Frownland by Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band: Analysis

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top notch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FhhB9teHqU

scott seward, Friday, 31 March 2017 12:52 (seven years ago) link

Whaddaya wanna know?

Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Friday, 31 March 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link

Oh sorry, the video is analysing "Frownland".

Bill Teeters (Tom D.), Friday, 31 March 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link

i like to imagine that the narrator of the song is actually a hippie who doesn't want to listen to trout mask replica. don't take me to frownland!

scott seward, Friday, 31 March 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link

I know it's heretical, but I don't like "Trout Mask" in it's entirety, but the bits I do like I *love*. This is one of them.

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 31 March 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link

nah there are a few tracks on tmr that i've also never come around to no matter how much i've listened to the album and loved much of the rest.

new noise, Friday, 31 March 2017 15:40 (seven years ago) link

Good stuff, pretty amazing when he plays his transcriptions!

Minor beef about rock bassists not playing chords - not true for Jack Casady and Phil Lesh.

timellison, Friday, 31 March 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link

Jack Bruce, too.

flappy bird, Friday, 31 March 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link

I really like his refuting the idea that it's atonal and focusing on the different tonalities of particular phrases. That is a big part of the music's charm for me.

timellison, Friday, 31 March 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw_fWpymCDg

timellison, Saturday, 22 July 2017 02:45 (six years ago) link


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