CD Charts
Welcome to The CD Charts, here you will find all the latest and top selling Music cds available to buy online. You can search and locate the best selling Music cd's and have them delivered to the door. We have a large selection of Music all with reviews.
Back to Home Page > Go back a page
Music : Trout Mask Replica
See Larger Image |
Trout Mask Replica by: Captain Beefheart List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £7.98 You Save: £2.01 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
|
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075992719629 Label: Straight Manufacturer: Straight Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Straight Release Date: August 29, 1994 Studio: Straight Sales Rank: 3130 MPN: 27196 Disc 1:
Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: 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 Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Sorry but..this is GENIUS. I know it seems hard to get into but it's not really. Once you, yes dare i say it, 'get it' then you will listen to hard zappa, varese, meshuggah, like it was abba. but that is to take away from this slice of magnificent music. listen, I'm just sparing you my brothers review which will, like other reviews, indicate this as the best album ever made. For those that have difficulty on these pages, grow up. and if you want to sing along, buy clear spot. I wanted to be cool and say i have a captain beefheart album and be cool but not actually like the music etc Rating: - rubbish. People keep saying "you have to listen to it twenty times before you like it" but i listened to it once and thought it was brilliant. Total genius. The one star reviews are really funny too. you'll probably hate it though. Rating: - He's a genius & there's nothing he can do about it ...I'm amazed that there is so much written here about TMR and that much of it is wildly conflicting. Yeah, the album's reputation is forbidding and it is difficult to approach because that weighs so heavily and also because the album was of its time and sounds so alien to digitalised ears. I can listen to it quite easily (I listen to lots of noisy things: Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Can, Magma, Ubu but nothing quite compares) and it sounds very melodic and very rhythmic. At the same time it is crammed full of opposite things: dissonance, conflicting rhythms and as the Captain liked to say: juxtapositions. The amazing thing is that you grow to learn that it is all COMPOSED! These are not wild jams even though they may have grown out of wild ... Read More: Rating: - The Sound of Frozen CheeseLet me tell you this much. This is the sound of frozen cheese. Don't doubt it. Try it. Freeze some cheese then listen to it. You won't be able to tell it apart from this wonderful album. Beautiful. Rating:  - 3 stars for now, but if greatness lies within, I'll find it one dayI'm going to do something a bit different here. I've listened to this record three times so far, and I'm going to give you my first impressions, then I'm going to leave it for a bit - wait till I've heard it a few more times, and let you know what's what. So why am I doing that? Mostly, because I understand from reading previous reviews that you have to listen to it at least 6 times before it starts to make sense. Also because other reviewers have suggested that you will either love or hate this record. At this stage, I neither love nor hate this record, though I was convinced that I was going to love it. I've been listening to Beefheart for 5 or 6 months now. I started by watching "Captain Beefheart - Under Review", ... Read More: |
|