Revenant

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band
General | Jul 1999

Reviews

Hannah Mae
Reviewed 2002-10-17
Rock, blues, classical guitar, skronk, and dissonance, sometimes all at once. Demo tapes and assorted rarities from the perennial "most underrated" influential art-rock-whatever band - if you've never heard em, this may not be any of their classic records but it isn't a bad place to start, either.

1* - catchy witch doctor rock
2* - raspy, quickstep waltz blues
3* - bassy lo-fi slinky strum
4* - slow rev-up into slidy stomp
6* - dirty twang
7 - skronky horns and twangy guitar -> quiet vague conversation
9 - repetetive twang
10 - multiguitar avant dancy poptune
12 - swirly jagged guitar patters w/an almost jazz structure
13* - twittering sax and lots of bashing
14- xylophone, guitar, hoarse shouting - ends abruptly
16* - short, a cappella, recorded over the phone - blues moan
17* - lo-fi psychedelic harmonica blooz
18 - classical electric guitar, live, short
19 - solo harmonica w/a little talking intro & laugh at end - short
20 - solo vox - weird compression at times - short
21 - bluesy stomp w/harmonica
22 - spoken intro, chimey guitars, opaque lyrics and growly vox
24 - fuzzy piano, short
25 - slightly off-kilter classicalish elec. guitar

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Track listing

1. Obeah Man
2. Just Got Back From the City
3. Here I Am I Always Am
4. Plastic Factory
5. Electricity
6. Sure Nuff N Yes I Do
7. Hair Pig Bake 1
8. Hobo Chang Ba
9. Old Fart at Play
10. Pachuco Cadaver
11. Sugar N Spikes
12. My Human Gets Me Blues
13. When Big Joan Sets Up
14. Woe Is Uh Me Bop
15. Bellerin Plain
16. Black Snake Moan
17. Grow Fins
18. One Red Rose that I Mean
19. Harp Boogie 2
20. Natchez Burning
21. Click Clack
22. Orange Claw Hammer
23. Vampire Suite
24. Evening Bell
25. Evening Bell
26. Flavor Bud Living