated for this. Today, it's getting one star from me but not because it didn't have entertaining moments. I'd have actually given it two stars had it been a single disk, not a double.

Am I being punked?

This one was bad, I understand why the album isn’t available to stream in the US. No favorite songs.

Bloody hell.

When your album is cited as one of David Lynch’s favorite, you’re already starting from a placed called WTF. And just because certain polytonal sounds are possible when combined, doesn’t mean they actually sound good.

I mean…. Fucking what? This was CHALLENGING.

What in the holy hell. Not on Spotify so I found it on YouTube. Didn’t get it at all.

Call me crazy, but I like music that sounds good. 1/5

Weird as hellt Not on Spotify or tidal

Absolutamente diez mierdas

I love Frank Zappa who produced this album but this guy is unlistenable.

God this was bad.

Can’t find it on any streaming service.

I do not like music that makes me feel stupid because I do not get it.

This is so weird I can't even think of how to grade/eval this. Well, let's give it a shot: 1/5 for the result (one listening is enough for a lifetime) 5/5 for the bravery in creating this; althgough I think it's not original, it still needs a lot of courage to go and publish such work. It's one of those things "it's so bad it's actually great" 3/5 for getting into this list - yes, I get it, why not to be open minded and experience this? One time? Yeah, I get it 0/5 for the cover art, horrible and I guess it works as a warning for what is inside (which, on the other hand, might worth a 5 fot it's honesty?!?!?) 0/5 for the talent that, aparently, these musicians wasted on this! Everyone tells they're genius, I would love to listen to something great from them, not this :-D Oh God, I'm so divided... nah, I'll give it 1/5! No one should suffer with this

1 track nur auf spotify - und das reicht dann auch.

Etwas speziell.

I couldn't find the actual album on spotify, instead someones playlist that tried to recreate the album. This album should remain lost forever. Attempting to recover it should be at least a misdemeanor.

I know there's some kind of cult following of these guys, but one has to wonder if it's because of the music itself or something else, because the music itself seems intentionally off-putting, making itself as unpalatable as possible to troll the squares. This album was made in a similarly turbulent, chaotic, and frightening time for our democracy to the present, but I didn't feel the music was emerging from or even naming the chaos so much as adding to it. Was it the 6-7 of its day? The joke is that it's a joke? All that said, there are a couple moments when folksy or bluesy melodies peek out, and I'd start to think I could get on board, but then it'd go away. I don't like Meatloaf, either. Is the listen to beware of bovine-themed music?

I don't really buy into many conspiracies. But people *revere* this album so much that you wouldn't have to work very hard to convince me it's part of an intergenerational prank, and at some point you're given the secret password like some kind of Stonecutters ritual where you're let in on the joke and then you too get to participate in the prank forever. Every review might as well be copypasta. And listen, I've tried so many times to find my way into this. My understanding was that this is heavily arranged, heavily rehearsed, and simply challenging to the ears on purpose, and for the life of me I can't understand: a) why? b) how someone gets on the right wavelength to appreciate it, let alone enjoy it c) again, why? Recommended ear cleansing: "The Deer's Cry" by Arvo Pärt; "The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid" by Stars of the Lid; "Getz/Gilberto" by Stan Getz and João Gilberto

No.

Painfully awful. 0 should be an option.

If someone tells you they dig this album then they are lying to you and shouldn't be trusted. If they tell you that you just don't get it and this is an influential album then they are pretentious fucks. Shite from start to finish.

???

There’s only one song on Spotify and it’s pretty weird

Oh shoot. Only one song from the album is available on Spotify...

Artsy hot garbage. Drugs are bad Mmm kay.

Talent???

Cover 7 Maybe this is what Leonard Cohen / Jeff Buckley were singing about in Hallelujah. That chord! It's in there somewhere! Imagine hating this and God's like "You don't get it, Bro. I'm unknowable." And then walking away convinced this was a classic worthy of a top 500 albums list, much less (more?) 1001. Maybe this is why there are atheist. Seriously, calling intentionally playing poorly "polyrhythmic, multi-octave, and polytonal" doesn't make it good. It's not genius either. I mean we can literally all do that. I can karaoke and if no one likes it, just say "it's polytonal, shit stick!" Or go to Alaska with the the intention of listening to walruses "sing." People say that shit about Jackson Pollack paintings, as if it's so easy they can also do it but do you have paint? Well, even the "unhoused" have shopping carts and cardboard boxes, so Pollack is literally that much harder than Beefheart, so shut your bitch ass up. Yeah this is anti-establishmentarianism at its most absurd. Don't want to play the same pop crap you hear on the radio? Then don't. Hate talent also? Check. What does talent and conformity have to do with art? That's the statement here. Want to be artistic because you're not? Then piss on a wall and have you and your friends stare at it for an hour. No talent with the guitar or triangle? Slam your face into the kitchen counter and your friend can "listen" for five minutes as you slowly regain consciousness and then tell them it's a song with a five minute interlude. It's art. It's subjective. They're are no boundaries. There are no rules. Keep an open mind! If it pleased the Lord, then what the fuck is wrong with you?

