Re: Captain Beefheart - Bluejeans & Moonbeams (1974)

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun May 24, 2020 9:03 pm

Tom Robinson on lead vocals.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun May 24, 2020 9:04 pm

This is a lot better.

by Nightjar Sun May 24, 2020 9:04 pm

I been working up in lovin'
Underneath the moonstone sky
I know there's many things I've never seen

by Guest Sun May 24, 2020 9:04 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Tom Robinson on lead vocals.

B*tch, please.

Handbags and Gladrags.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun May 24, 2020 9:04 pm

Another one that sounds like a Harry Chapin song.

by Nightjar Sun May 24, 2020 9:05 pm

The guitarist does do a splendid job on this album.

by Nightjar Sun May 24, 2020 9:06 pm

I'm not sure what keyboard this is.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun May 24, 2020 9:06 pm

They seem to have run out of song half way through, again.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun May 24, 2020 9:06 pm

Is that a Moog? Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun May 24, 2020 9:07 pm

It has that Linda McCartney vibe to it. happy

by Nightjar Sun May 24, 2020 9:07 pm

This is real fading into a golden sunset stuff.

It's positively elegiaic.

by Guest Sun May 24, 2020 9:07 pm

Keyboards going a bit ELP dontpanic

by Guest Sun May 24, 2020 9:08 pm

It is over.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun May 24, 2020 9:09 pm

It is over.

That was an odd album. The first side, apart from the last track was good. The second half, apart from the last track was a whole pile of nothing. I liked it best when he wasn't trying to pretend he lives in a swamp. I was impressed by the variety of his voice.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun May 24, 2020 9:10 pm

I shall give it three stars.

by Guest Sun May 24, 2020 9:14 pm

it was, alright. It was better than the other early 70s stuff I've heard, but I'd rather listen to his late 60s or late 70/80s thang.

I wish I had a pair of bongo, Bongo fury!

by Nightjar Sun May 24, 2020 9:14 pm

Well, it isn't like I don't know that album inside out, but I still and always will enjoy it.

It's obviously a shambles and fails unutterably to match up to what people expect of DVV, but I love it nonetheless.

There's a real pathos in it - for good or ill.

What's more, I feel that both A profound sense of shame and THE deep sense of shame that continues to exist around the whole debacle resonates deeply within me.

It is the true scapegoat and I will take it in and nurture it.

by Nightjar Sun May 24, 2020 9:20 pm

It is a genuine and gentle human failure.

Played throughout by a group of adept but nonplussed session musicians.

Ultimately, isn't that what art is all about?

If you delve into how Beefheart 'ran' the band and got them to play what was going on his head before then you'd appreciate even more the apparently tragic blandness of the album.

by Guest Sun May 24, 2020 9:45 pm

Better than Clear Spot, not as good as Lick My Decals Off, Baby, I shall go…

hmm

★★★

Close to ★★★★, but not quite.

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