The Jeff Hostetler of Blogs

I've now listened to Trout Mask Replica a total of three times. I still don't get it. To me, there doesn't seem to be any sort of natural progression to this music. It's like what you'd expect to hear if you handed out a bunch of random instruments to some non-musicians and told them to try to play something. Noise for the sake of making noise. Not only that, it's UGLY, obnoxious noise. If they're going to insist on offering up such bland, inaccessible textures, they could at least have the courtesy to provide us with some individually compelling sounds. Instead, each musical line sounds like it was recorded in a tin can. Is the canonization of this album just some sick joke? Are those spoken word bits supposed to be funny? WTF is this shit?
- posted by Shane @ 12:27 AM
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