Captain Beefheart - My Human Gets Me Blues

[@dons4665]

These guys are tight. How else could such a chaotic jazz exploration hold together for more than 10 seconds if these musicians weren’t absolute geniuses?

[@fuckgoogle8661]

Well you should mention he barely fed anyone and just kept giving them acid while cheating them out of money but he did get results.

[@crankystinkleton4284]

I used to try and drive to this album. I'd get lost frequently.

[@storkksoundmedia7778]

Haha I relate to that

[@mikehill7587]

I'm getting lost in my house and only 2 rooms haha

[@uhuhuhuhuhuh3537]

Captain Beefheart is like if you fed a convolutional neural network some old blues records.

[@Erdertainment]

You MacAndrew goddamn this is too accurate

[@ieatgarbage8771]

In this lifetime you've got My convolutional neural network gets me blues.

[@fluffywolfo3663]

@@ieatgarbage8771 ...I'd listen to that.

[@aniranth7289]

So the funny thing is I am working on a Generative Adversarial Neural Network and I fed it Captain Beefheart for training.

[@pmeagle]

@@aniranth7289 keeps us updated!

[@aramboodakian9554]

This song and album and the “lick my decals off” album scratches an itch in my soul that no other music does

[@tomasvanecek8626]

TMR, Lick and Spotlight Kid.. and I´m set for life 🤩

[@guitarhole]

The Captain never fades out . There's always an end to the song . I admire that .

[@johnatwell2753]

Almost always. Moonlight on Vermont...

[@swood5505]

i believe there was one other song before this one... i can’t remember the title 😭

[@AlexBradleyPopovich]

The end of the song is my favorite part!

[@largevapor]

@@swood5505 most of the songs in bat chain puller end with fade outs

[@RRaquello]

You know who else also does that? Iron Butterfly. Listen to the album "In-a-gadda-da-vida". Not one fade out on the whole album. It's kind of unique in the rock & roll world.

[@virbius1]

This song really covers a lot of ground in under 3 minutes. One of my faves on trout Mask Replica

[@yiffyskunk]

For real

[@jamesgoaway8709]

virbius1 some of the weirdest licks and transitions I have ever heard like wtf

[@midifromhell]

I think this is the Trout Mask Replicaest song on the album that also 'worked out' as a great composition. If someone wants to know what the album is about on only three minutes, this is the song to play. Frownland is too weird. Moonlight on Vermont isn't weird enough. Hair Pie is great, but it's instrumental. Orange Claw Hammer has great lyrics, but no music. This is the sweet spot.

[@nakedfordinner]

@@midifromhell but the jumble of styles and sounds is one of the best things about this album imo

[@midifromhell]

@@nakedfordinner I can't disagree with you

[@flixqur7968]

Was playing this out loud at work and my colleague in the other room got sick and had to go lie down

[@JermaineBulls]

Ha!

[@lukas4112]

Audio assault

[@guitarhole]

Some people can't handle the truth .

[@a-j6798]

When I got to used to this album I used to take nap while this was playing in the background. I think this wired my brain in a new way.

[@pgreenlief]

keep up the good work

[@user-hv1uv7go9d]

This album made me realize that I care far more about rhythm than about tonality

[@largevapor]

John French (Drumbo) said the captain cared for rhythm the most too

[@juanfilipwinifred]

I don't care for either

[@tomasvanecek8626]

It is both there, for Christs sake... as Don said: " If you got ears, you gotta listen..."

[@cheeez9438]

1:41 You were afraid you’d be the devil’s… REHD 👹 WÆIF I love that inflection

[@iainneville7137]

My words this is a powerful song. I truly love this and I also think it really highlights the sheer power of Beefheart's incredible vocals. Absolutely amazing !!!

[@Neel-ff4mn]

If u call this song avant-garde, keep in mind that this song is the most relatively coherent on the entire record.

