CAPTAIN BEEFHEART “Trout Mask Replica” 2-LP STRAIGHT 1053 gatefold ZAPPA NM

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Artist:  CAPTAIN BEEFHEART

Title:   “Trout Mask Replica”

Label:   STRAIGHT.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.   Labels are pink with black text.  Catalog number is STS-1053

Year:  1969 

Condition: 

DISC:  Both discs are NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appear to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  Two gorgeous discs you will never need to upgrade. 

JACKET:  Gatefold jacket is VG+.  Front panel is clean, would grade higher were it not for some noticeable ring wear.  Remaining panels are clean with lighter traces of ring wear.  Light wear on seams, spine and corners; and top of spine has approximately 1” of chipping.  No writing, stickers, or other issues.  A respectable jacket to accompany the NEAR MINT vinyl!

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Frownland
• The Dust Blows Forward n’ the Dust Blows Back
• Dachau Blues
• Ella Guru
• Hair Pie: Bake 1
• Moonlight on Vermont  

Side Two:

• Pachuco Cadaver
• Bills Corpse
• Sweet Sweet Bulbs
• Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish
• China Pig
• My Human Gets Me Blues
• Dali’s Car

Side Three:

• Hair Pie: Bake 2
• Pena
• Well
• When Big Joan Sets Up
• Fallin’ Ditch
• Sugar ‘n Spikes
• Ant Man Bee  

Side Four:

• Orange Claw Hammer
• Wild Life
• She’s Too Much for My Mirror
• Hobo Chang Ba
• The Blimp
• Steal Softly Thru Snow
• Old Fart At Play
• Veteran’s Day Poppy

Review:

“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 by the Captain (aided by John "Drumbo" French), 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.”

(courtesy Steve Huey, allmusic.com.)  

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