Trout Mask Replica

Trout Mask Replica
Album cover
Album by Captain Beefheart
Released	October, 1969
Recorded	???
Genre	Rock
Length	77 min 38 sec
Record label	Reprise Records
Producer	Frank Zappa
Professional reviews
Q	5 stars out of 5	November 1994
Rolling Stone	Favourable	July 1969
Popmatters	Extremely Favourable	April 2003
Robert Christgau	Grade: B+	link
Allmusic.com	5 stars out of 5	link
Captain Beefheart Chronology
Strictly Personal (1969)	Trout Mask Replica (1970)	Mirror Man (1970)

Trout Mask Replica is a 1969 album by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. Combining elements of blues, free jazz, and other apparently disparate bits of American music, it is widely regarded as one of the most important works in experimental music.

Regarding it, BBC DJ John Peel has said "If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art would understand, then Trout Mask Replica is probably that work." Peel's airplay of the record on late-night radio in Britain was sufficient to cause the album, for all its inaccessibility and cacophony, to spend a week at number 21 on the UK charts.

It is number 58 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and number 45 on Joe S. Harrington's Top 100 Albums.

Track Listing

All songs written by Captain Beefheart.

1. "Frownland"
2. "The Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back"
3. "Dachau Blues"
4. "Ella Guru"
5. "Hair Pie: Bake 1"
6. "Moonlight On Vermont"
7. "Pachuco Cadaver"
8. "Bills Corpse"
9. "Sweet Sweet Bulbs"
10. "Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish"
11. "China Pig"
12. "My Human Gets Me Blues"
13. "Dali's Car"
14. "Hair Pie: Bake 2"
15. "Pena"
16. "Well"
17. "When Big Joan Sets Up"
18. "Fallin' Ditch"
19. "Sugar 'N Spikes
20. "Ant Man Bee"
21. "Orange Claw Hammer"
22. "Wild Life"
23. "She's Too Much For My Mirror"
24. "Hobo Chang Bo"
25. "The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)"
26. "Steal Softly Thru Snow"
27. "Old Fart At Play"
28. "Veteran's Day Poppy"