[@zachjohnson637]

Neel 2000 Outside of Moonlight on Vermont and Veteran's Day Poppy

[@lunanielsen9144]

Neel 2000 Ella Guru

[@skoto8219]

this is actually about in the middle. still great

[@stevenpochejr]

Aphex❤❤❤❤

[@captainmoondog1947]

Still it's avant-garde

[@CS-cx5kd]

I saw you baby dancin' in your x-ray gingham dress I knew you were under duress I knew you were under yer dress Just keep comin', Jesus, you're the best dressed You look dandy in the sky but you don't scare me 'Cause I got you here in my eye [Refrain] In this lifetime you got my human gets me blues [Verse 2] With your jaw hangin' slack and your hair's curlin' Like an ole navy fork Stickin' in the sunset The way you were dancin' I knew you'd never come back You were strainin' to keep your Old black cracked patent shoes [Refrain] In this lifetime you got my human gets me blues [Verse 3] Well, the way you been, old lady I could see the fear in your windows Under your furry crawlin' brow A silver bow rings up in inches You were afraid you'd be the devil's red wife But it's all right, God dug your dance And would have you young and in his harem Dress you the way he wants cause he never had a doll 'Cause everybody made him a boy And God didn't think to ask his preference You can bring your dress and your favorite dog And your husband's cane, and your old spotted hog

[@gothgrrl8711]

such a trip

[@tomasvanecek8626]

WRONG ! 3rd line goes: ".. I knew you under your dress.." Makes so much more sense, doesnt´ it ? 🤗

[@brighton_dude]

This has always been one of my faves on TMR. It has such a strong structure and is so very slammin!

[@brandonburroughs7128]

Totally proto punk. This cut goes hard

[@chrisszeliga1425]

People used to be brought before the Inquisition for expressing this sort of thoughts

[@thomasmartin7425]

"OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!" At least the noise will stop.

[@brianorakpohit]

In my opinion, definitely the best lyrics of any song on this album, and the music is beyond compare. Gifted. This album transcends time. It will never date cos it so uniquely trailed its own path.

[@zachjohnson637]

That guitar part from 0:52 to 0:56 is so great. Wish it had repeated a time or two.

[@olav4671]

Listen to the end of Alice In Blunderland for some repetitions: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZqTqIhvfdh2e5I

[@gobuns2]

full of gems like this throughout the album. there's really no need for repetition for it to stick tho

[@juanfilipwinifred]

I love the part at 1:25

[@youisiaint]

80s and 90s lo-fi and noise rock owes everything to this band. If the guitar was heavier and louder it would sound like something Jesus Lizard ripped off

[@fcfcch]

In John French's biography (drummer) he recounts a brutal beating the band forced on him led by Don Van Vliet (Beefheart). This was one of the only physical beatings the band had to do, and in fact, it lasted about 48 hours. At this point they had John in a corner and Don requested someone to start audio recording. The lyrics of this song are in a sense directed to John French much of the same way "Bills Corpse" is directed to Bill Hackleroad. (I got this info from around page 450 if anyone wants to check me)

[@bqbhhhh]

+Daniel Halvorsen please tell me more about this and the lyrics!

[@scotmacmillan8520]

+R Rod the lyrics as I understand them are making fun of Drumbo's strong religious faith and commitment, as well as accusing him of being poorly groomed (see pictures of him at the time) and feminine. The line about "old cracked black patent shoes" is possibly a reference to Drumbo's background in dance, which gave Don more ammunition RE femininity.

[@edmund184]

was Beefheart an evil maniac?

[@CynicalBastard]

An ego maniac.

[@ananasasjenkins881]

Yes, he was undeniably an evil maniac.

[@danjordan6018]

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous...GOT ME!!!!

[@fluffywolfo3663]

Yeah, but you've got to wait until I say, "Also, a tin teardrop."

[@elvergalarga4461]

bulbous also tapered.

[@danielh7487]

I run on laser beans.

[@aramboodakian9554]

That’s right the mascara snake fast and bulbous

[@Maxipandah]

Kinda reminds me of Gang of Four or the Pop Group. Like post-punk before post-punk.

[@lauchalz1]

Beefheart was post-punk before even punk existed.

