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Whenever I feel bored with music based on any normal tonations I turn to Beefheart. How is it best to describe this music? A combination of Rock, Jazz, Blues & most interestingly modern classical. I say that because the Vienese atonal school of music (eg Schoenberg) is for me almost impossible to understand. Yet amazingly enough Beefheart incorporates a great deal of this music & I can see where he's coming from. On an album he did with Frank Zappa a line goes 'music from the other side of the fence'. If you like following the crowd avoid this album. If you like music based on different rules of composition you'll enjoy this.