The Official Captain Beefheart Thread (albums, tracks, quote, artists)

[Lisnaholic]

^ Well, let us know when that comes out please.

Anyone have an opinion on Jeff Cotton' s Mu album, btw ? I like to see old threads bumped, so here' s a chance for someone to breath life into a thread that deserved more attention :-

http://www.musicbanter.com/prog-psyc...mu-1971-a.html

Rather more on topic, almost every track on TMR has stellar lyrics; I agree with Frownland about MyHumanGetsMeBlues. I also love the words of Old Fart at Play, Pachuco Cadaver, Pena Her Little Head Clinking, etc etc.

A fave that's not on TMR is Bellerin' Plain:-

Parapliers the willow dipped
Rolled roots gnarled like rakers
This hollow hole don’t hold no jokers or fakers
Don’t fall by no jokers or fakers
Puller down to the stirrin’ hay acres
Parapliers pinches uh levy ‘n pulled way thru the toe
Foothills, locomotives walked ‘n sugar beets rolled
Down the tracks
Sunburn bounce soot off the black smokestacks
Parapliers pinched up slow down the sky
Blue ‘o’ poured the engineer’s voice
Whstlin’ down low ‘n piped like clacks
By the ol’ scarecrow
‘n pots ‘n pans burn the fireman’s hands till the
Kettle leaped fire round the belly ‘o’
The bayou boy bums with sunken gums
‘n pits his strength to the 7th sons down
Parapliers rumbled like uh straight iron gun
Like uh red hot iron thru the egg white ‘o’
Sunnyland drum, horn blow
Sun like uh bubble pop yellow, down she go
Mah cowcatcher whistled like uh steel flash scream
Hose sucked out for water ‘n the wheeldriver
Sparkled like an Indian flint
‘n the fireman ‘n the brakeman bent ‘n waved his long red underwear arm
All aboard
The lantern flared ‘n the caboose waved uh green gone on

^ Has just the right mixture of brilliant, comprehensible and incomprehensible lines imo.