“This is what Ween sounds like to my friends.”🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bro is getting Scaruffi-pilled, definitely Patricianmaxxing. Beatlecels seething. Truly kusique

We getting out of Frownland with this one 🔥🔥🔥

At my college we have a “society of music” club and our club president loves to give a presentation about this album every semester and he will show up in his own homemade costume of Captain Beefheart on the album cover, like it’s a PERFECT costume head to toe with the fish mask, hat, coat, everything. It’s a super fun and hilarious presentation and it gave me a newfound respect for this unholy creation of an album. Long story short: Captain Beefheart was an abusive narcissist and God Bless the band that had to play what he “composed” for them.

This is something like an avant-garde parody and actually is boundary pushing and ahead of its time in many aspects, some of these riffs are literally math rock

Holy shit I just realised this is basically proto-Black Midi

I’m so sorry you had to go through this

"This is what Ween sounds like to my friends" omg I'm dying

React to some Zappa!!! Hot Rats or Apostrophe would be good starting points. Then there’s so much gold beyond that

Trout Mask Replica??? We're one step closer to Duck Stab by The Residents!! Come on 2 weirdo albums in a row

I found my way to this album after listening to years of math rock (weird time signatures) so my brain was kinda primed to "get it." Drawback of that is, I never got the experience of abject horror that it gives people the first time you hear it. I've tried for years to get someone to listen to all of it to see that in action, but it's absolutely impossible to get someone who isn't forced to listen to finish this album. I guess what I'm saying is, I voted on this to put you through the torture I never experienced. Deepest apologies 😂

here we go lol edit:watching the life slowly drain from him song by song is a sight

Genuinely one of my fave albums. Been obsessed with it for years.

one of the greatest albums ever made.

i think the beautiful thing about this album is that every once in a while, youll hear some incredible little piece of music, and then it just says no fuck you and changes it. thank u for the food smags

SMAGS AND BULBOUS

Strongly recommend reading up on the context behind it… might not make it any more tolerable but it sure renders it more interesting and impressive

Captain Beefheart was given complete artistic freedom from Frank Zappa to make this album. So he wrote tracks all at different time signatures and gave them to the band to play. It took months for them to learn to play them together. This is what the accomplishment is. Getting a band to play this is a massive challenge. It does take a few listens to get into. Which is hard to get people to do. Another great wacky album is "Bish Bosch" by Scott Walker.

Who up beefing their heart rn (I'm having a heart attack)

Next: Residents - Duck Stab, please!

fast n bulbous! fugazi - repeater reaction plz

only reaction channel that i would ever recommend the pod by ween

On first listen, it sounded terrible for the first 20 minutes, but I guess my brain adjusted to it because then it sounded absolutely amazing and blew my mind. It’s like I tapped into a different world and it all made sense.

"this is what ween sounds like to my friends" you gotta listen to The Pod then after this

True dedication to the craft

Safe As Milk or Clear Spot are Captain Beefheart albums that are wholeheartedly enjoyable if you’re looking for a more digestible sound from them

I think a lot of the appeal is the way all the pieces actually fit together even though they clash and seem disparate. Definitely one that takes multiple listens to start really appreciating but I understand people not wanting to try it again. It's a really interesting kind of "wild man" avant-garde spirit as opposed to the intellectual approach that we see more often. The album is also really strong thematically IMO and I really enjoy the lyrical themes like humanity vs. nature and war that complement the sound well. I don't listen to this album as much as my other favorites but its one of the most thought provoking albums. In a way this album feels like a painting more than any other album if that makes sense at all. strongly recommend his album Safe as Milk. it doesn't sound like this at all but it's a masterpiece, more of a 60s psychedelic+blues rock sound with amazing guitars

So much stuff on this album goes so hard. Some incredible dissonance played with true skill and guts. I love how free the expression is on this whole thing. Some very ugly moments, some beautiful, some scary, some just totally perplexing, some hilarious. Beautiful work of art

19:10 his reaction to pena was utter confusion and i love that lmao one of my favourite unhinged-core songs

I clicked on this for background noise only to have my hands covered in raw chicken and unable to click off.

please listen to some frank zappa or the mothers of invention ,would love it alot!

That Ween comment is so fucking real

So the thing about trout mask replica is that it utilizes both polyrhythms and polytonality, which gives them melodic structures that are very hard to follow on one's first listen through. But with repeated listens, it gets a lot easier to follow and gets more rewarding over time.

You should react to El jardin de los presentes by Invisible.

