When I was a teenager girls would ask what my favorite song was. How can an eclectic music lover have just one favorite song? So I would give them this one. This is my all time favorite song, if the question could ever be answered.
A few years ago, I created a ringtone from the line "I was shanghaieeeeed by a high-hat beaver mustache man and his pirate friend". Used to drive people bananas. Beautiful performance/composition - one of my favorites of Cpt. Beefheart
There are no new songs on this album - they just sound new because when you are that far out, time is your servant, not your master ........................ not bad, even though I do say so myself as shouldn't ......................
i totally understand what you mean - this is achingly bittersweet and beautiful. have you heard the version of this where the Captain is joined by FZ on acoustic guitar?
@@johnrandall125 I did, curiosity got the better of me.Frank on guitar,as you say.Good to hear that version again.Alas the original TMR isn't on Spotify.
And here is, is I'm with you, my daughter, thirty years Away can make a seaman's eyes, a round house man's eyes Flow out water, salt water. I miss the Captain. Saw him perform live at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA
TMR IS my all time favorite album. Nothing before or since can match it. Nothing was heard like this before and no one will top it with their work without the inevitable comparison to this . Sui generis.
I’ve just listened to the version of “Orange Claw Hammer” with Frank Zappa accompanying him on the acoustic guitar. Don is much more fluent on that track. On this version it sounds like he is pausing to recover the words from his memory. The version with Frank is much better. But it’s great either way.
Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers covered this last night in Turin,hahaha! Had me puzzled,like everyone else there. Now I know what that thing before Under The Bridge was!
These poetry tracks of his transport me to the California my great grandparents knew. :') Though the Piper Cub reference at the beginning makes me think of the PNW or Alaska. Either way...
If you’re listening to the whole album congratulations for making it this far😂 C Bheart, TMR tracks and Ween- specifically Pure Guava- the only two that have ever caused me to literally LMFAO!😂
I woke up in vomit ‘n beer in uh banana bin ‘n uh soft lass with brown skin Bore me seven babies with snappin’ black eyes ‘n beautiful ebony skin that's on my bucket list
I think its beat poetry a conglomeration of thoughts with variable time experiences , a patchwork quilt of emotion with an end connection like a dream that later starts to pull together and become an meaningful days later , If you believe that shit ... send me your credit card details lol
he is talking about his life as hobo, then later about being shanghaied as a young man. he spent many years in servitude while simultaneously fathering several children with a south seas island woman. then when he grows very old (30+ years later), he returns to his home from where he was shanghaied, and as fate would have it, while going door-to-door looking for work, his very own daughter, who he hasn't seen since she herself was just a toddler (with licorice and dimpled fingers), opens the door of one of the houses he seeks work from. they recognize one another and all is well. it is actually a very touching tale.
within poetry one must use ones imagination ,things are not to be taken literally ,metaphor comes into play .Hah , I'm with ya at least it makes us think and search for a meaning
THEMavisBacon I mean, they're not terrible or anything, but they sort of kill the whole momentum of the album. Like, the whole thing is this river of abstract madness, but then these tracks with no music come and bring it to a dead halt. I should probably try to listen to the whole thing including them (I usually cut them out when I put them on my iPod) to see if they might break up the music into specific tonal sections, but they're not my favorite.
This track was the first track on side 4, (in 1969 most people listened to vinyl LPs) so you would have a break anyway, while you turned the record over from side 3. It still sounds pretty mad to a lot of people, in my opinion. it could empty many a genteel gathering
This is the very definition of 'underground' music. There's always going to be _something_ there that annoys/disturbs/disrupts/otherwise _anyone's_ expectations. It's always going to keep such artists alive, but well below the 'commercial' ceiling.
I think the a cappella tracks and the spoken word snippets are important parts of the album... they give the album a certain atmosphere, and make the whole thing into a very special event. And songs like Dachau Blues and Wild Life really stand out because they follow a cappella tracks
This song has some of my favorite lyrics on the whole album, and beefhearts delivery is incredible. It's hard to pick a least favorite when nearly every song sounds as deranged and unhinged as the last in my eyes.
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This song is humanity's greatest accomplishment
When I was a teenager girls would ask what my favorite song was. How can an eclectic music lover have just one favorite song? So I would give them this one. This is my all time favorite song, if the question could ever be answered.