[@adriancronin533]

@@lauchalz1 pre-post-punk

[@zackzallie8735]

Beefheart predated before anybody; punk, hip-hop, death metal, new wave.

[@kelechi_77]

Yeah even sounds like no wave before no wave, this album and some of Beefheart's other work was very influential to post-punk and art punk, a big chunk of that scene would have never existed without this album (DEVO, the Pop Group, Stump, bIG*fLAME, the Fire Engines... etc.) so idk why people think trout mask replica is a bunch of garbage, it led the way for a bunch of great music and was heavily influential

[@Dejay06]

​@@lauchalz1 yep

[@juankgonzalez6230]

1:24 is one of my favourite riffs in the whole album

[@gothgrrl8711]

one of my fav licks in all of music

[@a-j6798]

Amazing from start to finish.

[@obam6832]

Like it or not, you can't deny that this album is an EXPERIENCE

[@Vikutto]

thanks obam

[@psychoyogilive]

You were afraid you'd be the devils red wife. Brilliant!

[@stefanpredoi4564]

This sounds more like 90s math rock than anything that came out in the 60s. Like I could totally imagine Drive Like Jehu doing this.

[@cosmicdrifter287]

My human gets me blues,says it all isn't it?The cap sums it all up.

[@juanfilipwinifred]

This is amazing

[@dagnabbit6187]

Trout Mask Replica was not ahead of its time or of any time It slipped through a crack in time ! I do think Zappa was fearful and somewhat jealous of Van Vliet

[@shaun2133]

I kind of agree: I think of Zappa as technically more talented than Van Vliet, but Van Vliet as weirder and maybe more creative (if creativity could be quantifiable). Before people start attacking me, I like them both.

[@dagnabbit6187]

@@shaun2133 Yes but did you ever here how Van Vliet abused people in the making of Trout Mask Replica ?

[@shaun2133]

@@dagnabbit6187 Yes, I have read that in a few books and even in liner notes. My comment wasn't about whether Don was a good guy.

[@dagnabbit6187]

@@shaun2133 I know but I never knew it until I read it . Starving those hippies, punching them in the face etc

[@gothgrrl8711]

jimmy carl black said that compared to zappa, beefheart was the real deal

[@oreo3740]

This is it the definitive album

[@SedanChair]

You were afraid you'd be the devil's R E D W I F E

[@EastmanD]

Delightfully Mad !!!

[@TheMentalblockrock]

This got a gooood groove! It's funky!

[@tomasvanecek8626]

If you play a guitar.. you will always stare in awe. This one, and all numbers on TMR. Drummers and bass players better never come by 😂

[@vestaarcadia]

This is almost No-Wave. Really phenomenal.

[@j.p.zukauskas7626]

The thing with Beefheart and this record is just how listenable it is considering it’s absolutely bonkers. It’s experimental as you can get… but the experiment works! Sonically pleasing contrary to all expectations and common sense.

[@TheVeryBlondeOne]

Captain Beefheart had more emotional and wrath-like delivery in the studio recording of "My Human Gets Me Blues" over his live performance of the same song. Much more human and less static, in my opinion.

[@donaldronson1387]

It's because he hated playing live, also the fact that he never really knew how the lyrics were supposed to fit over the songs.

[@redfordgrange3507]

Great version of this on the live album, Mersey Trout.

[@roycraig3236]

I saw him in concert 4 times and each one was a profound religious experience... he stopped and spoke to me on two occasions and he New where I was coming from even seemed to know what I was thinking The man was a troubled Genius and his lyrics no matter where they came from were never without meaning and were most usually as profound as the best LSD trip The one time that I tripped too much I was listening to Trout Mask and I heard him speaking and at the time He was recording that he had been doing a dance with the devil and the room filled with an eerie dark cloud that I will never forget

[@sinane.y]

nobody gives a shit about your acid trips

[@roycraig3236]

sinan166 : ) : >) -what do U care about ?

[@soundgardener4940]

Pena is astonighingly dark, sick actually, to me. Think adrenochrome. Really hope I'm wrong. Doubt it.