Idc what anybody says this is a great album, well atleast for me

If you think this is out there, I dare you to listen to Suicide’s self-titled debut from 1977 or “D.O.A. The Third and Final Annual Report” by Throbbing Gristle from 1978

Bro I would love to watch a reaction of Zappa's "Apostrophe". Such a fun album!

we gotta get you into actual free jazz of the same era… ornette, albert ayler, late-era coltrane

Day 75 of asking Smags to listen to: Portishead - Third King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland

This is true consistency. A master perfecting his craft through fire and flame

The ultimate Endurance test 😆 Godspeed Smags

I worked at a news station and would use this album for sound checks and shit cause I thought it was funny and by the time I stopped working there everyone unironically kinda loved this album. It used to piss people off so much too lmao.

I love Captain Beefheart. He was a 'fine artist' hence it's extremely experimental. Check out his paintings.

Waiting for this to be number one in the wrap up video

I have listened to so much avant-prog, no wave, noise rock and free jazz... and coming back to this doesnt really sound that weird. I think may be a bad thing as I have showed stuff to my into Ween, prog rock/post-punk friends thinking it was quite normal and not far out... and then they look at me with an "WTF" face. lol.

volcanic trout replica and the masked concern

Welcome to the avant-garde style of arrangement. Personally I like the album and Captain Beefheart in general. I know not everyone can get behind it, but I like music like this just as an expression. I think of it like traditional art and just open my mind to the experience. Beefheart is one of the more experimental, so you probably could have prepared yourself a bit more for this. For instance I also like artists like Laurie Anderson or even The Residents. (Which is really where Primus jocked their style from.) There's also a lot of underground types of artists or groups that people don't know much about. Like there is an album I uploaded on my channel by the group Skeletons. That album and some of their others are quite experimental as well, though perhaps a bit more palatable than something like Beefheart. Beefheart's story is an interesting one.

I highly highly recommend watching Samuel Andreyev's analysis of Frownland. It will make you realize it's not a troll and this is some of the most complex music of all time.

You mentioned Ween and Squidward...I assume you know the Spongebob creator credits Ween's "Mollosk" album as the inspiration for the show/characters...ya?

I JUMPED when i saw this. Dude i couldnt believe it

This album was rehearsed and performed by very talented musicians its sound it completely intentional this album was groundbreaking in its absurdity, this came out in the 60s and there are still very few albums as strange as it, with out it we don’t get so many other artists who draw from the absurdity, it’s in the library of congress for a reason not because it sounds good but because it changed music in a way few records have

It’d be neat if you did “The Residents” sometime

One of the best stories about these songs is that one of the members was tasked with writing songs on the piano. Not so weird, rigt? Yep, except the guy couldn't play piano. The band then transcribed his "songs" to guitar

I'm sure some other joker already told you this, but my favourite part about this album is that it was meticulously and AGGRESSIVELY arranged and conducted by everyone's favourite MS Painter don van vliet - it sounds like a deranged jam session but it's all been written very precisely. I used to love this album as a young teen cus it was so stupid and cus I could annoy my friends with it, but safe as milk and ice cream for crow are actually genuinely excellent records, unironically. Interesting dude.

I came up with Minutemen and Sebadoh, thinking they were the craziest bands. Then I heard Beefheart and it all made sense.

swag mask replica 😎

This is Funhouse on fentanyl

I think a excelent version of an album of this type of "lo-fi" "disorganized" is "Hi, how are you?" by Daniel Johnston. It's a very heavy and emotional listening tho, but was also famously known for being a Kurt Cobain favorite(he always wore a shirt with the album cover in it). I think it's way more melodic than this album overall too

ive heard that when they played these tracks live they were actually able to play them the exact same way as in the studio versions, i cant even fathom how you would be able to do that

One of my Top 5 of all time.

Zach Hill. Astrological Straits. Solo album. Thank you in advance.

18:35 Looks like he's about to cry in pain 18:59 "Yeah, that was not too bad."

This is definitely the intended reaction.

