Bluejeans & Moonbeams
by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band bestography
Bluejeans & Moonbeams is ranked 10th best out of 31 albums by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band is Trout Mask Replica which is ranked number 275 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,930.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Bluejeans & Moonbeams track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Bluejeans & Moonbeams rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 29 Music Albums of 1974 | 17/29 | 2 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 55/100 | 9 |
| 2026 |  Squonk007 | Top 18 Music Albums of 1974 | 9/18 | 3 |
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 33/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 83 Music Albums of 1974 | 8/83 | 5 |
| 2025 | spinout | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1970s | 93/99 | 1 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 84/100 | 1 |
| 2024 | martintho | Top 68 Music Albums of 1974 | 37/68 | 2 |
| 2023 | bloosy | Top 60 Music Albums of the 1970s | 42/60 | 6 |
| 2022 | arnellarsen | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 68/100 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 25 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 77 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/17/2026 18:08 | Rswiv | 30 | 65/100 |
| ! | 02/27/2026 15:27 | Squonk007 | 773 | 24/100 |
| ! | 12/30/2025 10:36 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,117 | 70/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 67.8/100, a mean average of 65.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 66.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.1.
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Beefheart's most mainstream album. Given that Beefheart was one of music's weirdest and most complex genii, from whose mind came forth 1969's unsettling "Trout Mask Replica", it isn't hard to imagine that the captain was utterly confused while recording this album. It is said that musician Michael Smotherman had to push his face to the microphone when he had to sing, and had to gently guide him away from it when recording was done. Keeping this in mind, we can only marvel at the wide arrange of voices Beefheart provided for the album. Almost every song is sung in a different mood. And although the album failed to chart and still gets smashed by critics, I thinks it's one of the captain's finest albums, spanning over all kinds of genres, from jam sessions to Rolling Stones-like tracks to smooth love song with beautiful slide guitars en synths.
Key tracks:
- Observatory Crest
- Captains Holiday
- Twist Ah Luck
- Bluejeans and Moonbeams
Much more accessible than your average beef heart album, but not mainstream by any standard. Thick blues with a beef heart spin. More melodious and standard instrumentation on the songs and the production is normal as opposed to trout mask style production.
sssvnnn 03/16/2017 13:28 | #187526
His Blues album.
It´s not as extreme and avantgardistic as his other albums.
Maybe it´s nothing special but I like it.
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