Trout Mask Replica

Tracklist

#	Track Title	Duration
1	Frownland	1:41
2	The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back	1:53
3	Dachau Blues	2:20
4	Ella Guru	2:24
5	Hair Pie: Bake 1	4:59
6	Moonlight on Vermont	3:59
7	Pachuco Cadaver	4:37
8	Bills Corpse	1:38
9	Sweet Sweet Bulbs	2:16
10	Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish	1:57
11	China Pig	3:52
12	My Human Gets Me Blues	2:33
13	Dali's Car	1:24
14	Hair Pie: Bake 2	1:57
15	Pena	1:44
16	Well	1:56
17	When Big Joan Sets Up	5:56
18	Fallin' Ditch	1:56
19	Sugar 'n Spikes	2:16
20	Ant Man Bee	3:55
21	Orange Claw Hammer	3:23
22	Wild Life	3:11
23	She's Too Much for My Mirror	1:40
24	Hobo Chang Ba	2:01
25	The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)	1:53
26	Steal Softly Thru Snow	2:16
27	Old Fart at Play	1:52
28	Veteran's Day Poppy	4:31

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✨ 1. The album was recorded in a rented house in Woodland Hills, California, where Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) acted as a strict, cult-like bandleader, reportedly subjecting his musicians to psychological and physical endurance tests.
✨ 2. Frank Zappa produced the album and granted Beefheart complete artistic control, but he handled the mixing so poorly that Van Vliet allegedly never forgave him for the album's harsh, lo-fi sound quality.
✨ 3. The notoriously complex, disjointed instrumental parts were taught by Beefheart to his band mostly by humming melodies or playing them on a plastic piano, despite many of the musicians being classically trained professionals who couldn't read his unconventional musical language.