Can I have some love for the Captain?!
 

I mean, come on! Safe as Milk! Wow! Trout Mask Replica! Where would we be without it.

I cannot imagine traveling through life without my captain. Can you?

Uncle Beefy. He doesn't come around as much as Uncle Willie (Nelson), but he's always a welcome presence.

Captain Beefheart is my favorite musician of all time, as you might be aware. I own everything he's had any part in......

That last ep I did was clearly a Beefheart tribute and the next album I do will try to out-Trout Mask Trout Mask.

"Ice Cream for Crow" and "Lick My Decals Off, Baby" are two of the finest albums ever recorded.

I thought you meant this captain:

doc at the radar station, the first ever "post punk" album perhaps. Dirty Blue Gene is the best beefheart song.

i had no idea you were so into beefheart? ive loved him since i found trout mask replica in my dads record collection when i was 15, and thats when i rarely would listen to anything that wasnt at least in some way related to punk rock.

i have only trout mask - safe to say i think it is fantastic - i have been meaning to check out others...

I need to get me some of his studio albums. I only have a few compilations of his. which don't overally flow that well. Still a good listen though.

John Peel said it best.

"If there has ever been such a thing as a genius in the history of popular music, it's Beefheart…I heard echoes of his music in some of the records I listened to last week and I'll hear more echoes in records that I listen to this week."

i was hoping this would be dedicated to captain morgan's

but i'll settle for captain beefheart

One of my finest finds in a Goodwill (charity/thrift store) was a promo copy of Mirror Man for 53 cents.

53 cents! Man.

I've loved the Captain since around 87 when I picked up a TMR LP reissue on a whim. I'd just traded some records for cash at this record store, and they had TMR propped up on display on the counter. Just one copy. Used, I think. I took one look at the cover and just knew it was an album for me. The manager, who was kind of a jerk, said, "Ah, I just knew you'd go for something weird." Well, I'm glad I did. I'd heard of Doc and Ice Cream before, when they first came out, but I was buying so much other shit then that they kind of slipped away from me.

The Captain's easily in my top 5 favorites of all time.

I don't have a complete catalog. Still missing Unconditionally Guaranteed, Clear Spot, and Mirror Man. How do they compare with the rest?

clear spot is the one i am listening now. first album is heard from him. some quality guitar songs on it: big eyed beans from venus, clear spot, nowadays a woman...

the cd is in combination with the spotlight kid.

Mirror Man is all I have on vinyl and I like it. Its recorded live in LA in '65, kind of a blues jam record with cool vocals by the Captain.

Wow, 65. I didn't realize it was that early.

Me neither

I actually have lick my decals off, baby on vinyl. $5.

sure...love...here you go...love...love u captain wherever you are...

i wonder how many threads we've had about beefheart...an adequate amount or an inadequate amount?

i thought this was about captain jack...

well, not really.

beefheart is the best, trout mask replica is the greatest album ever made. just ignore his '74 releases...

soem of the riffs on those are cool, if nothing else.

UPON THE MI OH MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

Cool, I grabbed it when Rhino reissued it on vinyl a coupla years ago, and then it seems to have disappeared again.

R.I.P.

don's a genius.

no shit genius.

I have recently come to love the captain. Its the perfect music when youre in the mood for it. Or under the influence of some kind of substance.

Love given.

Dammit.