Ice Cream For Crow (studio album) by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
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Ice Cream For Crow is ranked 4th best out of 6 albums by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band is Lick My Decals Off, Baby which is ranked number 2059 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 799.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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85/100 ![]() | 03/31/2025 02:04 | MaxStorm98 | ![]() | 90/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 13% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.5/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.2.
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This is only the third album I've heard by Captain Beefheart, the first being Bongo Fury and the second being Trout Mask Replica, but this one is already a whole lot more digestible. It is undoubtedly a Beefheart album though, as tracks like Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat will showcase. But there are also some more traditional sounding songs, like the title track. I feel like this should be rated a bit higher in 1982, it's not like it's creatively bankrupt or unenjoyable.

Awesome album. Original.

This was Beefheart's final album and the first one I got. From there it was a wonderful journey into his world.
I continually surprised by not just what a musical genius Beefheart is, but how amazingly good his lyrics are!
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