Captain Beefheart & His Self Indulgent Wank Band

Musical masturbation - the kind of thing people pretend to like to show how interesting their musical taste is.

This ranks up there as one of the worst auditory experiences of my life, right behind that time I went on a tour of some caverns in North Carolina and some moron brought their screaming baby along. Trapped in a cave with a screaming baby is how I would describe this sound, or nails on a chalkboard, or worse than 20 9/11s, or its how Hell would sound, but not the cool Hell, the shitty one.

Probably the best argument I’ve heard for why drugs are bad. Most of the album sounded like a middle school band class when everyone’s warming up before the teacher comes in. Good recommendation if you hated someone.

What the actual fuck is that? I feel like we’re getting punked on this one. I don’t think you can call this music. It’s a bunch of sounds that do t fit together, made by instruments that have never been tuned. AWFUL. 1 star because they won’t allow 0.

Would have given it 1.5 if possible, only after learning that Captain Beefheart wrote the entire thing note for note on a piano, and then made a bunch of actual musicians (which he is not) figure out how to play this nonsense on their given instruments. The fact that it's intentional makes it an ounce better but not enough to justify two stars.

*1969 *Yikes. Just poorly played brass instruments for the sake of making noise. *Definitely a lot of drugs involved in this concept. RATING - 0/10

The trout has balls. Also sounds like raw fish.

One of the worst on the list. 1.

How the fuck...and I mean HOW THE FUCK...is this on here? And the fish on the album cover isn't even a god damn trout.

Wow

1.5

Horrible.

What the hell is this? Are all the musicians reading off of different music sheets?

que?

Yeah this is pretty awful sounding. It’s like the band members all made the most bizarre tracks independently and then they mixed them altogether later! Appreciate the experimentation just not the result!

Well that was different...

Day 28 If this album is ‘genius’, I’ll happily be dumb. Hated it 1/10

Unlistenable shit.

Det bliver en kedelig rating til et interessant, eksperimenterende album herfra. Tvivler ikke på at de er gode musikere, og der var nogle fede øjeblikke, men jeg havde a bad time men jeg lyttede

This shit sucks so good

WTF absolute nonsense!!!

Sometimes I think the author of this book hates us. Wtf is this. DNF. Get the fuck out of my face.

1.5

I don't know if it's some kind of a glitch, but i've got only one song on this album (which should last 1h and 18 minutes) but i don't really care bc it wasn't really good. Sounded like weird improvisation for me and didn't really stick to anything i would know. I didn't like it.

Yeah, I don't get it.

Its like listening to a train wreck fall up a staircase. Its awful and you want to get away but you stay out of morbid curiosity because a trainwreck falling up stairs makes no sense and youre hoping youll understand what youre witnessing

There are not many albums that sound like this one. I can say that much at the start. I greatly dislike the cover of the album because it creeps me out. I feel like there are a lot of songs about animals on here. I did not enjoy the jokes that were apparently inside studio jokes, which I can only assume were included because the drugs did in fact work. I won't judge anyone who pretends to like this album. I know you don't really like, because it's not good. Okay, I'm sure someone likes this album but can also admit it's not very good. As I have said a few times before, just because the sound on this album is different doesn't mean it needs to be in the book. There are worse albums in this book, though I have to admit this is one of the worst overall, but it's very clear the experimentation was the point and that doesn't mean it's good or worthy of inclusion. Drugs can sometimes help an artist make good music, but drugs can also cause an artist to make...this. Mr. Beefheart, what you've just recorded is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in this rambling, incoherent double albums were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational, put-together song. Everyone who listened Trout Mask Replica is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Not my style

1.5 - Bad

No joke, I broke my foot the day I listened to this. Listening to this was still more painful than that.

I can't imagine how this even got made, let alone made it to a list of albums I must hear....

1/5 Best Track - "Pachuco Cadaver"

The weaponization of music in the 60s was dreadful. I am not openminded enough to get this or really even conceive of anyone getting it. It’s just noise for me

Wanted to like these absolute weirdos. Unfortunately found the audio to be interminable yelling, squeaking, squawking, etc

erm, lots of noise, don't think i'm built for that particular type of music. but i respect it.

jaaa idk..maybe I just dont get it

I've heard so much about this artist and was really disappointed with this album.

Why are we doing this?

