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   Jan Bojer Vindheim to ROBBIE   
   Re: DJ Taylor and Captain Beefheart + Th   
   22 Sep 04 18:25:42   
   
   From: jan.vindheim@gmail.com   
      
   ROBBIE  wrote:   
      
   > DJ Taylor, Orwell biographer and all-round busy bee wrote into this week's   
   > Spectator to complain that Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica had been unfairly   
   > slagged off in that magazine's worst sacred cow albums. He said Trout Mask   
   > was one of the greatest records ever made. I like 'The Dust Rolls Forward   
   > and the Dust Rolls Back' a lot but not that much.   
   >  My alma mater Exile on Main Street took a slagging too but you either get   
   > that or ya don't and if you don't you ain't got no ass, nor soul.   
   >  I liked a description of The Clash's London Calling: 'one half catchy track   
   > and about three hours of grey skiffle.'   
      
   I actually enjoy "Trout mask replica"   
   - especially "Ella guru" and "Mollie's garden"   
   you have an URL for that DJ taylor piece?   
      
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