Track Listing

1. Frownland
2. The Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back
3. Dachau Blues
4. Ella Guru
5. Hair Pie: Bake I
6. Moonlight In Vermont
7. Pachuco Cadaver
8. Bills Corpse
9. Sweet Sweet Bulbs
10. Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish
11. China Pig
12. My Human Gets Me Blues
13. Dali's Car
14. Hair Pie: Bake II
15. Pena
16. Well
17. When Big Joan Sets Up
18. Fallin' Ditch
19. Sugar 'N Spikes
20. Ant Man Bee
21. Orange Claw Hammer
22. Wild Life
23. She's Too Much For My Mirror
24. Hobo Chang Ba
25. The Blimp
26. Steal Softly Thru Snow
27. Old Fart At Play
28. Veteran's Day Poppy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12709 in Music
• Released on: 1999-07-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Probably the strangest album to regularly make critics' Top 100 Records of All Time, Trout Mask Replica is a landmark of idiosyncratic and visionary music-making. Don Van Vliet (christened Captain Beefheart by one-time colleague Frank Zappa) and The Magic Band rehearsed this record for over a year, translating Beefheart's ideas into fully fleshed-out pieces: although the record on first listen appears spontaneous and improvised, it is in fact carefully constructed, as the instrumental versions on the Grow Fins box-set demonstrate. Trout Mask Replica fuses blues, freeform jazz, rock, and Beefheart's surreal lyrics into an initially perplexing and daunting blend, in which the two guitars, drums and bass of10 seem to be playing four different songs at once--but over time, the music's angular, discordant shapes and rhythms not only begin to make sense, but take on an eccentric beauty. For those unfamiliar with Beefheart's work, check out the definitive compilation The Dust Blows Forward, or start with the luminously remastered Safe As Milk and Mirror Man. Both are essential records, but the man's mythical reputation begins and ends with the legacy of Trout Mask Replica. --Burhan Tufail

Chronique amazon.fr
Collègue de Frank Zappa, la musique Captain Beefheart (également connu sous le nom de Don Van Vliet) et son Magic Band comptait parmi la plus excentrique produite dans les années 60, et par conséquent, de tous les temps. Point d'orgue de l'étrange carrière de Beefheart, ce double album de rock Dada comprend des morceaux intimidants comme "Pachuco Cadaver," "Hair Pie (Bakes 1 And 2)" et "Neon Meat Dream Of An Octafish", tout aussi étranges que leur titre. Avec les paroles mystérieuses et la voix caverneuse de Beefheart, le jeu tordu des deux guitaristes Zoot Horn Rollo et Antennae Jimmy Semens, du bassiste Rockette Morton et du batteur The Mascara Snake, cet album mérite bien l'expression "totalement barré". --Billy Altman

Album Description
Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 1969 album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, blues, and garage rock to free jazz and avant-garde experimentalism. Warner Brothers Records.