Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
Here come Five Masterpiece Albums, selected
by Turn Up The Volume turning 50 next year!
– The Stooges by THE STOOGES –
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– ‘The Velvet Underground’ by THE VELVET UNDERGROUND –
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– ‘Let It Bleed’ by THE ROLLING STONES –
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– ‘Trout Mask Replica’ by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND –
– ‘Abbey Road‘ by THE BEATLES –
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Remarkable albums from the past…
‘Doc At The Radar Station’ by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND
Released: August 1980 / Eleventh longplayer
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE wrote: “Captain Beefheart once said of his music, “I’m just throwing up / in tie-dye.” If so, then Doc at the Radar Station, released in 1980, is one of the most colorful, and pivotal, records in his singular catalog. Poised on the cusp of a new decade, Beefheart (a.k.a. Don Van Vliet) poured out his innards in Technicolor for Doc at the Radar Station, serving up his most colorful and caustic verse in years on a sprawling, distinctively Beefheartian platter of corrosive avant-rock, jungle-blues squawk, alien-guitar romanticism
and willful, yet often playful, atonality.” Full review here.
TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: One of the original voices ever. His vocal and sonic vision on the good old blues was quite innovative, bizarre, and freakish and blood-curdling at times. The Captain & his band still sound like nothing else and about a thousand bands are still trying to copy Beefheart’s genial madness today.
ALBUM in full…
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Remarkable albums from the past
‘Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)’
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND THE MAGIC BAND
Released: October 1978
Tenth longplayer
ULTIMATE ROCK CLASSIC wrote: “After Beefheart and old friend Frank Zappa made an album together (‘Bongo Fury’) in 1975, the Captain recorded an LP called ‘Bat Chain Puller’ for Zappa’s label. But a legal dust-up with Zappa’s manager resulted in Zappa withholding the master tapes to the record. So Beefheart, with yet another new Magic Band, re-recorded the songs and released them as ‘Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)’ in 1978. It was his best album since 1970’s ‘Lick My Decals Off, Baby’ and the start of a creative rebirth, following 1974’s double duds ‘Unconditionally Guaranteed’ and ‘Bluejeans & Moonbeams’) that lasted until his retirement in the mid-’80s. (Incidentally, the original Zappa version of the album eventually came out in 2012.”
TURN UP THE VOLUME: One word = genial.
Album in full…
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) van Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band https://open.spotify.com/album/7dNa4QQVoOnC6iXIGXO0JN?si=w1-y_jDPSKSDUlxr-WiZDw
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