Christmas. That was awful

could i write poetry to this? n

I've long known that this album would appear on this list at some point. But to have it immediately (and allegedly randomly) follow Beefheart's "Safe as Milk" must be Mr. Dimery's idea of a joke. Not funny, dickhead.

I’ve tried listening to Trout Mask Replica multiple times and one thing I’ve never understood is if it’s so experimental and avant garde, why does it sound exactly the same for all of its interminable 78 minutes? The same guitar tone, the same awful blarts from the sax, the same okay-we-get-it-you-take-acid spoken word yelling. The gimmick wears out almost immediately but then never varies for over an hour. Experimental music should not be this boring. Trout Mask Replica is the essence of “I hate this, obviously, but I’m going to try to convince you/myself that I like it because I’ve been told that I should.” This is unlistenable noise made by drug addicted cult members who were being starved and beaten and abused. But it’s cool because it’s “art”. Fuck that and fuck this and fuck you.

People: "This is brilliant!" "So ahead of its time!" "You have to listen to it more than once to get it." "You're just not smart enough to understand." Me: "Fuck your fish face."

A paradox. So incredibly difficult to listen to but I’ve seen so much love for this album, the boldness, the originality, the complexity. Still, it’s a hard listen

i’m on track 4 and i think my brain is too normal music theory convinced for ts. i’m done i’m done i’m done 0 stars.

Unlistenable

The fact that Captain Beefheart was trying to make something unlistenable means that this is an incredibly interesting album, even if it is also simultaneously a talentless mess. Literally just throwing stuff on the wall and recording all of it. It sucks, but if it held my attention the entire time, does it really suck? To quote Roger Ebert, this album is a lot of things, but boring is not one of them. I cannot recommend the album, but … why the hell can’t I? Just because it’s godawful? What kind of reason is that for staying away from an album? Godawful and boring, that would be a reason.

Call me uncultured, but that's just noise.

Certainly one of the worst albums that I have ever listened to front to back. Well at least 70% of it. I had to fast forward through a few to not poke my eyes out.

Does not qualify as music. Awful

If I'm traveling on a highway at 70 miles per hour, how many brain cells can I pop in 1 hour, 18 minutes, and 38 seconds? Answer: Countless.

This was cacophonous and bizarre. I did not appreciate nor enjoy this. I fairly open minded with music but this felt like listening to 4 separate albums through one set of headphones. This felt Lind a anxiety attack

This album wasnt available through apple music so i had to listen through youtube with ads. Generally the album sounded worse thsn if they’d lined the instruments up at the top of a long staircase and pushed them down whilst recording the local drunk spouting nonsense. Dali’s car sounds like someone who cant play guitar trying to play a variety of tv theme tunes they only vaguely remember on an out of tune guitar. The colgate ad was by far and away the best track

Sometimes words are not enough to convey how truly bad something is. This is one such time.

Track 1 and every member of the band seems to be playing a different song at the same time. Track 2 fixed that by eliminating everything except the vocals and the crackle of vinyl but then we reverted back to type on Track 3 (which also featured a noise that sounded like a squealing pig). Did they ever try and play these songs a second time? Is this jazz but worse? The whole album sounds like something The Mighty Boosh might have written as a musical act for a 30 second bit in a longer sketch. But for what felt like forever. A little way through Hair Pie: Bake 1 and I realised what this really reminded me of: this is the noise that happens when you let a load of toddlers have access to a box of musical instruments and make no attempt to manage the cacophony of sound. My two main thoughts on finishing this album: 1) thank fuck that's over. 2) so that's on the list but you had no room for one of the 23 They Might Be Giants studio albums? What the fuck, Rob Dimery?! 1/5 (but I still hate that Liars album more)

Polytonality, multi octave vocals, polyrhythms, challenging, chaos, pushing musical boundaries, blah blah blah. I hate it. I think it’s shit.

The fact people say you have to listen to it several times to understand it and the fact the musicians are all extremely talented is overshadowed by the fact a grade five classroom playing the recorder to Hot Cross Buns gives off quite a similar sound... 1 star.

