Trout Mask Replica

Right straight up, if you want to die Dimery devotees, pop this on and end your days listening to Veterans Day Poppy, then truly you'd appreciate in those last nanoseconds that there is no god, (not God). In Exodus the god of that story proclaims "I am an angry and jealous god", well yeah you got the angry part right brother when you bestowed upon the world this self indulgent hippy bullshit. Let me say, all of us who have suffered through being told that this is genius have a responsibility to warn off future generations. It is that bad (coming from a fan of Safe as Milk and Clear Spot).

It's the emperor's new album. I've tried, but nope.

If this is a masterpiece then I make a masterpiece every day after my morning coffee. Poop. It’s poop.

Look, I listened to the whole thing, okay? Did I listen to it the (apparently) requisite 6-7 times that it takes to appreciate it? Hell no. I'm not willingly inviting the Stockholm syndrome this album apparently requires in order to see it as anything but what it is: garbage. Also, there's a difference between "polyrhythmic" and "arhythmic" and this is the latter. Arhythmic garbage music with nonsensical, garbage lyrics sung in an atonal, garbage style. It's garbage is what I'm trying to say. Just... garbage.

What the hell

As soon as I saw that this was produced by Frank Zappa I knew that this was going to be a shit show. I'm sorry to have hit the nail right on the head with that assessment. 28 tracks? Seriously?? It's garbage like this that actually makes me look forward to reviewing an album by Britney F***ing Spears tomorrow.

This album demonstrates that anyone can record a 28 song album. Musical talent is not required.

No place in music should this exist. There's no innovation, invention, or irreverence. Just demented notions of what might qualify as music. Why why why why why

My head hurts

Personally offensive to me and my delicate brain

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. A hard listen

F*cking Terrible

Good grief, that was hard work. Well done lads, you got someone to pay you for this. Joke's on them.

oof

I know some people love it but it is indulgent, hippy nonsense. Rubbish. 1 point for the sleeve.

Horrible

little janky and disjointed for me?

Wtf?

I am in physical pain listening to this. Dear god make it stop

I did not like this at all. Not one bit.

- wow really can’t stand this. 2 songs in and don’t think I can do an entire album - hate this. DNF (half way through hair pie)

Couldn’t finish it

Second Captain Beefheart album in a week and fuck, this one really dials up the stupid. An hour and 20 minutes of mostly improv (edit: apparently it's not! wtf?), anti-music jams. This is the sort of shit hipsters pretend to "get" to appear mysterious and aloof. 1/5.

"I gotta understand Beefheart, man." -- Marc Maron I tried. I really, really did. About 20 years ago or so, a friend dubbed this for me onto cassette (hey, remember those, kids?). I listened to it once, didn't get it. It was too chaotic, too... dada for me. Fast forward to now, and it comes up on the 1001 list. Maybe now that I'm 20 years older, listened to a lot more styles of music, I will be able to understand this more. I'm not going to say that I will _LIKE_ it, but that I'll understand it. Deep breath, here we go... First song comes on: "Frownland." And it's not looking good. As the next few songs come over me, it still just sounds like all the instruments are playing different songs ON PURPOSE. I mean, is that the point? It's just so nonsensical to me. Somewhere around "Moonlight Over Vermont," it feels like the band and CB are trying to coalesce to make one song together. But Beefheart is completely off tempo with the rest of the band. The instrumentals, which are as chaotic, work slightly better, though. I think of them like improvisational jazz. But at some point, you have to come back TOGETHER. And they don't seem to. I understand the uniqueness of this album. And I will say that I didn't hate it as much as I did 20 years ago, but it's still not something I'm going to go and listen to. Again. I think twice in 20 years is enough.

I don’t get the point of this music. This sounds like if bob seger removed all his musical talent and then tried to sing and play various instruments. All in all this album could’ve been okay if some of the random noises were removed but this was a weird collection of songs and I do not plan on revisiting it. 2.3/10

Awful

no tune to follow and weird sounds only listened to 2 songs

waste of time!!

I first heard of this album from Anthony fantano and I couldn't make it past dachau blues on first listen. This time around I somehow made it all the way through in one sitting and honestly, the actual music parts are pretty good. Moonlight in vermont is actually a solid track and it clearly takes a lot of talent to make music like this, but the rest of the album is just packed with random bullshit like orange claw hammer and skits that make it almost unbearable to listen to. It's already exhausting to listen to by its experimental polyrhythmic jazz nature and the unnecessary fat just sinks it. If it were a 30-minute album I might even give it a 3 but instead it gets a high 1

I tried, really really hard and managed to listen to the whole thing, just in case. Its shit, dont care what anyone else has to say, its drug induced drivel

I really wanted to like this but it was a chore and I looked forward to it being over. Like the cover art, but that’s the highlight. A confusing mess that is clearly a product of it’s time, but makes no sense today. 1.5/5 but rounding down.

