but I can't spell "Booglaraize", despite staring at it for 30 minutes.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 24 August 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
his voice on booglarize is insane!
― tylerw, Friday, 24 August 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe my favorite era.Winged Eel Fingerling rules.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 24 August 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
videos of the magic band from this period are so cool in the way they show just how physical the music was, like it really was this new sort of alien dance music.
― tylerw, Friday, 24 August 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
I like it when the Captain is wearing his Wind Capehttp://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/asxpicts/CaptainBeefheart1972-03-27e.jpg
― Trip Maker, Friday, 24 August 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
this is a hell of a thing
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Friday, 24 August 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Booglarize is AWESOME
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 August 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
There are other copies of the broadcast video online where is it easier to hear that Don is doing some insane multiphonic singing. But this extra footage is amazing.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 24 August 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBxt9jbNjS0
Yeah this is the one I'm familiar with. Opening with the most adorable German VJ you will ever see.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 August 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
that is a cute VJ. just watched this thing again. amazing.
― tylerw, Saturday, 25 August 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
Wow. Would take her to Tau Ceti.
Also great performance, goddamn.
― reckless driving, abuse of small dogs, thirst for fame (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 August 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
That is a cool Beefheart clip.
I've finally got around to some of the side bands around that scene and Mallard and Geronimo Black were both a couple of cool bands too.
― earlnash, Saturday, 25 August 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
It's the way she says "baby". I think I'm in love...
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
She says:
"Whatever. Maybe that will happen to Captain Beefheart too sometime, because in America he's already one of the greats. His music is a little reminiscent of Frank Zappa, but you can't tell him that or he'll get pissed off. So for the next five minutes we have Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, performing [a song with] the fairly burlesque-sounding name "I'm Gonna Booglerize You . . . Baby."
― Three Word Username, Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
the children are the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBXBXBXyDac
― Dominique, Thursday, 6 December 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
uh, tough crowd? first of all, that kid's the best frontman I know. second, hell of a lot of "grown up" bands couldn't play this song
― Dominique, Thursday, 6 December 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
This is the year that the Captain finally clicked for me - picked up "The Dust Blows Forwards" anthology and really dig it!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 6 December 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
those kids are pretty good, i sure couldn't play that song. beefheart is weird to get into because his most famous album (Trout Mask) is probably the worst one to start with? Maybe not the worst, but not the best.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 December 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Decals is prob a mite less accessible than Trout.
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 6 December 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
yeah and i guess the latter albums are probably not great to start with either -- i'd say just start at the beginning.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 December 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
See I'd tend to recommend Clear Spot as a starter.
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 6 December 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
It was kinda inevitable - XTC does a spot-on cover of "Ella Guru", the Blue Aeroplanes cover "Owed T Alex", and Robyn Hitchcock did a whole gig covering "Clear Spot". I'll circle back and check out the albums proper though looks like "Lick My Decals Off" is hard to find.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
I can hook you up with Decals as a single long mp3 file if all else fails you. It's p much impossible to get the CD last time I checked and unlike Starsailor it's not offered through legit download services.
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
Trout Mask is, despite the flaws, i.e. Zappa's production and what not his best, even if Lick My Decals is his actual best record.
You could easily start w/Safe as Milk, but dive in to Trout.... If you can't see what's good about it by just looking at the cover he's not for you. Its that simple.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
Kids were p good.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
hey Gerald I have Decals on CD, hit me up via ILXmail if you want a flac copy. And yes, I would say start with Safe As Milk or Clear Spot, although Doc is pretty damn good too.
― sleeve, Thursday, 6 December 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
Scorpio did a 180gm edition of Decals that might still be kicking around.
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 December 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Thursday, December 6, 2012 2:13 PM (2 hours ago)
see I think the opposite, if I'd heard decals first I prolly would've gotten beefheart earlier
mainly cause the production job on trout mask is so raw
― CGI fridays (Edward III), Thursday, 6 December 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
lick my decals is on itunes btw
― CGI fridays (Edward III), Thursday, 6 December 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
and youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muiYV4avZfY
― CGI fridays (Edward III), Thursday, 6 December 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
Bought that from a rec shop a long time ago, when they existed.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 December 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
last three albums are killer btw, if your first album is Clear Spot, those would not be horrible next steps...
― send Lawyers (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 7 December 2012 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
Decals has been one of my fave records for years, but Trout Mask's rep had always sorta scared me off from listening to it--Decals is purportedly *less* accessible than Trout Mask? I've been avoiding it for nothing?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 December 2012 06:39 (eleven years ago) link
Decals is NOT less accessible than TMR, but TMR shouldn't present any great difficulty for anyone who likes Decals
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 7 December 2012 12:18 (eleven years ago) link
TMR has more variety.
It's a good album for doing other things to while listening.
― Mark G, Friday, 7 December 2012 12:26 (eleven years ago) link
I disagree with Julio fairly violently on this one, the production on "Decals" is abysmal whereas I can see nothing wrong with what Zappa did on TMR - what's not to like?
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
Beefheart should never have been allowed to produce himself, he fucked up "The Spotlight Kid" too
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 13:05 (eleven years ago) link
Its more what TMR's detractors say, as in they don't like what Zappa did -- or more what he didn't do because Beefheart didn't really allow Z to touch it apart from bits of button pushing (or so Z claimed).
Not really that good a judge on prodcution -- both sound fine and are his best recs.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 December 2012 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
I could do without some of the spoken word/ field recordings bits that Zappa put in tbh
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
what's wrong w/ the production on Decals, sounds fine to me??
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 7 December 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
The drums sound like shit for a start. You've got two great drummers on the records, what a waste.
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
well, it's a trebly-sounding alb, i'll give you that, but it's also a very guitar-y alb, so i don't really miss the bottom-end fug of TMR too much.
iirc from his bk, drumbo was p pleased w/ Decals as a rec - think the Magic Band even believed they'd made a much more 'commercial' object, after the alienating swamp of TMR
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 7 December 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
It's just nowhere near as powerful and ballsy as the music deserves, it's all a bit meek and scuffly and "avant garde", I'd rather it was more Canned Heat than Henry Cow, to put it crudely. I've covered this before... possibly on this thread!
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 13:32 (eleven years ago) link
yeah don't think we're gonna agree on this one - but they'd already made their Canned Heat alb(s) w/ eg Mirror Man, so decals is...something else
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 7 December 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
No, that's not what I mean, TMR is like a Canned Heat record, it's well recorded and you can hear all the instruments and it has a bottom end, there's "rock" in there
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
yr clarification only has me scratching my head even more!! i mean, there are a million albs by 60s blues-rock groups w/ plenty of bottom end, rock music chops, good clean production, seperation of instruments etc - i go to beefheart for something else, something that has as much in common w/ free jazz, exotica, the avant-garde, blahdiblah - and for me, decals is prob the ultimate expression of that.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 7 December 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
Shiny Beast was the first one I heard (thanks to a review in the Spin Albums Guide and its availability at my local library). I had never heard anything that sounded so wrong or made me so uncomfortable. I'm glad I persevered, though, because I love the Captain dearly now. And that particular album practically sounds like pop to me these days.
― Out Of Thyme (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 December 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
i go to beefheart for something else, something that has as much in common w/ free jazz, exotica, the avant-garde, blahdiblah - and for me, decals is prob the ultimate expression of that.
Well there you go, I don't
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
First one I heard was "Doc at the Radar Station", which retains much of the avant garde aspects but with a tad more oomph, so, perfect for me really
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
― CGI fridays (Edward III), Thursday, December 6, 2012 5:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Damn I did not know that! Goodbye, single unbroken long-ass mp3 file...
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link