I wish I could like this album as it is regarded by a lot of my age contemporaries as a masterpiece and a must have album. I was 16 when it came out and was introduced to the album by John Peel on his radio show. He was very influential at the time and he had pointed me towards Bands who have become life long favourites. But this is where John Peel and me parted ways. As a double album it was never going to be an album I would buy given my meagre income and the riches of many classic Prog Rock albums around at the time. I’ve realised over the years that for an album to resonate it must have a fair proportion of good melodies within it. When I analyse my collection built up over 60 years the majority do reach this requirement. And that’s the trouble with this album. I struggled then as I did today to hear one teeny weeny melody. So like I said earlier many would walk around proudly displaying this album, talk at length expressing the many virtues this album had and that anyone not getting it was an imbecile. I on the other hand just scratched my head and accepted that I must be inadequate in some way and continued through life as if the album did not exist. That is until today when my faith was restored by my fellow 1001’s when reading their reviews. I was not alone after all. Thing is I can’t help but think whatever happened to all those who did think that this album was the best thing ever? Did they eventually see the light? Probably not. More likely they listen to it locked away in their room striving still to understand what the Captain was trying to communicate to them and reluctant to give up until they find the answer. And they are probably all Audiophiles! 1/5 22/7/25

This is not even music. Should not be on this list and you cannot even find it on Apple Music.

It felt endless and abysmal

Para ser el primero que me ha tocado creo que es el peor album de musica que he escuchado en toda mi vida. Imposible escucharlo entero, una tortura. Ya puede compensarlo el siguiente o no sigo. En resumen... MALO, MALO, PEOR QUE QUE TE METAN POR EL CULO UN PALO

Used to torture prisoners in Gitmo, I believe 0/10

put the acid down and back away slowly, Cap...

Could not find a streaming source so I could not listen to it. I heard a bit of the first song and it was too experimental.

Interesting, but ultimately this is rubbish

Album 827 of 1089 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (1969) Rating : 1 / 5 I appreciate experimental and “different” as much as anyone, and I really wanted to find something redeeming in this album—but it just didn’t click for me. Trout Mask Replica is definitely unique, but it feels more like a chaotic art project than something I’d ever want to revisit. Maybe it meant more at the time. Maybe it broke ground that helped shape other things I do enjoy. Either way, this one just isn’t for me....and I like some weird stuff.

Niet doorheen gekomen. Vooral omdat spotify de muziek niet meer heeft en de enige manier om het te luisteren een playlist is waarbij een groot gedeelte van de nummers is vervangen voor slecht opgenomen live versies.

Why?

I'm grateful this wasn't on Spotify so less people will come across something so atrocious.

Can’t find the album on Spotify so I won’t be listening to it unfortunately. I heard snippets on YT and it’s definitely not my bag, but I can’t rate it fairly at the moment.

Not on Spotify.

1 song and enough

I made it 22 minutes in and had to bail. It’s like listening to a homeless man beating on pots and pans and speaking gibberish. Who is this even for?!!

Not found can't zero so 1

Hab zu wenig Drogen dafür genommen. Die Werbung zwischen den Lieder war das beste 1/5 will nicht ein Lied wieder hören

No.

1 song was enough for me

Tough listen

worst thing i ever heard

I hate this.

dure 25min

You can no longer get the kind of drugs that make this sound good.

Yeah, no... Might be impressive musically, but absolutely unlistenable

Um, no. Thankfully there was only one song on spotify. I swear this guy was laughing that people actually listened to this shit. He was probably trying to figure out how stupid could he make this music before pretentious snobs stopped talking about what a genius he was.

I wish I could be cool and say I enjoyed this but I definitely didn't. Ant Man Bee was decent though.

Half way through this album my headache started to develop. At the end I devoted the next half hour meditating to get the bodily tension brought on by this “music” erased. It’s the anti Valium. But I must be wrong because apparently it’s a classic.

Well. That was something. I had never heard of Captain Beefheart before this, and after hearing the utter garbage that was the first track, I looked him up. I still can't square the fact that he was (and likely still is) a fucked up hack who abused his bandmates and was an asshole to everyone around him, and also one of the most respected and influential musicians of his time. Not to mention that this "music" sounds like utter trash from a pompous idiot. I don't get it, and I don't want to. I hated almost every minute of it. I get how artists like Tom Waits and Beck were heavily influenced by Captain Beefheart, because their music definitely has shades of this garbage, but they are actually good musicians and there music is actually interesting musically to listen to. I hated this so much, and I can't believe I actually listened to it all -- it felt like an eternity. If I could give it zero stars, I would -- one star.

Fav: Moonlight On Vermont Least Fav: China Pig I cannot do a double album with this sound, 12 songs in and I felt despair at the fact I wasn’t even halfway through the album. Tom Waits brought a jazz band and decides to beat you up with jazz instruments in every song that’s not spoken word

Oh

Couldn't make it through. There is maybe a couple of listenable seconds but most of it has no redeemable value. Tough listen.

Horrible. One star!!!!!

Furchtbar!