COMMENT 1 Random notes re lyrics - Bill's Corpse sounds lile a mass-destruction scenario but it was written to wind-up Bill Harkleroad who'd just lost his pet goldfish / the China Pig is just a money box which he's mentally conflated with a real pig / the usual theory if that if there's a "trans" song on the album it's Big Joan - mismatched hands and feet are common to someone who's Had The Operation / Fallin' Ditch is the grave - it's a song about depression / it's almost certain that Herb Bermann contributed to the lyrics to Ant Man Bee as well as Sugar 'n Spikes / Wild Life's protagonist is a homeless fugitive in a war zone / the narrator of Orange Claw Hammer is either literally mad or he's a bigamous sailor who's been fathering bastards on several continents for thirty years / Too Much For My Mirror - "she" may possibly be cocaine / The Blimp is partly a sex-demon song and partly an imitation of the Hindenburg Disaster commentary / Veterans Day Poppy is a war-death song (some people manage to miss that)

Yeah TMR is a ride on every listen, would recommend giving it a second chance in the future (even if its in a few years). When i heard it the second time i couldn't stop laughing and enjoyed it a ton through the nonsense. Definitely listen to some of the recs the comments have given you, The Residents, Scott Walker ( the second half of his albums specially, although Scott 4 is one of my favorite albums of all time), and Foetus come to mind.

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS MY GUY a few recommendations: Process - Sampha (experimental r&b, great production) Nurture - Porter Robinson (light summer electric with fun production) Koi No Yokan - Deftones (very heavy, sexier and heavier radiohead imo) OIL OF EVERY PEARLS UN-INSIDES - SOPHIE (experimental electronic) Hypochondriac - Brakence (very experimental emo rap, glitch pop) Reading Writing And Arithmetic - The Sundays (the smiths ish, with beautiful female vocals)

It's weird, energetic and amusing and musically masterful

That was a tough one

"The Drift" Scott Walker

you're so brave

Just in time for the hash to arrive!

please do God’s Country by Chat Pile 🙏🙏

Awesome Man!! Highly recommend Graceland by Paul Simon!!

My GOAT 🗣🗣🗣

You got it…..you figured it out! 20 minutes in……”it’s art….it’s art!” Sure is!

Can we get a gerogerigegege reaction too?

youve gotta listen to heaven or las vegas by cocteau twins this album is a blessing

Try "Safe as Milk" i reckon youd love it

You should react to a lil ugly mane project.

only way to follow up peak music is to listen to more peak, the new Bladee album🔥🔥

See a video of this band live. They rip. No joke, they are really sick. Live on Beat Club is an awesome video.

Love how you just ran head first into the insane maelstrom if Triut Mask Replica. Safe As Milk would've been, well, SAFER. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles and Electricity are two of my favourite tracks.

I see a lot of “Safe As Milk” and “Clear Spot” recommendations for an accessible Beefheart album, but I’d also strongly suggest “Strictly Personal”, which is Beefheart’s second album, the one after “Safe as Milk” but before “Trout Mask Replica”. It’s essentially a psychedelic blues rock album, and a lot of it sounds like alternative rock, like it could have been recorded in the 90’s. I don’t understand why no one talks about that one, because it’s such a fantastic primer for “Trout Mask”, but incredibly accessible as well. And far superior to “Safe As Milk”, and maybe tied with “Clear Spot”.

Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz pls 🙏

you NEEEED to react to Mr. Bungle. all 3 albums

Yeah... Im sorry for that one

Ah yes, definitely one of the albums of all time, full of very songs! 🧐🥴

Highly recommending you check out Public Strain by Women!

You should listen to "The Return of The Durutti Column". Beautiful album.

6:47 now here comes an important lesson regarding art and media: your first impressions are NEVER really accurate, more so if they are NEGATIVE. Take your time, put this work to rest and maybe revisit some years in the future when your mental library is bigger and more diverse. That's how I fell in love with Trout Mask Replica and many more pieces from different media.

Years since I listed to this mad as fuck album. I’d never have recommended it!

Still holding onto hope for Portishead - "Third" soon.

Can you please react to twenty one pilots Trench? love from Brazil

Please do The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails, or Trench - Twenty One Pilots!!

Couldn’t help but notice this isn’t “Daisy” by Brand New like I was sure it would be

one of the greatst albums ever shame you didnt like it , listen back to some of it in 6 months you may start getting it !

Black midi's grandfather

I remember when I first listened to this it sounded like noise to me. Over time It started to rub off. I love Captain Beefheart. You should check out Frank zappa "One size fits all".

Album recommendations: Waiting to Spill- The backseat lovers When we Were Friends- The backseat lovers Something you needed- Flipturn Shadowglow- Flipturn Songs- Adrianne Lenker Unreal Unearth- Hozier Close to Paradise- Patrick Watson Young Americans- David Bowie Everything so far- Pinegrove RMCM- Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners Good For You- Houndmouth The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We- Mitski

Nice!