Observatory Crest / Captain Beefheart

Observatory Crest / Captain Beefheart
While the city was busy we wanted to rest
She decided to drive up to observatory crest
We'd just saw a concert and heard all the best
We went on a ride, we got outside
The sand was hot, she wanted to dance
We went round and round in observatory crest
Thought we'd saw flying saucers and all of the rest
from observatory crest
While the city was busy we wanted to rest
She decided to drive up to observatory crest
We'd just saw a concert and heard all the best
So the only thing to do
Was to drive up
And watch the city
From observatory crest

[@sebastienmazurkiewicz6637]

My wife and I danced with this song for our introduction dance to the wedding party. No waltz, no beautiful blue Danube, just the Captain, the flying saucers and Observatory Crest :D

[@hanawana]

Séb that’s beautiful

[@thomaskodunne7542]

Watch rebel without acause James dean the title is in the movie

[@johnc5160]

Good choice 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@shorelineboy]

👍🏻😎

[@whippetatthewheel]

"Men let your wallets flop out And women open your purses" Deep woe for the passing of this man. Deep joy for him ever existing.

[@kingoftheseamusic]

This is such an excellent, excellent song

[@Kelly14UK]

Deserves Grand Theft Auto radio placards for the world. A classic.

[@DreamSneak]

Hey trev, what other songs do you like? I actually want to know.

[@BubbaZen10]

I think you left out a few excellents.

[@BubbaZen10]

At least one. Feels like 3 would've been perfect.

[@chriswhite2576]

This song kept me and my wife going after I nearly died from some serious major cancer surgery.

[@gerlan1234to]

Hope all is going well for you and your wife, may you have many drives to 'Observatory Crest' together.

[@crh7742]

I'm vegetarian but I love Captain Beefheart.

[@bmcg8888]

You G bumming f dm c7

[@johnstallings4049]

Even plants eat 🍖 meat. I'm a Venus Fytrap.

[@hanawana]

CRH apparently beef heart was a nickname the Captain’s uncle gave to his own penis

[@hanawana]

CRH JUST LIKE THAT

[@Fruktstav]

He mostly eat canned beans, from what I can find.. Perhaps some sardines too

[@pistolerocake]

so what if it is 'commercial' ... it is possibly one of his finest most moving atmospheric songs in my opinion .. everyone has an observatory crest

[@eladbari]

Commercial for what? Or you mean it's too pop-y?

[@heindijs]

@@eladbari Maybe that’s what makes it so pleasant. It’s my favourite song on the album definitely

[@ericsimon9937]

- this song touches me so DEEPLY. Thank you Don. Hope you're well wherever you are...

[@jacekszul7234]

Hard to stop listening again and again...circle song...amazing

[@griffineagle7]

i loved the fact that captain asked the trees if it was alright to gig in the forest before he set up his equipment ..i guess they must have agreed in their own special way ..thats captain for you ..total Dude >:-)

[@FISHMUSIC4U]

I cried 10 tin tear drops after hearing this number for the first time...I'm taking that drive up to the Crest...

[@ginomendozauk]

Great track. I was surprised how many people berate this album. For me it's got some enchanted tracks. ...jus' sayin'

[@elvergalarga4461]

blue jeans and moonbeams is good, idk who wouldn't like it.

[@johndaarteest]

I am sure they were fast and bulbous.

[@boo66]

My favourite Beefheart album always. Its truth will be known one day!

[@TheDBER]

I've always loved all Don's music...including 'Bluejeans..." and 'Unconditionaly...." I've never understood why those 2 records are so disliked my many...I think they are great....IMO.

[@Tracer9GTRider8]

gone but not forgotten. RIP good captain. the world just got a bit suckier.

[@HowToVideosAndTips]

This my new favourite CB song. I guess he is singing about some girl he carelessly lost on the way ...

[@user-cm1sl4ro7r]

Sublime 👍

[@bertbretherton]

It has taken me until now to bring myself to watching the Captain again since he departed. I was born the same year and lived his music at the time. 'Magic' Band - an understatement.

[@TheIanoTube]

Are ya still going strong Bret

[@ginomendozauk]

Definitely the best track on the best album. You can feel the love. The Captain used to go to Observatory Crest in his youth, and I have loved this track since first release back in the day, and now I have his music with me at all times.

[@eladbari]

Is it an actual place? Where?

[@entroidolaza1874]

I never be tired of listening this maravillosa song. Keep on it.

[@andrewhillis9544]

🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶 🎶 I LOVE THIS SONG ! ! ! NICE 🎵 🎵 PRODUCTION+ENGINEERING ! ! ! 🎶 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵

[@maryepworth]

RIP. Always loved the supposedly bad late Beefheart stuff. So much tenderness.

[@gilliansmith60]

There's only one captain !

[@anklamer]

That´s right!

[@philipthomas3629]

I have, no comparison....

[@FISHMUSIC4U]

a great love story: "we thought we saw flying saucers and all of the rest"...

