Trout Mask Replica C/D

The first weekend I moved into the dorms at college, I got Trout Mask Replica, Rain Dogs and that single CD of about everything Ryko did of Mission of Burma back in the late 80s. That was one ear opening CD haul. Hearing something like Songs About Fxxking or Damaged or Frankenchrist was a WTF is this stuff crazy. I think Trout Mask Replica far out weirded them all. You can get with anger and it is understadible but what kind of emotions was the Captain playing out? Hard to say. Rain Dogs also had plenty of wow that is just different, but then hearing the Dust Blows Forward, the Dust Blows Back or Dachau Blues was like something coming from another dimension.

I dunno, I have to think this kind of experience is very different in an age where so much information is easily aquired. The thing about something like Trout Mask Replica back then was you couldn't jump on a PC and get the back story to try and explain such weirdness. I ended up listening to much music that went further than the Captain, but it was a jumping off point of sorts.

goddamn side 4 stands so well by itself... that side is the side that encapsulates the whole thing for me. at one point it was all I listened to off of this with occasional time outs for "Moonlight On Vermont".

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John French has his book out

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http://www.propermusic.com/epk/teaser/vol1.html