Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica - First Straight Pressing -24/96 rip to redbook

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Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 28-song double album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, blues, and garage rock to free jazz and avant-garde experimentalism Atonal, sometimes singsong melodies; jagged, intricately constructed dual-guitar parts; stuttering, complicated rhythmic interaction -- all of these elements float out seemingly at random, often without completely interlocking, while Beefheart groans his surrealist poetry in a throaty Howlin' Wolf growl The disjointedness is perhaps partly unintentional -- reportedly, Beefheart's refusal to wear headphones while recording his vocals caused him to sing in time with studio reverberations, not the actual backing tracks -- but by all accounts, the music and arrangements were carefully scripted and notated by the Captain, which makes the results even more remarkable As one might expect from music so complex and, to many ears, inaccessible, the influence of Trout Mask Replica was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point However, its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless future experiments in rock surrealism, especially during the punk/new wave era. -Allmusic review

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Side A:
01 Frownland
02 Dust Blows Forward 'N the Dust Blows Back
03 Dachau Blues
04 Ella Guru
05 Hair Pie: Bake 1
06 Moonlight in Vermont

Side B:
07 Pachuco Cadaver
08 Bills Corpse
09 Sweet Sweet Bulbs
10 Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish
11 China Pig
12 My Human Gets Me Blues
13 Dali's Car

Side C:
14 Hair Pie: Bake 2
15 Pena
16 Well
17 When Big Joan Sets Up
18 Fallin' Ditch
19 Sugar 'N Spikes
20 Ant Man Bee

Side D:
21 Orange Claw Hammer
22 Wild Life
23 She's Too Much for My Mirror
24 Hobo Chang Ba
25 Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)
26 Steal Softly Thru Snow
27 Old Fart at Play
28 Veteran's Day Poppy

Principal Equipment used:
Clearaudio Champion 2 turntable & Unify tonearm
Benz Micro L2 cartridge
Extremephono Tonearm cable
Aqvox USB-2 MKII D/A
(manual declicking)

NOTE: Burn gapless (no track gaps) to preserve original track layout

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