| Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Brickbats Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Brickbats were a word for insults or slanders. It is a metaphorical use of earlier brickbats which were brick bits or chipped off parts of bricks that people would throw in riots, etc. No doubt the innovator and bohemian Beefheart had faced his share of slander and hard insults. Here he plays with the word to turn them into bats flying about the interior of a Gothic landscape. While playful, it may also show that insults and rumors take on a life of their own, and can become a veritable horror. | |
| Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Pachuco Cadaver Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Frankly, one of the most beautiful love songs of the past 500 years. Lyrics as vivid and heartfelt as Shakespeare’s sonnets. On the level of poetry, absolutely superb. As a celebration of the folk culture of low riders, an amazingly colorful genre lyric. Musically, it’s fun off-Dixie blitz one could easily dance the Charleston to. Of all the Trout Mask songs, this one has the most continuity with long jams like 25th Century Quaker, Mirror Man, and Abba Zabba. |
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| Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Pachuco Cadaver Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[magwheelz:30262] I think you’re spot on with the nature goddess imagery. This should be amplified and expanded upon. | |
| Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – 25th Century Quaker Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think “Mayflower child” is a play on the 60s “flower child”. It’s also about the past meeting the present, the European discovery of the continent and the Society of Friends of the future, a Whitmanesque vision of brotherhood. Blue cheese faces surrounded by laces may refer to the old school bonnets women used to wear, blue with lace, and the cheese white faces of their skin. He may also have been looking at old fades and even moldy pictures with splotches. There was a lot of imagery in this era of women running or strolling through meadows of wildflowers, so the picking poppies goes with this. Usually the sun gleamed with Lens flares (eyes that flutter like a wide open shutter, sun sifting through and through) Me into you : a sense of communion. Going to the cottage : to visit, hospitality, catching up on old times. But possibly also a reference to cottage cheese playing with the blue cheese faces. |
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| Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – 25th Century Quaker Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[patchwork:30261] cat | |
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