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THE REVIEW
This experimental album from 1969 is really beautiful.
And you know why?
Because I didn't understand a damn thing.
I'm a true hipster, one of those who considers RTL 102.5 the ruin of music and misses the Blockbuster VHS. Like that movie with Jack Black, be kind rewind.
So much of a hipster that I've listened to Hijokaidan for 2 hours straight without getting bored (or bursting my eardrums) and I avoid those damn PRs who invite you to snobbish Milanese parties like the plague. I'm fine with a couple of beers and friends, thank you.
The captain was the best hipster of all, though. Even in his time, he rejected the popular music groups and trends (like the hippie one) but created incredibly forward-thinking works: they say his music was cacophonous blues, for me not even that; the captain was a totalitarian schizophrenic, and he demanded that every damn thing be perfect for the creation of his albums.
His magical band was just a republic dominated by the supreme dictator: a mad genius who, with the help of another genius Frank Zappa, gifted the world with the most WTF album ever: even today, many critics wonder if this is a joke or a revolutionary work. For me, it is simply indefinable. And anyway, every word of mine would be superfluous to comment on it. The truthful point of view lies in our imagination... there is no absolute truth.
And I know there's Italy-Ireland, but as a good hipster, I don't give a damn.
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This 1969 avant-garde album by Captain Beefheart is profoundly experimental and difficult to understand. The reviewer admires Beefheart's rejection of mainstream trends and praises the creative madness behind the work. With collaboration from Frank Zappa, the album remains a baffling masterpiece in music history. It challenges listeners and defies conventional description.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band was the musical vehicle of Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart), an American singer and multi-instrumentalist also known as a painter. The group is best known for radical, blues-rooted experimentation, with Trout Mask Replica (1969) frequently cited as a landmark. Van Vliet later retired from recording and devoted himself to painting.17 Reviews
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By jodo
This album is a wild ride to the origin of sounds, between guttural screams and gramophone-era orchestras playing twenty-first-century blues.
I still certainly listen to "Trout Mask Replica" knowing it will never be remastered.
By psychopompe
Trout Mask is anything but an 'improvised' album; it is a masterpiece of premeditated erosion and courageous expansion of rock's boundaries.
It demonstrated how the formal barriers of 'rock' could and should be broken to refresh its primal explosive and irreverent charge.
By Matteo Tarchi
You can no longer see things with the same eyes, nor hear things with the same ears, you are no longer you.
A standalone work of art, which you can hate or love, yet it stands there making history.
By CristianoDA
I don’t consider the Trout a masterpiece so acclaimed by today’s post-internet critics.
The captain was able to dismantle piece by piece every single song, deconstructing the blues canons and randomly reassembling them to the extreme consequences.
By zaireeka
It is like facing an incomprehensible monolith similar to that of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Music as extraordinary as it is irregular, so little pleasant (in the classic sense) that you can’t even find it on Spotify.