A bunch of mismatched, jumbled sounds and concepts that don’t flow and seem nonsensical. Unpleasant to listen to. Not my thing.

ok guys so i don't often stream myself listening to my daily album but today's album is so significant that im streaming me listening to it. It's Trout Mask Replica. which is supposedly: Piero Scaruffi's favourite album which proves his status as the shittiest music critic ever. The only thing that divides the music nerd community apart from wether harsh noise should be considered "real music", and the thing apart from death and tax that haunts every 1001 albums go-throughers. don't forget to like and subscribe, and here we go. (after playing "Frownland") erm... so the instrumentals is just a little beat offbeat and i actually can tolerate this? a 4/5 i guess (a long and tough journey going through many weird things and listenable things) i think i am wrong. but i think i am right at the same time! This is basically unrateable like the time I tried out Tim Buckley's Starsailor and the first song stunned me with all its might leaving me unable to listen to the rest more normal songs like Song to the Siren, but this one has a lot more jazzy noodleing and half the time i feel like i am ascending and the other half of the time i feel like im going to hell. so basically its both a 5 and a 1 at the same time so how do i rate this? but... ill just give it a 1 here.

Can’t really give this anything but a 1 after reading how Don Van Vliet physically and emotionally abused his band during production. Otherwise, lots of talent on display here.

Ooof no. Wikipedia tells me "the album is regarded as an important work of experimental music and art rock", but it sounds like someone dumped a bunch of instruments on the floor of a toddler playdate (toddlers with very deep and gravely voices) and recorded the result. Unlike in science where the negative results at least give you useful information, not every musical experiment is worthy of publication.

In the long run, I’d take this over many pop albums and their songs that are all chorus, minimal verse, and over processed. With that written, this album is a horrible assault on the ears. Reading the comments is amusing. There is a lot of Stockholm Syndrome amongst the high raters. I was expecting more of the “you just don’t get it” type comments, but many of them acknowledge how bad the album is the first 10 times they listened. I appreciate that. I also appreciate that this album exists. Experiment on my friends, but please do it in a forest where I won’t hear it.

For reals though, this is on here and no Bill Withers, Desmond Decker, INXS or Squeeze. Fuck this list sometimes.

Just noise

Ouch. I tried. Had to listen to it on YouTube. My teenager said “what is this crap.” Except he didn’t say crap.

These guys make the Shaggs sound like virtuosos.

I was going to call this unlistenable garbage, but apparently it's very complex musically? It's just plain unlistenable, then. I signed up to this project to broaden my horizons and they ain't getting much broader than this, but I still didn't enjoy it. I understand and appreciate that this wasn't released to be enjoyed per se, but this is definitely not for me although it deserves its place on the list.

maybe it's supposed to be bad ironically, but it's unironically shit

Only 1 of the tracks is available on Spotify, so this 28 track album will be judged entirely on my feelings about that track: Hair Pie: Bake 1. HOT GARBAGE! 1/5

Extremely experimental, and many of them are failed experiments.

Very (too ?) much avant-garde

Clowns recorded this, and other clowns praise it because they are clowns too.

Spotify only has a single song of this album available for listening and it didn't exactly inspire me. Therefore, I'm afraid I cannot give it a proper rating.

Pretty discordant. I'd probably classify it as "artsy". Not really my style, but it seems like exactly the style of music that has a cult following. Couldn't finish it. Wasn't pleasant to listen to.

I'm giving one star for the title and album cover. I have tried countless times over the last 35 years to like this album. I never get past the first 3 tracks. I have absolutely no idea what the fuss is about. Terrible album!

Safe as Milk is great; this is awful. However, I do respect the willingness to produce something so inaccessible that even a lot of your own fans rubbish it. 1 star for the listening experience; 5 stars for not giving a rats ass and producing it anyway.

Not on Apple Music and based on other reviews, not going to try too hard to find it.

Rating: 1/10 This album has around 4 minutes of genius songwriting in Pachuco Cadaver, everything else is pretty much unlistenable. I always respect when artists experiment but this just sounds like a bunch of beginners noodling on their instruments. Which I understand that is not the case, the fact that these guys are fantastic musicians and made this type of album is why it is so held to a high standard by some. But if inexperienced musicians actually made this, it would be considered an absolute piece of shit. I don't care how skilled the musicians are, that's exactly what this album is.

Only one song on Spotify. I have listened to this before it's weird and wild

bizarre nonsense

WHY!!!!

I hate this

Liked some of it and some of it absolutely grating

No

Just noise

The worst album I have listened to on this list so far

Ég þurfti allsvaðalegt tilhlaup til þess að mana mig upp í að hlusta á Captain Beefheart aftur og þetta er held ég ein versta plata sem ég hef hlustað á um ævina. Ég skil að þetta er tónlistarlegt afrek en sýnir líka að ekki allar hugmyndir ættu að verða eða geta orðið list. Sumt ætti bara að vera tilraun sem fer aldrei lengra en fyrstu skoðun því tilraunir mega alveg mistakast.

scho vieeel ghört vo dem. seg afoch nur weird da captain kein musiker und die andere zwei heged afoch versuecht umsetze was er will. ui ich han gaaar kei spass ich glaub es isch unter musigkritiker:inne sochli es ding das album. checks null. es isch afoch chaotisch und nöd so guet? weird nume zum weird sii isch nöd automatisch guet? ich loses jetz. aber wird nüm so viel dezue sege glaub. china pig isch wenigstens sonen blues.