Barely listenable double album that it is supposed to be extremely important, perhaps innfluential, though I don't here it and apparently his best. I night listen to it again to see if there was something I missed. 1.5 stars

Dit is heel rommelige muziek. Het leid me af in een niet zo plezierige manier. Telkens denk ik "wat is dit voor rommel" en daarmee denk ik dat het album een lage score verdient. *

Not really.

Sounds like a weird art school project that wouldn't even get a good grade. Not music. Awful.

Sounded like the band talking to themselves, no communication to the audience. Worse than white noise

This is like if Picasso was a musician instead of a painter. I couldn't finish the album.

I can see what they’re going for… but it’s not fun to listen to at all

Ok, I am struggling here. I just finished John Coltrane's album and thought I didn't get that. No, I get THAT album now...but this? No. It's like the worst elements of Frank Zappa and Tom Waits and none of the good stuff. I am only five tracks in and really having a hard time with it. And a track named Dachau? A little unappealing without the brilliance to back up doing such a thing. This is just not for me. I tried. Honest.

Vitun sekavaa, ei jaxa

There was not a thing I liked about this album.

Nice! That's the most original album on the list so far, together with Miles Davis "Bitches Brew". Completely chaotic record, or at least posing as one. As with every avant-garde album, it's extremely hard to get into it, although in this case it's experimental rock, so it's a little bit easier to understand where is it coming from. Just listen to all the popular releases from sixties, then write down all the sounds, notes and melodies that you haven't heard, compile it into an album and et voila! We have a "Trout Mask Replica". Worth noting, that half the album is filled with Captain Beefhearts blues-like stories, basically a spoken-word at times. I have listened to the album twice since yesterday, but I would have to listen to it twenty more times before I could get anything meaningful from it. Well, I probably will try, over the course of years, but as of today, the album was a hot piece of garbage.

Genuinely difficult to listen to

Not a fan of this kind of “art.” I listened to the whole album, and there’s not enough acid in the world that would make me enjoy this.

Doorgaans ben ik een liefhebber van een zekere mate van 'gekte' in muziek, maar dit gaat alle perken te buiten.

Serieus? Dit is iets wat als een briljant album wordt gezien? Geen touw aan vast te knopen, volledig a-ritmische nummers en eigenlijk niet om aan te horen.

Bij liedje 4 dacht ik dat ik bij een uitvoering van The Muppets te zijn aangekomen.

Horrendous.

I knew exactly what this album was going to be after the first 20 seconds. The only nice thing I'll say about this record is that I love the cover. This album blows. Too much ridiculous guitar work, singing, and just general nonsense. Way too fucking long. Awful but not as bad as throbbing gristle. Booooo 0/10

I get why it’s long and dissonant and difficult, and I liked some parts of it, but overall this is a no for me.

I get that this is influential for like...Primus...and various other weird bands I love. But IMO pretty nearly unlistenable.

Pena was the moment when I finally knocked this turkey on the head. Fucking hate the cover too. Load of shite.

This album is going to be work. I hear Tom Waits in here. And there is no groove. its less songs and more every instrument floats in its own space and they sort of flex in and out of time with each other. It's anti-harmony. Wow Captain Beefheart was a terrible human. God this album is grating. She's Too Much For My Mirror is almost a song? There are several almost conventional songs but holy hannah is this an exercise in patience. The best part is when it ends.

Magical

I feel as though there must have been at least one CIA officer in the early 2000s whose father was with the CIA back in the day and worked on MKUltra. Perhaps they got a little too involved and got high on their own supply. Anyways, they obviously told stories to their child about their crazy life back in the day, and they once mentioned that even at their highest they couldn't get into Trout Mask Replica as it was just "too fucking weird, man". Their child would file this info away and go about life. Until one day they found themselves in Guantanamo Bay looking for a way to break the prisoners will to live. And that is how this album came to be played on repeat at a small military outpost on the island of Cuba.

weird collection of what feels like free-form, somewhat spoken-word, often oddly specific-to-topic and political

TRASH. 0/5

Ah fuck that.

Is this art?

What the the fuck is this shit? Made a bad mood a million times worse.

It's like you got a abstract jazz band, put them in the same room as blues band and told them to play different songs at the same time. I see moments of potential but it is a little too all over the place for me to enjoy this.

I don't like this style, sorry.

Nope. Definitely too much acid for these guys. There's a reason I've never heard of this.

wtf

That was rough.