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He's an actor, ya know?

Aye, he's cool as all hell. You heard Beefheart's stuff then, Orr? Big influence on Waits, especially the Sworfishtrombone-stuff and on.

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Love the **** out of yesterdays here.

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I'm a massive Beefheart fan.

 

heavy_hands couldn't possibly be the legend combatesdeboxeo could it?

 

Take it easy. Listen to debut album 'Safe As Milk' which is weird but very accessible.

Then try 'Trout Mask Replica'. You'll hate it, everyone does. Listen to it numerous times and it'll all click and you'll be in awe.

Then the follow-up 'Lick off my Decals, Baby'. Even more impenetrable.

 

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The life anthem for any self-respecting anti-hipster.This plays when Pachilles and Red Cobra walk imperiously down the street.

 

BORKED for me what is it Mante'?

 

It may seem like everyone is playing a different song and are all tuned differently and everyone keeps misstepping and playing bum notes but every single second was planned and Beefheart ran the rehearsals like a dictator. A mental one.

After a few listens, you realise the dense arrangements are probably the most seamless and perfectly executed you've ever heard. It is genuinely a masterpiece. Not in the way albums are often portrayed to be, it's a work of art. Sounds like I'm being hugely pretentious but for this album it's wholly justified.

 

I cannot really put into words the journey I went on with Trout Mask Replica. Had heard it a few times but didn't have Internet at 15, not accesible enough that I was trawling through Wikipedia. Bought it for £7 IIRC from town. Got home, sparked one up and put it on...what a load of ****. I scorned the hipster types who were obviously saying it was good to seem cool.

But there was one track I liked so I replayed it. Probably chucked it on again a couple of days after the first listen. Didn't stop/rewind the track in time and heard a bit of the next one. Probably got mashed one day and heard a phrase in another track I half enjoyed. Played it to Dad, who had only heard of Beefheart when he was winding down and we had a chuckle about how mad it was.

Then it dawned on me. The album is hilarious. Even when it's talking 'bout the Holocaust.

Very serious music that is so bonkers in it's stylings it forces a smile across your face. I still cannot fathom it. Every time I listen to it (now from start to finish and a few times over whenever the urge takes me) it amazes me.

Confidently, I can say it is one of the very best examples of MUSIC I have ever heard. Right up there with anything from any time of any genre. And enigmatic, maybe by design but certainly in terms of still trying to put all the pieces of a seemingly jagged and disjointed puzzle together over the years.

 

Wow. The above is likely the most pretentious and gushing sequence of words I have ever put together in my life.

 

What other weird stuff do ya' listen to? Are you into Funkadelic at all? My favourite album of theirs is one I find to not be as favoured, but it's their most confusing 'Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow'

Try out Monks 'Black Monk Time' a lost classic IMO(EDIT: I say 'lost' it did receive a bit of press a few years back when it was re-released, which was nice to see but not so much for the recently departed members who spent 40-odd years in the wilderness). Some American G.I's based in Germany shave their heads and make repetitive noise-pop-rock n' roll. Glorious stuff and very accessible as well.

Then again I'm a fan of The Fall. Who are a very marmite outfit (well Mark E.Smith is)

 

Anything with Hazel is worth checking out.

 

I love 00-09 r&b such a chilled vibe.

Joined a boxing gym today as well, used to play football but my knee couldn't take it. Seems to be ok with boxing though.

 

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Only instance of Chavez and Duran interacting that I've seen.

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I listen to everything apart from all you guys mad ****.

Nothing better than some proper band music in the gym, Oasis, James, Stone Roses et... With a couple of cheesy songs thrown in Push it to limit from scarface, a rockky song, bad boys et.... then some dance classics like underworld or something