[@FyreNail2]

Sound Gardener adrenochrome isnt a real thing?

[@lauraok9253]

Sweet

[@ChuckDeFuque]

I saw you baby dancin' in your x-ray gingham dress I knew you were under duress I knew you were under yer dress Just keep comin', Jesus, you're the best dressed You look dandy in the sky but you don't scare me 'Cause I got you here in my eye In this lifetime you got my human gets me blues With your jaw hangin' slack and your hair's curlin' Like an ole navy fork stickin' in the sunset The way you were dancin' I knew you'd never come back You were strainin' to keep your old black cracked patent shoes In this lifetime you got my human gets me blues Well, the way you been, old lady, I could see the fear in your windows Under your furry crawlin' brow a silver bow rings up in inches You were afraid you'd be the devil's red wife But it's all right, God dug your dance And would have you young and in his harem Dress you the way he wants cause he never had a doll 'Cause everybody made him a boy And God didn't think to ask his preference You can bring your dress and your favorite dog And your husband's cane, and your old spotted hog 'Cause in this lifetime you got my human gets me blues

[@keelo-byte]

It's like an aural "magic eye" you have to cross eared before it sorta forms an image, but it's still kind of hazey and gives you a headache.

[@goatuscrow4135]

Crushing elements of saturation, soon to be soothing.

[@basmaringuillaume8897]

And, I declare, what was there on the yonder bank of the stream that would be a river, parched on a limb of the olum, bolt downright, but the Gripes? And no doubt he was fit to be dried for why had he not been having the juice of his times?

[@johnatwell2753]

Winnegans Fake.

[@sarasotaslimslamm5676]

Although no remastering sound there is in here, it deserve the music's zenith.

[@davidwalker5054]

if you listen carefully , about halfway through this track ,the whole band are playing in the same key and to the same time signature

[@closetskeleton970]

this feels way longer than 3 minutes

[@epicmememan350]

Good!

[@alphabeta111]

one of my faves for sure?

[@apothecurio]

This. This is just post punk oh my god Trout Mask Replica is just post punk. The world is crumbling and caving in.

[@aramboodakian9554]

Of course it was pre punk 1969

[@mikem8497]

Tom Waits' wife Kathleen Brennan turned him on to CB just before he made Swordfish Trombones.

[@edmund184]

you can hear the influence

[@ValseInstrumentalist]

It was actually the Tom Waits Tales From A Cracked Jukebox documentary which lead me to Captain Beefheart ten years ago. They played a snippet of Steal Softly Thru Snow and I was like "oh shit what is that".

[@alphabeta111]

insane imagery though

[@CannibalMukbang]

I'm gonna play this at the hootenanny

[@specialedd13]

This song is horrifying (topic wise).

[@specialedd13]

I think it's about how petty and shallow the Captain felt the Abrahamic God is. :But's it's alright, God dug your dance. And would have you, young, and in His...harem". It's a statement of the pains of being human/just existing as a human.

[@christacartwright9083]

I always thought it was about a transgender person.

[@fluffywolfo3663]

@@christacartwright9083 I thought so too. "Cause everybody made him a boy and God didn't think to ask his preference..."

[@BuddhaJesusSoul]

I think its about the captains and humans in generals relationship with god; who is he really

[@petermaxwell4904]

my human gets me blues, fo' sho'

[@Circuit7Active]

I'm leaving my old spotted hog at home.

[@scottpendergast]

omg such chaos

[@flipotronic1]

Give me lack of people.... :p

[@stevenpochejr]

Ooooo i like this one

[@tagomago994]

1969!!!!!!

[@37Dionysos]

"...through his perfumed bottle atomizer air bulb invention...."

[@aramboodakian9554]

“ his excited eyes glazed, watered in appreciation…” mama splattering lard…was now smooth amazingly blended… (out of order remembrances of clever verse)

[@Maru96]

the second half goes so fucking hard

[@cheezhead6007]

This KZbin feed should come with a free hit of acid as to translate to understand this type of music

[@MinamuTV]

No matter how hilarious this song may be, it's also probably brilliant. My interpretation of the lyrics are that Van Vliet was satirizing the fact that society is sexist, in that it tends to automatically think of God as a male.