A few years ago, I created a ringtone from the line "I was shanghaieeeeed by a high-hat beaver mustache man and his pirate friend". Used to drive people bananas. Beautiful performance/composition - one of my favorites of Cpt. Beefheart
We've all done that ...........................
Liq..liq...liq... I woke in vomit n' beer, in a banana bin.
Every time I listen to this album, I fall in love with a new song.
There are no new songs on this album - they just sound new because when you are that far out, time is your servant, not your master ........................ not bad, even though I do say so myself as shouldn't ......................
My ABSOLUTE Favorite Captain Beefheart Song ! ! ! May He RIP !
.....Newk from Kentucky
This song made me cry for hours. Human emotion, so raw, so pure.
i totally understand what you mean - this is achingly bittersweet and beautiful. have you heard the version of this where the Captain is joined by FZ on acoustic guitar?
I can't stop laughing at this crazy creation by this artistic genius. But that's just me.
@@Bix12 that's a fantastic version
Glad some people care and have emotions
Pena gets me to tears almost every time quite honestly
still love this after 50 years.
I heard the radio station version a few years back, him and someone playing acoustic..Just beautiful.
That is Beefheart singing and Zappa on the guitar. If you search TH-cam you should find it no problem.
@@johnrandall125 I did, curiosity got the better of me.Frank on guitar,as you say.Good to hear that version again.Alas the original TMR isn't on Spotify.
Very stranglely beautiful, his lyrics were mad yet were always humourous and meaningful
And here is, is I'm with you, my daughter, thirty years
Away can make a seaman's eyes, a round house man's eyes
Flow out water, salt water. I miss the Captain. Saw him perform live at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is the greatest thing I have ever heard. The level of confusion that's my brain right now is something no other artist can come close to doing...
Ain't that the TRUTH !
I'd put Orange Claw Hammer in his top five songs. It's my favorite part of TMR.
I don’t know why I love this song as much as I do but it just makes me so happy
Genius!
I was Shanghaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiied by high hat moustached beaver men. Classic stuff.
Long live the memory of the Captain.
TMR IS my all time favorite album. Nothing before or since can match it. Nothing was heard like this before and no one will top it with their work without the inevitable comparison to this . Sui generis.
A genius is someone who has an extraordinary knowledge of the world. They know exactly who they are and exactly who everyone else is.
what are your top 5 albums
1 captain
2 beefheart
3 trout
4 mask
5 speculum
Trout Mask was brilliant. But for my money his best album was Shiny Beast.
One of my top ten albums. Eternal
Trevor Darwent same here.
my favorite album of all time
Top 1.
And a man wore a peg-leg, Forever.
Gar Bailey *voop!*
Such a simple line, and the sound zipping away just makes it feel so intense
Nearly half a century later and that cover still cracks me up haha!
I’ve just listened to the version of “Orange Claw Hammer” with Frank Zappa accompanying him on the acoustic guitar. Don is much more fluent on that track. On this version it sounds like he is pausing to recover the words from his memory. The version with Frank is much better. But it’s great either way.
He was taping snippets of lyrics as they occured to him. The subtle clicking sound between lines is the recorder being turned back on.
But yeah, that Zappa/Beefheart version is awesome.
Such a great goddam song. Pure poetry but even more, and more. Right on Capn Bheart!!
Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers covered this last night in Turin,hahaha! Had me puzzled,like everyone else there. Now I know what that thing before Under The Bridge was!
Man that was beautiful!
ever so
WHAT THE FUCKS GOING ON? HOWEVER SO ADDICTIVE I COME BACK FOR MORE.
You in the right place now.
Rest in Power my friend..
Yes, I'll have what he's having.
Maybe the best song on the album.
Certainly the best song on the record. I feel like Moonlight On Vermont is a close second...
Old Fart at Play
I would buy this album just for the song titles
GOD DAMN I LOVE THIS ALBUM
These poetry tracks of his transport me to the California my great grandparents knew. :') Though the Piper Cub reference at the beginning makes me think of the PNW or Alaska. Either way...
Such Energy
this reminds me of Gilligans island theme song melody
Exactly! Glad someone else thinks so.
