Observatory Crest / Captain Beefheart

[@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]

👍🏻😎

[@jmp01a24]

Keep wooden logs ready for a long and enjoyable fireplace that keep you both warm through life on planet earth. And if for a split second she saw your soul and you saw hers, what more can you wish for?

[@IanWilliams-j2h]

Sublime 👍

[@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.

[@ClarkGraeme-t4t]

Made me greet!❤ Minds me of Walter becker. Xx

[@ericsimon9937]

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

[@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 >:-)

[@jacekszul7234]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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?

[@AndrewHillis_2024]

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

[@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.

[@michaelvincent8306]

Love beefheart safe as milk superb album

[@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 :))

[@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

[@MichaelWiberg-nh5cd]

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

[@HowToVideosAndTips]

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

[@j.c7719]

Transcendent and magical. Such a masterpiece.

[@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?

[@entroidolaza1874]

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

[@maryepworth]

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

[@jmp01a24]

Entrancing music and lyrics. The repetitions of words, like taking a breath of fresh air at a steady slow phase. It put me to rest, when my body was tense. The simplicity met complexity at Observatory. It put me to rest. Like a bird high up in the sky below me was a Crest. Where an Observatory put me to rest.

[@noname1st139]

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

[@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

[@Tracer9GTRider8]

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

[@joebrogan2292]

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

[@andothemando9695]

what a beautiful song

[@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'

[@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.

[@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

[@gilwood7530]

This is one of Captains most beautiful songs

[@funktripunk]

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

[@gavjc23]

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

[@tonygraham132]

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

[@ImprintsMedia]

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

[@lawrencehamm1478]

Beautiful.

[@richardfitzgibbon2092]

This song is incredible. I love this album

[@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.

[@rodneymaxwell5240]

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

[@ingridschatz9961]

one example for a perfect song

[@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 👍

[@MichaelWiberg-nh5cd]

Most exelent song rymes in the high desert ,experienced.

[@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.

[@tagomago2178]

So beautifull

[@joannanoel4757]

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

[@andrewhillis1311]

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

[@eladbari]

Where is it at?

[@johnnybegood780]

Just masterpiece

[@joebrogan2292]

Love my captain. Zoot horn rollo.

[@rajaizkraja]

Good night sweet prince..

[@whu1001]

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

[@FISHMUSIC4U]

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

[@Maken2487]

Magic moment no doubt

[@esolog5phil394]

absolutly in my private top 10.

[@anttilaurila7376]

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

[@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

[@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

[@gilliansmith60]

There's only one captain !

[@anklamer]

That´s right!

[@philipthomas3629]

I have, no comparison....

[@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...

[@martincarlos3759]

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

[@Markmywords803]

Genius!

[@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).

[@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?

[@tomfarr56]

Great album. And I have them all.

[@marty0]

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

[@davidironhead6341]

love this song

[@kubakubanski6476]

Nice, thank you for upload!

[@TheRoytonRebel]

Cosmic

[@chifladengue]

excelente amigo!!

[@gemblac]

what a trip..

[@robertomarinus4615]

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

[@andy191266]

it is a great song no doubt man

[@teknofonix]

the best acid i ever took - beautiful man, beautiful

[@PSimonAjantaMusic]

Sublime!

[@gregcurran447]

I want to go there someday

[@doctorschlock]

This is a great sad sad song.

[@MrPtilolo13]

so good

[@Misteryowl]

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

[@chrisalexanderkiprovski3759]

magical

[@gilliansmith60]

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

[@hanawana]

Gillian Smith one more ? !

[@jonny1957]

Sublime

[@edhammertime]

this song is my favourite at the mo

[@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)

[@mojavemoog]

i don't know why people hated this album. just another facet of Don. a SMOOTH operator, hear? i always thought Bluejeans and Moonbeams was f*#king hauntingly great. even though Don himself denounced it. guess you either git it, or ya don't. thnx for this one.

[@elioheber]

Se viene tu cumple Cap🎉

[@JackALynn-pv1ow]

🎸❤🎸

[@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

[@lowe-quay-shush]

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

[@plaerdemavida318]

Sit tibi terra levis, my Captain.

[@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?

[@chuckunplugged]

Snobby Beefheart fans? Hahahaha

[@GreatBoneStructure]

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

[@captainsoul1953]

i cant be bothered analyzin the captains music...if it sounds good i like it......though i was a bit dissapointed withthis one but after a few plays the tunes were in my head now its a favourite jim

[@jskim8156]

Gone from Spotify 😢

[@Omie789]

@sryohei1234 I think the Jurassic 5 - Thin Line samples the drums.

[@parisangennar1186]

S U P E R !!!

[@jonsabine29]

RIP.. :(

[@rharvs41]

OK bluejeans is no trout mask, but its got some great moments - I love this song. I do think the album as a whole is way better than 'Unconditionally Guaranteed' which I can't get on with at all. 'Ice Cream' was a truly great way to finish his music career - not many pull something quite so new and brilliant out of the bag for their last. Any contenders?

[@Paul-lf1bq]

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

[@bobbelafonte]

Beefheart does Niel Diamond.