WHY?
COMPUTERJAZZMAN | Cliffside Park, New Jersey United States | 09/30/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Why do other reviewers describe this music as an acquired taste? I loved it the first time I heard it, and I still love it. It's musical and atonal simultaneously, it's wild and controlled at the same time. I am a big fan of Captain Beefheart, and love almost all of the stuff he recorded, (but not all of it). And I don't get how some reviewers are calling this his "punk" or "new wave" phase music, his stuff all sounds original, can't be categorized, and the ultimate litmus test is that he has his own "sound" no matter when he recorded any of his albums, you hear it, you know it's him. As for each individual song, it's better to just listen to the CD in its' entirety, instead of going into individual reviews of each song, 'cause its' all of the same ilk. Quirky rhythms, offbeat poetry, swamp blues, Beefheart madness."