Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica"

and that jpg...i will never be able to listen to that song again without seeing it

This is obv the wrong thread for it but I just want to say that my lp of The Spotlight Kid has been getting serious play lately and I think it is sometimes unfairly overlooked. "White Jam" is one of the best moments in the Beefheart discography.

It's a play on "allegory" though, isn't it?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_yellow

Funny - I just finished reading the 331/3 book on TMR last night (which was entertaining, but not the best of the series, IMO) and am currently blasting disc 5 of Grow Fins.

Lick My Decals.. has to be my personal fave.

xpost The Spotlight kid is sometimes unfairly overlooked.

Right, there's a single-disc remaster on the way..

Apparently, the cd available now was using a damaged master so they have gone back to Frank's safety copies of the original master. Hray!

and it is £23, according to Spin's website

EH???

Hm. Safety tapes could mean lower fidelity though. Hm.

i have only ever owned this album on cassette weirdly enough.

Actually, if you buy direct from Frank's "Barfco" website, it's $20, which is reasonable.

I ordered it, I'm curious, if a little skeptical. I have a Straight/Bizarre press of the lp, will be curious to compare the masters. The Zappa Family Trust vers of "Bat Chain Puller" from last yr was pretty great.

I am wondering about how the Zappa's can release this? Doesn't Warners/Reprise own the rights? Obv that could have changed, but seems like they would be unlikely to give up the rights to such a "name" record, even one that hasn't sold many copies...

I thought TMR was around as a mid priced cd as it was. Has that gone out of print?
& is Decals due on cd?

It's available in every branch of "That's Entertainment" for £5 or so.

Having said that, Amazon has 'new' copies of the old CD for £24, old/second-hand ones for £8

No news on "Decals"

Ok wait wait. The reissue for which Mark G bumped the thread. Is it Decals or Trout Mask?

Trout Mask.

LOL I am dumb.

Did anybody shell out for Trout Mask from "Barfco" or whoever?

Any Good? Any Different?

?

o ok.

I think we are all to cheap to plunk down the money without hearing a note.

At least that's my reasoning for skipping it thus far.

Mine reasoning, is that I have the orig 2LP, and I recently made a CDr from it.

It sounds pretty nice...

All I have is the late 80s CD. I'm tempted, but I'd love a preview of a few tracks first.

I've got it, it sounds basically the same as the original Straight/Bizarre lp pressings

lol opinions

I just heard the Faces' version of "Wicked Messenger" off their first album (in fact, off the "Good boys when they're asleep" comp)

And yeah, it's a Bob Dylan song, but whoo it's very like "Orange Claw Hammer"

lol

BUT TRUE!

Thank you.

If someone put TMR as their favorite album on their okcupid profile would you judge them? Someone had a perfectly serviceable profile but he had this at the top of their list and no matter what else we'd have in common I don't think we could hang. Is there another album that dog whistles "I care deeply about 'music'" more than this idk

you may be entering narcissism of small differences territory w/ yr canine hearing

when someone puts TMR at the top of their list they are very consciously trying to present themselves as a "music person," it's not an accident

What if they really, genuinely like it. Is that possible? Are you saying that all of your friends must share the same likes and dislikes as you? What are you saying?

I must know.

MUST.

haha, i remember the time a friend of a friend came round, pulled tmr off the shelf and exclaimed 'wow, what you doing with this? you must really know your music'.

xxxxp

if that's true, then you are both ppl who actually are invested in music taste/personal canons to a rare degree, albeit w/ ideological differences. he might be equally unthrilled w/ yr taste, mb you see it as dodging a bullet there, but you might be projecting yr own disdain & blaming him for it, who knows, it seems v trivial is all

I don't think there's much to say about the symbolic value of tmr ~in general~, but then using music in a dating profile like that seems v quaint, mb even to the extent of having gone full circle and become charming, but judging other ppl for their tastes to this extent def seems regressive

what's their myspace profile song?

listing yr cultural credentials in OKC feels pretty ropey in general

well, jeez, what are you "supposed" to list on OKC? as far as i could ever figure out online dating is a massive exercise in dart-throwing.

dunno, i've never had a relationship with somebody's record collection

and yet posting one's penis size is inexplicably frowned upon

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Twelveinchesofsnow.jpg

what does a high hat beaver moustache man look like? is it a fur hat? if not, is it a beaverish moustache?

Moustache, I would assume.

it's a thrillingly vague image!

He is (sort of) making up as he goes along too.

was he seeing his own reflection at the time?

then who's the pirate friend?

maybe he's catching two different glimpses of himself, or twizzling a spoon

Frank Zappa (xp)

tbh this is possibly my least favorite Beefheart album (granted I've never listened to the Tragic Band stuff)

I wasn't aware of that iteration of the Magic Band. Who needs coffee when you have music like that?