Sooner or later I was bound to get it. The 180 gram vinyl has the original credits (DRUMBO, aka John French, missing from the credits) and with no "insert" with the lyrics and drawings by THE MASCARA SNAKE.
How to describe the music? Kelly wouldn't even speak to me when she entered the house until I turned it off. You either love it or hate it--or don't know how to classify it and leave it alone entirely.
The legends of the album are as surreal as the album itself. Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) took his magic band to a house and kept them there rehearsing for eight months, where he used brainwashing techniques to break each of the members down. Then, at the end of it all, he took his entire band to Frank Zappa's recording studio and laid down all 20 tracks in a single session.
Rolling Stone has put this as #60 in the list of Greatest Albums of All Time, and it is a favorite of the likes of Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, and Matt Groening.
I remember first hearing it through Amy's roommate Bob out on Cape Cod when we first started dating. Not only did it fascinate me and make me laugh, but it also fascinated Bob that I started to sing along with such compositions as "Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish" and "Ella Guru."
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?
