Ice Cream for Crow

Ice Cream for Crow Artist: Captain Beefheart
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 077778673927
EAN: 0077778673927
ASIN: B000025JTQ


Release Date: 2002-10-01

Ice Cream for Crow


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Tracks:

  1. Ice Cream For Crow
  2. The Host The Ghost The Most Holy O
  3. Semi Multicoloured Caucasian
  4. Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat
  5. Evening Bell
  6. Cardboard Cut Out Sundown
  7. The Past Sure Is Tense
  8. Ink Mathematics
  9. The Witch Doctor Life
  10. '81' Poop Hatch
  11. The Thousandth And Tenth Day Of The Human Totem Po
  12. Skeleton Makes Good

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  1. Doc at the Radar Station
  2. Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
  3. Strictly Personal
  4. The Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot
  5. The Mirror Man Sessions

Album Description

Reissue of the experimental rock icon's 1982 album. This 5 star album features 12 tracks including 'Cardboard Cutout Sundown'.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Farewell, Don........2004-06-14

This is Beefheart's last album, and it's not one of his best....especially coming after a powerhouse like "Doc At The Radar Station". Still, it's a nice farewell, and there are some interesting moments overall. "The Past Sure Is Tense" is the best track...although it's a re-write of an older song called "Little Scratch" (which can only be found on "The Dust Blows Forward" anthology).

5 out of 5 stars Another fertile work.......2003-03-06

Lyrically, to me this one ranks with the best of his work that I am aware of. His imagery is so unexpected, and (what else?) uniqely creative. "Hey Garland..." and "Cardboard Cutout Sundown" are my personal favorites here that sets one out on a brief but pleasureable little journey (as does much of the whole album for that matter). You may find Crow irresistable too.

5 out of 5 stars Cranium Classics....................2003-01-27

I finally got this thing on CD. I don't want to reveal my age but I've had this thing since it came out. I upgraded from a cassette that was played too much and sat in hot cars too much. I prefer this album and "Doc at Radar.." over just about anything Beef and the MB did.

Everyone talks about "Trout Mask" so much so I will too:

To me, these later works by CB and the MB are superior. The band is tighter, the production is better, the Captain had refined his song poem style to perfection and studio/equipment was of higher quality.

"Trout Mask" by comparrison has dubious sound quality, lack of variation, and some writing which is not of this calibur, but perhaps that's just me. "Trout Mask" is a good bargain however and I rate it 5 stars also. What else besides other Beefheart albums can you compare these records to? None.... so these have to be 5 star albums.

A few people have said they can hear his voice failing him on this record. I beg to differ. It's true he talks his way through alot of tracks, but he always did. Just listen to "Trout Mask" again and confirm it.

Anyway, he sings most songs here, "Ice Cream", "Ink Mathmatics", "The Witch Doctor Life" "The Past Sure is Tense", etc. He's in tune, his voice is powerful, the tunes are catchy, the band is on fire. It's really some of the most realized work of his career.

About the only songs that aren't as realized by the band are "Cardboard Cutout", "SKeleton" and "Hey Garland" but that's just because the band doesn't appear to have hashed out what they are doing as much. His lyrics of course are cool on all songs and "Poop Hatch" is one of his best spoken pieces ever.

Highly recommended!

5 out of 5 stars The end of the arrival.......2002-01-17

As the line from The Most The Ghost The Most Holy-o goes
"Piled high on truth mountain. The last peak in clarities chain" I think says something about this album. It is his "last peak (peek) and I think his clearest. Lyricly, it is not as challenging as some of his earlier releases and allows an easier look into the mind of a very honest human. The music is perfect. Something I have always liked about Capt Beefheart is that he gets across that there is great beauty in things that on the surface are uncomfortable and difficult to understand. This album, along with Doc At The Radar Station, make up the "later stuff" that allow the "earlier stuff" to be the "earlier stuff" Weather you are coming from Trout Mask Replica or Clear Spot/Spotlight Kid, this is a logical next album . If it is your first,wow, you're lucky.Wherever you're coming from,you bothered to read this, so you KNOW you want it.

4 out of 5 stars

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