Trout Mask Replica  

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Trout Mask Replica is the third studio album by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. The album was produced by Frank Zappa, a friend and former schoolmate of Beefheart (also known as Don Van Vliet), and was originally released on Zappa's own Straight Records imprint in 1969. Combining blues, free jazz, and other apparently disparate genres of American music, it is regarded as an important work of experimental music and appears at number 58 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Track listing

All songs written by Van Vliet.

Side one

1. "Frownland" – 1:41
2. "The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back" – 1:53
3. "Dachau Blues" – 2:21
4. "Ella Guru" – 2:26
5. "Hair Pie: Bake 1" – 4:58
6. "Moonlight on Vermont" – 3:59

Side two

7. "Pachuco Cadaver" – 4:40
8. "Bills Corpse" – 1:48
9. "Sweet Sweet Bulbs" – 2:21
10. "Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish" – 2:25
11. "China Pig" – 4:02
12. "My Human Gets Me Blues" – 2:46
13. "Dali's Car" – 1:26

Side three

1. <li value=14>"Hair Pie: Bake 2" – 2:23
2. "Pena" – 2:33
3. "Well" – 2:07
4. "When Big Joan Sets Up" – 5:18
5. "Fallin' Ditch" – 2:08
6. "Sugar 'n Spikes" – 2:30
7. "Ant Man Bee" – 3:57

Side four

1. <li value=21>"Orange Claw Hammer" – 3:34
2. "Wild Life" – 3:09
3. "She's Too Much for My Mirror" – 1:40
4. "Hobo Chang Ba" – 2:02
5. "The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)" – 2:04
6. "Steal Softly thru Snow" – 2:18
7. "Old Fart at Play" – 1:51
8. "Veteran's Day Poppy" – 4:31