Beefheart - Spotlight is better than Shiny Beast? Oh no it's not, oh yes it is......

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Poll ended at 04 Jan 2021, 17:15

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Always
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Never
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Total votes: 20
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Re: Do you get Beefheart....?

Postby C » 03 Jan 2021, 21:05

If Shiny Beast [Bat Chain Puller] could get any better perhaps this is it?

Yes/No...?

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Re: Do you get Beefheart....?

Postby Charlie O. » 03 Jan 2021, 21:42

It's awfully good.
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Re: Do you get Beefheart....?

Postby C » 04 Jan 2021, 15:23

Charlie O. wrote:It's awfully good.


I love it!

It must be worth a few bob Chas....?





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Re: Do you get Beefheart....?

Postby Charlie O. » 04 Jan 2021, 17:28

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Charlie O. wrote:It's awfully good.


I love it!

It must be worth a few bob Chas....?

'Deed it is. I'm surprised the Zappa clan haven't reissued it.
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Re: Do you get Beefheart....?

Postby C » 06 Jan 2021, 17:42

Why are the horn players on the Clear Spot album ‘unknown’...?

Surely somebody knows who they were/are






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Postby Carlisle Wheeling » 07 Jan 2021, 02:01

I got lucky at the last Magic Band gig in Manchester. I got to talk to John French and there were a couple of copies of the album. I coughed up and got him to sign. A very approachable and engaging guy, he did a great job on vocals.

The album is, of course, wonderful.

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Postby C » 07 Jan 2021, 12:15

Carlisle Wheeling wrote:I got lucky at the last Magic Band gig in Manchester. I got to talk to John French and there were a couple of copies of the album. I coughed up and got him to sign. A very approachable and engaging guy, he did a great job on vocals.

The album is, of course, wonderful.

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Nice Dave.

Very nice






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Re: Do you get Beefheart....?

Postby C » 08 Jan 2021, 10:50

Six String wrote:Listening to Clear Spot now and it’s sounding good to these old cloth ears.


It's a corker Les.

Not one of my top 5 favourites but certainly robust of the seminally nature.

I could listen to this track all day:








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Re: Beefheart - LIST YOUR TOP 5

Postby C » 08 Jan 2021, 10:52

LIST YOUR TOP 5 ALBUMS






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Re: Beefheart - LIST YOUR TOP 5 ALBUMS

Postby Charlie O. » 08 Jan 2021, 18:24

Strictly Personal, TMR, Decals (roughly tied for top three spots)

Safe As Milk, Clear Spot (roughly tied for fourth/fifth)
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Re: Beefheart - LIST YOUR TOP 5 ALBUMS

Postby Charlie O. » 08 Jan 2021, 18:26

By the way, we missed Decals' 50th anniversary last month! (I always thought it was a 1971, album, so I looked it up...)
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Postby C » 08 Jan 2021, 18:54

Charlie O. wrote:By the way, we missed Decals' 50th anniversary last month! (I always thought it was a 1971, album, so I looked it up...)


Bugger Chas - so we did mate!

My top 5 [order changes daily]

Trout Mask Replica
Lick My Decals Off, Baby
The Spotlight Kid
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Clear Spot

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Ice Cream for Crow

Sometimes Ice Cream for Crow squeezes in at the expense of Clear Spot but "Big Eyed Beans from Venus" gets it back in pretty quickly!




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Re: Beefheart - LIST YOUR TOP 5 ALBUMS

Postby toomanyhatz » 08 Jan 2021, 19:04

Clear Spot

Decals

TMR


Shiny Beast/Bat Chain Puller
Safe as Milk
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Re: Beefheart - LIST YOUR TOP 5 ALBUMS

Postby C » 08 Jan 2021, 19:10

toomanyhatz wrote:Clear Spot

Decals

TMR


Shiny Beast/Bat Chain Puller
Safe as Milk


No love for Spotlight Kid...?

and Chas




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Re: Beefheart - LIST YOUR TOP 5 ALBUMS

Postby Charlie O. » 08 Jan 2021, 19:12

C wrote:
toomanyhatz wrote:Clear Spot

Decals

TMR


Shiny Beast/Bat Chain Puller
Safe as Milk


No love for Spotlight Kid...?

and Chas

I know hatz loves me. He's just shy.
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Re: Beefheart - LIST YOUR TOP 5 ALBUMS

Postby C » 08 Jan 2021, 19:16

Charlie O. wrote:
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toomanyhatz wrote:Clear Spot

Decals

TMR


Shiny Beast/Bat Chain Puller
Safe as Milk


No love for Spotlight Kid...?

and Chas

I know hatz loves me. He's just shy.


You daft sod - answer the bloody question!






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Re: Beefheart - LIST YOUR TOP 5 ALBUMS

Postby Charlie O. » 08 Jan 2021, 19:17

Yes, The Spotlight Kid is pretty far down the list for me, despite it being my "first Beefheart." I do love it, but there's something kind of frustrating about it. (I gather that the Captain and his band felt the same way.)
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Re: Beefheart - LIST YOUR TOP 5 ALBUMS

Postby Darkness_Fish » 08 Jan 2021, 20:07

Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Trout Mask Replica
Doc at the Radar Station
Ice Cream for Crow
Decals

Top 2 are way ahead of the others though.
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Re: Beefheart - LIST YOUR TOP 5 ALBUMS

Postby mudshark » 08 Jan 2021, 20:08

Is there no love for "Doc at the Radar Station"? I think it's his best attempt to produce a 'normal' album. Where Unconditionally Guaranteed' miserably failed this one did have some Commercial Potential. With Bat Chain Puller it's the only Beefheart album that still gets regular airtime home on the ranch.
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Re: Beefheart - LIST YOUR TOP 5 ALBUMS

Postby Charlie O. » 08 Jan 2021, 20:13

mudshark wrote:Is there no love for "Doc at the Radar Station"? I think it's his best attempt to produce a 'normal' album. Where Unconditionally Guaranteed' miserably failed this one did have some Commercial Potential.

I'd have that at #6 - it's really great.

I'm surprised you hear it the way you do, though - I think of it as one of his thorniest!
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