The Captain would love that
― E Poxy Thee Thule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
It seems so obvious now!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
The men don't know but the little girl understands...
― E Poxy Thee Thule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a play on "allegory" though, isn't it?
― E Poxy Thee Thule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
lol that's brilliant
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/elegaroo.jpg
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 09:58 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha "Alice in Blunderland!"
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
So any road up, I play a bit of "Trout Mask Replica" to Amber and Alice (Alice's middle name is Ella..) just to see what they think..
A few days later, Alice comes in with a set of fridge magnets, front and back halves of animals.
She picks the front of the elephant and the back of the kangaroo, puts them on the fridge, and says "EleGaroo!"
Damn.
― Mark G, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 1:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
mind=blown
― tectonic p (latebloomer), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit that is the greatest mark g post ever
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
and that jpg...i will never be able to listen to that song again without seeing it
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
This is obv the wrong thread for it but I just want to say that my lp of The Spotlight Kid has been getting serious play lately and I think it is sometimes unfairly overlooked. "White Jam" is one of the best moments in the Beefheart discography.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a play on "allegory" though, isn't it?― E Poxy Thee Thule (Tom D.), Tuesday, December 1, 2009 5:33 AM (Yesterday)
― E Poxy Thee Thule (Tom D.), Tuesday, December 1, 2009 5:33 AM (Yesterday)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_yellow
― vlogger working on a thinkpiece about the gastro-truck revolution (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Funny - I just finished reading the 331/3 book on TMR last night (which was entertaining, but not the best of the series, IMO) and am currently blasting disc 5 of Grow Fins.
Lick My Decals.. has to be my personal fave.
xpost The Spotlight kid is sometimes unfairly overlooked.
― Duke, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Right, there's a single-disc remaster on the way..
Apparently, the cd available now was using a damaged master so they have gone back to Frank's safety copies of the original master. Hray!
and it is £23, according to Spin's website
EH???
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 April 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
Hm. Safety tapes could mean lower fidelity though. Hm.
― brad palsy (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 18 April 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
i have only ever owned this album on cassette weirdly enough.
― tylerw, Thursday, 18 April 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
Actually, if you buy direct from Frank's "Barfco" website, it's $20, which is reasonable.
― Mark G, Friday, 19 April 2013 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
I ordered it, I'm curious, if a little skeptical. I have a Straight/Bizarre press of the lp, will be curious to compare the masters. The Zappa Family Trust vers of "Bat Chain Puller" from last yr was pretty great.
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 19 April 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
I am wondering about how the Zappa's can release this? Doesn't Warners/Reprise own the rights? Obv that could have changed, but seems like they would be unlikely to give up the rights to such a "name" record, even one that hasn't sold many copies...
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 19 April 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
I thought TMR was around as a mid priced cd as it was. Has that gone out of print?& is Decals due on cd?
― Stevolende, Friday, 19 April 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
It's available in every branch of "That's Entertainment" for £5 or so.
Having said that, Amazon has 'new' copies of the old CD for £24, old/second-hand ones for £8
No news on "Decals"
― Mark G, Friday, 19 April 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
Ok wait wait. The reissue for which Mark G bumped the thread. Is it Decals or Trout Mask?
― brad palsy (Jon Lewis), Friday, 19 April 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
Trout Mask.
― my mental killfile seems to be working (sleeve), Friday, 19 April 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
LOL I am dumb.
― brad palsy (Jon Lewis), Friday, 19 April 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Did anybody shell out for Trout Mask from "Barfco" or whoever?
Any Good? Any Different?
― Mark G, Sunday, 23 June 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
?
― Mark G, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:23 (ten years ago) link
o ok.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 June 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link
I think we are all to cheap to plunk down the money without hearing a note.
At least that's my reasoning for skipping it thus far.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 June 2013 13:25 (ten years ago) link
Mine reasoning, is that I have the orig 2LP, and I recently made a CDr from it.
It sounds pretty nice...
― Mark G, Monday, 24 June 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
All I have is the late 80s CD. I'm tempted, but I'd love a preview of a few tracks first.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 June 2013 13:31 (ten years ago) link
I've got it, it sounds basically the same as the original Straight/Bizarre lp pressings
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
lol opinions
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 01:48 (ten years ago) link
I just heard the Faces' version of "Wicked Messenger" off their first album (in fact, off the "Good boys when they're asleep" comp)
And yeah, it's a Bob Dylan song, but whoo it's very like "Orange Claw Hammer"
― Mark G, Monday, 24 February 2014 12:42 (ten years ago) link
lol
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 February 2014 11:42 (ten years ago) link
BUT TRUE!
