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 (eleven years ago) link
?
― Mark G, Monday, 24 June 2013 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
o ok.
― Mark G, Monday, 24 June 2013 13:19 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
lol opinions
― The drone that was played caused panic and confusion (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 01:48 (eleven 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
what does a high hat beaver moustache man look like? is it a fur hat? if not, is it a beaverish moustache?
― ogmor, Monday, 30 March 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
Moustache, I would assume.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Monday, 30 March 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
it's a thrillingly vague image!
― ogmor, Monday, 30 March 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link
He is (sort of) making up as he goes along too.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Monday, 30 March 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
was he seeing his own reflection at the time?
― Stevolende, Monday, 30 March 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
then who's the pirate friend?
― ogmor, Monday, 30 March 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
maybe he's catching two different glimpses of himself, or twizzling a spoon
― ogmor, Monday, 30 March 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
Frank Zappa (xp)
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Monday, 30 March 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
tbh this is possibly my least favorite Beefheart album (granted I've never listened to the Tragic Band stuff)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 March 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
amend that - I guess it's better than Lick My Decals Off, Baby.
Perfectly understandable.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Monday, 30 March 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
TMR is definitely the album I listened to the most times without enjoying while trying to get into it
― ogmor, Monday, 30 March 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
cosign, except substitute Pet Sounds for Trout Mask Replica.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Monday, 30 March 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
I know Bill Harkleroad has said he doesn't like the guitar sound, that they were just using some cheap amp, but I've always loved this album sonically, the sound of the four of them playing.
― timellison, Monday, 30 March 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
"It's a bush recording. We're out recording a bush."
Did he say that? I remember him saying, when they recorded "Moonlight On Vermont", which was the first thing he recorded with the band and was before the whole TMR saga, that Zappa turned all the knobs on the guitar amp way up and the sound was deafening.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Monday, 30 March 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
This album rules how can you not love it on first listen?
― brimstead, Monday, 30 March 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link