'Maybe I'll give it another play' is like a key to unlock all the doors of discovery

ONLY SEVEN DOLLARS

At the tenth listen to this album Matt realized he wanted to make the simpsons 3D. That was the moment he went insane.

When most bands come out with an album you can hear their influences in the music. In other words it is directly connected to something that was, in turn, derived from earlier music. Western music tradition has evolved linearly like that. Obviously something is added to go from blues to rock but its still a small incremental change considering how much of the composition is familiar. I feel like Captain Beefheart simply said "why don't we change a bunch of things at once" which is why you have to listen to them many times before you can appreciate it. YOU have to make it familiar.

The most challenging album in popular music

My dad always told me "you had to be on a shit load of drugs back then just to listen to captain beefheart"

I agree totally with Matt. The first time I listened to it, I hated it, sort of. It grew on me and now, I love it. One has to be in the mood for weird stuff.

A lot of ppl feel the same way as Matt when first time when listening to it, but for me I initially loved it and listened to it all the time, but these days it's not one of my absolute favourites anymore. It's not that fresh for me anymore, but it's still pretty amazing.

Matt's assessment is the best review i've ever heard for Trout Mask Replica. When i first listened to it i couldn't believe he could even sit through it once, let alone seven or eight times. I'm on about my fourth listen now and it does get better every time. First time i thought it'd never be over with. Now it feels more like half an hour and i wish there was more lol.

This sounds like that he was being hypnotized...

I was the same way. The first time I heard this, I was like "What is this...?" and I thought it was crap. But then, I gave it another chance and realized, yeah, it sounds bad intentional. Then I listened to it with headset, and I started to love it more and more. And now, I sit it up there with Chicago's 2nd album and The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper as the greatest album I've ever heard

I agree w Matt also. Granted this record is miles away from Blues, but I think part of why I could learn to appreciate the record was because I had already fallen in love w blues and blues singers like Howling Wolf and Matt referenced a Blues sensibility still present in Captain Beef Harts's music on this record. If you're reading this & can't find a "way into" the music, maybe try searching for that element of Blues that's still in his music. It may help to listen to Captain Beefhart's early recordings.

To say that album is bizarre is an understatement. Putting on headphones in a dark room, closing your eyes, and playing this album in full is the closest thing you'll get to tripping without actually taking drugs. I still don't know how I feel about it. It is a fascinating album, I don't know if it's good or bad, but it's truly something I haven't heard before.

0:11 Owen Wilson

An album that would be immediately skipped on Spotify and never heard from again if released today. Thankfully it was not :)

Same thing with Mr. Bungle. But I'll be damned if that isn't the best "look at this shit" album ever put out as a first effort on a major label

It's hard to take him seriously with Bart just staring into the camera

great record, everyone needs to check it out.

This perfectly describes how I felt about Southern Discomfort by EYEHATEGOD when I was a teenager. That was more than 20 years ago. The albums you love the most often have to grow on you.

Pop music is carefully engineered to beguile at first listen. Art, on the other hand

I loved it on first listen. But then, it felt familiar to me cause my brain is always mashing random ass bits of music together in the background of every thought I have. The organized chaos of the thing was like finding out someone had recorded my brain and put it on record.

RYM neophyte: 0:09 RYM veteran: 1:04

I'll see your captain Beefheart and I'll raise you one The Shaggs philosophy of the world

I bought this album too back in the day. Curious artifact of recording history - inducted recently in the Library o Congress Hall of Fame or something? It didn't work for me.

The audio doesnt sync at all with the video

They sound like the Electric Mayhem band

Better then most modern pop music

What documentary is this from?

two more albums that function like this: suspended animation by fantomas and alphaville by imperial triumphant

I just can’t get into this album, man…there are Captain Beefheart tracks I’ll listen to if I’m in that kind of mood…ella guru, click clack, moonlight on vermont, etc. But as a whole, it just doesn’t *move* me. There’s nothing that hooks me in and makes me go “whoa 😶”. There are fucked up bands who DO give me that reaction (gentle giant, sleepytime gorilla museum, burzum, babymetal, my bloody valentine) but Captain Beefheart eludes me to this day…and I’m gonna be 40 in a few years 🤷‍♂️.

I can only speak for myself but albums I usually like the very first listen I usually get bored with very quickly & albums I have to listen to a few times to understand usually wind up being in my favorite category, there are always a few exceptions with both activities but the majority of the time it usually plays out that way for me.

It's a shame that if someone even had the slightest desire to listen to my music more than once, they'd say, "Yup, this IS awful..."

I got my CD copy for £4 in Virgin Megastore 13 years ago, fucking bargain!

Similar story to my own, except I did like a few of the songs on it at first. But, yes, there were some that sounded like noise, on purpose or not. But I also thought I just paid a lot of money for this double album and if I listen to it a bunch of times I'll have gotten my money's worth. Yes, after a while I said. this is for me, I dig it! The song that they are playing during this interview with Matt, Ella Guru is where I got my stage name from.

Good hell

Word

me when i hear on sight (yeezus)

I disagree with them not trying. You have to try to be that bad.

Most every album grows on you by the 3rd or 4th hearing. Not good enough of an answer.

This album will outlast all its detractors. People will be listening to this for centuries.

Rotting whale meat is an aquired taste.

LMFAO! Dude, I can promise you that Trout Mask Replica is most certainly not the greatest album ever made. IMHO, Beefheart is in the same category as Wagner. " Wagners music is better than it sounds." as said by my music theory prof. Bwahahahah!!....and its not over until the fat lady sings!

He actually seriously compared Beefheart's singing to Howlin' Wolf?? Ok, their voices are deep & gravely but that's where the similarities end.

Honestly this sounds like everyone who has tried to justify a bad purchase to themselves.

He likes really bad music.

Too bad it took you so many listens tuh get it. My first experience was put the needle down on every song fer a few seconds, only to realize this is the worst shit ever recorded. Later I heard the song Ella Guru on acid 'n suddenly I was aware o' the genius...pretend to be disjointed whilst bein' in total control.

I'm on my 20th listen and now its even more annoying than the first time I heard it. Matt must've been telling himself "YOU'LL GROW TO LIKE IT. YOU'LL GROW TO LIKE IT. YOU'LL GROW TO LIKE IT. YOU'LL GROW TO LIKE IT. YOU'LL GROW TO LIKE IT!" every time he played it to himself. IT'S SHIT. The end.