Thank you.
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 February 2014 20:49 (ten years ago) link
If someone put TMR as their favorite album on their okcupid profile would you judge them? Someone had a perfectly serviceable profile but he had this at the top of their list and no matter what else we'd have in common I don't think we could hang. Is there another album that dog whistles "I care deeply about 'music'" more than this idk
― musically, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 02:09 (nine years ago) link
you may be entering narcissism of small differences territory w/ yr canine hearing
― ogmor, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 02:29 (nine years ago) link
when someone puts TMR at the top of their list they are very consciously trying to present themselves as a "music person," it's not an accident
― musically, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 03:47 (nine years ago) link
What if they really, genuinely like it. Is that possible? Are you saying that all of your friends must share the same likes and dislikes as you? What are you saying?
― Hinklepicker, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 06:33 (nine years ago) link
I must know.
MUST.
haha, i remember the time a friend of a friend came round, pulled tmr off the shelf and exclaimed 'wow, what you doing with this? you must really know your music'.
― Scary Darey (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 10:12 (nine years ago) link
xxxxp
if that's true, then you are both ppl who actually are invested in music taste/personal canons to a rare degree, albeit w/ ideological differences. he might be equally unthrilled w/ yr taste, mb you see it as dodging a bullet there, but you might be projecting yr own disdain & blaming him for it, who knows, it seems v trivial is all
I don't think there's much to say about the symbolic value of tmr ~in general~, but then using music in a dating profile like that seems v quaint, mb even to the extent of having gone full circle and become charming, but judging other ppl for their tastes to this extent def seems regressive
― ogmor, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
what's their myspace profile song?
― nxd, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:17 (nine years ago) link
listing yr cultural credentials in OKC feels pretty ropey in general
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
well, jeez, what are you "supposed" to list on OKC? as far as i could ever figure out online dating is a massive exercise in dart-throwing.
― rushomancy, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
dunno, i've never had a relationship with somebody's record collection
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
and yet posting one's penis size is inexplicably frowned upon
― rushomancy, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Twelveinchesofsnow.jpg
― I only listen to Vantablack Metal (snoball), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
Point definitely taken about Paucho cadaver
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link
This album inspired a lot of proggy Euro nonsense that I have zero time for, as well as informing the least memorable aspects of the RIO movement. Fight me.
― zoomer death circus (sleeve)
you talking like etron fou leloublan? i always thought of them as being distinctly gallic. i don't know how much prog music there is that i'd classify as being genuinely inspired by trout mask replica. Michael Maksymenko if you want to count that, and honestly i think he's pretty alright, particularly the tunes about ice hockey.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 April 2020 01:21 (four years ago) link
The line about God dressing you because he never had a doll is wonderful.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:00 (four years ago) link
...it's also quite heavy. I'm not going to finish all of this tonight, it's heady and dense, and i'm not sure i find it campy (is he Lou Reed or PT Barnum on Pachuco Cadaver? I can't tell, this is walking some inimate/sensation tightrope) but it's been rewarding to read through it slowly and carefully.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
*sensational
xps nah I can hang with Etron Fou, I was specifically thinking of Dunaj and related Czech stuff like Uz Jsme Doma and even carrying through to Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, the kind of hammering relentlessness that I find overwhelming, even the Art Bears sometimes.
― zoomer death circus (sleeve), Saturday, 18 April 2020 03:20 (four years ago) link
Kate, great post above. (:
― timellison, Saturday, 18 April 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
an earthy masculinity about it that feels utterly remote at this point...and much of the 'exceptional' music of the period is unexceptional in this regard
What kind of exceptionality are we looking for? Obviously, something greater than "Under My Thumb," and I know there are plenty of other problems. But I will say that, growing up in the '70s/'80s, an awareness of rock music going back to the '60s was a significant thing for me in seeing suggestions of a more feminine way of being for those born male.
― timellison, Saturday, 18 April 2020 05:50 (four years ago) link
All I'll say is they know how to do breakfast TV in Sweden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-kH_aNnNiA
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Friday, 18 November 2022 13:35 (one year ago) link
I wasn't aware of that iteration of the Magic Band. Who needs coffee when you have music like that?
― o. nate, Friday, 18 November 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link