so i’ve just finished the third revision of my top 100 albums list — which to avoid confusion/arguments is a personal selection, not an attempt at a best of all time list — and to build some interest/excitement in the list beyond myself and the 1-2 other people that have traditionally cared about this i’ve [...]

i’ve slowly begun working on the third revision of my personal top 100 albums list. as planned, this year i am making the transition to a one album per artist limit… which has automatically disqualified twenty excellent albums from last year’s list (see below). this has been a hard step for me to take, but [...]

mp3: captain beefheart – blabber ‘n smoke
mp3: captain beefheart – call on me
this is why little king’s story is awesome…

mp3: the flaming lips with stardeath and white dwarfs – borderline (madonna cover)mp3: the black keys – her eyes are a blue million miles (captain beefheart cover)
from record store day… on beautiful sea foam green vinyl. side a is the flaming lips with stardeath and white dwarfs covering madonna’s “borderline”. the lips played this [...]

mp3: captain beefheart – her eyes are a blue million miles …… [buy clear spot]mp3: shortstack – her eyes are a blue million miles …… [buy covers ep]
i came across this cover while checking gypsy eyes records’ site for info on vandaveer’s forthcoming second album, divide & conquer… of which there is none. so [...]

a recent reading of kevin courrier’s book on captain beefheart’s trout mask replica from the 33 1/3 series has got me listening to that album more than i have in years.. its a nice background piece on beefheart and his relationship with zappa for those who aren’t familiar with beefheart’s history… with some great [...]

i’ve finalized volume two of my top 100 albums list at last! check out the opening tracks of my top ten albums below and then check out the full list… plain text here… and/or a graphic version here (pdf, 3.8mb).

1) the natural bridge (1996) — [buy it]
mp3: silver jews – how [...]

mp3: captain beefheart & the magic band – i’m glad [link expired] mp3: the black keys – i’m glad [link expired]another captain beefheart cover this week. the black keys recorded and then posted this cover of “i’m glad” to their myspace last week and that is, to my knowledge, the only release the song [...]

mp3: mercury rev – observatory crest [link expired]
the cover this week comes from mercury rev’s 2002 little rhymes pt. 2 single and is a first for the bat and the bird. it’s the first cover i’ve ever posted without being intimately (or on occasion vaguely) familiar with the original. “observatory crest” can be found [...]

mp3: frank zappa (w/captain beefheart) – the torture never stops [original version] [link expired]
this is the perfect song to follow that torturous meadow muffin, across the universe. i remember reading an interview zappa did where the interviewer asked him what this song was about. his answer – “it’s about torture… that [...]