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词条 Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
释义

  1. Background

  2. Style

  3. Reception

  4. Track listing

  5. Personnel

  6. References

  7. External links

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| name = Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
| type = studio
| artist = Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
| cover = Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller).jpg
| alt =
| released = October 1978
| recorded = July 6 – August 27, 1978 at The Automatt in San Francisco, California
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Experimental rock, blues rock
| length = 47:20
| label = Warner Bros.
| producer = Don Van Vliet
Pete Johnson
| prev_title = Bongo Fury
| prev_year = 1975
| next_title = Doc at the Radar Station
| next_year = 1980

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Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) is the tenth studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Released in 1978, the album was produced by Captain Beefheart and Pete Johnson and released by Warner Bros. Records.

Shiny Beast emerged from the production difficulties surrounding Bat Chain Puller, an album Captain Beefheart recorded for DiscReet and Virgin Records in 1976. DiscReet cofounders Herb Cohen and Frank Zappa feuded over the production of the album, because Cohen funded the production with Zappa's royalty checks.

Captain Beefheart recorded a new album, Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), due to Zappa withholding the master tapes of the original Bat Chain Puller album. Shiny Beast was praised by music critics.

Background

After recording Bongo Fury with Frank Zappa, Don Van Vliet formed a new Magic Band and began recording a new album, Bat Chain Puller, for DiscReet and Virgin Records.[1][2] Herb Cohen, DiscReet's cofounder and Zappa's business manager, paid for the album's production costs with Zappa's royalty checks, leading Zappa to end his business partnership with Cohen.[2][3] Cohen and Zappa each demanded to be paid an advance by Virgin, leading Zappa to withhold the master tapes, for which Cohen sued him.[2][3]

Due to the lawsuit, Van Vliet rerecorded four Bat Chain Puller tracks for Warner Bros: "The Floppy Boot Stomp", "Bat Chain Puller", "Harry Irene" and "Owed T'Alex". The Bat Chain Puller outtake "Candle Mambo" was also rerecorded for the album, as were older unused songs "Ice Rose" (a Strictly Personal outtake formerly known as "Big Black Baby Shoes") and "Suction Prints" (a Clear Spot outtake known as "Pompadour Swamp", no relation to the later song of that name). Four new songs completed the album, these being "You Know You're A Man", "When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy", "Love Lies" and "Tropical Hot Dog Night", the latter being based on a riff of the Bat Chain Puller song "Odd Jobs", which was otherwise not rerecorded. The album was completed with "Apes-Ma", which is the same recording on both versions, due to being sourced from Van Vliet's own home recording. The result was released as Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller). Versions of "Run Paint Run Run" and "The Witch Doctor Life" were attempted during the sessions but not used (they have been bootlegged). They would be finished for Doc at the Radar Station and Ice Cream for Crow respectively.

Style

The music of Shiny Beast featured a mix of different music styles, similar to Safe as Milk, incorporating elements of pop, spoken word and experimental music.[1] The song "Bat Chain Puller" was based upon the rhythm of Van Vliet's windshield wipers.[1]

Reception

{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}[4]
|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide
|rev2Score = A[5]
}}

The album received favorable reviews. Robert Christgau declared Shiny Beast to be better than all Van Vliet's previous albums, writing, "Without any loss of angularity or thickness, the new compositions achieve a flow worthy of Weill or Monk or Robert Johnson, and his lyrics aren't as willful as they used to be."[5]

A contemporary reviewer, AllMusic's Ned Raggett, also praised the album, writing "Shiny Beast turned out to be manna from heaven for those feeling Beefheart had lost his way on his two Mercury albums".[4]

In the Spin Alternative Record Guide (1995), the album was ranked 73 on the book's list of the "Top 100 Alternative Albums".[6]

Track listing

{{Track listing
| all_writing = Don Van Vliet
|headline = Side one
|title1 = The Floppy Boot Stomp
|length1 = 3:51
|title2 = Tropical Hot Dog Night
|length2 = 4:49
|title3 = Ice Rose
|length3 = 3:38
|title4 = Harry Irene
|length4 = 3:43
|title5 = You Know You're a Man
|length5 = 3:14
|title6 = Bat Chain Puller
|length6 = 5:27
}}{{Track listing
|headline = Side two
|title7 = When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy
|length7 = 5:04
|title8 = Owed t'Alex
|length8 = 4:07
|title9 = Candle Mambo
|length9 = 3:24
|title10 = Love Lies
|length10 = 5:03
|title11 = Suction Prints
|length11 = 4:25
|title12 = Apes-Ma
|length12 = 0:40
}}

Personnel

  • Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) – vocals, harmonica, soprano sax, whistling
  • Bruce Lambourne Fowler – trombone, air bass
  • Jeff Moris Tepper – slide guitar, guitar, spell guitar
  • Eric Drew Feldman – synthesizer, Rhodes piano, grand piano, bass
  • Robert Arthur Williams – drums, percussion
  • Richard Redus – slide guitar, bottleneck guitar, guitar, accordion, fretless bass
Additional personnel
  • Art Tripp III – marimba, additional percussion

References

1. ^1 2 {{cite book|last=Buckley |first=Peter |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&pg=PT177&dq=bat+chain+puller+zappa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_pkTT9izAsqPsQKs-8nyAw&ved=0CGcQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=bat%20chain%20puller%20zappa&f=false |date=2003 |publisher=Rough Guides |isbn=978-1-84353-105-0 |page=177 }}
2. ^1 2 {{cite book|last=Miles |first=Barry |title=Zappa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BW1Jom4nswwC&pg=PA250&dq=bat+chain+puller+zappa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_pkTT9izAsqPsQKs-8nyAw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=bat%20chain%20puller%20zappa&f=false |date=September 2005 |publisher=Grove Press |isbn=978-0-8021-4215-3 |page=250 }}
3. ^1 {{cite book|last=Slaven |first=Neil |title=Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4lNRIZm_baQC&pg=PT321&dq=bat+chain+puller+zappa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_pkTT9izAsqPsQKs-8nyAw&ved=0CFsQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=bat%20chain%20puller%20zappa&f=false |date=November 17, 2009 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=978-0-85712-043-4 |page=321}}
4. ^1 {{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r32279 |title=Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) - Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band |first=N. |last=Raggett |work=AllMusic.com |year=2011 |accessdate=22 July 2011}}
5. ^1 {{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: C|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=C&bk=70|accessdate=February 23, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}
6. ^{{cite book|editor1-last=Weisbard|editor1-first=Eric|editor2-last=Marks|editor2-first=Craig|year=1995|title=Spin Alternative Record Guide|publisher=Vintage Books|location=New York|isbn=0-679-75574-8}}

External links

  • Jeff Moris Tepper's candlebone.com
  • The Wire's 100 Records That Set The World On Fire (When No One Was Listening)
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