....blows away like a FEATHER.

YES!

I do love this band so much.

Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee
The pond shined dry like a ladies compact
Lilies leaped like flat green hearts with white hearts
Squirting yellow pollen...cocks...
Ferns ran like cool spades.. fossils. ..away from rocks
Bees echoed dark carbon hums that dashed in nothing
Gnats fucked my ears 'n nostrils
Hit my brain like hones 'n numbed t' nothing
Wings stuck on liquid bones
Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee
The moon poured hollow down my milky leg
Splashed still ‘n moved
The wind peed down the willows 'n pricked the needle vine
The monkey moved a fur shadow... its soot tail curled in twos
Its lips smiled needles.. its eyes rolled loose
Her throat broke open... glistened in the dew
Red berries dangled like a dream of rubies too
Snot muscles ran down her ivory chin 'n tooth within
A locket... a pin held fast to then, my love, my pocket deep within
'N senses dangled the chain that clasped me to her then
The messenger spoke the wind that blows between our time
I sensed you then 'n whispers spin 'n flow in silver dust
Around the pointed pin
Sent to nothing
God, please fuck my mind for good
Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee
Oh fuck that thing.. .fuck that poem...eyes crawl out with maggots
White cloth bones pile up light thrown blades
Rags ‘n skull.. scoops soil cracks.. .drain screams.. please
Take my hand 'n join me... too soon its clutches gleams
Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee
Death be damned... life

so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt75lxDooP0

this 8 bit version of dirty blue gene is note-for-note... ridiculous... wow.

^^hail to all trackers!

I agree all that is said in this thread!!! And I think captain is almost as underestimated as the other great Dr. John. My favourite Beefheart albums are: Trout Mask Replica, Lick My Decals Off, Doc at the Radar Station, Ice Cream For Crow, Strictly Personal and Safe As Milk. They are all as great! The good albums are: Spotlight Kid, Clear Spot and Shiny Beast. Unconditionally Guarenteed and Bluejeans are not bad, but not as good as those others. Few months ago I listened Guaranteed and suprisingly I found it better than I remembered. And I have to say that the album "Bongo Fury" which he made with Frank Zappa is also very great!

love beefheart and love zappa.

I really didn't get into Beefheart back in the sixties and seventies. There was just so much music at that time that he just kind of slipped through the cracks on me. Which is kind of surprising as I generally picked up 2 albums a week. One album would be by someone I knew and 1 by someone I didn't know.

So I get to enjoy him now as a new band along with at least a dozen other bands that you folks have turned me on to. THANKS