File this one under the ever-growing category of self-obsessed edgy musicians who think they are making something incredible and innovative just because they are putting a bunch of disparate sounds together for an hour. I don't even necessarily hate the music, but I hate the kind of person who makes this album. You aren't 'god's gift' to music. You're an egotistical maniac who thinks that every random thought of complete drivel that you write ought to be eaten up by us 'normies' like baby fucking birds too unaware to understand your musical genius. Well this baby bird isn't fucking hungry - asshole.

Started off feeling slightly assaulted (I seriously jumped in my seat slightly). He just starts screaming at me and then the instruments...seriously reminded me of my three kids pretending to be a band, the singer is yelling and the instruments are just everywhere. One of the reviews said I was supposed to listen to this 7 times to truly appreciate it...I don't think I could do this. There are fleeting moments, Veteran's Day Poppy guitar, the Bass line on China Pig and maybe Ella Guru and Pachuco Cadaver. But honestly the rest felt like 10 year old boy humor, I just didn't find it funny or enjoyable.

Maybe I'm not enlightened enough to understand anti-music music. But isn't one key pillar of music to be listenable? I know that "listenable" is subjective, but good grief, what is the draw here? This has apparently received a lot of accolades from reputable people and publications over the years, which I am thoroughly confused by. It had a few ok(ish) moments, but I found it incredibly messy and generally unpleasant, and the ok(ish) moments are easily overshadowed by the overall awfulness. It also sounds like Van Vliet was a pretty terrible person, at least during the recording of this album, so I guess it tracks that this drivel would come out of someone like that.

35/1001 Don't be fooled - it may seem like the musicians are all playing different songs at the same time, and it may seem like the good Captain has taken too much LSD and is simply growling his addled thoughts into a Dictaphone at random - but the resulting sound is actually far, far worse than that. Look, I'm a fan of psychedelia, particularly late-60s psychedelia - that is my thing, as it were. But this is just dumb, childish noise. And maybe I'm just wrong, given this seems to crop up on best-of lists time after time, but in this case I'm quite happy to remain wrong.

I knew what I was going to get into, I knew the polarity of it. I hadn't heard it before, that's the thing. This is a record for the ones who appreciate it and it's intricacies. That being said, all the time I listened to it, I thought, ..how was this made? Was this made with a serious face? It baffles me and my comprehension how this could be coherent and in some sort of tune. Glad I listened to it, but I won't do it again unironically.

Nothing justifies treating your musicians like shit. Not even if you think you're the brightest composer in the World (which you're not). I've heard weirder stuff like this. There's a lot of experimental music on the contemporary classic music genre. Which is actually documented by academia with clear objectives on what the composer was trying to achieve. There are better composers out there than this asshole. I don't mind contemporary Avant Garde art as long as it's justified. This just sounds like a well orchestrated mess featuring starving musicians following a crazy cult leader. No surprise that Frank Zappa was involved on this. I could barely finish listening this crap.

Ei pysty

More noise. What a bore.

( full album not on spotify! ) five stars for experimental effort 1 star for listenability

What the fuck is this shit? This is awful. 0/5

Absolutely shit

This is fucking shite. Just a bunch of noise most of the time. Awful, truly awful, one of the worst on the list If someone told me they liked this, more than anything, I'd think they were lying. You can like whatever you want buy i wouldn't believe you

Captain Beefheart has lost itself on a kingdom of boredom. The album's name can impress and even fool anyone, but the real truth appears when you hear the album's content. I don't know if it's me but since i heard "Sgt. Pepper" Beatles album, every single rock album on that age just sound the same. I don't know, i think the rock bands of that time was lacking something original and with the Captain Beefheart i had the same problem. I know how Beatles influenced a generation, but i was hoping to hear something new but that's not "Trout Mask Replica" case.

