Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot POLL

Got to be "Big Eyed Beans...."

almost every track is great but have gone for 'clear spot'

Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles are why I bought the album.

beans

Low Yo Yo Stuff - the opening 10 seconds made me sit up and take notice the first time I heard it. Big Eyed Beans tries to hard for me to like it.

easily my fave of his LPs (and I love the others). voted "My Head Is..."

Yeah "My Head is" is totally sweet <3

isn't this Herman's favorite Beefheart LP too?

which album is Party of Special Things to Do on?

golden birdies

just kiddin

MR. ZOOT HORN ROLLO - HIT THAT LONGGGG LUNAR NOTE - AND LET IT FLOAT

I think I'd rank Big Eyed Beans slightly above Lo Yo Yo Stuff but I also have a soft spot for Too Much Time. great album.

'Nowadays' has been in the rotation lately but voting 'Circumstances' as that is the one that would really move my feet if I saw a/the band do it live. I am a big fan of this album.

buy the trout mask replica house:

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Wau.

Man that kind of money wouldnt buy a studio apartment where I live :(

Beck's got a few spare bob...

it is kind of a record without fault though

my second favourite beefheart. went for the title track, although "her eyes..." is beautiful.

I *thought* I really loved this album, but if you asked me to hum some of these songs e.g. Circumstances, I would be totally stumped. So I need to listen to it again I think.

YOU DO

This album is almost perfect. "Beans" is perfect.

so much good stuff. Long Neck Bottles may be kinda dumb, but has a great drive, I'll go with that just over Beans

my favorite beefheart

picked the title track

Just getting into this album, should have an answer by the closing date.

A Safe as Milk poll would be impossible.

groovy little party this album is. I picked "Long Neck Bottles"

whoa @ the trout mask replica house being for sale!
not sure what to vote for here -- it is kind of a perfect record.

this album is a fucking 10.0/10.0 classic in my book. i get chills listenign to this

every song if i could choose

but especially "Yo Yo", "Too Much Time" and "Venus"

"Circumstances" for that incredible train noise breakdown thing

the mix of genuine romantic sentimentality, lust, misogyny and wanting to fuck his guitar is just...everything

"can't find my kind of folks havin fun....i have to RRUUUUUUUN RUUUUUUUUUUUN RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUnnnnnnn"

Didja know that Joan Osborne borrowed the music from that one for "My Right Hand"?? Don probably earned more royaltie$ for that one than any record of his own, ever...

Love this record, my favourite "commercial" Beefheart album. I like how he telegraphs every one of Rollo's solos and interacts with the Blackberries - it's like he's saying "I'm not really a freak, I'm a showman putting on a show, please buy my record!" He may not be weird, but he sure is hungry. A first-rate sellout, even if it still didn't really sell.

Voting for "Sun Zoom Spark". That cowbell!

yeah weirdly gary lucas played on that joan osborne record.

I know this is the wrong thread, but I have to say I was amazed that no-one referenced the 'version' of "Ah feel like ahcid" that was a big hit a few years ago, to Captain Beefheart.

I don't remember that

Yeah, what was it called anybody?....

.. I think it's this one..

35 Mint Royale Blue Song Feb 2003

Joan Osborne has covered "Blue Million Miles" off that record too. She's clearly a fan.

There's this passage in Zoot's book where he pretty much says that all the TMR anguish was washed away when he heard Don say "MISTER Zoot Horn Rollo: hit that long lunar note and let it float."

I think it might be My Head Is My Only...

The title track is also bitching.

yeah, was tempted by just those two (before succumbing to beans)

listened to this yesterday, voted for the title track

lazer beans

Can't find my kinda folks havin fun tbh

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Forgot to vote, think I would've bumped up My Head... I like how starts with a straightforward kind of souly riff, then turns all harmonically weird and complex, then back again.

I really fucking love this record. Maligned unfairly imho, really great stuff.

I mean even this:

Crazy Little Thing - 0

is kinda O_O

Maligned? Nooh. Never seen it maligned.

Same here, never happened that I'm aware of, 'twould be madness to malign this album

I think it's the one I'd wanna listen to if I were given a choice. Definitely the grooviest.

at this point i feel like the captain doesn't actually have any bad albums -- a couple are less inspired, but i still love all of them.

Been really digging Spotlight Kid lately. But yeah, they all have their charms imo.

the one i'm actually most disappointed in is bongo fury, because of the potential for greatness that it doesn't quite reach. i should see if there are bootlegs of that tour.

I think that Robyn Hitchcock recently did this album complete for one of his "with Heavy Friends" London shows. You can hear its influence on the Soft Boys, especially A Can Of Bees.

ONCE YOU FIND OUUU-WOWWWT

(bwah dah dah!!!)

THE CIRCUMSTANCES

THEN YOU CAN GO OWWWWT AN'

WHOA YEAH

yeah would love to hear that hitchcock show!

For sure:

To celebrate Captain Beefheart and his life on Earth, Robyn Hitchcock and the Imaginary Band will perform the album `Clear Spot' and a few other Beefheart compositions at the Garage, London, June 3th and Wychwood Festival, Cheltenham, June 4th. "In the early Soft Boys we tried to cross Abbey Road with Trout Mask Replica", says Robyn: "It didn't always work but it was some hybrid. The most exciting show I've ever seen was Beefheart and The Magic Band in 1973. This won't be as accurate as the John French/Magic Band gigs a few years back, but Clear Spot is quite a party album, and we're planning to have quite a party". The Imaginary Band will be Paul Noble and Terry Edwards on guitars and bass, Jenny Adejayan on cello, and Stephen Irvine on drums.

heyyy, i just posted that Hitchcock Clear Spot show over here: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/12839680217/that-long-lunar-note-it-doesnt-come-across-quite
it's awesome! surprisingly great imo.

Don't really like Robyn Hitchcock but I'll give that a listen, thanks tyler!

So, so difficult....Cirumstances (but could be practically any other track on another day).

http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/captain-beefheart-clear-spot-round-39-toms-selection/

How did "Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man" only get one vote?

Because you couldn't persuade anyone else.. etc?

I wasn't in this thread, lamb chops.

this is the best album ever made

ya know i thought i'd heard this one in full before, but i'm listening now and i don't think i have. a woman shoulda hit this man as punishment for my ignorance.

needless to say, this thing is a powerhouse.

I regard "Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles" as the perfect response to The Guess Who's awful eyes song.

'my head is my only house' is severely underrepresented here, i think it's the best beefheart ballad by a country mile

don coming through with the proto-rappin on "low yo yo stuff." just jokin, kinda.

the two-fer cd of this and spotlight kid is one of the most classic 'idk what to play so i'll just play this again' picks of my record store clerk days.

xp I totally agree, that one slays me

'idk what to play so i'll just play this again' picks

others in this category include:

miles bitches brew
slits cut
eric dolphy out to lunch
curtis live

and fiona apple when the pawn if my coworkers were being dicks. i loved hearing it in the big store stereo but they were all too macho for fiona.