Re: [bomp] Re: beefheart

[Gabe Quiason <autodestructedmod@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- BlackMonk <BlackMonk@email.msn.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob Branigin" <euphorik6@yahoo.com>
> To: <bomp@xnet2.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 10:33 AM
> Subject: [bomp] Re: beefheart
> 
> 
> >
> > tom:
> >
> > <<Is it my imagination or has the hip Beefheart
> attitude moved from
> > "Trout Mask Replica is the greatest album ever,"
> to "Trout Mask Replica is
> > good, but his best album was Lick My Decals Off,
> Baby?">>
> >
> > i dunno...seems like the trout-mask-centric school
> of beefheart fanboyism 
> > was
> > always more the purview of rolling stone critics
> than the hipster 
> > crowd...i
> > always liked "decals" better, because there's more
> structure to the songs
> > (comparatively, anyway). also, brevity helps. i
> like beefheart, but 2 LPs 
> > of
> > skronk is a bit much for me...the only thing on
> "trout mask" that i like 
> > as
> > much as "doctor dark" or "i love you, you big
> dummy" is "the dust blows 
> > forward
> > & the dust blows back." i wouldn't go (quite) so
> far as to say "trout 
> > mask" is
> > beefheart's "the wall," but it's definitely
> overrated, especially over 
> > there in greilmarcusland.
> >
> 
> I admit I've only heard about  half of Decals, but
> I'd say the first side of 
> TMR alone justifies all the praise. What I've heard
> of Decals is good, it 
> just isn't THAT good. "Frownland" is in the running
> for my favorite 
> Beefheart song. 
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I'm afraid to say TMR is all I've heard, but that shit
is great.  Like the guy in the blog, I heard it when I
was about 16 and was really freaked out by it.  I went
back to it a couple of years ago and, well, somethin'
just clicked.  Maybe listening to a lot of Suicide 'n
stuff in between prepared me better.

What about Hair Pie Bake 2??  I played it for my dorm
roommate freshman year when I had really gotten into
the album and his reaction was, "Dude!  This is
like.... hardcore!"  Then he played me "Law Years" by
Ornette Coleman and we drew parallels.

-Gabe



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