From:
Southern California
Active:
1965–1982
I first heard them:
while watching a rerun of this very Saturday Night
Live performance.
I thought it was literally the single worst piece of music I had ever
heard.
My tastes have changed since then.
Sound:
“complicated sounds designed for serious ‘heads’”
Further listening:
Both that quote and the picture are from John Allison’s
Scary Go Round, in which a character explains
that “the most popular number of times people listen to
Trout Mask Replica is ‘once’,
followed by ‘a quarter’”.
I confess that most of the Beefheart corpus is beyond me.
But here’s one that isn't:
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| “Electricity (live)” (1968) |