Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica

In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band''s Trout Mask Replica, a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop landscape.


Yet even if the album did cast its radical vision over the future of music, much of the record''s artistic strength is actually drawn from th...