Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Is "Trout Mask Replica" the Most Creative Album of the 60's?



People often say that Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica album is one of the strangest but most unique and creative albums to come out of the 60's, and I definitely agree with them there. With bizarre, nonsensical, Dada-esque and Beck, Bob Dylan like lyrics and off key and off rhythm song beats, instruments and rhythms and a very particular sense of humor, this is an album that is truly unique and one of a kind! With help from Beefheart's high school friend, Frank Zappa, who produced this album, it just sets up a whole kind of creative one of a kind avant-garde like force and attitude.

Take the following track above for example, "Pena". You'll see what I definitely mean by both creative and highly bizarre! Perhaps The Residents were inspired by him?

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