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relativelykyon
67" was rich of incredible and brilliant albums. but out of everything wonderful, the first place in my brain and heart goes to this masterpiece.
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Cassandra-Leo
It's kind of as though the Beatles had recorded Please Please Me in 1962 and the White Album (which I think is better than Sgt. Pepper) in 1964. This is great - don't get me wrong; I'm making this comparison because Please Please Me is also great - but the musical growth from this to TMR is impossible to chart using traditional methods. And I'd say Mirror Man (which was recorded the same year as this album - the mind boggles) is Revolver if we extend this analogy.
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Cassandra-Leo
Also this may be one of the few cases where the bonus tracks are just as good as the album, if not better. It really makes me wish the record company had gone with Beefheart's original plan for It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper.
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MisterJunior
One of the Beefheart albums I enjoy the most. It's not as out there as some of his stuff but what it lacks in experimentation/the avant-garde it makes up for in listenability. The classic Magic Band lineup hasn't come together in full yet, but Drumbo is in place, a young Ry Cooder is playing his ass off, Alex St. Clair was a terrific guitar player for both this material and the Strictly Personal album and as Doppz said, Jerry Handley, a bass player of whom I otherwise have no knowledge at all, plays his ass off. Beefheart gives a virtuoso vocal performance in addition to playing some bitchin' harmonica. If all Blues Rock sounded like this, it would be one of my favorite subgenres of Rock music. "Plastic Factory" absolutely kills.
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Het_Jamesfield
if this was the only album i was allowed to listen to for the rest of my life, i wouldn't mind. absolute perfection. i want to live inside plastic factory
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sunheadbowed
Calling someone's taste appalling is only "stupid" to people whose top artist is Owl City.
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ubermenschean
How is this so great and Trout Mask is so unimpressive? I think I owe it to this man to listen to Trout Mask again in hopes I enjoy it this time.
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PartySanCTG
I'm just saying, I'm a newbie to the Captain but I was aware of his reputation, so I'm quite surprised at how... not weird this sounds! Don't get me wrong, I love it so far, but... it's quite... "conventional" in a way. I expected something like Freak Out! to be honest... maybe my expectations were out of whack?
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restinagony
This is just like marijuana in the sense that marijuana is "gateway drug" that leads the user to want different drugs. This is a gateway album that leads the listener to want more, and different Beefheart.
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Agnes_Steck
with this album the dear Captain introduced the world to rock-n-roll's avant garde side...AND WE NEVER WENT BACK. A brilliantly executed debut from a modern master who never compromised his vision (well, except for MOONBEAMS!), He wasn't really a musician as much as an artist & shaman who happened to dabble out of love in music. We unsuspecting humans are the mere vessels into which he poured his art. Luckily, he found amazing musicians willing (or NOT!) to wend through the paleontological recesses of Don Glen Vliet's imagination...and set it to glorious art rock. LONG LIVE CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BANDS!
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