Maybe because both are based loosely off of traditional sea shanty songs.
what do we do with a drunken salior early in the morning
Aye aye Captain
If you’re listening to the whole album congratulations for making it this far😂 C Bheart, TMR tracks and Ween- specifically Pure Guava- the only two that have ever caused me to literally LMFAO!😂
I love ween
This is so good
I'll buy you a cherry phosphate.
That line is so vintage...
he sings this like on old irish tune.
I'm Irish. This is not from my country...or my planet
it does sound like an old drinking song sang in a beer bar on bowery
I woke up in vomit ‘n beer in uh banana bin
‘n uh soft lass with brown skin
Bore me seven babies with snappin’ black eyes
‘n beautiful ebony skin
that's on my bucket list
This is word to me.
The poem actually tells a beautiful little story, but his delivery makes it sound like nonsense. Reading the words is totally different.
2:13 I think Beefheart was trying to cram some innuendo for a few lines.
usually, what do you think a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is?
@@ba_charles Errrrrrrr ............ bulbous and fat ?
@@PIPEHEAD jizz and dick in a condom
here on beefhearts island....sweet coconutz
Lic lic liquorice
improv folk music
L. S. D. WITH YOUR CORNFLAKES.
flea at hampden 😂
Cherry phosphate?
BlueSoulJim soda water and flavored syrup. what you call a soda drink thats not name brand.
This is underrated, if someone could confirm this with some stats please?
It's rated 11/10
MOUSTACHE MAAAAAAN
🤘🏿😎🎸👹😊🖤
In beautiful ethnic skin
Licorice twisting under a fly?
barber pole - twisting.
dog poo maybe ?
definitely
🔥🥩🔥
I don't think it matters
I don't understand is he bringing it to life or something?
you don't have to understand it. maybe he didn't understand it
I UNDERSTOOD THE ENTIRE STORY THE FIRST TIME I HEARD IT. HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE "DA DA" A LEGIT GENRE.
haha is also very LEGIT
I think its beat poetry a conglomeration of thoughts with variable time experiences , a patchwork quilt of emotion with an end connection like a dream that later starts to pull together and become an meaningful days later , If you believe that shit ... send me your credit card details lol
he is talking about his life as hobo, then later about being shanghaied as a young man. he spent many years in servitude while simultaneously fathering several children with a south seas island woman. then when he grows very old (30+ years later), he returns to his home from where he was shanghaied, and as fate would have it, while going door-to-door looking for work, his very own daughter, who he hasn't seen since she herself was just a toddler (with licorice and dimpled fingers), opens the door of one of the houses he seeks work from. they recognize one another and all is well. it is actually a very touching tale.
what the heck this is stopped but i love it
Babies with snapping black eyes?
within poetry one must use ones imagination ,things are not to be taken literally ,metaphor comes into play .Hah , I'm with ya at least it makes us think and search for a meaning
Semen’s eyes?
seaman ?
Lots of nautical references.
These a Capella tracks are the only ones on the album I can't really get into...
How bout now?
THEMavisBacon
I mean, they're not terrible or anything, but they sort of kill the whole momentum of the album. Like, the whole thing is this river of abstract madness, but then these tracks with no music come and bring it to a dead halt. I should probably try to listen to the whole thing including them (I usually cut them out when I put them on my iPod) to see if they might break up the music into specific tonal sections, but they're not my favorite.
This track was the first track on side 4, (in 1969 most people listened to vinyl LPs) so you would have a break anyway, while you turned the record over from side 3. It still sounds pretty mad to a lot of people, in my opinion. it could empty many a genteel gathering
This is the very definition of 'underground' music. There's always going to be _something_ there that annoys/disturbs/disrupts/otherwise _anyone's_ expectations. It's always going to keep such artists alive, but well below the 'commercial' ceiling.
I think the a cappella tracks and the spoken word snippets are important parts of the album... they give the album a certain atmosphere, and make the whole thing into a very special event. And songs like Dachau Blues and Wild Life really stand out because they follow a cappella tracks
Weakest track probably
I agree.
This song has some of my favorite lyrics on the whole album, and beefhearts delivery is incredible. It's hard to pick a least favorite when nearly every song sounds as deranged and unhinged as the last in my eyes.