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product_id: 16452437
title: "Trout Mask Replica"
brand: "captain beefheart"
price: "42030 kr"
currency: ISK
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reviews_count: 10
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# Trout Mask Replica

**Brand:** captain beefheart
**Price:** 42030 kr
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Trout Mask Replica by captain beefheart
- **How much does it cost?** 42030 kr with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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- captain beefheart enthusiasts

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## Description

(2-LP set) Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon. Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 28-song double album for over a year, wedding minimalist R&B, blues, and garage rock to free jazz and avant-garde experimentalism.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    The second greatest rock LP ever made.
  

*by L***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2017*

Pay no mind to the tin-eared, unsophisticated ABBA and KC & The Sunshine Band enthusiasts who routinely trash and belittle the astoundingly beautiful (Monk might call it "Ugly Beauty"), complex, and, ultimately, logically constructed musical pieces on this superb double LP (single CD). Many of the most respected of today's writers and musicians claim that this album was life changing and altered the manner in which they perceived and processed music. Indeed, this is radically creative, boundary smashing music, informed by delta blues, doo-wop, soul, free jazz, country and western, theatrical, psychedelic, and garage rock styles. The songs are filled with precisely played and hugely difficult guitar, slide guitar, woodwind, and drum parts that often seem, on the first few listens, to be musicians playing on different worlds from each other. Rhythms and time signatures shift constantly, with different instruments playing in different times from one another, leading to an effect of cacophony that gradually turns into simpatico playing only to diverge again into seemingly dissimilar parts. In addition, traditional song structures (chorus, verse, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus, verse) are very rare. This is not to say that the songs have no structure. Indeed, what may at first seem to be random riffing and noodling is, in every case, an intentional, fixed arrangement that the mighty Magic Band learned to play precisely and exactly the same way, instructed by a tyrannical (some say emotionally abusive) Beefheart (Don Van Vliet), during ten to fourteen hour daily practices that continued for six or eight months, prior to the recording. During this time, the large band shared one vehicle, all slept and lived in the same house, were not paid, subsisted on cheap bologna and white bread, and took orders from Don, who was not to be crossed.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Some people probably shouldn't buy this album....
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2019*

There are a lot of good reviews here, and I suggest anyone new to Beefheart's music check them out. You can also go to Wiki or read other reviews online to get an idea of what you're dealing with here. Most of the reviews I've seen here are from people who are long time fans of Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet) and don't really need anyone to explain this album to them because they've probably already listened to it at least a hundred times. They "get it" and are mostly trying to help those who don't. That being said, I'm going to skip the other reviews because there's not a lot to add that hasn't already been covered.  The first thing I'd like to say is that I'm not going to "preach to the choir" because they already know. What I want to try here is to offer a few things that may help those new to this album and Beefheart in general. First of all, Beefheart's music isn't for everyone, and Trout Mask Replica can even be hard for fans who like some of his other albums. If anyone just likes music that makes them feel good, then this album is NOT for you. Don't buy it and don't listen to it because you WON'T like it!  If you enjoy music that was created as an art form that pushes the boundaries of every previous musical concept that came before it and what followed, you NEED to listen to this album....many times. To understand it, a good idea is to find out some of the history of how it was made and what went into making it. Once you understand this, you'll begin to see the sheer complexity and genius behind it and the unbelievable will power, mental strength, and actual physical toll it took on the musicians who made it. This is a lengthy work (28 songs, 1:18 minutes running time) and can be difficult to get through all at once. I would even go as far to say that someone who is borderline schizophrenic could possibly be pushed over the edge by this music. I would also caution anyone dropping acid for the first time to be careful with it. Am I exaggerating here? Maybe, but only slightly. Now, here's my reply to those who say  "You could take five people who have never played music, give them instruments, put them in a recording studio together for a few hours, and it would sound as good as this". Maybe that's true, but then ask yourself this. Could the same group of people go back to the studio the next day and play the same thing EXACTLY like the first time? Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band did. They also played it EXACTLY the same live. When you wrap that around your head, you might begin to get an idea of why this album is one of the greatest recordings of all time. Most musicians would say it couldn't be done. Don Van Vliet said it could and he proved it on Trout Mask Replica. That's about all I have to say. You either "get it" or you don't. Don't worry if you don't because you're in the majority. If you do, you've found a musical "gift" that keeps on giving.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    The 1 star Reviews Crack Me Up..  But... I Understand.
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2019*

When I first heard this album decades ago it immediately turned me off.  I mean, so much dissonance and discord combined with a poetry slam.  But, like countless others, I gave a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th listen.  By that time, I was hooked.  Plus when I found out the music was scored and rehearsed like a classical composition--and that most of it was recorded in 6 hours--everything fell into proper context.I just wish someone would remaster this America pop culture classic for the 50th anniversary of its release this month.  FAST AND BULBOUS!!

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*Last updated: 2026-03-03*