Captain Beefheart was the stage name of American Blues singer, avant-garde musician and painter Don Van Vliet (January 15, 1941 – December 17, ...

Audience-Alienating Era: Between 1972 and 1975, he pursued a more mainstream-friendly sound in an attempt to reach a wider audience. While The Spotlight Kid and ...

Short-Lived, Big Impact: Beefheart was musically active from 1966 to 1982 and only released a handful of albums before he quit the music industry for the rest ...

Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's most well-known and notorious album. Released in 1969 and produced by Frank Zappa, it has never been a mainstream ...

A disturbing song about a human totempole apparently starving from hunger. Those terrifying lyrics: "The man at the top was starving.

Johnny Rotten references the song "Japan In A Dishpan" from Lick My Decals Off, Baby: Everybody knows Japan is a dishpan.

A page for describing Laconic: Captain Beefheart. A blues singer and fine artist reknowned for his highly abrasive and experimental music.

Safe as Milk is the 1967 debut album by Captain Beefheart, generally regarded as one of his best albums, along with Trout Mask Replica, Lick My Decals Off, Baby ...

Strictly Personal is a 1968 album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. It was originally going to be called It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper and ...

Doc at the Radar Station is a 1980 album by Captain Beefheart. Widely considered one of his best, together with Safe as Milk, Trout Mask Replica, ...