[Review] Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Safe As Milk (1967)
What do you get when you mix a poet, an artist, a talented band of blues-rock crazies and drugs? Clue: it ain’t milk.
Category: Captain Beefheart
[Review] Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Strictly Personal (1968)
Another love letter to the blue and the bizarrre, mailed from the remotest edge of reason.
[Review] Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica (1969)
Fast, bulbous and tapered for your pleasure… Captain Beefheart’s beefy monsterpiece.
[Review] Frank Zappa: Hot Rats (1969)
A mindblender of jazz, classical and rock music that stands as one of the greatest albums of the twentieth century.
[Review] Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)
Beefheart flexes his magic muscle one last time for these bite-size replicas of Trout Mask Replica.
[Review] Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Mirror Man (1971)
Recorded in between their first and second albums, this is four thick, meaty slices of classic Beefheart blues-rock dementia.
[Review] Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: One Size Fits All (1975)
The last album from the last and best lineup of The Mothers, featuring two sofas and a modified dog.
[Review] Frank Zappa/Captain Beefheart/The Mothers: Bongo Fury (1975)
Okay, so it’s not a replica of Trout Mask Replica, but the pair still create sparks on this suitably demented outing.
[Review] Frank Zappa: Zoot Allures (1976)
Guitar, bass, keyboards… Zappa does it all (over you) on his latest studio album.
[Review] The Tubes: Now (1977)
The Tubes sack their producer and mutinous chaos ensues. Captain Beefheart appears briefly.