I tried. I really gave it my best. But the lyrics man. I can’t do it.

very hard listen

01) Frownland - 3,0 02) The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back - 2,0 03) Dachau Blues - 2,0 04) Ella Guru - 5,0 05) Hair Pie: Bake 1 - 1,0 06) Moonlight on Vermont - 5,5 07) Pachuco Cadaver - 4,5 08) Bills Corpse - 3,0 09) Sweet Sweet Bulbs - 2,0 10) Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish - 1,0 11) China Pig - 5,0 12) My Human Gets Me Blues - 4,5 13) Dali's Car - 2,0 14) Hair Pie: Bake 2 - 4,0 15) Pena - 1,0 16) Well - 1,0 17) When Big Joan Sets Up - 1,0 18) Fallin' Ditch - 3,0 19) Sugar 'n Spikes - 4,5 20) Ant Man Bee - 3,0 21) Orange Claw Hammer - 1,0 22) Wild Life - 1,0 23) She's Too Much for My Mirror - 2,0 24) Hobo Chang Ba - 1,0 25) The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) - 3,0 26) Steal Softly thru Snow - 2,0 27) Old Fart at Play - 1,0 28) Veteran's Day Poppy - 4,0 TOTAL: 2,61 (26/100) Current ranking: 479/483 After the fourth song I thought that finally a normal melody started, but in the end it turned out to be a YouTube commercial. It never sounded better. How to describe some of these songs? You know that movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once"? Well, that's it! It sounds like I'm trying to play all the instruments at once but I can't play a single one. But I'm trying and nothing can discourage me. Look at me go! Filmmaker David Lynch has called "Trout Mask Replica" his favorite album of all time. That tells you a lot. I'm on song 21 and I feel like I'm dying a slow death... Help!

Didn't enjoy it at all.

Only 1 track available on Spotify, and it was hot trash. Maybe it is unfair to score this based on the one track, but judging by some of the other reviews, they're all the same.

What was this? lol I think I might have a shot at making it if this band could. This was just an oddity, and not a delightful one. The lyrics were a bit hysterical where they just rhymed random shit. The band sounded drunk mixing random sounds together and giving it the green light. Sadly a 1 star for me. Def not an album anyone needs to listen to in this lifetime. Maybe the next.

Could not finish it.

Two songs available on Spotify and both were weird AF

This album seemed like it was trying really hard to be avant garde- lots of dissonance and clashing sounds. I could see how certain artists would find some inspiration from parts of the album, but I did not enjoy it at all.

Bit too odd for me

Unrateable. 1 for originality and it was the 60s.

This sounded awful. Looking into it more, it did not make it better. Someone should have told Beefheart "no" and not let this failed project get as far as it did. I honestly feel like the kid in The Emperor's New Clothes, where everyone says it is amazing and all I see is a floppy dick.

Abomination

I listened to it seven times and I still don’t get it. Two awful albums in 2 days (Napalm Death and now this).

1.5/5 Lights: When big Joan sets up Veterans Day poppy Frownland The fact that it made listening to hotel California incredibly palatable

Garbage

Noise and nonsense. This probably belongs on this list, but I can't imagine wanting to listen to it on purpose. 1.5 stars

Only one song was available on Spotify and it was awful. I looked up some other songs on Youtube and well, they were also awful. I would not have been able to sit through this one. I think it's the first album that I "skip" here. But I am gonna rate it a 1 because I know that if I had listened to it, it would had been a 1. I don't see why this is on the list but apparently a lot of famous and successful artists were "inspired" by it.

A review while listening: A minute and a half in and I'm dreading the next hour and 16 minutes. Moonlight In Vermont isn't bad. But good god I'm ready for this to be over. Twenty minutes left, this is perhaps the worst album I've ever heard. Suddenly it switches up to a cool kind of funky vibe - oh wait no, that's just an ad for Hilton hotels because this is not on Spotify and you have to listen to it on YouTube. Honestly I don't blame Spotify for not wanting this on their platform. Just because you can get into a recording studio doesn't mean you should. Absolutely a waste of an hour and 18 minutes, and that's time in my life I'll never get back. I'm thinking of taking some kind of legal action for damages. By far, the best part of this record is the comment section for it on YouTube. There's some gold in there. 0/5 if it were possible.

