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Amirkhosro
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Age: 37
Location: Tehran 
- #1
- Posted: 01/08/2017 17:58
- Post subject: AmirKhosro's notes and stuff
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I listen to music a lot. Also think about it a lot and make it too. I used to be in Listology. I'm new to this forum but it's lovely.
Anyway, this is gonna be notes and rants about albums songs artists etc. Feel free to chime in.
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AfterHours
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Amirkhosro
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Location: Tehran
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- Posted: 02/09/2017 22:01
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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
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HIS magic band vs. THE magic band
I think Trout Mask Replica has ruined Beefheart's reputation. No, I don't think it's a bad album. It's a masterpiece in its own right. He's a great artist. But as a fan who has listened to all of his music for 12 years, I believe it's far from his best. It's just his loudest and most brutal piece of work. He has other albums too. Albums you can listen to on a daily basis.
Picking the best Beefheart is the hardest thing for me right now. Each album has its own thing going, and it's going perfect. I can only narrow it down to:
Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Sounds like Trout Mask Replica's older, more sociable brother who has his shit figured out. Much fewer IN-YOUR-FACE surprises and a bit less horn freakouts (although it has its fair share), but more intricate, sophisticated musical passages, building surreal time-warp tension and what-the-fuck-just-happened resolves. Another huge difference is that he actually sings (in key!) this time, instead of howling poetry above atonal grooves. There's a marimba too! Plus what's perhaps the best double drum rhythm section you can find on a rock record.
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Doc at the Radar Station
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AfterHours
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- Posted: 02/09/2017 23:08
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Despite my withheld urge to unleash an overly congested paragraph of Trout Mask Replica's many astonishing emotional/conceptual facets, I am digging this already, and love the fact you point due attention to his other great works -- even if I unequivocally feel TMR is far superior 
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Facetious
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Age: 25
Location: Somewhere you've never been 
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- Posted: 02/11/2017 11:43
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| Amirkhosro wrote: | Picking the best Beefheart is the hardest thing for me right now. Each album has its own thing going, and it's going perfect. I can only narrow it down to:
Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Sounds like Trout Mask Replica's older, more sociable brother who has his shit figured out. Much fewer IN-YOUR-FACE surprises and a bit less horn freakouts (although it has its fair share), but more intricate, sophisticated musical passages, building surreal time-warp tension and what-the-fuck-just-happened resolves. Another huge difference is that he actually sings (in key!) this time, instead of howling poetry above atonal grooves. There's a marimba too! Plus what's perhaps the best double drum rhythm section you can find on a rock record.
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Doc at the Radar Station |
Good to see you came around to Shiny Beast. Love all of these, add Safe as Milk, TMR and Mirror Man and you've got yourself a perfect top 6 (although these aren't the Magic Band's only excellent albums of course).
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AfterHours
Gender: Male
Location: The Zone
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- Posted: 02/11/2017 19:05
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@ Facetious
Stick around, post some lists/diaries, drop more comments/suggestions, etc. Screw school. Music is life haha
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Amirkhosro
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Location: Tehran
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- Posted: 02/24/2017 20:32
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| Afterhours wrote: | | Despite my withheld urge to unleash an overly congested paragraph of Trout Mask Replica's many astonishing emotional/conceptual facets, I am digging this already, and love the fact you point due attention to his other great works -- even if I unequivocally feel TMR is far superior |
Glad you're digging this!
TMR is a magnificent beast of an album and I can see how its massive amount of ambitious experimentation has made it look like Beefheart's magnum opus and/or his most "far-out" and "uncompromising" record, but as far as I'm concerned, he matured on subsequent albums and his content and style progressed with him. His albums are very different from one another but if I had to compare, I'd pick Doc at the Radar Station over Trout Mask Replica almost any time of the day, and both of these album have the same instrumentation (twin guitars, bass, drums, horns, synth in Doc's case) and a similar aggressive and abrasive vibe. Interesting how his voice in TMR tends to sound like a cartoonish old bluesman who took a lot of acid, while on Doc he's clearly an angry white guy who's so pissed off that he's setting your speakers on fire.
Ice Cream For Crow has a lot of similarities with TMR too but it's nowhere near that masterpiece. It's a somewhat tired and uninspired album in spite of a few spectacular tracks.
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AfterHours
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- Posted: 02/24/2017 23:18
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Fair enough! I haven't given Doc that much attention for a while, but if it becomes anywhere near as amazing as TMR for me -- or, holy crap, surpasses it -- then I'll be quite bowled over -- and would love for that to be the case!
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