Album
Ice Cream For Crow
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
1982 · Rock, Blues
10 collectors on Gatefold own this
Ice Cream For Crow is a Rock album by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, originally released in 1982. On Gatefold: 40 pressings tracked, owned by 10 collectors.
About
Captain Beefheart closed out his recording career with <i>Ice Cream for Crow</i>, an album that reaffirms his utterly unique amalgam of Delta blues, wailing free jazz and rarified avant-garde motifs. This late-edition version of the Magic Band plays with jittery energy and razor-sharp precision, infusing the title track with down-home twang and executing astounding instrumental moves on “Cardboard Cut-Out Sundown.” Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) holds forth with sly desert-rat wisdom and crazed street-prophet fervor, adopting a spiritual tone for “The Host, the Ghost, the Most Holy O” and slipping some scathing political commentary into “The Thousandth and Tenth Day of the Human Totem Pole.” A number of these tracks were assembled out of pre-existing fragments — the lyrics to “Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat” had once appeared as a poem, for instance. But whatever the ingredients, the album collectively crackles with instrumental finesse and word-drunk genius. <i>Ice Cream for Crow</i> concludes the Captain’s journey on an exalted note.
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Tracklist
- 1Ice Cream for Crow4:35
- 2The Host the Ghost the Most Holy-O2:25
- 3Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian4:20
- 4Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat3:12
- 5Evening Bell2:00
- 6Cardboard Cut Out Sundown2:38
- 7The Past Sure Is Tense3:22
- 8Ink Mathematics1:40
- 9The Witch Doctor Life2:38
- 1081 Poop Hatch2:38
- 11The Thousandth and Tenth Day of The Human Totem Pole5:42
- 12Skeleton Makes Good2:19
- 13Light Reflected Off the Oceans of the Moon4:47
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Blues Rock
- warm
- playful
- psychedelic
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
UK 1st issue.
Vinyl contained in matt-art liner, with lyrics - black & white half-tone imaged, both sides.
Recorded, mixed & mastered at Warner Bros Recording Studios, North Hollywood, California.
Runouts are hand-etched.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Cliff MartinezDRUMS DRUMS, MARACAS , STEEL DRUMS , WASHBOARD DRUMS, MARACAS , WASHBOARD , DRUMS
- Don Van VlietHARMONICA HORN SAXOPHONE
- Eric Drew FeldmanELECTRIC PIANO ELECTRIC PIANO , BASS ELECTRIC PIANO , SYNTH
- Gary LucasGUITAR GUITAR , SLIDE GUITAR, GUITAR, STEEL GUITAR GUITAR , SLIDE GUITAR, GUITAR
- Jeff Moris TepperACOUSTIC GUITAR ACOUSTIC GUITAR, SLIDE GUITAR, SLIDE GUITAR , GUITAR GUITAR
- Midnight HatsizeBASS, MARIMBA, VIOLA
- Richard SnyderBASS BASS GUITAR BASS GUITAR, MARIMBA, VIOLA
10 collectors on Gatefold own this · 40 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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