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Lancaster CA, United States (1965 – 1982)
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band created music that has occasionally been dubbed “avant garde-blues”. Their music is characterized by bluesy melodies, shambolic instrumentation, idiosyncratic, unbound timings, the growls and shrieks of Beefheart’s vocals and his surreal, poetic lyrics. Throughout their career, the band’s musical direction was tightly controlled by Don van Vliet (1941 - 2010), aka Captain Beefheart, who subjected the band to intense regimes of rehearsal; this tension combined with poor salary contributing to the break-up of the original Magic Band.
Beefheart reformed a new band of musicians under the name, but left the music industry for good in 1982 to pursue his career as a painter.
With the exception of British disc jockey John Peel, they saw little critical endorsement or recognition in their years active, but their influence was highly significant; to later avant-garde artists such as The Residents and Tom Waits, as well as to the punk movement, which appreciated both their stripped-down sound and Van Vliet’s unleashed, expressive vocal delivery. In recent years their importance has been acknowledged by the mainstream music press, with Trout Mask Replica (1969) reaching number 58 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list (beating albums like Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti and John Lennon’s Imagine). In 1988 Fast N Bulbous: A Tribute to Captain Beefheart, was released, featuring such diverse artists as XTC, Sonic Youth and The Mock Turtles.
With the exception of British disc jockey John Peel, they saw little critical endorsement or recognition in their years active, but their influence was highly significant; to later avant-garde artists such as The Residents and Tom Waits, as well as to the punk movement, which appreciated both their stripped-down sound and Van Vliet’s unleashed, expressive vocal delivery. In recent years their importance has been acknowledged by the mainstream music press, with Trout Mask Replica (1969) reaching number 58 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list (beating albums like Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti and John Lennon’s Imagine). In 1988 Fast N Bulbous: A Tribute to Captain Beefheart, was released, featuring such diverse artists as XTC, Sonic Youth and The Mock Turtles.
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MentalDistress wrote:
abba zabba zoom babbette baboon~
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InvalidObjects wrote:
Ehh zodiark, different strokes for different strokes. I'll chalk it up to accessibility.
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mcdeece wrote:
The Mirror Man Sessions and Clear Spot.
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RagtagMurphy wrote:
Safe as Milk is pure genius
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Zodiark111 wrote:
It was probably just too deep for you Invalid. You know what they say, "Fast and bulbous"
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sunheadbowed wrote:
shame
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InvalidObjects wrote:
I probably shouldn't have started with Trout Mask Replica; I'm completely turned off by Captain Beefheart now.
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restinagony wrote:
Man, that's so heavy
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Anira_Sugar wrote:
Plastic Factory
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shootmeadeer wrote:
also a tin tear drop.
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PedroLemgruber wrote:
that's right, The Mascara Snake, fast and bulbous!
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NickBalboa wrote:
Autumn's Child ♥
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toztizokzndz wrote:
the seed shall sow in salt water
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sunheadbowed wrote:
I run on laser beams
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GregOfTheOcean wrote:
v hahahaha champion
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cjkisaragi wrote:
(say beans)
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optimistic_tour wrote:
fast and BULBOUS!
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GregOfTheOcean wrote:
what do you run on, rocket morton?
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hotbagels wrote:
also, a tin teardrop
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cjkisaragi wrote:
That's right, fast and bulbous
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