[@blokislove5995]

MinamuTV I can see how you think that, but this song's lyrics are known to stem from Van Vliet criticizing drummer John French for being religious, Beefheart was not religious. He also was calling French feminine as an insult, John also practiced tap dancing, they were his "old black cracked patent shoes". An amazing song definitely and I'm sure he branched out into other topics with the lyrics, but this is known from different accounts to be the source of the words. I would also like to add that anyone who would argue that god is a woman is completely missing the whole idea of how ridiculous it is to think that a singular god would need to have gender. There are many things on this planet that are asexual, bisexuality evolved later.

[@yiffyskunk]

+Blok Is Love Very interesting about the lyrics, thanks!

[@bqbhhhh]

+Blok Is Love Did French continue to be religious? was he christian or something else? how did this alleged 48-hour assault end for him? I wanna know more!

[@scotmacmillan8520]

+R Rod John French is still a Christian, he says his Faith is what got him through his Trout House ordeal. the 48 hour ordeal (which started with Don accusing him of sabotaging the album by not practicing the drum parts enough) ended with John "apologising" and offering to leave the band as to not continue to "sabotage" the music. Because John knew all the music and was Don's only hope of teaching the band, the ordeal ended and John was forbidden from leaving the house until the drum parts were perfected.

[@ruthdixon7807]

discordant, abrasive guitars, crazed time signatures - business as usual for the captain, then.

[@henlokitty3358]

I wish there was only instrumental version.

[@petercook360]

Check out the Grow Fins box set.

[@smkelly1970]

You can bring yer dress ‘n yer favorite dog ‘n yer husbands cane ‘n yer old spotted hog

[@theswingingdoor2157]

This is so bizarre.

[@Goatchild90]

This is so fucking abrasive

[@JohnCox-ut3cv]

Read that listen a chapter a day.

[@roycraig3236]

Any one that can even begin to say that Don wasn't religious should listen to his lyrics again If that man wasn't religious then neither is anyone

[@leonstaley9034]

I totally agree.... All these songs come from the heart! I always seem to interprate them with a religious theme

[@fsambal]

@@leonstaley9034 Then that's on you, not on the Captain.

[@markdearlove8634]

Joy

[@joeyrider]

This song is nirvana

[@vmf226]

Don't ever sing this on karaoke night! It will get you kicked out!

[@nickyscarfo5436]

No wave

[@RichBurrell]

Fantastic

[@mariobubalo2060]

I dunno..Im rly tryin to get this music..And yes i love prog and dissonant music, KC and Gentle giant type of dissonant,but it seems this is a bit too much for my taste

[@leonstaley9034]

I was the same... Struggled to get into it at first so I read the album lyrics without music as poetry which in my opinion they are poems. Veterans day poppy, human gets me blues, steal softly through snow, and many more are actually very subtle and full of emotion and empathy. The music hides this feeling like a child too shy to say I love you so instead beats on the one he loves. My opinion

[@kraftyhandz]

Best song on the album. It’s so fukn awesome.

[@thomasmartin7425]

I kid you not: My first band sounded like this, but not on purpose. And people HATED us. And i don't blame them, since i did too. How warped is that though? Kids trying to sound good but out of rhythm then become a pro after capturing tempo and rhythm. Then they get hired to play frantic music out of rhythm.

[@anecdoteskywalker]

If art is supposed to make you feel something?

[@thomasmartin7425]

I feel sick

[@largevapor]

This is evil sounding music

[@RipScissor]

" 'Cause everybody made him a boy. And God didn't think to ask his preference." That one line describes gender dysphoria so perfectly, holy damn.

[@dinospumoni5611]

2:00 The lyrics... does it get more prescient than that? Even more relevant today with the movement for trans acceptance: "'Cause everybody made him a boy, and God didn’t think to ask his preference.”

