Captain Beefheart & Magic Band ?Ice Cream For Crow LP 1982 German EX+ plays NM

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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band ?Ice Cream For Crow LP 1982 German

Original German pressing on Virgin with printed inner sleeve.

Ice Cream for Crow is the twelfth studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, released in September 1982. It is the last Don Van Vliet recorded before abruptly retiring from music to devote himself to a career as a painter. It spent two weeks in the UK album charts, reaching number 90, but failed to make the Billboard Top 200.

While Ice Cream for Crow was being produced, Herb Cohen had settled his lawsuit with Frank Zappa over the latter withholding the master tapes to Captain Beefheart's unreleased Bat Chain Puller album. Don Van Vliet proposed that half of the tracks from Bat Chain Puller be included on Ice Cream for Crow, but Zappa refused Vliet's request, leading Vliet to compose mostly new material for the album (the one exception is the a cappella track "81 Poop Hatch", which Vliet included from his own copy of the Bat Chain Puller tape, although "The Thousandth And Tenth Day Of The Human Totem Pole" was rerecorded). The songs "Semi-Multicolored Caucasian", "The Past Sure Is Tense" and "The Witch Doctor Life" had been written for earlier albums but not used.

"Skeleton Makes Good" was written in one evening. According to Vliet's biographer Mike Barnes, "the most original and vital tracks [on the album] are the newer ones." Thus, Ice Cream for Crow, while rooted in past musical ideas, points toward a new musical direction for Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Indeed, Barnes writes that the album "feels like an hors-d'oeuvre for a main course that never came".

Ned Raggett of AllMusic called the album "a last entertaining blast of wigginess from one of the few truly independent artists in late 20th century pop music, with humor, skill, and style all still intact", with the Magic Band "turning out more choppy rhythms, unexpected guitar lines, and outré arrangements, Captain Beefheart lets everything run wild as always, with successful results". Raggett says that Beefheart's "entertainingly outrageous" spoken word performances are successfully cohered with the Magic Band's "insanely great arrangement". Robert Christgau gave the album an A–, saying that "Ornette or no Ornette, the Captain's sprung delta atonality still provides surprising and irreducible satisfactions, but his poetry repeats itself more than his ideas warrant. Any surrealist ecologist who preaches the same sermon every time out is sure to provoke hostile questions from us concrete-jungle types".

A1         Ice Cream For Crow   4:33

A2         The Host The Ghost The Most Holy-O           2:25

A3         Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian          4:20

A4         Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat              3:11

A5         Evening Bell    2:00

A6         Cardboard Cutout Sundown                2:37

B1         The Past Sure Is Tense            3:20

B2         Ink Mathematics         2:40

B3         The Witch Doctor Life             2:38

B4         "81" Poop Hatch          2:37

B5         The Thousandth And Tenth Day Of The Human Totem Pole          5:43

B6         Skeleton Makes Good              2:18

CONDITION:

SLEEVE: EX+

RECORD: EX+  some spindle marks on labels, pressing blemish on S2 which is inaudible. Plays NM

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