[@MichaelWiberg-nh5cd]

Most exelent song rymes in the high desert ,experienced.

[@pixiemark7]

Hey, Thanks to the Captain for all the good times and the wonderful sounds.. Rest well Beefheart, you made all my trips special and safe! Love and farewell, Px :))

[@gilwood7530]

This is one of Captains most beautiful songs

[@DigitallFlesh]

my ex wife hated this, but this musical genius way ahead of it's time. A well known hated album, but damn is it good. All the best music is hated until after it's time. funny how all the best are appreciated after their dead.

[@noonsight2010]

The first time I heard this I swear I tripped out. When the track ended I came to Earth with a crash.

[@eritchek]

why ?

[@davidsnow4531]

I'm still tripping out on it

[@noname1st139]

I've never Heard this ever, it's brilliant,wow,love the allman bros guitar riffs, this is magical 👏

[@ingridschatz9961]

one example for a perfect song

[@j.c7719]

Transcendent and magical. Such a masterpiece.

[@tagomago2178]

So beautifull

[@ZanzibarBreeze]

Fantastic song. I like the Mercury Rev cover of it too, they really do it justice.

[@gregoryprusak8130]

...have to listen to seventeen evergreen's version. they do it justice and thankfully they don't try to imitate Don

[@gilwood7530]

Hey thanks for the heads up ...never heard either ...always fun to hear stuff you knows like your mothers maiden name

[@simonjacques5343]

There is something captivating about the captain, something so magical that has you in it's spell... He's like Tom Waits, more than a musician. More than the lyrics and the songs, a presence and gravitas that has you in it's spell. You're not a fan of the Captains, you become a part of him...

[@Noodles37UK]

+Simon Jacques He resembles and sounds like Waits. This song takes us all beyond our Solar System. It's the sparkling harmonics here haha.

[@ericsimon9937]

- Absolutely ... I wish he'd been my brother

[@peterhh369]

That is the best description I have ever read about Don. We became a part of him...

[@gmawmum]

According to a radio interview the Captain didn't like Tom Waits. I think he felt like he was ripping off his style.

[@JumboDubby]

Quoting you for a blog post on the Captain 👍

[@esolog5phil394]

absolutly in my private top 10.

[@joebrogan2292]

The Captain needs a promotion. Saw him years ago in NYC. Miss his music.....Clearspot is as safe as milk.

[@robertterrell3065]

I've always loved this song, and many other Beefheart songs. With my new speakers the atmospheric quality of the production is really coming through even more. So, I'm thinking he was trying to write a Dreampop song. I'm not sure to what lever it was actually a genre at that time. I hadn't heard of it.

[@MichaelWiberg-nh5cd]

Yeah high desert ways indeed you're still it Captian! The Proffessor Esco says so God bless this man ....

[@Noodles37UK]

Glad I actually discovered this great wee song at some point in my life before I die. Whenever I die, I don't fuckin' know, but, you know?

[@andrewhillis1311]

I like to listen to this song when I am at Observatory Crest!!!

[@eladbari]

Where is it at?

[@richardfitzgibbon2092]

This song is incredible. I love this album

[@robertomarinus4615]

Still missing this one of kind Captain fucking Beefheart.......

[@stucknda60s]

Always liked this song even if Don thought it too commercial. And it's light years beyond a lot of what passes for commercial these days...

[@karls.9741]

This is footage of an earlier version of the Magic Band. I think it was on the beach in Cannes, France. He is not singing Observatory Crest. It was my favorite song on that record, though (Blue jeans and moon beams).

[@lawrencehamm1478]

Beautiful.

[@tonygraham132]

Pure love, from above, Mr Beef &Zap never hit that... ....

[@gavjc23]

Such an epic tune!! Fantastic voice with a delicious background melody..can't believe this was 1974 :)

[@TheRoytonRebel]

Cosmic

[@rajaizkraja]

Good night sweet prince..

[@joebrogan2292]

Love my captain. Zoot horn rollo.

[@kidsmoked]

Can you believe he disowned this album? One of the best.

[@oldgregg93]

I love that tin sounding echoing at 1.12 it's like those little music boxes, the ones were you wind the handle

[@FUNKYTRIPUNKY]

Music for the wiseness at the end of a trip. Whatever is this. Brilliant music

[@ImprintsMedia]

Les loves this track... Decades ahead of his time. This is existential poetry - made pop! Beautiful!!!! Watta guy!!!!

[@Wankshaftsbury]

Beautiful, Captain * Salutes *

[@rodneymaxwell5240]

I like the howling at the end. hhooowwwlll!!!

[@tomrott5333]

Reminds me my time in California and Griffith Observatory in L.A. Long walks ... bedroom talks... Definitely one of the best from Captain!

