Album Rating: 5.0
i genuinely don't understand the antipathy to this record -- it's not that unlistenable. there was a time when i thought it was o.k. and nothing more, but how can you dislike tracks like Pachuco Cadaver and Sweet Bulbs and Veteran's Day Poppy? not to sound like a dick but to these ears it doesn't sound especially weird even. idk.
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Album Rating: 1.0
http://78.media.tumblr.com/7770450fdd6e78d2e8670eb7bd64cbfd/tumblr_mgbo8n8Fu41qd37u4o1_1280.png
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Album Rating: 3.0
No comments on how Captain Beefheart pretty much tortured the rest of the band for the recording of this?
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Album Rating: 1.0
??????????????
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Album Rating: 3.0
In preparation, the group rehearsed Van Vliet's difficult compositions for eight months, living communally in a small rented house in the Woodland Hills suburb of Los Angeles. Van Vliet implemented his vision by asserting complete artistic and emotional domination of his musicians. At various times one or another of the group members was put "in the barrel", with Van Vliet berating him continually, sometimes for days, until the musician collapsed in tears or in total submission to Van Vliet. According to John French and Bill Harkleroad these sessions often included physical violence. French described the situation as "cultlike" and a visiting friend said "the environment in that house was positively Manson-esque." Their material circumstances also were dire. With no income other than welfare and contributions from relatives, the group survived on a bare subsistence diet. French recounted living on no more than a small cup of soybeans a day for a month and at one point band members were arrested for shoplifting food (with Zappa bailing them out).A visitor described their appearance as "cadaverous" and said that "they all looked in poor health". Band members were restricted from leaving the house and practiced for 14 or more hours a day. Vliet once told drummer John French he had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and thus he would see nonexistent conspiracies that explained this behaviour.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Too lazy to write it myself since im studying for an exam
So yeah, god bless wikipedia
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Album Rating: 1.0
...all that trouble for this?
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Album Rating: 3.0
Ikr lol
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Album Rating: 1.0
that kind of work approach is kinda known out there, it's been done successfully, but by people less indulgent
good luck on the test bro
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Album Rating: 4.0
I like indulgent lol
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Album Rating: 1.0
i like it when it has a purpose
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Album Rating: 4.0
Oh I don't care about purpose I just want it to sound appeal to me
personality, aesthetics
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Album Rating: 3.5
Doc at the Radar Station is still best Beefheart
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Album Rating: 4.0
Sirlord "In preparation, the group rehearsed Van Vliet's difficult compositions for eight months, living communally in a small rented house in the Woodland Hills suburb of Los Angeles. Van Vliet implemented his vision by asserting complete artistic and emotional domination of his musicians."
there is a cool doc on Zappa side projects/producuctions and there is a big section on this, billed him as a cult leader of sorts,
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"i like it when it has a purpose" Oh so you can safely say this has no purpose?
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Album Rating: 1.0
yea
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Album Rating: 3.0
it is nonsense tbh
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Album Rating: 1.0
way better, more focused stuff has been born out of more orthodox methods
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Album Rating: 5.0
it's a 5.0 sandwich!
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Album Rating: 1.0
with a double side of 1.0 and roasted 3.0
edit: fuck beat me to it
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