[@largevapor]

Don did say he supported the lgbt in the 80s so maybe

[@ariaronowitz8724]

Fuck I thought the grateful dead were loose

[@MrGangstNerd]

this song is hilarious

[@roycraig3236]

EB, the Composer & GFA If U mean that then U could be lost in the dark

[@roycraig3236]

It’s so very deep and I’m stuck down here trying to figure how I got here

[@MrOptimus4]

I really like this album, the only thing that bothers me is the vocals, I feel like they always sound the same in every song

[@sharonbodea7677]

Neon meate dream of a octafish? Hobo Chang Ba? Sugar n Spikes?

[@roycraig3236]

His songs are all about the eternal struggle of right and wrong about God "and God didn't even think to ask his preference" Just keep coming Jesus you're the best dressed , Give me that old time religion don't give me your affliction" ON AND ON AND ON Anyone who believes in GOD and THE devil will have questions will be critical will satirize will be deep thinkers as is was Don

[@Kirke182]

I think it's more about homosexuality within the society and the family. God is the father and he doesn't think to ask sonny if he'd rather play with dolls.

[@houndonthedock390]

I don't think anything on this record means anything, it's anti-art, dada.

[@roycraig3236]

Mal Cronin no true no true everything on this Album so very much meaning we just don’t know exactly what it means all the time but it’s one of those things the more you listen to it U start to see meaning in it then There is meaning within the meaning So U start all over and think Just maybe U have it

[@ThePowerpointMaster]

@@roycraig3236 Who knows honestly, what I've read about some of the songs on this album is very interesting, some people have really analyzed this, but what if they are just looking for meaning where there's no meaning, we might never know. I just dig the sound

[@thatsbreakfast8008]

“one of the best albums of all time” not really kinda shitty

[@thugtearsofficial1337]

it's the worst best

[@thatsbreakfast8008]

@@thugtearsofficial1337 this album is straight up trash 🚮

[@marinewelsh9927]

@@thatsbreakfast8008 its a lil overrated but it isn't trash. captain beefhearts one of the best lyricists of all time and drumbo (jhon french) did a good job transcribing the arrangements here/.

[@StonedMeadowOfDoom]

Your avatar indicates you definitely have garbage interests and your opinion on music is best ignored

[@thatsbreakfast8008]

@@StonedMeadowOfDoom ofc you use that cringe “anime pfp has no opinion” XDD just mad because its true this album sucks dick

[@ron-paulsartre]

this might be an unpopular opinion, but I prefer the kidz bop version

[@peterswales1955]

Just listen, maybe, and stop your smartarse takes for clout. Listen to what he is saying

[@grantwilliams2650]

What?

[@lukegibson2195]

....Stupid songs -- but wait - .ya we'll hmmmmmm ... yeah, okay you win - we'll call it music (harumpffff cough cough ....[clears throat ] )

[@hellmoon2020]

pleb pride worldwide

[@darling_danke_schoen]

gotta stop spamming these videos

[@bqbhhhh]

+Luke Gibson I am SO SORRY that the NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT HAS FAILED YOU.

[@Icecreamforcrowtoo]

You're not a very clever troll, brah. There's plenty of music more "out there" than what you come across on Trout Mask Replica. And this song isn't even that difficult whether one likes it or not.

[@Icecreamforcrowtoo]

So is Tom Waits not "music," either? Because the Beefheart influence on the renowned singer/songwriter is undeniable by his own admission. Without this record, there is no Rain Dogs.

[@aaronwilkinson]

Holy Lord, this is horrible.

[@rmw.4079]

pretty bad

[@rmw.4079]

***** hey, big boy, welcome to the internet, no school today?

[@rmw.4079]

***** no. just pointing out how childish and ridiculous it was to say so.

[@rmw.4079]

***** then why do it?

[@edwardharris6194]

RM W. Twas obviously sarcasm. We are to take you for a moron I assume, given your past replies. Also, I would just like to inform you, this song is a masterpiece. If your stupidity doesn't let you grasp it's brilliance then that is nobodys fault but your own.