[@nancyl2]

@ImprintsMedia Ummm Observatory Crest kind of Look-Out Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennesse.;-) THIS is a most magnificent song. The melody goes right with the 'as you say'; Poetic-lyrics. My heart sings as I recall some memories that 'this tune ignited'. POWERFUL messages in the Captain's gifts to humanity. What a BEing. So happy that these gifts are here for sharing; I thank the Special BEing that sent this my way today. He had shared Beefheart before BUT this GEM I cherish more. Namaste'

[@Maken2487]

Magic moment no doubt

[@martincarlos3759]

One if not the best one song on one of his best Albums. Observatory Crest on Blujeans & Moonbeams.

[@anttilaurila7376]

Beefheart is a genius... insane, but genius... great artist

[@GreatBoneStructure]

Captain my Captain. Like Miles, his mistakes become canon. You feel it or you don't.

[@marty0]

Wow. Surprizingly mellow yet haunting song. More spookily evocative in croon mode than howlin' wolf style.

[@edhammertime]

this song is my favourite at the mo

[@whu1001]

Great track,a very mellow captain......r.i.p.

[@brotherbrando]

this song gets me high

[@joannanoel4757]

Love this ...he has a very similar voice to Neil Diamond in this particular song anyway!!!!!

[@cgk0809]

While the city was busy We wanted to rest She deiced to drive up to Observatory Crest We just saw the concert and heard all the best We went on a ride We got outside The sand was hot She wanted to dance We went ’round and ’round at Observatory Crest Thought we saw flying saucers and all of the rest Pawns in high Spain from Observatory crest While the city was busy We wanted to rest She deiced to drive up to Observatory Crest We just saw the concert and heard all the best So the only thing to do Was to drive up And watch the city From Observatory Crest While the city was busy We wanted to rest She deiced to drive up to Observatory Crest We just saw the concert and heard all the best So the only thing to do Was to drive up And watch the city From Observatory Crest (1974)

[@tomfarr56]

Great album. And I have them all.

[@Markmywords803]

Genius!

[@doctorschlock]

This is a great sad sad song.

[@gemblac]

what a trip..

[@teknofonix]

the best acid i ever took - beautiful man, beautiful

[@PSimonAjantaMusic]

Sublime!

[@MrPtilolo13]

so good

[@chrisalexanderkiprovski3759]

magical

[@kubakubanski6476]

Nice, thank you for upload!

[@davidironhead6341]

love this song

[@jonny1957]

Sublime

[@gilliansmith60]

i'd do nearly anything for one more kiss off that amazing man

[@hanawana]

Gillian Smith one more ? !

[@Misteryowl]

Crazy. My favourite (i'm English) song ever.

[@billybrisket7526]

For anyone who thinks the Magic Band couldn't play and the Captain couldn't sing

[@plaerdemavida318]

Sit tibi terra levis, my Captain.

[@chifladengue]

excelente amigo!!

[@gregcurran447]

I want to go there someday

[@andy191266]

it is a great song no doubt man

[@watashiwanachodes]

Funny that Don said that Bluejeans & Moonbeams should be erased of his discography, he was embarrased at how normal and "safe as milk" it is. To me this is just a great song made with great production values.

[@Kalumbatsch]

It's something for mass consumption. Boring kitsch. He was absolutely right.

[@aakkoin]

While the city was busy we wanted to rest She decided to drive up to observatory crest that is poetry, I love you Don, RIP

[@JackALynn-pv1ow]

🎸❤🎸

[@Circuit7Active]

The Tragic Band was actually pretty good. It's a shame that snobby, pretentious CB fans can't accept that there were many sides to the Captain.

[@davidfairbairn8]

Well said. My favourite stuff happens to be mostly tragic band stuff. Absolutely amazing music.

[@sarahgoss2440]

Absolutely agree. I like all sides of the Capt from "Clear Spot" to "Bat chain Puller" and you can't deny that there are some epic achingly beautiful songs on Blue jeans and Moonbeams alongside "Observatory Crest" we have the majestic "Further than we've gone'.

[@eladbari]

@@sarahgoss2440 Exactly! i just found this side of Beefheart (observatory crest + Bo diddy) And I want more! Where an I find it besides Bluejeans & Moonbeams?

[@Carlosrastar123]

Snobby Beefheart fans? Hahahaha

[@jonsabine29]

RIP.. :(

[@lowe-quay-shush]

I have the first album. But this is fuking beautiful!

[@parisangennar1186]

S U P E R !!!

[@terrywinters3713]

best song about potatoes ever

[@Paul-lf1bq]

Not a popular one but it's my favourite Beefheart album.

[@WinChun78]

When I was still a kid and I first heard someone mention Captain Beefheart, I thought they had said Captain Beef Fart...

[@twirlyboggs]

....and all of the rest...

[@elioheber]

Se viene tu cumple Cap🎉

[@MichaelWiberg-nh5cd]

Strictly personally speaking.

[@yondus]

What a version is this with the screeching at the end? I love it!

[@anklamer]

@yondus it's the Captain's screeching from the original footage (French Riviera 1968) which I mixed into the tune.

[@yondus]

@@anklamer Cheers man, appreciate the reply and the mix, it was a really nice touch too an already beautiful song👍

[@bobbelafonte]

Beefheart does Niel Diamond.