Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Hair Pie Bake 2

Is there an album better than Trout Mask Replica after 50 years a wonderful and peculiar masterpiece? The album’s influence continues to rumble on down the ages: in the twisted Americana of The Birthday Party, the mainstream comfort of Tom Waits or the collages of John Zorn, The Residents, etc. 'I want it exactly the way I want it. Exactly. Any composer… would want it that way and I don’t deviate at all… somebody like Stravinsky for instance, don’t you think it would annoy him if somebody bent a note the wrong way? ’Don Van Vliet