I tried but I only made it about halfway. This album feels like it was made intentionally to be hard to listen to.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica One time I saw a vox video that was about this album, describing how it sounded really off and disturbing compared to normal music, and how this band did it on purpose just to prove how much you can experiment with music. Now usually i'm someone whose used to listen to experimental music, but this is too far. For the first time in years, I actually was not prepared to hear an album that was experimental. I tried to be open-minded about the polarizing aspect of the album itself, but it's just hard to defend it being good. The album starts with "Frownland", which it has already an intriguing sound that most people would skip, and from here on out you'll have two options: to end it there or continue listening to this, but beware, this album is unlike anything you have ever heard (and I mean that). There are songs on here that don't even have an instrumental and it's just the lead singer just messing around like "The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back", "Well" and "Orange Claw Hammer". There are songs here where they really nailed at annoying the listener since there's no redeemable thing about it, tracks like "China Pig", "Hobo Chang Ba", "The Blimp" and "Pena", just straight up awful. Surprisingly though, there were times where they started making songs that actually sounded good, my favorites from it where "Moonlight on Vermont", "Sugar n' Spikes" and the last track. If you're going to go to this madness, remember: expect the unexpected, because this album is one of the messiest ones ever made by any human, surprising considering this album is 5 decades old already. Personally speaking, this is bad. 1.- Frownland = 6/10 2.- The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back = 3/10 3.- Dachau Blues = 7/10 4.- Ella Guru = 5/10 5.- Hair Pie: Bake 1 = 7/10 6.- Moonlight on Vermont = 8/10 7.- Pachuco Cadaver = 7/10 8.- Bill's Corpse = 4/10 9.- Sweet Sweet Bulbs = 5/10 10.- Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish = 3/10 11.- China Pig = 2/10 12.- My Human Gets Me Blues = 5/10 13.- Dali's Car = 5/10 14.- Hair Pie: Bake 2 = 7/10 15.- Pena = 3/10 16.- Well = 4/10 17.- When Big Joan Sets Up = 6/10 18.- Fallin' Ditch = 5/10 19.- Sugar 'n Spikes = 8/10 20.- Ant Man Bee = 7/10 21.- Orange Claw Hammer = 3/10 22.- Wild Life = 4/10 23.- She's Too Much for My Mirror = 4/10 24.- Hobo Chang Ba = 3/10 25.- The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica) = 2/10 26.- Steal Softly thru Snow = 5/10 27.- Old Fart at Play = 4/10 28.- Veteran's Day Poppy = 8/10 FINAL SCORE: 5/10

Pretty much unlistenable.

Pretensious obnoxious garbage.

Imagine if every instrument from every song played at the same time. Well that's what this album sounds like. Sensory overload The only positive thing I have to say is that I had to listen to this on youtube. So thankfully my algorithm isn't tainted 1 ⭐️

I know defenders of this album will stumble over themselves just to tell you it's a masterpiece because they intentionally meant to make it sound bad, but I don't buy that. This album sucks with the only redeeming part for me being a 10 second riff in the middle of "Veteran's Day Poppy".

Artiste/groupe inconnu. C'est la semaine expérimentale ... hier j'ai écouté Sebadoh, qui mélangeait dissonance et morceaux plus classiques, et aujourd'hui je reçoit cet album qui est complètement expérimental. Il s'apparente plutôt au Free Jazz qu'au rock ou au blues. Malheureusement je n'apprécie pas du tout la façon de "chanter" ni la voix. En plus elle est mixée bien trop fort par rapport aux instruments. Et autre inconvénient majeur, l'album est trop long ... Je n'ai pas réussi à aller jusqu'au bout, le chant est vraiment très rebutant. =>1/5

Didn’t like the album. Did not enjoy the sound of the instruments on the album. Hair Pie was just random sounds to me.

Anyone that gives this more than a single star needs to get their head checked. Legitimately a candidate for 0 stars if it were possible; why, why, why, is this on the list. It's the most talentless garbage I think I've listened to and I'm 920 albums deep into this project. No singing, no actual playing of instruments, just noise. 0/10.

WTF

Just too strange for me. Reminds me of what I dislike about Frank Zappa. Not a surprise since he produced this mish mosh mess. Had to stop at song #21.

I really wanted to finish this but I just couldn't. It was just too weird. I feel like this is what some people must think the Grateful Dead sounds like and that makes me sad :(

the only reason why this album gets streams is because of this website. i want my 78 minutes back.

Just not my jam. Or the mood. Can appreciate it but not my thing

thank god en spotify hay una sola canción

Wow. I know this album cover and was interested as this was just an artist I knew the name of, but wow, that was horrible. No one listens to that for fun right?

I tried working to it, which was a non-starter. Really, really irritating, full of bells and whistles and silliness. Not for me - I didn't enjoy any of it. A horrible cacophony. "My mind turned to wood and rolled like a wheel, well, well". What?

Originalissimo e sicuramente un album pioniere ed unico nel suo genere, ma…

This sounded like music before they figured out how to make it sound good. Truly traumatizing.

It feels like the instruments are all playing a different song:(

Not for me

Psychedelic crap

I've always struggled with the good Captain. I just find this a bloody racket - which I know it's suppose to be.

Dit album (vier fokking plaatkanten!) zou verplicht onderdeel moeten worden van elk lespakket over drank en drugs: het bewijs dat geestverruimende middelen alleen maar tot ellende leiden. Man, wat is dit afschuwelijk. Nog voor de helft heb ik de moed opgegeven.