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- It sounds terrible at first listen. I learned that quite often this leads the way to a musical gem, a gem in the way that makes you gasp at just the idea you might have missed it. - Listen to it a couple of times, lay it away for some time and then listen to it again. When that feels like coming home it grabbed you, whatever your first idea about it. - It paves the path for all other Beefheart music. No, not true, it paves the path for everything creative Beefheart ever did (and I know of); music, lyrics, poems and paintings. - It opens your mind. It blows out any narrow mindedness. The first narrow mindedness however to get over with is to not listen to it. - It befools you. One other reviewer (one star) said it sounds as if a bunch of children are playing their Fisher Price guitars. Yes, it does. Incoherently in a way, fully structured in another way. The magic is that it does both at the same time, but how you experience it depends on the way you listen to it (if you've got ears, you've got to listen), just as elusive as quantum particles. - The voice is terrible / mythified for how many octaves it can reach. Yes, indeed it sounds terrible, but also this grows into something so particular your friend that every time you hear it you know you listen to a friend. - Believe it or not, there is humour in it (What do you run on, Rockette Morton? I run on beans!). All first impressions might give you the feeling the whole thing addresses you very agressively, so it might seem they laugh you in the face, but they don't, they're just having genuine fun. - And in light of the above; it might feel aggressive at certain places, but in fact they're all just a couple of very friendly guys, having no harm in mind at all. Beefheart - although a tiran towards his fellow group members, but that's something a true artist can be forgiven - is just a person with a very warm spot inside, although perhaps hidden behind a wall or a curtain or underneath a stone.

And that's perhaps just what should conclude it all; this album and Captain Beefheart in particular is not what it seems at first. It's just a question mark, what will you be doing, turn around or follow me?

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