Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

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Years Active
1965 – 1982 (17 years)
Founded In
Lancaster, Los Angeles County, California, United States
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band was an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "-". Their music was characterized by bluesy melodies, shambolic instrumentation, idiosyncratic, unbound timings, the growls and shrieks of Beefheart's vocals and his surreal, poetic lyrics. Throughout their career, the band's musical direction was tightly controlled by Don Van Vliet (1941 - 2010), aka Captain Beefheart, who subjected the band to intense regimes of rehearsal; this tension combined with poor salary contributing to the bre… read more
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band was an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "-". Their music was characterized by bluesy melodies, shambolic instrumentation, idiosyncratic, unbound timings, the growls and shrieks of Beefheart'… read more
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band was an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "-". Their music was characterized by bluesy melodies, shambolic instrumentation, idiosyncratic, unbound timings, the growls and shrieks of Beefheart's vocals and his surreal, poetic lyrics. Throughout their career, the ba… read more

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1 Play track The Big Lebowski Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles
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2 Play track Safe As Milk I'm Glad
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 1,173 listeners
3 Play track The Spotlight Kid / Clear Spot Too Much Time
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4 Play track Trout Mask Replica Frownland
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5 Play track The Spotlight Kid / Clear Spot My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains
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6 Play track Trout Mask Replica Dachau Blues
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7 Play track Trout Mask Replica The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back
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8 Play track Trout Mask Replica Ella Guru
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9 Play track Safe As Milk Sure 'nuff 'n Yes I Do
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10 Play track Safe As Milk Zig Zag Wanderer
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Albums

  1. 376,552 listeners

    1 Jun 1967 · 12 tracks

    Safe As Milk
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  2. 213,022 listeners

    16 Jun 1969 · 28 tracks

    Trout Mask Replica
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  3. 127,241 listeners

    11 Sep 1972 · 12 tracks

    Clear Spot
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  4. 49,778 listeners

    1 Jan 1980 · 12 tracks

    Doc at the Radar Station
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